With the platform saddle you can put turrets and all the stuff you really need for an base I tamed an high level one built and dome shaped base with turrets on top of it and used it for the underwater caves and melted quite an lot of Krakens and other nasty stuff ,since I also had my Frabicator I also could reload the turrets easy as well. Mind you make sure you use metal or higher since anything below would probably break after you get attacked by anything bigger then an megalodon.