Is there a purpose to the base building?

[ComradeJ]

Not trying to bash the game or anything.
Genuine question. I'm on the fence on getting the game. Need some help in the matter.

I've never "understood" open world base building games. Personally, I can't just grind for resources to and spend the time to build a base just for the sake of building something. For me, it needs to have good mechanic, a purpose behind it beyond the aesthetics, housing for crafting and a spawn point.

For example:
-Is there a nightly horde that attacks and makes night time dangerous so you have to have a base and build a good one to stand and defend against it?
-Does it provide a home base for gathering NPCs from across the game? Do these NPCs have any mechanical relevance beyond just decoration for your base?

Thanks in advance

[Asmosis]

No to the first, Yes to the second.

NPC's are basically additional crafting benches.

[Galadhlinn]

For the last 15 years, I have chosen to play games with building in them. If I look at a game for the combat, they all blur into hack and slash. Grinding for levels, for gear or consumables is basically the same in all games. Working through a dungeon, all pretty much the same. What sets games apart for me is the game environment aesthetics, the music and the building. Enshrouded is not perfect, mostly because it is in EA. But for me, it is one of the better games I have played in the last 15 years.

[Hondo]

Base building in this game is really not necessary to complete the game. You do need some kind of a base to put your needed NPC's, but nothing more than that. You can make it a big square box, or you can spend hours making a big base with several buildings. It's completely up to you. You can also take over towns once you have cleared the enemies out of it and use it for a base. As of right now, there are no attacks on your base, but this may or may not change in the future.

This game is about exploring, building, and combat. How you do those things and how much time you spend on them is completely up to you. You can make it a more "casual" game and take your time doing things, or you can go all out and do quests after quests to complete the game. Again, completely up to you.

[Storm Reaver]

Comfort : Resting Bonus.

[Long Dead Fingers]

Originally posted by ComradeJ:

Not trying to bash the game or anything.
Genuine question. I'm on the fence on getting the game. Need some help in the matter.

I've never "understood" open world base building games. Personally, I can't just grind for resources to and spend the time to build a base just for the sake of building something. For me, it needs to have good mechanic, a purpose behind it beyond the aesthetics, housing for crafting and a spawn point.

For example:
-Is there a nightly horde that attacks and makes night time dangerous so you have to have a base and build a good one to stand and defend against it?
-Does it provide a home base for gathering NPCs from across the game? Do these NPCs have any mechanical relevance beyond just decoration for your base?

Thanks in advance

The game allows for building quite large and elaborate structures, even whole towns if you want. But you can get by with far less.

The way I understand it there is little actual need to build beyond just the minimum requirements: a place to respawn, keep supplies, do a bit of crafting, rest and get comfortable. A few npcs will park themselves at your base (or bases; you can have several) so there is that. There are currently no enemies that will attack those places.

Many players have requested base raids as an option. Having those would certainly renew my interest in the game, which at this point has somewhat fizzled. I'd feel way more invested in the places I build knowing they could be smashed to bits without careful planning and proper defenses.

[Gargoyle Girl]

Another person looking for a 7 Days To Die clone, lol.

The purpose of base building is to get comfort levels, which give you a rested buff, which gives you as lot more stamina and stamina regen. This bonus is important if you want to be able to adventure in some areas with less of a harsh grind (which I'm guessing you would enjoy that, rather than not). But there is another reason for building.

There is, for some players, a simple joy in building something. I for example took over Harvest Homestead on the map and turned it into a base for all my NPCs and myself. I gave them all nice big rooms or even whole houses on the farm, rebuilding them all to keep the original aesthetic, and then went out on the farmland area and terraformed that too, terracing it so it looked better and less slope-y. It took quite a while, and I struggled a little with the build features, but it turned out really nice and it has a comfort level of 61, giving me just over and hour of the Rested buff per visit.

I don't think they should have ever billed this game as a survival game; there is nothing you have to do to survive, other than build a simple box house (four walls, a roof and a floor) so you don't get randomly chomped on by something. As another posted noted, 'You could stand around all day and nothing would happen unless you were in an intentionally dangerous location', and it's true.

So, yeah. The only benefit from building a home base is the Rested Buff, having storage laid out the way you need it, and sheltering the crafting stations. You could just provide box houses for all of this and it would be ok, but the better the home, the better the bonus, and I think this was the goal of this aspect of the game all along.

[WallaceTheSane]

Originally posted by ComradeJ:

Not trying to bash the game or anything.
Genuine question. I'm on the fence on getting the game. Need some help in the matter.

I've never "understood" open world base building games. Personally, I can't just grind for resources to and spend the time to build a base just for the sake of building something. For me, it needs to have good mechanic, a purpose behind it beyond the aesthetics, housing for crafting and a spawn point.

For example:
-Is there a nightly horde that attacks and makes night time dangerous so you have to have a base and build a good one to stand and defend against it?
-Does it provide a home base for gathering NPCs from across the game? Do these NPCs have any mechanical relevance beyond just decoration for your base?

Thanks in advance

Sounds like this game isn't your cup of tea.
This game's focus is group play with exploration and building, which both are done quite well.

[upuaut2]

you have 5 workbenches. ( the npc) that's it. so no there is no purpose in building anything you could just focus on killing those monsters and doing dungeon . game atm is way too early access

[Nerevar]

not really. your base is never in danger by anything.

you can just build a giant box house and stuff all the npcs and stations inside. dont even need doors or windows. done.

you can build a sky plattform to glide anywhere but given the map fast travel towers exist not even that has much purpose sadly.

the rested buff is never needed since this game is grossly undertuned difficulty wise.

if youre looking for a game of this type where base building is not only cosmetical but also has gameplay purposes i recommenced to try out valheim.

[grinsekeatzchen]

Having Fun using all the stuff you gathers trough quests. That's the purpose.

[deadspawn]

Originally posted by ComradeJ:

Not trying to bash the game or anything.
Genuine question. I'm on the fence on getting the game. Need some help in the matter.

I've never "understood" open world base building games. Personally, I can't just grind for resources to and spend the time to build a base just for the sake of building something. For me, it needs to have good mechanic, a purpose behind it beyond the aesthetics, housing for crafting and a spawn point.

For example:
-Is there a nightly horde that attacks and makes night time dangerous so you have to have a base and build a good one to stand and defend against it?
-Does it provide a home base for gathering NPCs from across the game? Do these NPCs have any mechanical relevance beyond just decoration for your base?

Thanks in advance

At this point, other than your resting bonus, there is no reason to build more than a simple shack to house the NPCs in so you can craft. The devs have stated that they are contemplating adding in raids (or whatever term they use) for bases, but it hasn't been implemented. I would think, with the amount of complaining on here about the new dungeons, the vast majority of the remaining players would be content without any raids. They just want to build stuff like minecraft. I would love to see a reason to build something, like Valheim forced you to build because of the periodic raids.

In the end, what is your goal? My goal is to try and get 200 hours out of a game if possible. With the new dungeons, without cheesing or cheating your items or inventory, you could get 200 hours out of this game if you never played the demos and you play solo (and will replay a dungeon or two). I personally find no joy in building gigantic buildings, so there is no time sink in this for me with grinding rock and wood to build with. If you watch dozens of videos telling you how to do everything, then you will be lucky to get 100 hours out of it. The game isn't hard to figure out, the mechanics aren't that tricky.

[Sasheria]

There is a market for "base building" type game.

Farm/Train/City simulator type.

There is a market for "Combat Base building" type game. (I use "" because combat can be base being attack, RPG element, home base, explore etc etc etc)

for Enshrouded, there is no base raiding.

you need a base to hoard your stuff ;) (I do that with LOTS of containers) and build more stuff.

There are people who just love to build cool looking bases (it can be useful or just look good) and run with it.