Originally posted by vinyblaster:

If your goal is to live there and never leave there are obviously resources you wouldn't be able to get.

I think you could obviously make it work. You would have to do without some end game food.

That's actually one thing I don't like. The mountain is such a cool biome but there is very little reason to build a base there. OTOH I'm not a big fan of the flax/barley restriction to force people to settle in the plains. Feels forced.

Depends on your play-style.

If you are using portals, except for metals, location doesn't really matter much. If you place an outpost in the mountains for silver processing/manufacturing, you might as well turn it into a base with max comfort, decent storage, maintain repair level crafting, have your cooking/fermenting there.. everything except farms, ranches, ports, and metal manufacturing - which can all be done at portal accessible remote locations.

The benefits, besides aesthetics, would be event related - only raids would be wolves and bats... may or may not be a good thing once Mistlands hits.