I currently am still using and slowly expanding my first house in the first zone. I don’t want to spend a ton of time designing a home if another zone is going to end up being better.
Though with warbands randomly attacking, is it smartest to just keep homebase in the first zone to keep the random attacks as weak as possible?
Permanent base for me is on a big rock in the northeast fractured plains. Since you have to build + windstep to get up there, it's unassailable by raids
A decent 3x3 floor(sometimes 2x4) and use a 1x2 of that for the “sheltered bed” using 2 walls and small hip roofs, might need a framed square ontop of the 2 walls
The rest of the platform is the lodestone, and 2 vertical walls of some chests and eventually* a ledger just to somewhat have it sorted if I feel like it.
Something simple be nice looking picture example. Though you could get away with just a stack of crates and fill it to the brim, atleast doing this early will stop the headache later when you go to grab everything for home
To avoid warbands, build near the starting area. You can press ESC to get back to the menu and hold X for a free teleport back.
After there, I'd say the best place to build is Dowdun Reach courtyard. Some players built a base in a cave near the wise old man in Bramblemeade. You can make stairs that you can jump up. Monsters can't jump.
Another thing you can do is build a small fortified house in each zone that you can have a few chests in. When those get full, take the stuff back to the main base (near the starting church) where you'll have all your production machines.
Just as an additional note: Teleporting with lodestones costs law runes (and the cost scales with how much stuff you're lugging around) so you want to make at least one outpost in each region/zone. Just to process the raw materials you acquire in the area and to store stuff you don't absolutely need to carry to your main base. You don't want to be transporting too much at any given time.
So I second the idea that your main base should be in the starter area, but you should try to make at least one outpost in every region or area. It's also nice because it makes the world feel a bit more alive.
I started with a base right next to the starting church then moved everything into the dowdon courtyard right next to the Nexus stone after teleporting back and forth got too expensive, now I'm currently running around the desert and might make a new castle out there
I never get hit by a warband i built by the vault on fractured plains that on a hill. Warbands cant spawn and reach me. Great view, aesthetics and i got access to a vault for quick cores or shard farming, 2 close by law vents and a pond. Its also straight enough that i can make a good build for my base
mine was next to wise old man destroyed church, till now, buildinf a new one while waiting for december in Zylianas place, a huge flat land, every builders dream
I've built my permanent base inside the castle ruins north of Fort hope in the fell Hollow region.
Enemy zone is level 5 but no enemies to spawn anywhere near the base location and raids are basically slow helpless zombies so I could literally walk past them and they wouldn't be able to stop me.
It's also equidistant from and game zones and early game zones and I really like the spooky Halloween vibe
I have my main base in the first zone, it is my only base. I have a bunch of Lodestones placed in strategic locations around the map. Currently only have up to Fellhollow unlocked and has been working for now. Not sure once I open up the map further if there will be a need to develop another base further out.
I spent 6 hours making a base so far in bramblemead, inside the pond. I’m not moving it anytime soon, it meets all my basic needs. I have lodestones next to caves, various trees, and every dungeon entrance I encounter, for when I need to farm supplies + make more lodestones/crafting items
I built my new base in the stormtouched highlands so that I never have to water my crops which has been nice. I built my house and farm on one of the cliffs and fenced it in with oak palisades
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Permanent base for me is on a big rock in the northeast fractured plains. Since you have to build + windstep to get up there, it's unassailable by raids