How to get Shelter level up & Polar Bears?

[Drakiar]

Hello.

How do i get Shelter level up & Polar Bears? I am at Workbench V but Shelter 2. And Polar Bears don't respawn? Got like 4 Icelakes and similar tiles each.

[WolfWings]

Build more and better quality pieces for your shelter to level it up.

Like a 3x3 w/ 3x1 "porch" of logs (so a 3x4) is only shelter 2 and change with no furniture.

Lumber? It's level 5 easily.

[Drakiar]

But how does it work? Does everything need to be in the house? I built lots of furniture which did nothing. Range limit?

[CatPerson]

Originally posted by Drakiar:

But how does it work? Does everything need to be in the house? I built lots of furniture which did nothing. Range limit?

Got initial log walls? Use the Hammer and move or remove/destroy them and replace with the wood plank walls, and then later, replace them with stone walls. Got hay roof? Destroy and replace with plank roof, then with coal/asphalt shingle roof. I don't think furniture has anything to do with it, they're just deco. Maybe the bed upgrade, not sure.

One caveat: you cannot move foundations, only destroy them, and destroying foundations takes any still attached walls with them as well). If you do want to alter foundations, move all your furniture/chests somewhere else first, then move them back after you're done rebuilding. I usually leave foundations at the plank stage (I like wood floors) and changing the walls to the final stone and adding a couple more foundations for extra size (or stone roof tiles instead) gets it to house max. Edit: you can also build a secondary higher tier material house if you want, and leave your original house alone.

Polar bears do respawn, but it's random and seems rare vs. penguins. If you have the ink sometimes it's faster to just delete/replace the tile over and over and over until one spawns with the placing of the tile. This applies to a lot of things - like iron nodes. If a tile doesn't spawn with one, you can bash all the rocks and sometimes one will spawn the next cycle, but often it won't and it's easier to just delete/replace. :p

[Drakiar]

Thank you alot @CatPerson. That helps.

@WolfWings too.

[starlight78sso]

I'm at shelter 5. I have 3 buildings, my house which is 8x2 and split in 2 rooms, with a 1x8 deck. I then have a 2x2 storage room for my chests. And then a crafting building, where I put all my crafting tables, furnace, map table, and I think I did that 10x4, might be bigger, I cant remember as I increased it several times to get everything to fit.

Edit* Oh and I only have plank walls, floor, and roofs.