Wooden base, is it possible?

[Kelly Hangeron]

Hey guys,
i am new in this game and i wanna ask you, is it possible to have wooden base or decorations like anything from a wood? 😁
I know it is survival game but in these type of games i really like building bases for hours. I played 3 hours and then storm come. Everything what i built just… puf.. BIG FIRE. My base was like one big signal beacon.. 😭
I used fire whacker but with no solution.

So maybe skip wood and focus on stone base? What is your experience?

Thank you so much for your answers and sorry for my english.

See yaaa 👋🏼

[Logovore]

You can learn skill to make beeswax wood which is stronger against those storms but I would not build in snow areas which will wreck wood all day long.

[MABdad]

I have a few hours into the game, both solo and co-op. I only use wood structures until i can build with stone. I start with small, 2x2 or 2x3 wood structures so I can repair storm damage as it occurs. Good luck and have fun.

[Rekal]

As Logovore said, you can get an upgraded version of wood building pieces that are as strong as stone versus storms. You build it with beeswax so you'll need to start getting into that. The upgraded wood will however still burn.

There are lightning rods you can place to protect your base from spontaneously combusting during a lightning storm as well.

Wood works fine even in the snow, it's all about the storm strength for storm damage. Snow will build up and crush wood sooner than stone though, so you need to make sure your roofs are properly sloped and not flat. Even a concrete flat roof will collapse under the weight of snow if you don't support it properly.

[Remedial Tester]

Something else not brought up yet. Only the exterior sections of a build gets effected storms. So use Stone (or concrete) for the exterior walls. Then use what ever you want for the interior.

[КрендельФигов]

1) If you are afraid that your house will burn down or some other unpredictable problem, I recommend that you save your Icarus progress to a separate folder on another partition of the drive (or flash drive). (disable Steam clouds, otherwise, when you manually return your saves, there is a chance that Steam cloud will return the original saves).
-------->! You need to save the entire directory c:\Users\"name your windows account"\AppData\Local\Icarus\Saved
You can do a 'full rollback' with this.

[mystickneon]

I would look up the story of the Three Little Pigs.... a group called "Green Jelly" made a song about it.

[william_es]

Wood is practically disposable. Replace the word "wood" with "cardboard" and it's a better indicator of it's strength.

If you build out of wood, you will be CONSTANTLY repairing. Then there's the fire hazard. Look up threads on "fire". You're going to find a ton of posts about accidentally burning down bases. With pictures and videos even!!

I consider wood purely decorative and only use it for room dividers in otherwise stone/concrete buildings. Just so I don't have an all concrete building that look like a russian gulag (pure concrete is unrelentingly bleakly ugly). But I only use it for dividers, and NO floors are made of wood. The floors are all stone or concrete.

[76561198104174688]

i just built me a wood base and its fine i had rain lightning and it held up dont forget once u put your foundation add some beams i started with thatch and did not work like i thought it would lol the rain and win tore it up ill build stone once i get it unlocked

[The Sound of Silence]

I have a lot of hours in this game. Once you land, grab all the fiber and wood you can. Build a small base. Go find your first cave - once you have a torch - and find some iron. The second you level high enough to unlock the lightning rod, build it ASAP. Lightning will be attracted to them and not your base. Do stay inside though, as lightning hurts :). Once you've unlocked stone, turn your base into stone, build up a large stock pile of items (Such as animal parts/ore) and boom. Now, I start off usually in the forest biome (Prometheus) and eventually branch out to the swamps, then ice, then onward to the molten area. I typically just build for hours, so I've yet to touch the NULL sector. It's coming though, eventually.