Base Building Advice

[tigbits]

Alright so I have a habit of never making a permanent home until I find some beefalo or a king pig. usually beefalo because they seem more usefull to have closeby.

Also I already have Turbo Farms researched as well as bird cages and other more useful essentials (log suit, spear, chest, etc)

So heres my question. Where is a prime location to build your main base. Should I bring over Berry Bushes, Grass and Saplings? And how much would be sufficient? Also I feel 6 farms feels right but i know thats alot of manure and grass I would need.

Also I know (or think) eventually I should have at least a fire pit on every Island and maybe a Science Machine every other one so I dont need to waste as many materials? Im decently new to the game but I feel im pretty average overall. Ive gotten into the habit of two days just foraging and I end up with about 30 berries, 25 carrots, max stacks of wood, grass, sticks and flint. Average of 15 monster meat, 10 web, 8 gold, and every single tool minus a shovel(replace with spear). All that before building my first base.

[qwerm]

Alright so I have a habit of never making a permanent home until I find some beefalo or a king pig. usually beefalo because they seem more usefull to have closeby.

Also I already have Turbo Farms researched as well as bird cages and other more useful essentials (log suit, spear, chest, etc)

So heres my question. Where is a prime location to build your main base. Should I bring over Berry Bushes, Grass and Saplings? And how much would be sufficient? Also I feel 6 farms feels right but i know thats alot of manure and grass I would need.

Also I know (or think) eventually I should have at least a fire pit on every Island and maybe a Science Machine every other one so I dont need to waste as many materials? Im decently new to the game but I feel im pretty average overall. Ive gotten into the habit of two days just foraging and I end up with about 30 berries, 25 carrots, max stacks of wood, grass, sticks and flint. Average of 15 monster meat, 10 web, 8 gold, and every single tool minus a shovel(replace with spear). All that before building my first base.

My opinion on this?

don't

Live off the land, but don't bend it too far to your will, as the materials cannot perisist without constant montoring after relocation. my primary "base" if you have to call it that, consists if a firepit, a science machine and alchem engine, 2 crockpots and a ring of chests for storage.

From there, I have endeavored to place fire pits and crock pots at numerous locations throught my worlds to act as checkpoints, so that I can remain on the move almost indefinitely, though I am capable of staying at any one location for a remarkable period of time, thanks to my habits regarding seeds and crockpots.

[Analogue]

I usually build a base where the beefalo are. I'm primarily a farmer and they're a constant source of manure. But if you have a lot of berry bushes around, pigs are an even better source of manure. Just keep feeding them til you have no more berries. And if you're excessively stingy and not too picky about naughtiness, you can kill them and get your berries back. Unless you can't do that anymore, I haven't done it in a while.

I usually keep one stack worth of everything at a home base (so, 40) and then make farms of them in other locations nearby. That's really important, because one fire hound and you can lose quite a bit. Berries are less plentiful than saplings and grass, so best to keep them in sections of 10.

I keep 6 farm plots myself and they're pretty well self-sustaining manurewise once you've gotten them set up. And seeds are so very plentiful.

Firepits are a good back up but for adventuring I am a huge fan of the grass mat. It saves you the trouble of lugging around fire fuel plus you don't have to wait through the boring night when you can't do much of anything. They're really quick to have enough material for, too. It's only 9 grasses, essentially.

Hope that was helpful and not just my rambling!

[katastrophie]

You should go out exploring in a file, get prepared first then explore as much as you can and take note of the land, then if you die, assuming you start on the same world you'll know it better and can plan things out that's how I found a pond within a forest with a pig village nearby. I made my firepit near the pond and have been living off a ton of fish and berries, so starving isn't going to be a problem. Fish is kind of OP atm you can fish all the time you want, I usually save it for night so I'm doing something rather than waiting for day, usually get 4-5 fish. Only thing I had to do was bring in some graft tufts from another biome to plant near me. That, plus a crapload of rocks just south of me and beefalo to the left of my biome I don't think I'll die Soon.

[501105]

It depends on your playstyle honestly. If you want to be a farmer then the strategy mentioned by Analogue is a perfect one for a nice vegetarian excistance. With ltos of manure and seeds you can live of the land without needing anything else really, farming is that effective now. If you want to be a hunter, then building your base between a pigvillage and lots of bunnies will be ideal. You can also make as many firepits as possible in the world and roam around.