Why should you build a base?

[Zombiejager]

When theres, literrally a massive, pristine super duper tall tower, that the shroud wont touch, without enemies and infinite heat with build in teleporter, 5 minutes from starting location :D

♥♥♥♥ that Free Real estate, let me build a hovel for me and my blacksmith lol

[Metadigital]

...because it's fun?

[Dirty Wizard]

So take over the tower and build a base inside it, you're free to do that, and it's awesome. I rarely build my own bases in survival games, I prefer to appropriate ruins and build extensions onto them so I really appreciate the way this game lets you do that

[ZERO]

Originally posted by Zombiejager:

When theres, literrally a massive, pristine super duper tall tower, that the shroud wont touch, without enemies and infinite heat with build in teleporter, 5 minutes from starting location :D

♥♥♥♥ that Free Real estate, let me build a hovel for me and my blacksmith lol

Honestly I feel like building in survival games is 9 times out of 10 for fun. and I spend most of my time building in survival games simply because, fun.

BUT so far, I have seen reasons to build bases.
*First you touched upon, NPC's having a place to store them and any crafting benches is a good idea.
*Farming, its actually pretty useful later on to get large amounts of potion materials or linen quickly.
*Your own custom teleport points. Like FR even if you dont build a base just plonking down a fire to get a teleport point isn't bad.
*Storage. yeah this speaks for itself, Im not sure about you but I like having space in my inventory, I will turn my base into a small black hole with the density of the items that I pick up.
*comfort, if your all about efficiency then your basically giving up a free stamina buff, which stamina is a pain in the A**

But with all of those said, you can pile boxes up in a corner, and all the other things you can just make a quick 3x3 for the npc's it is really just for fun, like every other survival game with building mechanics.

[Wizard_of_Nozs]

I would trade all the building for the basic ability to have premade bases that I just add a population to and spend most of my time instead on engaging story, quest and drops while being able to bring friends on raids and dungeons. Building has really became a nuisance in games lately. It's fine to have, but when it can take up a majority of the game that leads to less engaging content, it's a stupid move.

[GeforceJoe]

I dug a hole gave it a door and flooring that’s it, game registers it has a closed home base. Winning! I wil give it a sky light soon just to know the time of day/night.

[Zombiejager]

I meant purely from a immersive point of view. I actually quite love building bases :P But it feels weird in this game, that theres functionel buildings and items (bowls, plates, furniture), that you can destroy for resourcest to build your own...plates, bowls and furniture

[tinsmith33]

Careful on tower that it dosent reset and wipes all your items .
Some people have had it happen to them .

[Jitah]

I started to play Enshrouded online with my friends two days ago and at the end of the day I was asking the same question.

Don't get me wrong, the game is fun, beautiful and everything. The building system, once you get used to it, is amazing! And I wish I could have had something like this in Sons Of The Forest, Conan, Fallout 76 and/or Valheim. I spent hours to build a base just to realise that it was just for the sake of it. It doesn't impact the game at all.

And it's quite a shame having such a complex, deep, intricate building system for aesthetic purposes only. Such a wasted potential. It basically has the same value of Sea of Thieves's cosmetic sets.

Oh well, perhaps it's just me btw. I thought this game was going to have some sort of base-defence system. I was wrong.

[oblivion4463]

7 days to Die does base building correctly... you have something to worry about on the horizon and base building is a means of survival. If you guys have not checked out 7 Days to Die then go take a look.... hands down the best survival game out there.

[Morbeous]

I would like preset bases that you could exchange resources for. I suck at building. Never get my walls even and for some reason I can’t even make a door that works lol.

[Dreadstone]

Originally posted by oblivion4463:

7 days to Die does base building correctly... you have something to worry about on the horizon and base building is a means of survival. If you guys have not checked out 7 Days to Die then go take a look.... hands down the best survival game out there.

Respectfully disagree.

As an aside, there are some structures (whose architecture bears a striking resemblance to the Ancient Spires) built into mountains that we cannot access yet.

One, I wanna know what's inside, and two, I would love to build in there. (Diggy, diggy hole)

[ppaladin123]

With a sufficiently upgraded altar you can take over a whole settlement, clean it up, repair the damage and give every NPC their own building. Kind of makes me wish we could restore settlements and repopulate them with ordinary folks.

[prophecylike]

Originally posted by oblivion4463:

7 days to Die does base building correctly... you have something to worry about on the horizon and base building is a means of survival. If you guys have not checked out 7 Days to Die then go take a look.... hands down the best survival game out there.

that game is 1000% better than this one forsure.

[Lich Lord]

I have taken over a farm and plan on building another Alter north to restore the big church i intend to remake the whole town

[saice]

Originally posted by oblivion4463:

7 days to Die does base building correctly... you have something to worry about on the horizon and base building is a means of survival. If you guys have not checked out 7 Days to Die then go take a look.... hands down the best survival game out there.

I have many many hours in 7 days to die. and no I would disagree.