Best locations for a base

[GrungeBro]

Yes what are the best locations to setup shop for a base where i can train craft and star an army?

[Pury]

Border Zone for rookies because it has weak enemies, a good amount of iron, some copper, and it's in the center of the map. Also, food isn't a problem: you can make Chewsticks.

[jynx]

There's a sweet spot north of the first hive village west of the Hub. You can straddle both arid and swamp biomes, plenty of beak thing eggs, skins, and a few cannibals.
If you want attrition on any incoming raiders, set up shop in the Fog Islands or Cannibal Plains. That one can be challenging.

[GrungeBro]

Originally posted by jynx:

There's a sweet spot north of the first hive village west of the Hub. You can straddle both arid and swamp biomes, plenty of beak thing eggs, skins, and a few cannibals.
If you want attrition on any incoming raiders, set up shop in the Fog Islands or Cannibal Plains. That one can be challenging.

you got images pointing out locations?

[tikiman572]

I personally settle straight in Vain itself. To the west on top of the cliffs bordering the westernmost Hive Village is an ideal spot with Stone, Copper, and Iron all together. Due to the constant rainfall, upkeep of crops is minimal and once you get rooftop Hydroponics going, you'll have zero issues growing whatever you need. The local wildlife makes for great training opportunities, meat, and leather, and with so many Hive Villages about, you'll never be without trade opportunities either.

[mc5686]

I have a similar problem:
I just started and I'm still quite weak, I set up shop in a Squin longhouse.
I started copper harvesting so I have decent money and did a bit of training (but I still have to rely on speed most of the times).
Now I would like to to setup my first settlement with mining farming.
I would like to be as quiet as possible while I start production.
Is there such a place in Kenshi?
I found reference to Fisher Island but when I arrived there with my party I was assaulted by a zillion "crab-like humanoids" and captured.
Can someone advise?

[GrungeBro]

Im new also and need a sorta safe place to set up a base to train and craft up weapons and armor so i can become stronger. Would love a image showing the best locations please and thanks.

[jynx]

Originally posted by Ricky Ticky Bobbywobbin:

Originally posted by jynx:

There's a sweet spot north of the first hive village west of the Hub. You can straddle both arid and swamp biomes, plenty of beak thing eggs, skins, and a few cannibals.
If you want attrition on any incoming raiders, set up shop in the Fog Islands or Cannibal Plains. That one can be challenging.

you got images pointing out locations?

Go to the hive village that I mentioned, and alternate walking NW and using prospecting. It's very close, you can put your base wall to the village (once you clear the minimum limit). I think Tobel Plays was the video I saw it on.

[Judaspriester]

If you play with humans only, Okran's pride (the greenish valley north of the borderzone) is fine (at least for me as beginner). Iron and stone in reach, with blister hill and bad teeth 2 relative near by which have all kinds of shops, and except of a bandit raid now and then, I got no real trouble there until now. Some of the raids also got mobbed up by the holy nation patrols.

[jynx]

Originally posted by Ricky Ticky Bobbywobbin:

Im new also and need a sorta safe place to set up a base to train and craft up weapons and armor so i can become stronger. Would love a image showing the best locations please and thanks.

Check out youtube videos by Grand Strategem, Nerdgoria, Tobel Plays, Orange01, FrankWuzHere, Terminarch, Francis John, and Almar Winfield. Most of them mention "good" base locations in at least one of their videos.
To be honest, there are no perfect locations. There's no magic spot with all 3 farming biomes together on one screen. Some places are barren and require advanced farming tech to grow food there. Some places have no wind, or stone, or water, or ores. You have to decide what food you want to grow, what power you want to use.
Are there resources you can wall off to protect, etc?

[Temple]

The Outlands seems to support all crops, though it has no copper and will have limited iron.

The area is swarming with beak things, so don't go there over encumbered.

Lots of blue water as well, so if you use mods, this is a great place to fish.

To enjoy the game to its fullest, I'd recommend playing in a biome you like and deal with its downsides as opposed to looking for a perfect spot.

[Loot]

Right in the middle of Gut. Bonus points if you settle on the small island with the Iron and Copper node. You can place your gate in the water, forcing any raiders (that get past the Gutters) to swim. With enough turrets, you'll kill them before they ever get to the gate. All the leather and meat you could ever want, too.

[Loot]

Originally posted by jynx:

There's a sweet spot north of the first hive village west of the Hub. You can straddle both arid and swamp biomes, plenty of beak thing eggs, skins, and a few cannibals.
If you want attrition on any incoming raiders, set up shop in the Fog Islands or Cannibal Plains. That one can be challenging.

I can't stand any place with constant weather effects, like fog or dust. If you load a save that has weather effects, it gets doubled. So if you for some reason load a quicksave multiple times in a row, you end up not being able to even see your own characters. Lol

[magne.moe]

One surprisingly easy base location is in the fog islands, large plateau north east of Mongrel, halfway between Mongrel and the ruined HN outpost (deathhive overrun).
You need to block all entrances but one with wall part, I keep west open for access to Mongrel and put the south wall in the bottom of the wally for wells as plateau is dry.

Much more space than you ever need, only cannibal raids and most of them fails to reach you. Fogmen rarely bother me except then you pull an tail of them into the base.

But you will pass lots of fogmen so you need to move at 22 mph or more or be prepared to fight trough them. Robotic limbs or just be strong and fast.

[Mastermind]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197976317131/screenshot/2299716459822647691/

Probably one of the best place I've encountered (Not that I've looked hard). 2 iron node(100%), 6 copper node(80%, 3 very close to iron), 100% stone, 100% fertility, 60% water, decent wind. In my latest playthrough I've only had some dust bandit raid and roaming starving bandits. (Still keeping a squad of tech hunter mercs on site at all time just in case...).

There might be a better spot nearby that would allow to have both arid and swamp environment, but that site works well enough at least for a starter base.

[Synopse]

Many locations can be great. It depends on your apporach to build an army.
If you want a lot of combat training, go to shem, swamps or norther coast.
If you want no combat, buy a large building in the hub or any town of your liking that at least has a single mine. (You need to trade, to get all you need.)
I built at so many places bases to tell you that most spots are great, if you know how to make use of the possibilities at hand.