Planetbase - Building an Efficient Starter Base 

If you're wondering why all the extra water fountains in the beginning: That was just to get them started carrying bioplastic inside.

I didn’t know you could fit a hexagon shape around an oxygen supply. This has got to be the best starter base I’ve seen. Well played.

Correction to the video: I should have placed 1 tomato pad and 3 wheat, rather than 2 tomato pads. 1 tomato + 3 wheat provides an almost perfectly balanced output between tomato and wheat to give you a constant supply of Pasta meals.

This looks like an excellent idea. I usually build my security centre next to the airlock as people enter there later killing most of the base. If you have security at the entrance then you take out the problem from the start.

Wanted to add: lovely six way connection on your O2 gen. 😉

The solar panel ->base pad -> oxygen generator link was to get the oxygen generator far enough away from the solar panel that it could be the 'center hub' of my base while still building the oxygen generator quickly. I ended up with the dorm connected to the solar panel in the end. If I would have built the dorm first, they may have died from lack of oxygen.

Very good vid. You seem to be one of the few who understands this game. One tip for everyone else, I build water/power collectors, out towards a dead end, as far away from your base as you please, as they don't need spares or maintenance. In your base I would build them to your north east, near the mountains, leaving all the flat space for colony buildings. Solar/wind near an air lock, also against the mountains, as these will be in constant need of repairs. I also found that 3 wheat and 2 tomatoes works well as your meal makers will make pasta all the time, avoiding a nutritional hit later on.

Suggestion: explain what you're doing and why.

as a new player, this helps alot. thanks!

Thankyou so much for this, love strategy builder games but due to the lack there of I've not played many in recent years and have lost my touch, this has helped A LOT.

That's a really smart design

if you still had the save file of this you could hit f2 to pull up the cords. cause this base spot is great.

Interesting. An older video for this game, but you didn't say much, so like watching an old silent movie. Does seem odd you recycled the ship so soon since that means the supplies outside will be taking damage a bit longer than needed.

Why not put the solar panel and wind turbine a little closer to the airlock? That way, your engineer doesn't have to travel as far to do maintenance on them.

I’m awful at this game. I still love it

I followed along with your video while on xbox. The first time before I could get the air lock built they all died of asphyxiation and I failed. The second time I made sure not to waste time and I made it to the end of your video but my guys struggled with hunger and at the end of your tutorial they were dying of hunger. :/ Thought I was pretty consistent with speed and time when that happened. I also had a ton of sad faces and red wrenches.

Thanks for sharing this. I sometimes value having a storage next to the entrance so much, that I exchange the oxygen generator for a storage. A second entrance leading to the landing pad/space port will suffice too and can provide quicker access to the maintenance heavy power generators. On that note: Are windmills really worth it? I have them chew up my spares in no time, while not nearly putting out a much power. Take care!

map coordinates? :D

Thank you for not filling your video with jibber jabber.

Why i can never create a second path between them (like the triangle link)? before I built, they all show two wires.

what's the seed/coordinates on the planet? coordinates are for example N0W29 when generating a map (thats a nice seed btw)

You make it look so easy i play this and Dawn of man on xbox one i may make it in dawn of man planet base always dead by day 2 😪

Thx I like it

I followed this to a tee, and my base completely failed..

where is this place

seed?

This game is so cute :D

great work, one thing tho, you loose 1 metal by using the base pad connector thing

Coordinates are?

Do this with impossible map lol

Im so bad at this

Sadly, one can not simply “point, click and place” and expect everyone to understand what the hell you are doing. Videos which just show “Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do...” are of very limited value. For the video to have meaning, to properly impart knowledge, on needs to explain at least at a basic level. (You started with the colony ship already recycled, which is a bad idea, while you do get resources that way, which you can acquire by recycling it later, you expose all the resources to an unprotected state which means they degrade, and if you don’t successfully use them all up in time, they become worthless.) Grab a simple video editing program and add either a basic voice over of what you are doing, and maybe why, or if you don’t want to or can’t record voice, add a few seconds of a text insert here and there. Tell people what you are trying to do, because not every new world is identical. If someone just tried to copy you click for click, they would be totally screwed.