How do beds work?

[HappyMonkey]

Surprisingly I haven't been able to find an explanation of how all the different beds work. Most bed-related posts seem to be about bugs with spawn point not updating.

Someone mind enlightening me?

Edit: this also includes bedrolls. I know you can only have one fibre bedroll at a time, but what about all the others? And can you have more than one spawn point to choose from on death, or is it limited to which bag you interacted with last?

[Multigun]

Whenever you click on a bed, it should tell you that your spawn point was updated. You can have one bedroll (temporary bed) and one permanent bed (housing) to spawn at. When you die, it asks which of the three choices you want, house type bed, a bed roll, or desert.

You can have as many house type beds as you want, but only one will act as your respawn point at any given time.

[HappyMonkey]

Thanks for the response! That raises a few more questions:

1. What makes the bedrolls temporary? Do they have limited uses?

2. If you place more than one bed (of any type), does the previous one disappear the way bedrolls do? You said "you can have one permanent bed", and later said "you can have as many house type beds as you want", so I'm unsure what you mean.

I haven't gotten far enough to make my first bed yet, so I'm just placing fibre bedrolls as I move throughout the map. I'm unsure what the standard practice is. I'm guessing people place beds in their buildings and temporary bedrolls when on the move.

[Multigun]

1) Not sure, I feel like back in the day that they were one use items, but I don't think they are anymore. A lot's changed since I last actively played (I mostly mod right now)

2) Bedrolls are limited to 1. But house beds, or permanent beds, are not limited to a number. Those are more like actual beds that you would put in your house or base. They should be obviously different from a bed roll.

And ya, that's the idea, they have a main home base, and bed rolls for exploration, Thrall runs, resource runs, etc.

[HappyMonkey]

The old single-use bedroll sounds just like the sleeping bag in Ark. I can confirm that bedrolls now let you spawn repeatedly (not sure if there is an upper limit).

Thanks for the help!

[Fast Johnny]

Originally posted by HappyMonkey:

Thanks for the response! That raises a few more questions:

1. What makes the bedrolls temporary? Do they have limited uses?

2. If you place more than one bed (of any type), does the previous one disappear the way bedrolls do? You said "you can have one permanent bed", and later said "you can have as many house type beds as you want", so I'm unsure what you mean.

I haven't gotten far enough to make my first bed yet, so I'm just placing fibre bedrolls as I move throughout the map. I'm unsure what the standard practice is. I'm guessing people place beds in their buildings and temporary bedrolls when on the move.

You can pick up bedrolls and put them back in inventory if you no longer need that possible spawnpoint. Although, bedrolls being so cheap and easy to make, most of the time it is just easier to leave it and let it be destroyed the next time you throw one down.