I built my main base at the top of a very tall mountain for aesthetic purposes. Getting metal up there isn’t the easiest thing but none of the base destructive raids can ever occur there and the raids that do occur are pretty easy since my base covers a lot of the flat land in the area.

In terms of pure usefulness, probably not the best place to build it, but damn is it in a cool location.

STAY AWAY FROM THE MOUNTAINS, dont get me wrong, so cool and pretty but i didnt realize until after i went through uhhhh.... over 3k block so far for foundation, ground evening, and getting half the workshop done, i can comfortably say im not doing this ever ever again and the only reason im still doing anything here is out of pure dang spite, also forgot in the process the whole 20-30 min walk of getting any metal up the mountain and.....fahhhhhhhhhhi want to stop but it looks so good...so flying became a thing cause f that, will be my minecraft seed

The two most important considerations to ask yourself about building a base, for practical reasons, are Farming and Ocean access.

Some crops only grow in certain climates, so without trying to spoil too much, the normal base location progression is

Meadows -> Plains -> Mistlands, with the latter being Highly optional gigachad stuff.

You CAN get by with just having a meadows base, and building small farming outposts in other locations. How I usually go, is I build up a big meadows base into Plains tier tech, and then I scout another base location in the Plains for my Plains, Mistlands, Ashlands base (So I try to go like 75% to the southern edge. I then just use a small Satellite outpost for Mistlands agriculture.

Avoid building in the Swamp at all costs, avoid building in the Mountains unless you really understand what you're in for. The mountains is a very cool place to build, but expect extremely low FPS during blizzards, and constant harassment by a couple of nasty enemies.

mistlands base is an outpost, I will probably never build there for a real base.
my endgame base is tiny, just a 6x6 square with storage attic and an inaccessible basement holding all the junk I don't want in my way (like a throne, banner, armor rack, etc for comfort and the non interactive crafting stations like butcher table, tool rack, etc). I can make or repair anything there, and for farming I portal out. Ive got a chest with all the materials for on-demand smelt / kiln/windmill if I need them, but they are not up most of the time. It leads to a fishing/boat dock with storage, fire/chair/portal/roof where I can rest to keep fishing and launch a boat. Moat around it but the water side lets mobs up ... but they have to swim past a pair of ballistae to get there so they don't.

It suits me much better than any huge build I ever did. Its tidy and practical. That doesn't keep me from making big castles, I just don't 'live' in those anymore.

main base is in plains. and stays there. mistlands base isnt worth it. only need a small farm for the shrooms and thats it. due to them haveing higher yield than any other crops the farm doesnt even need to be large.

I build main base on a island off any coast,, then the invasion/raids don't matter.. currently I have an island that is half black forest and half meadows.. it's perfect.. well away from the coast.

I have an outpost in the plains just for growing flax and barley and an outpost in mistlands for sap and mushrooms..

Originally posted by Danfeop:

I like building main in meadows. And just use portals and setup only small farm bases for the biome specific stuff.

+1 This

..Meadows is calm relaxing.. and lots of good locations.. then portal off to Forward bases for whatever you need to grow etc

I just put outposts in the mistlands usually, although this time the seekers kindly vacated a black marble basement that I'm using for my mad science experiments.

I think the dvergr extractor is the only thing you can't port with.

I got a main at a (somewhat) raised BF island; with portals leading to small buildings near the swamp and the plains. The Mistlands base is "hidden" under the stairs of the infested mine the Queen is residing.

In a game at a dedicated server I play at with friends, I have my main base set up in the plains, using the (not so good looking) earth-wall and moat defences.
And only because I couldn't find a suitable island at that server.


Thorin :)

I got a Main in Plains and portals to all my other mini-bases.
i also enabled travel with ores through portals, otherwise its a megapain and you need to develop every forward base way to much.

i'll also never play on a server that wont allow portal/ore travel. insane timewaste !
I will rebuild the base once i unlock everything, atm i just reached plains.
So its more of a just make it to get it done base.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/CptPimp/screenshots/

My main is in the meadows but plains would have been fine too except my wife and I have low level characters in with our high level characters. You can find nice large flat spots in the meadows and plains which is why I select them for main bases. Other biomes get a portal hub near resources that replenish and for a farming plot except for the swamp. I always build my swamp base on the edge of a swamp in a different biome.

Mistlands has the advantage of preventing most of the existing invasions from occurring, like trolls, at least according to the wiki.

How much non-portable material is to be mined in Mistlands? Black marble is portable, but I'm not sure if scrap iron or other materials would make a main base in Mistlands worth it.

I like building main in meadows. And just use portals and setup only small farm bases for the biome specific stuff.

I've kept my Main in the Plains and, like Danfeop, small outposts with portals to other biomes for farming and mining.

I like to explore so my bases tends towards functionality.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2942699010