Where do you base as a solo player in DST?

[Erineyes7]

I pretty much always pick the Pig king forest, mostly cause it just looks so nice. Don't worry there is practical application to this, I mostly play Maxwell and the mushrooms help a ton with getting my sanity lower for when I need fuel.

[Slynxx]

since most of the "farms" i build are usually not tied to a specific place... i like to build my base with access to

pig king (for gold)

bosses (BQ\DF)

water(to sail and fish)

mosaic biome

good cave entrance

and if i'm in a mood to change characters - celestial portal.

 

though i'm lazy. most of the time i'll settle near the desert of pig king and it'll be ok with me.

[DinsdaleP]

since RWYS, which gave us the ability to place down farms and have easy access to sanity-restoring food year-round, I only care about wormholes and cave entrances. sure, deserts and tumbleweed flying around are nice and all, I do harvest them early game, but they have little value if you're playing Wendy or Wurt for example, and will be outclassed by a lureplant farm pretty early on.

[CaptainChaotica]

I tend to pick my base locations like I pick the spot for my capitol city in "Civilization"--next to as many useful resources as possible.

Usually my main base ends up in the savannah, for rabbits and grass, and I have a small satellite base near frog ponds for spring.  I also tend to like living where berry bushes already are so I don't have to worry about refertilization, so meadows end up as a base location too. But not just ANY savannah or meadow.  It should be nearish or bordering at least one of the following:  Forest, swamp, rockland, desert.  One time I had a base on exactly the triangle point where three biomes met.  That was cool-looking.

If I can't find gears in time (I randomise my season lengths and also use Huge worlds) I go nomadic in the summer and tend to hang out near forests (including the cherry one) for shade, and if I'm doing the March of Civilization challenge I tend to leave firepits all over the place during the first year, since it's the only permanent structure I'm allowed to build during that time.  : P

...Notorious

[Cassielu]

Antlion desert.

Wildfire is a imprison to design inspiration.