Do you build a new base in each major realm?

[RavenHeresy]

I just arrived in Sylvan's Cradle, and I've yet to 'settle down' anywhere. I have a ghetto campsite in Abeyance but I'm stalling on buying all the augments until I'm picking a spot for a 'real' base.

So now I arrive in Sylvan, and it feels like going back to Abeyance every time I want to craft is going to be a drag. Is that what people do?

Finally, about base building, I hear people talking about building over water to avoid trees and grass regrowing through their floor. Is that a thing? Is the game still that rough? It's been in EA for a while, and I must admit I'm a bit taken aback by how w.i.p. it feels... I'm also reading things about mobs spawning close enough to the base to aggro...

I'm yet to identify a good place, even in Abeyance... any recommendation which are current and not 7 months outdated (like most of the stuff I'm finding).

Thanks.

[lapavark]

You can access your base from any realm. You can only have one base to teleport to from map menu, and you can reassign them at any time. Basically you can build as many of them as you want and they will stay until you choose to build in randomly generated realm . In those you will loose your base if you close the portal, but you will unlikely do that.
Recommendation: build one base near Crossways for saving one teleport spot and easy quick access to portals and chests, then build you "base" at the realm you explore for easier teleports.
WARNING: I didn;t do any of that, built a chest store at the lake down from crossways and finished the game just fine.
P.S
For the beautiful place, progress the game until Forest Gauntlet portal. It''s nice there.

Good luck, grinder.

[Stelar Seven]

You build a base where you want.

The lodestone suppresses enemy spawning so you'll want one or more in your base depending on size.

I like to keep a rough base near the NPC in my abayance until I hit the high end tools and don't need to keep updating.

Once I hit the max tables I build a large permanent base. Set up augments and storage and just have something that looks good.

[LAntorcha]

I made a Fishing Realm (Ascend Hunter Desert) and play Angler Card on it, to get Desert Fish.
Made a Farming Realm (Ascend Herbivore Swamp) and play the card Farm to get gazillions of plants and seeds to make advanced cooking.

You can make a Qarry Realm, or a Lumbermill Realm, even an Ammunition Realm (Industry Card and both Military augments on an Excellent Crafting Bench).

You conect them permanently with your self-made portals.

[Foofoo McPhee]

My Respite Main Base is in the Abeyance realm, as teleporting from respite to crossway or the other way around does not create a loading screen and is instant. Practical usage. And the Waterfall lake does look beautiful.
My next base is a base for farming in Glorianas tears herbarium. This map looks awesome.
And my third base is in Magwytch marshes. There is a huuge blue mushroom. This area is so nice with a settler card. I am using this base for crafting with a huge workshop on the swampwater.
Having a base in all three biomes is also great for fishing all the different fishes.

[LAntorcha]

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[wr*****]

No, might put up a tent & bedroll, but given the likelyhood of another wipe, building (at present) is off the menu.
Resipte is the only one & that's mostly inside the first real structure you meet!

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by wr*****:

No, might put up a tent & bedroll, but given the likelyhood of another wipe, building (at present) is off the menu.!

Yes. also build rather functional - with some esthetic elements, a little bit more than a tent and bedroll ;) - but not with too many effort and time - I would like to build greater, more complex and many bases. But the prospect of another wipe stops me and one medium base is enough.

[Lord Marshal]

I took over the story teller's building since it had a lot of crafting stations in it at Sylvan's Cradle until I found where I wanted to build.

[gadfly6363]

I built a smallish base in abeyance just to test out the build system. But placement of a base seems to be just about whatever view you prefer, not accessibility, since we teleport there anyway. Then I laughed as I watched multiple streamers choose the same spot, lol.