Advice for Efficient Resource Gathering & Optimal Camp Layout

[SwordGuru]

I'm look for tips to find the most efficient way to get each individual resource, such as which tiles should I pick and and how to layout my camp.

This ties into my next request in I would also like some tips on the best way layout my camp if I want the most rations per run. I've heard lumberjack are not really worth it so I don't mind leaving out forest tiles which grab wood. Would also like to balance houses and all other camp buildings (all 4 watchtowers, both warehouses, etc.) in the camp layout.

[Doombringer]

Well, eventually you want your camp to look like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2419244724

Farms can share fields, so you can have up to 6 farms sharing a field if you alternate row of fields/row of farms... eventually you will replace them.


The best way to get infinite resources is to do an infinite (no mob) chapter 4 run.

Smallest deck possible that includes oblivion, lantern (4 adjacent to every road tile), town (for roads that only have 3 adjacent tiles), vampire mansion (next to the last mob tiles that aren't fully lanterned so you can find the last few lanterns without taking 20+ loops to do it), and at least one of: grove, cemetery, ruins (they give resources for walking through).
I like suburbs+meadow for landscapes when doing this (low (18 & 15) weight, gives metamorph)
Mining picks can also be used to get resources/loop if you have them.
Once set up, just let it run while you sleep or something, then use an auto-clicker to alchemy the resources you get into whatever you need.

[Sinsling]

Use necromancer on chapter 4 with swamps, vampires, and smith's forge. Use suburbs to power level until you have unseen care, and bring ancestral keep + forests. abusing oasis is optional. Once your loop is full of swamps, you can leave it on auto and unseen care will outscale the mosquitos. You can let the game auto farm large quantities of orb of unity, orb of evolution and book of memories which you can then convert with alchemy. If you feel like babysitting it, you can farm metamorphosis using the suburbs or oasis. Just make sure you don't equip any healing or take the heal on skeleton death perk for this method.