This video was created at the request of a commenter in a previous video. For those who want to skip right to the best base location, goto about 15:40 in the video. Enjoy!
I’ve been enjoying making a base by the water. You make one of your entrances deep into the water and set up turrets along the way. Basically I keep an eye out for raiding parties and close up the gate in the front leaving the one in the water open. If you do it right they will decide to go for a swim to get to the open gate instead of busting down the one in front of them. Then it’s just shooting fish in a barrel. They can’t seem to swim fast enough and sometimes they get confused and swim in circles helping my turret guards get some training in. It does fail from time to time but mostly it works like a charm, especially when I was stuck with a large labor force and only 2 people really capable of fighting on even terms.
There's a really great base-building location in the Fog Islands. It's East of Mongrel and South of Obedience. There's a large plateau that's high up enough to be above the fog and there's cliffs on all sides so it's super easy to defend. It has plenty of iron and a bit of copper as well, and good fertility on top of it and you can grow just about every crop type. It's also a pretty huge open area, so even if you build a massive city you have plenty of room. It's a bit tricky to set up early on since you have to go through Fogman territory to get there, but the area itself is suprisingly safe. You'll get raids from both Fogmen and Cannibals after a while, but those are both enemy types with no armor and bad weapons so they're trivial to deal with.
My fog island base was set up south of mongrel, built along a narrow strip of raised ground. If you use Outpost III and IVs it is possible to build on the edge of a cliff so it is not that bad. Base broke with an import though.
I think the last spot is intentionally so perfect to bait people. I mean I built a single structure and within 2 minutes I get invaded by crab worshipers and their pet crabs. Next were the Reavers and Skin Bandits. I just had to abandon the spot. I would suggest it maybe as a very late game spot, when you have an army to protect you and you can build the entire complex within a few in-game days. Not to mention it's pretty remote from cities, and the pathing in the region is very terrible, so not sure if it's worth it to even have a base there at all.
Unfortunately, Kenshi doesn't really do enough to reward you with objectively strategic locations. Building a castle on a hard-to-reach hilltop is aesthetically awesome, but you're just shooting yourself in the foot on resources and space. The rudimentary nature of the siege/raid AI means you'll almost always be able to pull them into multi-gate chokepoints and mow them down with tower harpoon kill zones... so there less of a motivation NOT to build that easy sprawling base on the fertile ground with nodes nearby. You look at some of the existing cities, tucked into valleys or ravines or on top of mountains, and it looks awesome... but there's no environmental conditions in-game that make those types of bases necessary or productive. Building in a ravine doesn't protect you from dust storms, nor are there massive storms that would make building in somewhat sheltered areas beneficial. In mostly-vanilla gameplay, for the typical "research progression" type play-through, you're going to have to wander the map anyway strip-mining the POI's for tech... so there's no real benefit to, say, setting up your base near a "challenging" region. You can't farm loot more than once per import, only combat experience. I guess if you set your mind to roleplaying in Kenshi, the best base location really depends on what aspect of the game and what groups you want to interact with... and what ways you're going to deliberately hamstring yourself in a particular playthrough in order to maintain a consistent theme.
I would argue though that the natural barrier is something that is hardcoded not to be abused by the AI. I've had instances where the AI wants to path into my base and prefers chopping down a wall than acting like lemmings through my kill maze. If you utilize natural terrain advantages (i.e. building your main entrance literally in the water so raids have to swim slowly to you) then you have access to a lot more survivability and deal with less frustration in the early base building game. I still agree though that there isn't a strict reason to choose a certain type of terrain outside of that however. There are weather effects such as Acid Rain and gas storms that you have to account for, but there are ways to mitigate those effects too.
I view all of that as just more freedom. The games replay ability pretty much lives in the roleplaying aspect. Also if you find that basing is frustrating in the aspect of raids you can pretty much control the difficulty with the number of turrets you have. More turrets is easier less turrets is harder, and maybe skip on the extra walling or gates. I see it as pretty much freedom of playstyle.
I put mine at the edge of the swamp as close to the center of the map as possible. The only problem it has... No fucking windspeed! It's a damn nightmare. Anyway, I just wanted it smack dab in the middle of the map for travel-distance reasons. I don't trust this game to run multiple bases without lighting my PC on fire.
I find some mountain locations good as a starting spot for minimizing the amount of building materials you have to use when making gates and walls. Then after stocking up on resources you can spread out to a more prime location.
I've had a base on that location for a while. You nailed all the positives: it has all the resources you could possibly need and it's reasonably defensible. Why only reasonably? After all, there's only one way up, so you only need to guard that pass, right? That's true, and that's definitely a plus. However, that pass is very narrow, so you're not going to be building a kill box on it - at least, not one you can walk across to get to turrets easily. I spent hours fiddling with walls, trying to get a kill box set up along that path, only to finally give up in frustration. With good wall placement, you're only going to have a few turrets (unless you want to push your gate farther back to build a kill box up on the plateau itself, but then you're sacrificing land area and probably that one iron node. The biggest downside to that location, though, is its remoteness. There are no major settlements near it, meaning recruiting runs are going to be long, and worse still, I never once saw a trade caravan anywhere near that location, nor did any ever try to visit my outpost. So, yeah, you can produce anything you want there, but you won't be selling anything without a long hike in whatever direction you choose. Coincidentally, there's a much bigger, way flatter and slightly higher plateau right across the valley from the location you're spotlighting. The downsides? It has next to no resources and there are many ways to get up to the plateau, so you'd have to build walls all the way around.
Whilst you can't build an airlock easily with walls, you can use a design for an entrance which utilizes buildings at the entrance. A watchtower overlooking the opening, for example, gains even more height bonuses.
I built my base in raptor island, and so far this island is the best place in kenshi i have ever built. Pros: - 100% quality iron, full of water, good soil, really flat - any idiot want to mess with your base have to go through fog island, swim through the big sea and be harassed by raptors. If fogman don't kill them, your turrets won't stop those ape fishes in the water, then raptors will eat their corspes. - there are a lot of raptors here, and they are tame. They only mess with you when you build crops, but why need crops when they are slowpokes and with turrets, you can have a bunch of meats? - there is a hive very close to you, you can sell anything you want. Cons: - This place have no copper. Well... luckily, you can buy copper from hive trader, and they have all of electrical stuffs for a fair price. So once you come to raptor island, hardly any nation nor bandit want to mess with you, truly a tropical paradise.
It's cool, but wayyyy too small - you're being too space-efficient! Build each building for a single purpose; one weapons manufacturer, one bolt manufacturer, one distillery etc etc - that way you have lots of buildings to fill out your base and make it look great. What you coooould do here is have that plateau as, like, your "fort" with lots of military buildings and training - food storage etc, and then build another outer-ring wall for defence and put lots of farming around that; that way if your outer defenses get compromised you can retreat to the inner fortress :D
I have a base in the second location in the canyon. The best part of this area is that you can build building right in the water with the entrance on land. This save a bunch of space and looks really cool. You can build walls to cross the water and build farms on the plots of land on the other side of the river. The area also bugs out most raids, it's rare they actually find their way to the entrance, they usually just go to the bridge wayyyy above the town and yell from the cliffs lol.
If you can deal with passing droneguards from the southern hive attacking every now and then, i like the spot east of fishman island, west of the mountains the hive is in. No extortion by major factions, the only ones to try and raid me are gurglers and skin bandits. And the skin bandits don't path around the mountain and gets stuck in the hive. Gurglers are just free animal food. Sits between a green and arid region. 130 and 150 in iron and stone richness. Decent water. Low tier copper and wandering droneguard patrols are my only complaints. But a few captured guards are great for training.
well trying the last one right now there is something you forgot to add in that there are lots of fishing in the area you can do form the top and inside your defences. that was a welcome bonus. As I find my self under siege and under attack every other day well I am there.
If you use the Mod "Project Genesis: World Overhaul Alpha" DO NOT plan to use his best location he mentions at 15:40 Because an integrated sub mod, "Swish Mods : The East Coast Expansion" Has overwritten the location with a mod city. Please Pin this. I found this video and spent HOURS in game to prepare for and make the journey to the location from across the map. Just to end up angry. Even more so when I noticed they built a farm for the City.... In the wrong place not even taking advantage of the Zoning
My first base location was always somewhat close to the hub because.. I don't like dying basically. The best i found was south of Squin, east of the waystation, just off the cliff over the swamp. There is a platue above it that overviews EVERYTHING but has low fertility
just buy all of The Hub then kill the theives guild there the bar down the hill cantrade and get you food there is lots of iron abit of copper lots of travelers to kill rob inslave or do what you want with. the only flaw is you can't choose the wall placement and it costs a lot (but this can't be earnt from the large Iron depsites. (edit two years later: the thieves guild make good allies and you should join them not kill them.) (And damn my gramma and spelling used to be sh*t)
i settled in the gut at first i thought it was the worst decision of my life thanks to the beak things but, when you get set up 100% worth thanks to the natural defence the beak things provide lol literally no reaver, slavers or taxmen can get to me and after 100 hours moving in and out that place i can safely say i'm a pro beak thing killer lol. i also recently saved up 430k cats and allied with the beak things so i took my walls down for that sexy aesthetics and its just majestic AF seeing the beak things roaming and resting alongside my squad whenever i go back to my outpost
@@slytouge764 it involves putting the only allied person to the beak things into slavery then buying him back for reputation www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/d4gwun/one_weird_trick_to_ally_with_beak_things_paladins/
There's a huge flat section of land with swamp/arid tonnes of iron and bronze and a big pool to force your opponents to swim through as you gun them down on the other side of the mountain north of Catun, and you can do some decent drug running.
My preferred location for a base is just north of the Waystation in Grey Desert. No water and fertility there, but enough space, copper, iron and stone for all your needs. You start with collecting money from the loot all those criminals drop which are attacking the Waystation and are killed by the guards and after two or three ingame days buy and repair the Tower at the Waystation. You start your research there and at the same time you can easily collect 10 to 20k and sometimes even up to 50k cats most ingame days from the loot by the criminals attacking the Waystation. You can buy the material for the first houses and mines of your own Outpost at the Waystation's construction shop. Just annoy Holy Nation and United cities enough, and you will get constantly raided by by them plus Slave Traders, Blood Reevers, Cloud Ninjas, etc., and just the loot of them will outfit your group with armour and weapons and pay for all food you'll ever need and much more, which you can buy at the Waystation right next to you and at all the Trade Caravans which will knock at your gate at least every other day. Additionally, the Deadlands with its Scraphouse is just a short run away to buy (or steal) all the better weaponry and electronics you'll might need. The only shortage is really good armour, where there is no source for nearby. The second problem is fabric, which you simply have to buy from the Waystation or Trade Caravans, and which never have enough of that, when you want to make your own armour. Last but not least, that location is south of both, Holy Lands and northern United Cities, and you can start raiding them from your base without long travels.
I always love seeing Izumi, for some reason she ended up being the sort of base leader for my main base in my first successful base. This base's entrance is right next to brink, in the outlands and forces the AI through a not so small body of water and with just six harpoon turrets I can keep pretty much anything short of shitty AI opening the gate from breaking the door. That said I had to reload the Eyegore assault a few times due to an odd thing happening where they spawned at the back of my base then pushed each other through the walls to kill my guys and fuck that, I'll accept my base being over ran but not you glitching through the walls. Anyway it's mostly fairly good arid land and with all the natural walls it's fairly easy to expand with out needing to build too much because of this I've got a freaking massive base like, this thing could fit a few sets of ten of your last base shown with ease. It's got copper and Iron near where you'd want the gate though no nearby vanilla resources so you need drills. I did find a small amount of green nearby that would not be hard or costly to wall in if you really wanted it.
The Shem Desert one is best in my opinion. It has everything. It doesn't make for the coolest looking of base locations like the plateau one, but has EVERYTHING with all the space in the world. You can build more into the swamp area with walls to get the nodes and pull away from the desert in order to keep a smaller base, but still gives the freedom for massive sprawling bases.
Dude ive used the plateau for bases for like my last 10 play throughs. I always call the town, "The rock". My favorite location, period. I love how many factions raid you, it's proximity to all the end game locations. I will say, may be best to get your research and stats up before moving out here. Maybe even remove some faction leaders like, Savant and Vallamon to clean up the area before building. But hands down favorite my spot. Got enough challenge to make it fun, and leveling characters is quick. Decent wind but I just went to biofuel generators to limit the area load lag. You can get a decent kill box if you try a bit harder to make your walls fit. I got a lot of research done before moving out so I built all out-post type ** buildings so it feels like a real city with like 6 buildings. Some of my merc's glitched an now never leave my base, permanent guards lol. P.s. early game strat to keep enemies off your back, building double gates or solid walls with no gates bugs the enemy path finding, and usually keeps you clear until you're ready to venture out again.
Large mountains in general seem to be super buggy in kenshi, although I've never been teleported on top of one. The biggest issue they have is pathing, so if you set a waypoint for a character and leave them be but theres mountain terrain in the way/nearby it completely breaks the pathing. When you're going through mountains you need to manually control your characters. They think they're stuck but they actually aren't, if you just click where you want them to go they won't move so you need to hold right mouse button to auto walk and force them back on the path.
There really should have been a balance. I feel like in the beginning you should train you small squad or main characters base stats the hard way and once you start building your base and get up there on the research you should be able to train a whole squads whole base stats (it should take a little longer than the hardcore way of getting beat up/carrying shid tho)
Im also doing an only Skeleton run, though Im really struggling to find skeletons to recruit. I have Burn, Sadniel, Agnu, a bar recruit, and myself. But I cannot find anyone else, I've tried Shark, Black Desert City and more. Reloading and importing, but to no avail, I see you have a lot of skeletons, any tips? I dont use mods.
You can't get very many skeleton followers in vanilla, it's set up that way because skeletons are very overpowered compared to the other races. On top of that, it is also part of the lore of the game, and I can't tell you any more without spoiling. However, one of your characters can be the leader of a large skeleton army in vanilla Kenshi.
I like the area north east of Stack on top of the southern cliffs over the green valley in Holy Nation Territory. Follow the road east out of stack to the one that runs north/south and take it north till you get to the road that goes east into bad teeth. At that junction, go off road north east to the cliff that leads down to the south west area of the green valley. Do some prospecting on the south side to find the 2 copper nodes and the iron node on the south wall very close to the cliff (the copper is on the cliff). Build on the arid area between and moving south of those nodes, and you can extend your walls down the cliff hill (takes some time to get them to not have holes people can run through, if you really want the green growing areas as well as cactus...). This is not super convinent for the green growing area, but those roads are amazing at keeping stuff from path finding glitches into your walls, it's central enough to several major cities for whatever you need early on. It's in a noob area so it's very safe as long as you have a greenlander male to talk to the Holy Nation. You can easily get past hydroponics here which lets you build almost anywhere you want after that. The iron and copper are within about 2-3 large buildings of each other, so you can start with a very small base and expand it out easily to way larger than the big base you showed (I had to put up extra power before since it was too far from my base within the walls...). Putting up walls along the road side lets you put skeletons on the turrets without ramps to take pot shots at any Holy Nation people you want when you are ready to go to war with them. Skeletons make the best turret gunners since they don't eat, and you can simply put them on a wall and remove the ramp. Take them down once a month or so to repair the damage from cross bow attacks... It's got everything your ultimate base location has except for the minor inconvenience of building a wall on a slope to get the green zone for those plants but makes up for it by being much more central and in a noob friendly place. Funneling attacks up one road is nice, but if your main entrance points south west into the cross roads, the AI tendancy to follow roads will do effectively the same thing for you. River raptors are a problem only for growing at the bottom of the cliff, they do not come munch on the cactus at the top of the hill. There is a huge flat area to build on here. Once I'm done here (usually after I researched as much as I want to), I tend to go move in with the Leviathans. PS, that is not Beep. Beep isn't Beep until you remove his legs and replace them with masterwork scout legs and has enough athletics to beat 80 mph (actually very easy to do). It is very helpful to remove his arms and replace them with lifting ones so he can carry lots of stuff to sell, or carry back lots of stuff you bought. I'm pretty sure Beep can pass 90 MPH, but the most I've had him was 84 MPH, Athletics experience gets very slow as the skill level hits 90...
This is the biggest, helpful info dump I've seen yet, just got the game and trying to gain a solid foothold, gonna use this. Since you seem to know slot, can you explain the order of how armor absorbs a hit? Is it really the head first always or did they finally change it to outer armor then head
I know this is a old video, but like to say thank you for last base, it was exactly what i was looking for... i am 100 crab raiders. XD Reavers hate me. So do Rebel Farmers for some reason. But yea i made double wall at front with inside between the walls i setup a bar, that is also shop counter, so when i get raided by "Great Rich Man" they go into the bar and buy stuff from the shop. ;p got couple windmills, and towers. Using one Tower as Wheat/Bread/Booze. Also got big building dedicated to just makeing Sake. So we set on Food/Booze. ;p Than got main HQ building as Training/Storage facility ran like a Dojo.
The 'slopeless' mod makes flat areas like this not as important, but I think that didn't exist at the time. I believe this may have been a spot for the devs to put a city but they never did? So it's just ripe for the players now. Whenever I play Kenshi I always make a character after myself and he is like the king in the castle, does nothing and doesn't fight and everyone keeps him safe. I would love to have a safe base like this... maybe next playthrough.
I love settling in Darkfinger in any playthrough. There's a neat spot in the middle of its western shore with 2 copper and 2 iron veins. It has lots of space to build anything really. Darkfinger has decent wind (small turbines, no batteries), good fertility/water/stone/ores and is outside of control zones of all major powers, so noone will bother you with tributes or prayers. Cannibals solely rule the place, but being pathetic pushovers they are, it takes just two well trained fighters with AoE weaponry (long cleavers or planks) to obliterate any raid without breaking a sweat, so I even haven't built walls in last playthrough.
eyyyyyy, its also where I built it! but I built at the foot of the hill and walled myself up along the river. it has like 100% of every fertility there
This base location is terrible. Super buggy, the pathfinding breaks constantly, that spot near greenbeach randomly turns into impassable terrain for no reason, the rocks disappear on reload then come back randomly. Worst spot i've ever built.
There's an area right next to the crater and north of clownsteady. it has like 200 fertility and 100 water and if you place your mines right or are lucky with random genned ores and copper 100 each as well. I did had to make my base very wide to get acces to ores and copper. This can cause all kinds of bugs, hence why I'm planning on abandining that save. Either I get ores but no food because they stope working the land if I go to far away or the other way around so yeah.
Just above ark in stobes garden, very high plateau with iron and copper and plenty of space, only 1 thin path up. Downside is low water and fertility so you need high tech. Bonus when you befriend the crab people and they take ark you get a really close shop. I can see my base from two zones away and it has awesome views.
I really don't judge people for using most mods as long as they're don't go against the vision of the game. I can imagine weight sets existing in this universe, recruiting prisoners, having 300 followers, etc.
Just west and north of the ark is a tiny one way path that leads to the very top of one of the mountain ranges in stobes garden, it has everything except its only 10% water and unfertile, but with indoor gardens and deep wells that isnt a problem, huge space and only one narrow path if you stop spawning at top with structures.
they didnt add in the training things because in real life not everyone is a total fucking beast. i think its great to have weak ass cannon slaughter groups in my armys i dont have to worry about keeping alive because they just have a bunch of trash weapons and shit anyway. just plebs keeping my veteran warlords safe. way more fun then just having every unit some the same.
Start a base in Sonorous Dark. Dead winds, impossible to start a farm (unless you have hydroponics), very rich in minerals, skin bandits etc. Very fun place to start a base in if you want a challenge.
go in the void, build next to hive village, you have tons of copper and there is one with iron nearby too. you can get 90 quality stone as well. being next to the village they protect pretty well from enemies, you can kite enemies into the village, also being able to sell stuff quickly
I begin playing kenshi lately (I'm new btw) and constructed a settlement near one of the hives somewhat near the hub,the downside is that you get attacked by gorillas every Fucking sec and my guys (mostly the new ones cuz they are weak)would get destroyed but overall it has alot of ressources but the land is arid
In my current let's play I made my first outpost in the exact same space you made Bathum City. It's a real good location, but I never stuck around too much mostly just traveled around.
I know this comment is 2 years ago, but i just wanna say, i really love your videos, i binged watched all of your kenshi let's play with the engaging storytelling, you were the reason i got into the game.
Made a base in the same spot in Okran's Pride. You can actually build buildings in the river with the doors connecting to the shore if you need more space. It actually increases the amount of landmass available so to speak. Personally managed to fit an L-House and 2 Bughouses in the river itself. Walls don't matter (except for aesthetic reasons) anywhere except from the front. The rear is blocked by uncrossable terrain, same with the river banks.
It's a good location, however be warned. Half the time, the space to the right will error out and you won't be able to access it unless you try several different things to access it (i.e. build an outline of a building in it and delete it, *sometimes* it will unlock that area). Also never, ever dismantle a building/farm otherwise half the items get stuck on the mountain side and your characters will spend the whole game trying to access the resource (which is halfway down the mountain) to no luck. Great location, one heck of a frustration.
In his skeleton only one he did. The models were all soldier bot models and if you want to do a skeleton ONLY it's pretty much the only way to with a decent number of people.
Thanks for the video, man! This is a great base location. Only downside I have discovered so far is that sometimes the pathfinding can be tricky for your units to navigate the rocky fields below. Reinforcements also have a difficult time to get up there when your allies send them.
Just a quickie. I tried to do an all Skeleton Army, but couldn't find any other skeleton's to recruit. So how did you manage to get so many and from where?? And I do like that plateau base. Not been that far east so will have to take a wander over there.
Skeleton companions are naturally very rare to come by. I used a mod to allow recruitment of Skeleton NPCs, specifically one area where you stumble across a large skeleton army. In Vanilla, they only follow you mindlessly. The mod lets you turn them into full companions. It's a useful mod if you're looking for a quick way to play an all Skeleton squad.
I moved my "geological team" (one top fighter with stats over 90 and one scientist over 90) to the last location. It is a fantastic place. I could situate six big farms in the green region close to each other. The only problem is the location. It is far from the main part of the continent amd has strong raids. The most popular place to build is an absolute plain region between the eye and the grey desert, close to the way station (requires hydroponic and a lot of wells). Another problem cause all that mountains to my weak PC (like the Hub area). The most lug-friendly place is the great desert, imho. But your plateau is awesome. I have a save with about sixteen strong characters who are able to fight anyone (stats 50-80) including farmers, smithers, engineers, etc. I think I will take this party and build a base in this fantastic location.
Shem is a great region to set up your base. There's a spot in the east, just south of the Smuggler's Bar where the desert begins to make way for those.. ponds, sloping down one big dune and there's EVERYTHING there in abundance. Stone, Iron fertile land, Water and a couple small copper nodes. All within just a couple hundred m². You won't be the copper duke but it's definitely enough to meet your own needs for quite a while. It is very open however, so it'll definitely be more of a standard settlement
I found the PERFECT base location, litrally the only problem us that it's on the border of holy nation territory and Beep has scout legs It's next to the road over the river directly North of the Dust King's tower with 60% water, 100% arid fertility, 100% stone areas, 2 big iron deposits with 1 small iron, and 1 small copper
That last area seems amazing, but late game when you have lots of mouths to feed, will the farming you do there be enough? And the space is not that big either
@@umahorseman that's what mercenaries are for, plus you can ally with the strongest faction in the area (the crab people) and they will send reinforcements when you are attacked.
My hive base was the best i ever made. Called it the free hive. Based in the acidic water islands east of the United cities. Hivers do not lose health swimming it. So when attacks come they are over half dead already when they reach the turrets. Quite a swim though. I wrecked the killgore attack. He Went down to the turrets immediately. The rest seconds later since they were pretty much dead already.
A good location is in Gut, the peninsula in the middle of the zone, amazing iron farming and decent copper, amazing stone, great water, and it's close to Heng, the slaver camps, and Heft for trading. Problem is..... The fucking beak things. Holy fuck the beak things are relentless. However you'll never run out of animal food or meat or leather, and anyone trying to tax or raid you has to go through the hordes of gutters first.
the bigger your base the more clipping issues youll have... i built one of my biggest bases in the eye... literally surrounding all the nods of iron and copper,,, basically from the way station all the way to the salvers front door lol.... but people would forget about stuff across the way... enemies would spawn in my place... and enemies would just walk through walls even after hitting shft+f11
I have a mod to take control of the hub and squin too(but harder of than the hub of course) i will try to rebuild the city( the biggest problem is that you have to destroy the broken buildings et reconstruct them rather than repairing)
Taking control of Squin seems a bit non canon since Squin belongs to the Shek Kingdom whereas the Hub is a dilapidated no man's land. Although the question remains when you buy a house in the hub who are you buying it from?
My favorite base location has to be at stobes gamble on a mountain with only one entrance, and I mean it, and the space is so large enemies can spawn on the other side of the mountain. but basically go north east of spring [The anti slaver capital] and you'll be able to build one one of the mountains north east of stobes gamble, with only one entrance. Only problem? Skin bandits, Skeleton Bandits, Reavers, Crab Raiders and the southern hive may attack you. And no Copper.
My favourite base is a town actually. Squin. Grab the housings, develop some characters to loot the ruins and go hydroponics & fuel generators. No tax, free protections, 3 25k shopkeeprs & 2 bars. Its stupid easy, but it aint base building. That would be between the swamp and hidden forest, west of the flotsam ninja hq. There's some copper nodes which is rare around okran. Cannibals are prominent, otherwise it's fairly quick access to world's end, armour king & ruins.
You can fix that plateau area with cntrl shift f11. The base location at the end of the video. You just move your cursor over the area and press it a few times. Usually after every load up ive had to do that
I found that the best location for a base, if you want to build mostly farms, is somewhere on the edge of Gut. If you build walls first, the beak things might miss you, and if you build wide enough, you may even completely cut off some of their migration roots. Only people coming to your gates will be fairly weak slavers (including reavers) and traders. If you want to go industrial: get all the building materials and skeleton recruits you can get, and send them right to the Black desert. All of the iron and copper deposits are 200 quality for some reason, and the odd cloud ninja (maybe holy nation) raid shouldn't be a problem, because if they are left outside of your gates long enough they will just suffocate.
This is a great spot to build and all, but that growing area is bugged as all hell. Sometimes you can walk there, other times (most times) you can't. You can get stuck there, and having a farm there and not being able to reach it can confuse the workers a lot. It's such a shame tbh.. It's great for a skeleton run though, without a doubt. I gave it a good try I feel like, and it's a solid defense position for damn sure. Mostly Ravagers and Crab people that raided me, however the Ravager HQ is just around the corner, pretty simple to wipe them out with a trained stealther.
