Could be a good source of free materials as the plains creatures and swamp creatures will slaughter each other endlessly.

It depends how far you have advanced in the game. If you are far enough to where the swamp isn't that dangerous then make a base in the swamp. I have a swamp house. I only use it when I go to the swamp to harvest blood bags and entrails and stuff. But the house is pretty cool and makes for some great screenshots.

Plains swamp is the best kind of swamp

When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.

On my very first playthrough I had to learn how to handle the plains with only iron gear to beat Bonemass.

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Id rather set up in the plains than the swamp, at least i can grow biome-specific stuff in the plains and im not constantly wet, but it also heavily depends on where you actually are in progression. If you are just now getting into a swamp and considering making a swamp mining base or something then there are a few better ways to go about it (assuming those options are available, some land spawns just hate you). If you just want a safe little camp then the tops of crypts or in the giant trees are decent places (i recommend a portal, yeah ores cant pass through but boats and swamps dont always get along well thanks to leeches).

If you want an actual outpost/base, try to find a meadows or at least a black forest adjacent to this swamp you are after instead and set up there instead. If this continent is basically just that swamp and the plains and you are indeed just getting into swamp, well for one you might want to see if there are easier options for you but otherwise, you can indeed set up in a swamp that borders a plains and still be relatively safe. It can be dangerous, but you can help yourself reduce those risks to. It's just somewhat labor intensive sometimes since it can also include using the hoe to level pathways around the swamp or tree climbing for the purpose of building a base in one of the indestructible trees since the only thing to really bother you up there are fliers and archers, if they even realize you exist. Plus you might be a bit vulnerable during these renovations since you won't have things set up just yet and may be distracted with your tasks. So yeah, it can be dangerous, but it also can be done if you want to. Just uh, mind the lox. Had a herd come over a cliff into a swamp i had set up in before and they were the biggest problem in that swamp for the next in game month until they finally all got killed off. Also, deathsquitos, it wouldnt hurt to keep a shield on your hotbar, bonus that the serpent shield is extra resistant to pierce and obtainable around swamp tier.

It is dangerous to set up in any swamp because it's the swamp.

extremely dangerous, but if there are fuling villages nearby it could also be entertaining.

Setting up a camp, even just a bed in the swamp is just stupid. Boring, bland Meadows exist for a reason.

That depends on your progression. But since you don't know I have to assume your progression is "starting out in the swamps", and therefore the answer is no.

you might encounter fulings raiding around on the border
if unprepared its dangerously dangerous but entertaining if you keep yourself out of reach

Originally posted by Suzaku:

It is dangerous to set up in any swamp because it's the swamp.

well my first main base was in swamp i am not afraid of but plains? thats a another story all i want to know if they mowe to bordering biomes?

It is dangerous to land your boat in the swamp because there are creatures there that are uniquely suited to wrecking your boat, and you, as soon as you get there. We always tell people to look for a swamp that has a meadows or black forest next to it.

However, after looking at a few maps on the map website, many of the good swamps either spawn on their own islands, or next to the plains. You might not always be able to do it the recommended way. If you can see the plains from where you are standing, or can see the border of it clearly on your minimap, there's a reasonable chance that something in there will come in while chasing something else.

It can be done but you really need to know what you are doing. In other words, yes it's dangerous. If you have no choice, you could build an outpost up in one of those indestructible trees, provided that you survive the initial landing. Make sure it's fully covered and don't go out at night, unless you like wraiths. Make sure it isn't close to any ruins or standing stones, because those often have spawners, which could spawn archers.

I'd say practice on a little strip swamp until you have some idea what you are doing, and look for turnips and other resources while you are there. Or maybe you'll find a better alternative, so keep looking.

The critters and enemy (a boar is a critter here) will engage in an all out war at the boarders of biomes, and skeletons (not sure about draghr) fight everything.
this can make it safer and better to live there; one of my best homes is a meadows/plains area that fills with deer and boar corpses every night, necks too, greylings and GD die in droves, its a loot pinata extravaganza, and often I go out and cap the plains enemy after all the other stuff is dead and pile it all up.

its safer because they will focus on each other, the human is not prioritized and can escape them all.
Its dangerous because the fighting and noise and all attracts lots of enemy along the border and you will encounter some plains enemy if you get too close.

The swamp is not usually appealing for any sort of real base, just a campsite/portal usually. You can do it, and it has those invincible trees you can build into and other structures you can reclaim, but its always rainy and there isn't anything special, and the night mobs can fly so can't keep them out of the base as easily.

Originally posted by Suzaku:

It is dangerous to set up in any swamp because it's the swamp.

this guy gets it. /thread.

WHO WOULD SETUP IN A SWAMP? aside a wraith farming plattform of course. cause chains.

Originally posted by Nerevar:

Originally posted by Suzaku:

It is dangerous to set up in any swamp because it's the swamp.

this guy gets it. /thread.

WHO WOULD SETUP IN A SWAMP? aside a wraith farming plattform of course. cause chains.

İN THE NAME OF THE SHREK! İ WİLL CONQUER THE HOLY LANDS!