Can you build a home or base in this game?

[Vizionblind]

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[hortensia]

Yes, definitely!

[Deathwhisper]

Hello :),

As Hortensia said, yes! You can build your own Home or even a Heavy Defense, whatever you like. You have the most success on specific servers that have raised the building limits. But even without such servers you can create beautiful buildings. A large number of components are already available for this and there are even a few planned for the future of the game.

Here are a few examples of the possibilities (build without limits in single player):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915201013

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2970983424

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2980255646

[Recondite]

Be advised that in order to build anything like what you see there and/or anything pretty, you need to be either in single player or on a private server with modified configs in order to bypass several highly-restrictive default limits to the base-building system.

[Jack]

You can but its totally pointless, game heavily favours offline raiders. You'll spend hours upon hours to build a simple base to store some loot then as soon as you log off it will get either raided by the simple lockpicking of the butter locks or they'll use a glitch to get in through the walls or under the map.

[Ron]

Originally, they didn't want to implement base building rather, the fortification of the prebuilt map structures including fully customisable interiors. Unfortunately, that's been scrapped for the base building system now in place.

Now, there's a WIP base building system using modular base elements that players can freestyle build to suit their needs (to an extent).

In single and multiplayer you can lock the doors and barricade the windows of a prebuilt building but you won't be able to build anything in it except a storage chest which can be lock picked or simply dragged away by raiders

[Vizionblind]

ah thanks. sounds like this will be a pass then

[GamerBeast]

If you are worried about your base being raided, there are private servers that disable base building damage and are more RP and PvE oriented. But with the combination of the modular base building and the old walls, people have created some really creative and stunning designs, both for looks and as a functioning base against other players.

[KMSTeller]

Hello! I would add (without malice) that before building the final BB building, it might be worth trying to build the base in SP mode. You can save yourself a lot of bitterness, because you can run into specific limitations when building a usable colony.

[Muut]

Originally posted by KMSTeller:

Hello! I would add (without malice) that before building the final BB building, it might be worth trying to build the base in SP mode. You can save yourself a lot of bitterness, because you can run into specific limitations when building a usable colony.

^ This is good advice; With setgodmode=true in SP you can quickly build a prototype to iron out any problems before you do the real build.

[instant_sunshine]

I am a senior player so not as fast off the bat as you younguns, I just want to play single player, have fun building a base to protect me from horde or is it puppets? and go about exploring and killing puppets. for now. All that is possible I gather from what I read? ps why are they called puppets not zombies out of interest?

[Deathwhisper]

Originally posted by instant_sunshine:

I am a senior player so not as fast off the bat as you younguns, I just want to play single player, have fun building a base to protect me from horde or is it puppets? and go about exploring and killing puppets. for now. All that is possible I gather from what I read? ps why are they called puppets not zombies out of interest?

To satisfy your curiosity:

They are called puppets because they are “controlled” by a technologically advanced control unit. The so-called BCU, which the prisoner also has, is a high-performance device that connects to the spinal cord and can therefore give electronically impulse-controlled "commands" to the lifeless bodies to "Animate" it again.
For example, if the BCU were destroyed, the puppet would simply sink back to the ground, lifeless.

A zombie, on the other hand, is a non-living creature, roughly speaking and can do that without BCU. While the terminology also applies, strictly speaking Puppet is pretty literal. :)

However, this topic is now a few months old and has served its purpose, so I'm closing it here. If you still have questions, you can open a new topic at any time.