How long does it take to build a base

[bigd]

I was wondering how long does it take to build a base solo.

[kasey]

It would entirely depend on where you build and how big. A quick assembler+refinery only takes a few minutes to build.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, about 30 mintutes but depends on where you want to start because some areas have all ores close to each other.
(30 mintutes to build a Respawn station) edited

Keep in mind the following :

Rich ore spots = Where all ores can be found close to each other, some areas have all ores within 1 Km.

Easy Biome = Where the Ore Detector block is not needed because we can see the ore spots with the naked eye on the soil (sand soil) and no "Bad weather" if you play with Weather and Lightning damage enabled.

Medium Biome = Green grass Biomes because it is harder to see the ore spots on the soil and those have lightning that can damage your creations where you will have to build lightning Rods and Safe Zone (station shield).

Hard Biome = Where there are more lightnings with bad weather and where the ore Detector block is needed.

Moon/Europa/Titan starts = Moons have all ores -1 that is Uranium but can be found faster by exploring asteroids at +/-30Km around any Moons, so the best places to have all ores very early in suvival are the Moons.

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Creative players prefer to start on one of the Moons because those have all ores and can easily find +20 Uranium asteroids around all Moons.

Titan start is very cool because all ores with ice where the ore Detector block is not needed, we also can enable/disable Weather, Spiders, Encounters and setup to our liking anytime we want.

[Dan2D3D]

Veteran Tip

Find Gold next to ice lake on planet and you find all the other ores around it.

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All ores + Ice

[Stinboi]

how long is a rope? answer will be the same.

[Dan2D3D]

I must specify, 30 minites is for the first station so the most important that is the respawn station.

Respawn Station example :
Smallest as possible, only one Job to do that is Medic room to see it in the Respawn screen and be able to respawn right there :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3145828602

[bigd]

I'm talking about like asteroid base, bases in mountains, underground, a production facility/base. and so on.

[Dan2D3D]

Respawn station = 30 minutes
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Your second station should be an atomatic Factory that is another 30 minutes depending on how big it will be, here is the minimum :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355088682
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About 30 minutes per station if not too big and when playing at one of the RIch ore spots of the game.

Space and mountains is hard and will take way more time to collect the needed ores.

[carl.wear]

Originally posted by bigd:

I'm talking about like asteroid base, bases in mountains, underground, a production facility/base. and so on.

Creative game or survival? That dramatically effects the build time.

Building underground takes time as you have to tunnel it out first.

How big do you want it?

Will just a few blocks thrown down in the shape of a building do or must the entire layout have a function and must look perfect?

In creative mode you can get a simple functional base done in about a minute

Survival mode where it takes time to build and get resources and tunnel and work out where everything is going, that can take weeks.

[Dan2D3D]

+ I prefer to create smaller stations that have only one Job to do because they need way less power to run, gives better world Perfo and I have way more fun than adding all blocks on only one station.

Smaller stations example :

- Respawn station = Only contain ; Medic room, Cryo chambers, O2/H2 Gen and power.

- Recharging station = Only Wind Turbines and connector so they will have only one Job to do that is recharging the connected ship.

- Refinery station.
- Automatic Factory.
- Gas station, O2/H2 Gens with H2 tanks on all ice lakes.
- Garage/Building station (can be a ship Printer).
- Defence station / indestructible Defence Tower protected by Safe Zone.
- Underground hangar.
- Etch ...

[Dan2D3D]

carl.wear got a good point. I create all I need in creative mode testing world, Blieprint and use the Projector block to build in survival, takes way way less time doing so.

I am now working on a new "Building station" made to build my Favorite large block Rover with Offensive Follow Guard Drone, I will use the Blueprint of it to rebuild in survival.

Took me less than 2 hours to complete in creative mode :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3357914043
Drone printer :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3357914491
And Factory :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3357913652

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

A 1-2 hours depending on your skill level fora basic one. But the factory ship must grow and grow it will until you exceed the PCU limit or it brings your cmputer to a grinding sub frame per second halt.

[CynicDragon]

Originally posted by Stinboi:

how long is a rope? answer will be the same.

100% accurate, couldn't have said it better myself, it's the type a question that makes me think it's trolling or click bait, no way that's real

[Dan2D3D]

At the end
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It's about where you will start and how big you want to build.

My best advice to save time is Titan start to have the important stations and ships faster and go build your first space station close to Uranium asteroid around Titan.

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+20 Uranium asteroid around Titan.

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by bigd:

I was wondering how long does it take to build a base solo.

That depends on the design of the base and how much resources you have available.
Just building a building doesn't generally take that long, but if you want to build your base back into a cliff or mountain, then it will take longer as you have to mine out a cave to build it in. Nice thing is, you can use the stone to make your components.
This is why I prefer bases like this. I just start mining and build my base in the hole as I go.

[bigd]

Well I just downloaded More Encounters Faction Wars Npc Vs NPC vs player mod and AI enabled mod. About to play solo and build some stations and populate them with engineers and soldiers. Let my empire spread. I might use workshop mods buildings since me designing bases is horrible. The designs works well in my head but trying to make it reality in game is horrible lol.