Everyone needs a place to live at, you need a home or a base to keep all your goodies in; plus who wants to keep dying of the cold or heat? first of you need to find a good area where its flat enough to build otherwise the base is useless. The best places for me are S3, W2 and, E1 not a lot of dangerous dinos and lots of room I put in red where i have set up a base and in green where its the safest place to live because it only has herbivores living there but getting there is hard, there is no way to swim because all the dangerous sea animals such a Cnidaria (jellyfish), Tusoteuthis( a Gaint Squid/ kraken), Megalodon (a Gaint Shark) and, Dunkleosteus. So you need a raft but even a raft won't protect you from a Leedsichthys. The Leedsichthys is passive toward most things with the exception of rafts. They will stop at nothing to take down any raft in open water. Their sheer mass gives them the power to wreak havoc on even the best protected raft. When a raft is encountered the Leedsichthys will charge at full speed smashing the raft to bits by dealing direct damage to the raft itself even when the raft is fully encased in stone or even metal. Boaters beware the Leedsichthys are everywhere and aggressively out for your watercraft.