Best (peaceful) base building location ever + TIP HOW TO START

[Johan Velikokurčni]

Basically after having issues finding a good, peaceful base location I finally found it and I'm just sharing it with the rest of you.

Region: Okran's Pride
Location: Right in the middle of three Holy Farms (open link): https://ibb.co/G95TZvZ

Pros:
- A fairly peaceful location, you only get River Raptors (easy) and occasional Black Dragon Ninjas raids (they might be tough at the beginning)
- Flat surface for build
- Very close to cities (Blister Hill, Bad Teeth)
- Close to farms (buy animals, food to make veg. farms)
- Lots of water and fertility (great for food)

Cons:
- Very little copper / bad quality (will take ages to mine)
- Relatively lots of rain that might annoy you
- You are in the Holy Nation lands, they hate everyone but humans. They'll be visitng your town and asking you to pray with them and other stuff. If you use Shek as guards there's no problem, just make sure they don't have contact with them/see them or they will want to take them away.

EASY START:
- Start as a wanderer at The Hub. There're three copper resources just south from The Hub. They are your friends.
- Mine and get enough money to eventually add three more people to your squad (I think you can get two at The Hub). Keep on mining.
- Buy a Shack/Storm House.
- Go to Holy Farms and buy a Bull. Mine with three members non-stop, use the bull to transport the copper to The Hub and another trading outpost just a bit north from The Hub and use one member to sell the copper to traders and build stuff in the city/work on the research bench.
- Keep on doing that until you hit 5-8 members - Also get Sheks to guard your "miners". Hungry bandits occasionally attack you, but they aren't a problem.
- Do all that in 2-3x speed obviously and save regularly.

This way, I got up to cca 80k cats which is good enough to start. When you'll have some basic research done, fill up the Bull with the building material, meds and go.

Additional tip:
- When you build a base, build a circual wall around the gates and put your "shooters" there like I did: https://ibb.co/jV8xcRm

Base at night:
https://ibb.co/jkTzfBt
https://ibb.co/kHC78hg
https://ibb.co/x7n0jZM
https://ibb.co/n7T61rg

I also use some mods:
- Defensive Gates Rebalance
- Player Capacity Increase 256
- Interior Design
- Faces Plus

Hope this tips helped you a bit :)

[Socrates Johnson]

I feel anywhere where HN bugs the crap out of me isn't a good location :) That's why I'm having such difficulty finding a spot.

[Johan Velikokurčni]

Built my base first in the valley in Stenn Desert. Was an OK location, lots of copper, iron, stone. But Kral's Chosen were too much for me at the beginning so I moved. HN doesn't annoy me too much tbh, I keep my gates closed and except for occasional visit from them, usually for a prayer, there's no problem.

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

It's also a great place to build for a non peaceful start too. Lots of farms to pillage. ☠

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1589137755

[Bedelguese]

I have a nation of rogue hivers that I started on Raptor Island, crossbows and spears help with the Raptors at first and after you get some nice armor and level up your strength to where you can wield some serious heavy weapons you'll basically be able to take on a whole horde with a single person. Nobody bothers you on the island except said Raptors and even then they're rather docile up until the harvest comes in, otherwise it's pretty good for farming wheat and cactus with some Iron and Copper strewn about.