Tips for Desert biome?

[Bouli]

Hi all,

So here it is, I finish the scenarios on the green planet without any problem, but on the desert planet, I find it almost impossible, mainly due to lack of wood.

I've been trying to survive the first year in Commercial/Difficult Outpost dozens of times.

I did find a few ways to delay the premature death of all survivors:
- Hire a fourth person.
- Cut down all the tea trees to make some extra wood for the fortifications.
- Train a dog if available in the area to make an extra fighter.

I created an oasis tree plantation but even with good fertility, my colonists die before the first cut...

What do you do to survive in desert?

[Paddy]

Use the seed Eisenherz. You'll thank me later. Second once you get enough trees and clear out an area plant several large areas of palms. Mine rocks so you use a combination of trees and rocks. With that seed and through planting palms I have several thousand wood

[Bouli]

Cool, thanks. Will try.

[Jack33]

some one use my seed im happy ♥
you need write the E big
Eisenherz and you can stand against everythink

[PMBELL]

I am reaching my third year and haven't made wood fortifications.
With traps and flamethrowers I do just fine. You have lo lead the enemies to the traps, though.
Recently y built stick and then brick fences to lead the enemies to the traps. Not to stop them.

[Time]

Originally posted by PMBELL:

I am reaching my third year and haven't made wood fortifications.
With traps and flamethrowers I do just fine. You have lo lead the enemies to the traps, though.
Recently y built stick and then brick fences to lead the enemies to the traps. Not to stop them.

So lazy LMFAO

[kasnavada]

Depending on where you're starting, it's possibly better to make fortifications with stones or scrap metal rather than wood (which is in short supply on this map).

Also, you don't really need to make "complete" fortifications. My "first" protections typically are a long corridor with multiple turns, one side being open (so enemy rush in) with traps (so enemies die) and the other side is a closed door (so my people can get in).

Enemies then rush through the traps while being shot at.

As time go by I make it bigger until it surrounds the base, more or less.

[grrantu]

I usually do a quick stone kill box with traps, then push to concrete fortifications. I use wood for building shelves and beds, but go to concrete for buildings.

[msor]

Why wasting stone for fortification with traps? You need fences to direct wave to traps only. They are not for hitting. Sticks are the best material for that. And there are plenty of them in a desert biome. You need wood/stone for doors/gates only, as there are no stick's door/gate.

Necropost by the way.

[Sch4bern4ck]

Just use stone for everything that doesn´t need wood, plant some trees early, their growth is horrible, but it will work out. You don´t have grain on the map ( right? or did i just not find any) so i went with taming for fuel.

[ahsanford]

+1 to planting a LOT of trees.

Also consider -- if not too far -- leaving your initial crash area to settle near a wooded area (they do exist).

The game really needs a plausible fortification material you can scale early to wall your settlement, and nothing beats wood for that (if available).

- A