Where to build first base for beginner?

[prime11]

I read somewhere that the town hall or police station is good, for the concrete allready there. But I have no idea where those are, it's possible i didn't spawn near them, or i'm blind lol.
-I hid in a water tower first night, before loggin off

I am aware of keeping the horde base seperate from my regular stuff

Just woundering which house to claim?

What block type should i focus on? wood, cobblestone ect ect

Oh, in the long run. Is it viable to build a base from scratch? Huge resourse cost ofcorse. But there are plenty of open flat locations for possible bases.

Thanks :)

[Smetrix]

Setup shop wherever you want, there is no real “best place”, other than location, as it is much more convenient to have a place close to a town or two for loot.

Bunkers and large buildings tend to be more secure, as well as any location that has a wall around it. But you could also just find a house and upgrade the walls yourself, it’s mostly up to personal preference.

And yes, it is viable to build your own base, if you wish.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by prime11:

I read somewhere that the town hall or police station is good, for the concrete allready there. But I have no idea where those are, it's possible i didn't spawn near them, or i'm blind lol.
-I hid in a water tower first night, before loggin off

I am aware of keeping the horde base seperate from my regular stuff

Just woundering which house to claim?

What block type should i focus on? wood, cobblestone ect ect

Oh, in the long run. Is it viable to build a base from scratch? Huge resourse cost ofcorse. But there are plenty of open flat locations for possible bases.

Thanks :)

Anything with around ~1500 hp walls, and a roof, and a handy way to cut off any possibility for Zs to climb up to you, should be enough for around 2 horde nights. A 5000hp wall building should help you with 3 or even 5 horde nights, for as long as you're killing them fast.

A custom base is always more preferable, but only for as long as you understand why you want it.
Building and repairing your own base will always take more time than just claiming and then "patching up" the existing buildings. The issue will always be time-related.
my advice be this:
- Start making a custom horde night base from scratch AND use it to keep your resources.
- But, do not spend your horde nights in it, until you're 100% sure you can hold Zs off. Make random roofs your quick-o horde night bases for a while.
- Once you've done with your custom horde night base, you can either move your items out, or keep them in there, if you're sure about their safety. Moving your resources into a basement is usually enough to ensure their safety during horde night. If you're afraid of the bombers - make 2 or 3 story basements with different ladder shafts and the resources being at the lowest level. This way, any Zs who manage to get down 1 level because of, say, explosion, will not leave you resourceless.

[Fynnister VonPeedlePoup]

If you like to build just go for it. This is experimental phase and wipes will come. Have fun and don't forget to do like the devs and experiment!

[mONONOke_____]

look for a "little" building with walls that have much "hp".
build ur base on top and destroy all ways up.
build a safe way up to ur base.

[Loner]

I'm beginning and I just improvised. Small shop near a lake, day 45 and now filled and surrounded by concrete walls 2 blocks wide, trenches and spikes everywhere. I found it fun to just reinforce constantly and not having a second horde base. Z are now going from water, digging below the house lmao I love this game

[Jolly]

You wanna manipulate the AI pathing or keep it real?

You can ruin the AI pathing by putting a ladder up on the 3rd block and leave two blocks below ladder empty so you have to jump on it to get up. Zombies can't use it to get up to your base, so any house with a 2nd story and your ladder on the outside, you can live in the 2nd story without anything getting in your way as long as you cut off the interior path. It'll take an extreme amount of zombies to tear down a 2 story house, you can just clear the ones that do go in the house in the morning or try your luck at night.

However...

My ideal first building are small concrete or brick buildings like Pass N Gas Stations but they made those harder to find in A20. Small is good for defending but big enough to hold your storage/forge/workbench etc I also put my storage boxes above 2 blocks so if a zombies does make it in my base, they can't destroy them.

I love going Engineering or finding the schematics and building garage doors for my vehicles in the garage part of Pass N Gas like this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2683998237
The only thing is you gotta worry about is how to manipulate your doors for combatting several trying to get in at night time.

[samiusdad]

Generally I always set up near the trader.
Weather the most suitable nearest POI or a quick base as close as my land claim is permitting

[RasaNova]

In general I like to claim a building and tweak it as needed. I look for something on the smaller side, with a wall around it, eith plenty of room for vehicles or a garden.

Just for example Shade Tree Auto works well:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2649254965

But of course if you like building, make your own! Start small, add to it and fortify it as you go.

[Jolly]

When I reach end game, what I do when I go crazy at building my own base is I made a list of what I will have in my base all together and find a blank grid on google images, since this game is based on blocks like Minecraft I edit the grid .png or .jpg using windows Paint Brush and place different colors in the blocks to represent walls, rooms, doors like a blueprint and in the end I ended up with my dream home with bed rooms, kitchen, 2 car garage and a power system with hidden wires without mods, a defense system that looks down the walls of my house and shoots whatever tries to beat their way in.

[prime11]

Thanks for the info yall. I will aim for a small 2 story house near the trader with decent hp walls. I might try a few seeds in the process :)
Once i'm "settled in" than i'll consider a custom base

[UncleBensRicin]

The best place that we have found so far is the new fire station with the bulletproof windows. We filled the 2nd floor with blade traps and we just watch them get blended through the windows from the roof lol

[TastyTurian]

I'd personally recommend finding a town with a city inside. Greater variety of POI tiers. This will help as you progress through the quests and potentially save you some running.

I personally like the big construction POIs as they are already basically just a framework that give you a lot of freedom to easily add on as you please. Generally speaking for any beginning POI I'd recommend making your base on the second floor or up. Zombies will inevitably beat on walls and stuff and this way being on the second floor there's less places for them to come at you from. Creating a bottleneck is the basics for a lot of successful bases.

The less places they can attack and destroy the safer you are and the less resources you'll have to spend on repairing.

[00 Critical]

Originally posted by prime11:

Thanks for the info yall. I will aim for a small 2 story house near the trader with decent hp walls. I might try a few seeds in the process :)
Once i'm "settled in" than i'll consider a custom base

Hi,

Once you are on your feet and looking for your second FOB I would look at the new Hearts Rental Car building.... it's going to be my new base as it has bullet proof windows as well as walls with 5000 hp. It as a very open layout (once you breakdown the stuff inside) as well as a built in underground garage. The number of zombies that need to you clear out could push this to week two before trying to clean it out.

[Jolly]

Originally posted by prime11:

Thanks for the info yall. I will aim for a small 2 story house near the trader with decent hp walls. I might try a few seeds in the process :)
Once i'm "settled in" than i'll consider a custom base

Well I hope you enjoy hearing that Trader Horn going off every day and night lol gl hf

[TastyTurian]

Originally posted by Jolly:

Originally posted by prime11:

Thanks for the info yall. I will aim for a small 2 story house near the trader with decent hp walls. I might try a few seeds in the process :)
Once i'm "settled in" than i'll consider a custom base

Well I hope you enjoy hearing that Trader Horn going off every day and night lol gl hf

I made a base by the trader one time and I learned my lesson quickly. That loud trader horn was the biggest jump scare in the game for me. Be sitting there and then it'd go off and cause me to jump. Its so freaking loud and wearing a headset just made it worse.

I moved shortly after.