GROUNDED BEST AND WORST BASE LOCATIONS! Where And Where You Shouldnt Build?

GROUNDED BEST AND WORST BASE LOCATIONS! Where And Where You Shouldnt Build?
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[@kkmac455]

I built my base into the juice box next to the tree 👌🏻 no complaints so far, the juice box works perfect for one of your walls, and I put a liquid collector under the straw and it fills up with juice ;)

[@msvmac9361]

Did the same for our main base 😁

[@93snowwolf]

It's a shame we can't build in any of the labs, I tried to do that in the pond lab, would be awesome to have an underwater base^^

[@therealanonymous6627]

If you’re on pc install we mod there’s a cheat that says “build anywhere”

[@RedShirt-fq6ek]

I feel as tho Grounded is a completely different game with 4 people. Which matters to base building. We chose a little dirt up lift giving us some higher ground. It has a rock on top of it. That rock has a leaf leaning on it creating some natural protection. We just recently expanded and started shifting our Base to all stem. The area we are in is about 150 cm from the first research station and is near the tree. Bc of this we get plenty of acorn, ladybugs, sap farm on one of the roots and many many more valuable resources. We’re near the pond so we get a few mosquitoes to kill every now and then. The benefit to having four people is that we can split up and run to different sides of the map. Divide and conquer. If the need arose to get Berries 2 of us would go to the bush. One would shoot them down the other would farm the Berries and protect the shooter. Me and him were the tanks and would kill almost everything. We were the bug farmers The other 2 in our group went and set up an outpost near all the bees and area of mosquitoes and they would farm those. Also… bc we had four we forgot to do the hedge lab first and strait up nailed the black ant farm instead. Off topic but the assistant manager boss fight is freaking incredible. So much fun. Anywho, my point is that if you have a bigger group it is so much easier to just build wherever.

[@nickeeplayscrazyvidsfromtw1645]

I live on the oak tree, almost invincible, built on the mushrooms and such. Best location imo, have zip lines to the hedge, shed, and sand box. No enemies up there. Also pretty fun to kill spiders especially when there infected, 10/10 location imo.

[@CheebsCheeby]

Great Idea!

[@riokeclipse5800]

Yep I agree and I have like 20 zip lines going across the map, I’m abit more up from the mushrooms tho so I get places faster on ziplines

[@aaronschwartz6289]

How do you build zip lines? 👀

[@nickeeplayscrazyvidsfromtw1645]

@@aaronschwartz6289 You need to do the hedge lab and give the chip to burgl, then it’s around 10000 raw science to buy from the terminal, to craft it you need a decent amount of web fiber (depending on how long the zip line is) and some weed stems, hope this helped

[@deity6569]

i live there too and have a zip line system to every important location pretty much on the map. i haven’t played in a while, but i might play again in september

[@Pikkiwoki]

Build on water and ground bugs won't know you exist.

[@coyamarie5722]

Same!!

[@NumberOnePlumJamLover]

I started playing grounded about a week ago and i live on the wood posts closer to the south side of the map. There is one wood post that you can climb onto with ease using a leaf, under the leaf is a field station so i always have access to quests and such. Also extra benefits of living there: when there is an ant raid/revenge going on, the ants cannot climb and destroy your base there if you have nothing connected to the ground; It's easy to connect ziplines to other places without having to clear any grass or other obstacles (i know you can do it from other locations with ease too but there is a better view when connecting ziplines).

[@lo.reece10]

i also use the exact same post as you in many of my world i have played for over 2 years but have never went as far as being bothered to make a zipline

[@c1rcu267]

since the final release about of these areas are so much more dangerous. i stay near the mysterious machine by the ant hill. i rarely get attacked by spiders, no mosquitoes, lots of ladybugs and the occasional ant attacks or stray soilder ant.

[@angelz8861]

1 tip for for turrets. Build them on clover roof ramps. That way you can aim towards the ground and still be able to cover the sky!

[@Canderous__Ord0Gaming]

If you can swap the clover roofs to cobblestone ramps, you'll have a angled platform to fire off of that's more durable too!

[@samm12011]

I personally built it on the house porch, not the shed one. and I just made zip lines to everywhere and you were right about the time it takes :D

[@nazgulrekker1913]

Just built a huge house on the deck and a zipline from the deck to the javamatic. The trip takes 3 minutes but skips everything which is pretty awesome. The deck has easily become my favorite place.

[@KW-de9sc]

My parties main hun is this compound in front of the oak tree, built around the lemon juice box and it still works out great as we have a central tower set up to go everywhere. I recommend an oak tree main base just because of how close It is to incredibly important resources, the acorn shells alone. If you’re worried about things jumping into your base, just build 4 to 5 plank walls. Keeps the spiders from being able to jump in which is the most important thing to consider.

[@draco147]

You can make walls to close the openings beneath the oak tree roots, that's where the spiders spawn. This way you make a prison for them.

[@anthonybarker9123]

So my main base is a 4-floor base under the porch (next to the paint can and two over from where the wolf spider "lives". It's the full width from one joist to the other. And from the ground all the way up to the bottom of the porch. The whole outside wall is stem-walls and a palisade on the floor level guarded by spike strips. Since they can't attack or destroy the porch structure, I'm pretty safe from most attacks. I just need to find out if flying insects can make it through the arched windows because that could be a problem.

[@TheHades1171]

I built my castle on the middle stepping stones. I have like a great wall of china going from the casset tape all the way to the jump up into the upper yard, with the plan to make it go all the way to the porch eventually as well.

[@amberphelps1748]

I built on the pond off the rock just on the other side of the juice box from the side shown in the video. I built palisade walls around the rock then started on the rock & built down to the pond. I have a high deck surrounding the tree with zip lines everywhere so I can easily get whatever resources I need, I built a bridge to the field station in the pond so I can use that or the oak lab. I have a big base built but smaller ones as lil way stations in certain areas (sandbox is one obviously). Also there’s a milk molar bottle in the upper yard that provides potential build spot as its top end is buried but still can get inside & it’s see through.

[@S7evin13]

I always build on the lantern by the oak tree. There is also an anchor point on the back of the oak, so you can cut off any connection to the ground. You can also build right up to the beehive on the oak tree. From there you can travel the whole map in a few seconds via ziplines.

[@themisfitowl2595]

I just got back into Grounded after leaving before the pond update. I left during the "Great Drought" which was a glitch that kept water drops from spawning. So happy they referenced that in game! I'm a mini base builder and will likely build bases all over the yard. I've got my eyes on the hedge, a lillypad and the flat rock right now, but my main base is still on the Baseball. Why do you not recommend the good ole Baseball for a base? I've not had any raids trigger over there, the red ants don't bother me there despite being close to their anthill. They always attack my Welp Soda-can base instead... (I also haven't bothered the bees yet, so maybe that's a thing) From the Baseball, I've cheesed the wolf spider, nearby stinkbug and ladybugs that wander around and it feels like the safest spot in the whole yard to be honest. It is the spawn-point after all. Is there some reason why the Baseball isn't going to stay safe in the Endgame? Something I haven't gotten to yet? Because once I get Mushroom bricks I'm totally making that a Chubby Chubbs Castle! 😁

[@JadePGC]

Baseball is OK but wold spiders do start patrolling closer to it as you play, also for me you end up building around it instead of really using it, so good starter but nit permenant home,

[@themisfitowl2595]

@@JadePGC Hmmm ok. In mine, the Wolf Spiders just walk right under my floor and not notice me at all. I've only ever had an issue with a nearby Stinkbug spawn that I made the mistake of angering and leading him back to my base. He destroyed the acorn spiral staircase I spent a while building (I just use a bounce web now) and then got stuck under the footprint where I couldn't kill him, but he could still gas me out, lol. I had to let him de-spawn along with all the dropped acorn pieces. I'm going to stick with it for a bit just to see how long I keep my Baseball base. It's still my favorite spot in the yard. 😊 For replying to my comment, you sir, have earned a like and a sub! 😁👍

[@Bug-161]

I live about 150 cm from the plank, its a good base spot but i didn't know about the 3 wolf spiders and one orb weaver nearby

[@ripperoni9305]

Recently started a new run with a couple of friends, we have made a base on top of the toenail ash tray and produced a toenail shrine. No raids yet and had the base for a while now, some great zip-line points though as it’s super high up.

[@michaeleduardhutanu9244]

i picked the worst spot by acccidently basing next to the secret larva cave and eventually they just took my base over the only wasy to kill the tens of then was to bring over a stink bug but they would eventually just respawn think of it like basing on top of the ant hive but replace them with larva

[@colefournel5701]

The haze area is not a bad spot to build. You don't need grass as you can hold hundreds of mushroom bricks in your inventory. The haze area is probably the best faming area for quartzite and crow feathers.

[@D0qy]

No longer is it a good spot for quartzite after you mined everything, outdated

[@comandeerlaughter6876]

I built near the first science station as a temporary camp. Got the red ant armor and a torch and descended into the red ant hill. Got the chip there and moved to the flower bed which i now use as my raw science farm and upgrade crafting place.

[@michaelpace2469]

The stump by the termite den is unraidsble aside from flyers. I got a elevator there to get back and forth from my main base at the baseball.

[@PraiseCheeses32]

I had a lotta success with the hedge by instead of walking places i used the nearby porch as a transportation hub for ziplines. The porch is high enough and flat enough that it makes a great spot to set up ziplines.

[@XXLRebel]

I played this game in the very beginning and kinda liked it. Game was a bit barebone so I lost interest after a while. Looks like this game improved a lot and I can't wait to start a new playthrough. Any game where I can slaughter mosquitos sounds good to me😁

[@andrewpeli9019]

I just built at that pad where the embiggening rays point. Having three big landmarks in the lazers that each point the way home is very helpful and that pad is almost exactly center in the yard. I have a small outpost near the pond and some fire spits and dew catchers across the yard that I use to replenish food and water supplies. I put a grass wall up the first day and then I put a palisade wall up outside at some point after. The only raids I get are red ants and larva and they're a joke. That pad also has a large rock and an unbreakable bush that can be used to lob arrows at the occasional wolf spider that passes by. If things really do go south, you can go inside the pad and nothing bigger than an ant can get in there after you.

[@Frostyviewer]

My wife built a high level hiway from our BBQ base to every major point of interest. It's higher then the head of the gnome statue and goes all the way to the hedge and all points in between

[@Gravemans]

Oak tree Lab best base period. Built a Walkway all around the tree to the lab (when you still needed to go there) to dodge the spiders and a base on the poles right to the field station, nothing gets to me and everything is near...after I came back to the game after a year, added a mushroom tower on the roots up high and created a zipline system and you get accessibillity to everywhere. Always gonna be the best place for me, because I use so many ladders so need to bust so many acorns. Ofc, I do have some forward bases, but small, my main will always be there.

[@emptycloud1657]

i built a base on top of the hedge. getting things connected r easy, but its hard to defend in a raid against anything that flys. after awhile if u go down through a hole with a wall of even grass its very easy to defend against the raids be the just attack the base but the always come from the same place. u can also fall down in the back corner and get inside the bush. u can also build in the bush where nothing can get u at all and you can see the broodmother area which i thought was kinda cool.

[@ohzazo1597]

I built a house right next the the research lab on the log by the termites and got a raid one time and couldn’t reach my base. I think that one is pretty good.

[@rebelscoutyt8243]

My base is in the berry bush in the upper yard great little spot i just need to figure out the stairs because i already built it but just used plliars to get up until i finalized the build but it is really well hidden and is nice and cozy 🙂

[@Nachtrot]

I build my first base on the baseball and every time I get there, there is a big spider stuck in my house. (Wolfsspinne in german) I can beat her because she is stucked, but now I want to move up to the oak.

[@Frost_Winterfall]

my friend and I currently base out of the can by the Oak Tree, a really open spot outside for dew collectors, and we use the lamp post closer to the 3 mosquitos as a huge zip line network to reach to and from every end of the yard, using the diving bells and orb weavers for silk. Wolf spiders are a pain, but we play smart at night to not get agro from them

[@samuelmcary8809]

Me and my friend just built a floating castle on the pong, just one narrow bridge connecting to the oak tree with several turrets pointing down it, super easy to defend

[@KatPlayzIt]

I have bunch a little bases every where, but my main on is on the red juice box in grass lands I like it cus there mushrooms amd stems and not much bad bugs

[@pyrocasten]

If you pause the vid at 12:32 I've built my base on the slab in the bottom left of the screen I have a ramp made from 1 clover roof and 1grass floor going from the next slab over up to my base, as long as this ramp stops short of the top of my slab (meaning every time I use the ramp I still need to jump up) my base is safe from virtually everything there's a wolf spider occasionally comes around but nvr climbs up only bugs in the immediate area is a rolly polly and 2 ladybird larva, easy peezy. Every time I get revenge attacked I kinda just stand around waiting, more I think about it it's actually kinda boring lol kinda gotta go out of my way so the wave can actually reach me 😏 got weed stems, clay, and toadstools near easy access to the bbq, the woodpile, the ravine and the under shed the wall is a decent highway as well👍

[@chardaka7422]

I like to build on the Juice box by the tree, not the one near the pond. There is a root that raises off of the ground with a tunnel under it, this is where I made the stairs up to the juice box. I built a large Castle/Mansion. It is tall enough that I was able to make sip-lines that run to the hedge and one to the shed area. so far nothing is able to get to me, ants will attack anything on the ground or will swarm under the juice box but they are easily dealt with.

[@changote3943]

i made a 3 story castle at the oak lab pond area, its pretty cool cause wr got a huge bridge to get to the upper garden

[@Sgtnolisten]

“Who would want to build in the middle of a swamp?” Venice: *glances away nervously*

[@brittanybesecker6153]

There's a rock that I build on towards the left side of the yard near the wood wall and pond. Its high up enough that spiders can't jump up on and I've only been raided by red ants. There is usually a bombardier beetle and some prb weavers but midgame to endgame its a nice spot

[@loganreed3200]

I have a base I built 2 or 3 months ago between the hedge and the upper yard on stilts. I built it for two reasons, to easily explore the stuff they added and collect berry leather. I don't really need berry leather anymore though.

[@DjRex28]

if you just walk straight out of Burgles lab until you hit the pond then i made my base right on the edge of the pond. nothing comes over (besides a few wolf spiders but a fencse makes it easy to ignore) i find making a bridge across the pond gives easy acess to the upper yard and many other resorces. also i keep getting weevles spawning inside my fence so free food XD

[@Courtneywiemann]

I currently have an outpost base within the stone slabs and rarely are the mosquitos an issue. The are on the side closer to the pond, and most of my activity at this base is at the picnic table and sandbox.

[@drop6758]

Nobody: Here's a good spot. This guy: MOSQUITOS

[@CoastMitchell]

I built mine on top of the brawny boy bin it’s a giant mushroom brick pryamid and only raids that can happen are mosquito and wasps

[@joboss9511]

Have one base near burgle in the trees base and another near the red ant hill. Defending isn’t too bad just annoying when I take any eggs and they immediately want revenge.

[@abdyorozco4092]

While I feel everyone is super creative and enjoying thier games in their own way was I the only one who just made a custom game with the reactivity turned off cause I couldn’t deal with the flying enemies wrecking everything

[@alexyalexers]

I built my base where the base at 11:46 is and it’s so easy to farm roll polys and the main raids that happen there can’t get to our base. The only downside is ladybird larvae.

[@captainfrankwoods3300]

I built a base in the half submerged can in the yard actually really good haven't had any attacks

[@xsaytinx4495]

If you build right on the 3rd stone to the left in the 2nd level of the flower bed it is a really safe place only bad part is bees but it is to high for any other bugs

[@dabegmister]

I built under the nome but did not notice the wolf spider den in the back of course

[@Irexmaed]

I like building my base next to the Mint Cap and either above or near the little water area. There's gnats, clovers, and it's a great center to have a main zipline tower. Only thing I fear with it, like any other base, would be aerial raids that would go after my tower :'(

[@necrobata1]

I just have a thing for building next to cool stuff. So i based at battletoads and hemans head xD Its a shame i cant do the same on castle, its just too many Mosquitoes :(

[@softaco3088]

Just started playing. What is the deal with the mosquitos. I cannot get rid of them. They just spawn camp my base

[@JayyStillPlays]

I just started today how does one aquire the ability to make floors. I have walls and scaffold but no floors

[@JadePGC]

Buy it from science shop

[@Chadderall113]

I built next to the juice box by the pond. Great spot

[@jayrencamacho326]

I live on the baseball cause I don't get to much payback plus I built a Zipline system since now you can go up Zipline it's just fast travel but it's In a work in progress and I thought it will be cool

[@youknow2849]

I built a sweet main base around the mysterious machine very low tier bugs around and pkenty of food and water

[@fruitsalad1362]

I’ve got my base on those little wooden pillars next to the oak tree

[@theaumes1337]

video was pretty useful but i would like to hear the long answer on why not to build on the baseball? i have my base there and its been great cause of how central it is. i do mostly play with friends, but i still cant think of a good reason not to?

[@JadePGC]

it's just small? you will end up covering it over and then wahts teh point? much netter places closer to upper yard, good for first few days and that s it

[@brianhaught7929]

I built my castle on the shoe print was thinking bout other bases but I play alone so it's not really needed

[@PizzaGuy170]

Burgle just chilling in your house

[@slate613]

I was wondering, what are your thoughts [and everyone else's] on building skyways as I call them?. I have one running from an outpost on the plank in the SE by the hedge, to my "main" base at the Mysterious Machine, to the rock you built on at 2:00. Also extends to the picnic table and sandbox as well as below the big lamp at the oak tree. Just makes travelling easier since I avoid all the bugs and don't get stuck on the grass etc.

[@slate613]

@@Lagger-HD Yeah, I've started to use scaffolds for support towers to make them a bit more realistic. Every other one has stairs to the ground for resource gathering. Or random acts of bug violence! 😆

[@John315]

This game's map wasn't made for base building. I've played countless hours in The Forest, Subnautica and Green Hell and in none of these did i have a problem as to where to set up my base, as i did in Grounded. When you want a large and flat area as i do, the only choice you have, is to climb on the porch. Aaaand that's it. That the only place in the game as i want it. Because i want a very large base. Where i want to build all the stuffed bugs inside, and you know that they are many, big and require a huge space. So, i buit my first base in the Koi Pond, because i thought, it's the perfect place, where no predators can reach you and it's a huge flat surface. Guess what. Broken! After a while, all the things i had in my base, were either floating in the air, or sank into the foundations. A very annoying bug, which i didn't know existed, but it was already too late. I had build a whole base. After some hours of playthrough, i was so fed up with bringing everything back into their original position, that i decided i would move my base elsewhere. So i chose a place in the yard, a little south to the Oak tree. It had a very small flat area, not enough for what i wanted to build unfortunately, barely enough for a small building, but it was my only choice. So i cleared a huge amount of grass, built a base, moved EVERYTHING from the pond base to the new one, which took hours, i was happy to see that my stuff didn't sink into the ground again, BUT, red ants and larvae keep appearing in my base all the time, even though i have a palisade around it. After this, i quit. I'm like you got to be kidding me. This shit of a game, doesn't want you to have a base, plain and simple. Simple idea: You have a damn shovel. You SHOULD be able to flatten the terrain to build a base! End of story. Simple mechanic, that sould be in all base building games. And the second one, make the area surrounded by palisade, delete ANY bug spawn points it has inside it. What good is it if i build a base, and the spawn points, which i didn't know were there, still keep existing, spawning bugs all the time?

[@JadePGC]

simple mechanic? jesus man learn how games are made before ever commenting such crap again, it sucks you had a bug but no game has to have features just for massive bases to suit your needs. you can have plenty of bases and its one of teh better ones, you cant flatten terrain in ark conan or green hell so more crap from you

[@patpat4937]

I surrounded the first field station with my base

[@JohnSmith-wm3xw]

I feel like you didn't give much content regarding bases that're safe from creature attacks as opposed to base locations that're close to resources you'll want. In my experience the safest area by far was the hedge just above where the paperclip is. Spiders can't jump high enough, bees struggle to path their way to your home, and nothing else has even come to raid. You can rather easily make ziplines higher up that take you from the hedge to the picnic table, the tree, and so forth. Currently it's the most securable area (aside from the areas bordering on the under-construction zones.

[@JadePGC]

Not needed is the point, most people are barely getting raids, so why put ya self somewhere far from resources for something that might only haven every 8 hours?

[@JohnSmith-wm3xw]

@@JadePGC It's true it doesn't happen too frequently. That said, the last three raids I've had in the past few days were all orb weavers which can hardly be stopped until you get tier 3 gear or upgrade quickly. Like I said, ziplines can take you wherever you wanna go and resources are as close as they would be anywhere else on the map as soon as you set them up. It's not the only spot one can go to build safely either, just one of the better ones for building both safely and building a larger aesthetic base as opposed to a smaller one for necessities. I saw a few people in some of your previous vids share similar thoughts

[@Mixs3zZ]

I live under the lemon crime juice box With a mansion/castle built up the sides

[@pleon13822]

I live on the giant rock near the Machine near spawn

[@tylerwebb3312]

In my world i only ever had red ant raids- i only had 2- even though i committed ant genocide

[@kaidenshaw-fz3wf]

And a fountain base in the pond

[@GucioTheDog]

i have my base on one of the lilypads

[@Carno66466]

I can't build on the fence because it is unsupported

[@hobgobblin]

Nice.. see I told you that was a great rock to be on!!! lol

[@jeddediajohnson9179]

Whats wrong with the baseball?

[@jossaman]

We buildt a beautifull castle on the baseball :(

[@noahbarbary9088]

My base is right next to the juice box next to the oak tree

[@kaidenshaw-fz3wf]

A baseball base

[@Lydgid]

I built a small base on the slabs near the oak tree. It's too close to the oak tree to aggro mosquitoes and too close to the pond for wolf spiders to attack.

[@dd4850]

Am i the only person who builds a base on top of/around one of the little lab stations

[@mrchesseyboi4319]

i made my base on the post

[@freezz8020]

Can you build inside an oak tree?

[@davejones2227]

Technically I think, sure. But it's a spawn point for two wolf spiders and if you plug up the haze it spawns an additional infected wolf spider. So it's not really worth the effort.

[@whatagup4799]

Far side where the wall is, no insect's to ever worry about

[@maxamillionschultz]

I built my base right next to the spac.r/ mysterious machine its right in the center of the yard, and it's like the first thing you see sure my base isn't as extravagant as most people's bases but I like it its just a castle but it's like 5 or 7 floors wide and 8 or 10 floors long but it has 3 floors and I have a giand tower that has all my zip lines right next to it so ya I like it

[@austincoots8540]

How are you in 3rd person

[@ghostofrivia]

it’s something u can do in game depends on ur controls and platform

[@Fat-Stack]

Muskeetoes

[@N3X1C]

Lily pad base💪

[@N3X1C]

I know what you’re saying about berries. But there is a berry bush just across the pond near the castle

[@JadePGC]

Not when this video was made, I did updated version

[@hopsar8799]

Maybe update this type of video for 1.0?

[@JadePGC]

I did, look through ma playlist dude

[@theonlygodofdragons9266]

Where you should or shouldn't* Not where and where lol

[@Byyte]

Updated video?

[@JadePGC]

Nothing much has changed honestly the upper yerd has so many hard anemeies it's not advised to build up there

[@danielcheeseflavoredtortil1302]

All horrible except for oak tree base

[@BALLZ_IN_HD]

I live in this gap thing near the red ant nest

[@Yousuckatgames]

Your pros and cons are ehh you don’t even explain why not to stay at baseball to long besides not making it your main hub which of course why would someone make the first base they make their one and only main hub ?? You don’t really explain anything well tbh

[@Coolitsme12]

Me who still lives beside the growing machine

[@kaischuster4286]

Building on the pond. On the lily pads there is best to be safe. No direct connection to the ground, no moscitos and even spiders are just jumping into the water dying when you have a wall on this side. You are near to the oak and a perfect base for the underwater missions. Second we build a tower at the oak to have a base for all connections to the other parts of the garden we can easily get by zipline. ;)

[@astroyomen]

Learn how spell mosquitoes bro💀 probably spell bologna, “balowny”

[@jordan9604]

@@astroyomen Na, you spell it baloney

[@kollesonkel420]

We got exactly this setup too 😂

[@jessicapaterson1949]

With my current playthrough, I have built above the leaves at the entrance to the Oak Tree lab (which was established before the bugs strick back update). After the update, I increased the height a little bit. Despite quite literally being built above a wolf spider spawn it still isn't an issue. My base is high enough up that it doesn't aggro the wolf spider and I have found a place where I can shoot at/kill it and despite it being able to jump it can't jump up to me due to leaves. I will say that at this stage I have yet to turn off the haze. So not sure how I will fare against the infected Wolf Spider. For my next playthrough, I am not sure that I will build my mane base here. It all depends on how things go when I turn off the haze. I haven't had too many base raids and those that I have had so far have mainly been spiders. Where I built they have not yet been able to get to me. Is a handy spot, fairly central for resources ect.

[@Mongoswede]

I am building a new full on tree base with the latest update. First thing I did was window wall all the under oak entrances. It’s not perfect but it does cut down in spider traffic.

[@Thaijler]

If you stand on the straw in the juicebox next to the pond the wolf spider can't attack you either.

[@talis61]

I think its a viable option still and like you I have a walkway that completely circles the tree just above the solitary wolf spider. This level houses all the returning ziplines from all parts of the yard. On this level I build a 15 jump bounce web tower and then circle the tree again at the higher level which houses all the high zip lines to the rest of the yard. My only change needs to be that on the lower level I run an outer stairway with 3 levels that run down to Oak Tree Lab door. My lowest floor level is a jump height above the stone outside the door. BUT I did build a porch and doorway surrounding the lab entrance and in an Orb Weaver raid they did take down part of the porch so I may need to get rid of it. However, I could use it as a dummy so they feel they have "paid me back" lol. Aside from this the Oak Tree has acorns for building machines, sap for lighting, close to pond for muscle sprouts, juice canisters, mushrooms close by for food/building, grubs for upgrades, aphids and weevils for food, grass and dried grass which although a little walk is made easier now we can carry 22 planks. If you dont aggro the Infected Wolf Spider you are ok but DONT fire at it with a pebble turret or it WILL JUMP to the turret and take it down......lol. Best approach (because of the explosions that cant be blocked) is a Lv 9 Crossbow with Fresh arrows and with the right set up you can take it down in 10 hits or less (some don't register). Its still a pain though as if it gives up and walks away it can regenerate health so you have to keep it aggroed (BUT NOT BY TURRET lol)

[@marcusoliger3639]

Currently, my party has a decent 3 story base with palisades near the baseball as a mid area base. We are currently constructing a base under the rocks by the picnic table as our "end game" base. We also have a small alcove by the tunnel to the hedge for berry leather gathering. We tried to build a small acorn farming base at the tree, but spiders wrecked it so we gave up on it. I may talk to my guys bout building near that 2nd flower bed too. The castle base you showed looks awesome.

[@BlixyBlix]

I live on a lillypad!! My friends live on a rock near it, but i think the lilypads are quite nice! Theres plenty of food as of now, and not many threats. The only problem i've found was hauling grass and weeds over, but with a zipline and some platforms it's just fine.

[@Bazelgeuse24]

Me and my mother do too! Quite peaceful we found till getting spawn killed by a wolf but we killed the bugger after a bit.

[@fluffydude4203]

Just wait till you get to ng +3 you will be able to build teleporters which will make the ziplines the thing of the past 🤘

[@mistnii]

My base is located between the pond and burgl on the rocks behind the oak tree. It’s an absolutely incredible place for resources but the downside is it’s a very far walk to the sandbox. But everything else is right there and I also used the tree as a place to put a zipline to the upper yard so it barely even takes anything to get up there, grab the resources, and come back. Couldn’t recommend it enough :)

[@spheecrab1634]

While it can eventually get cramped a bit, it IS possible to build inside the can next to the oak tree near the lemon puncho. Approximately 1 length away from the entrance inside you can place a floor in line with the side walls. Use a half stair or wall for height, and then build floors and half floors for the base there. It allows a generous amount of clipping into the sides and I have managed a full 3 story base inside with it being my main base even into late game. I also built a large tower for ziplines using scaffolds and stairs on one of the posts nearby, which allows for full yard traversal, along with a nearby thistle trap protected porch with a zipline to the top of the tower. Also its possible to clip a sap catcher on the nearby root into the can for safe sap collection. So far wolf spiders and other raids have proven unable to attack the interior.

[@radiotan5173]

Your base sounds dope ngl

[@JOJO-kh9ck]

Gonna try it

[@JOJO-kh9ck]

Does it still drop soda?

[@spheecrab1634]

@@JOJO-kh9ck yes, although it's sometimes under the first floor and sometimes on it. Generally on the floor more often though.

[@nickwalters9311]

I currently just live in the spacr, i just built hella walls around it as barriers but i wanna build a actual base

[@Slipandslidee]

Building on top of the juice box not a lot of enemies because i haved walled off the juice box lol its also fun just shooting at the spiders from the juice box

[@Cb138inRs]

'The Juice Box' So descriptive. There's only what, 7? 10 of them? Lol. Rubbish help their m8