Single player Tile for Home base

[[HARK] Skrubs*]

For those playing single player, which Tile are you guys calling home to be most efficient?

[SteelFire]

A lot of that depends on your personal preferences and goals. Since we can circumnavigate (wrap from side to side and top to bottom) the Atlas, every place is 'the middle', essentially.

Different island styles also have different pros and cons. For example, the giant islands with statues or barren towns, have shallow harbors, so you'll end up taking up space with docks or struggle with finding a good spot to put a large shipyard, or put the shipyard on the opposite side of the island to save harbor space. Even the big islands still don't have all the resources you'll need, so you'll still need to go on gathering trips. They do provide lots of space, with nice sized flat areas for building, and more animals for tames or resources.

Conversely, some of the smaller island types have good sized, deep water harbors where you can pull even a galleon right up to the shore line and hug large shipyards up to the shore as well. Some even have plenty of resources in quantity without having to travel over land as far as on a big island. They have less usable building space and you can end up blocking a decent bit of resources (mostly wood and such) with your build.

My personal preference, at current, is to be in a temperate tile, so I don't have to deal with crippling heat waves and still get plenty of rain. An island with a fresh water source is always nice. I can also grow every crop in temperate, if I set things up properly. I've settled in A5, finally, for my home base after travelling through a good portion of the map and thinking about settling in a few other places.

I did find a really neat tile, L10, that I didn't stay in because it was tropics, but it was a bit of a tough decision. I think there's 5 island and 4 of them are typical tropical, with the palms, parrots, copper, and what-not. There is one however, the northern most island, Gravelton Haven, which is distinctly temperate (pine trees, crows, iron) in resources and spawns. It actually almost doubles the available resource types in the tile, because you're getting both the typical tropical and typical temperate resources.

[Trouser Jake]

Yeah I settled in L10 for that reason. There are so many types of resources in that grid its silly. But... I realize now, that I'm away from home for so long searching grids for other types of resources that in the end, it doesnt matter where you live. I will admit though, there are a ton of islands out there that are just duds. They make me feel bad when I find one, knowing that on an official server some poor saps have to live there.

[Lich Lord]

I prefer the temperate islands right on the edge of artic. Plenty of resources, deep harbors and plenty of resources. Just had to ferry in an elephant and giraffe. Bears ,cows and chickens all spawned.
Plus i primarily whale hunt for income so its one grid away from potential hunting grounds.

[SteelFire]

That was one good thing about the fact that I went so many places just trying to find a place I wanted to settle down, I got so many different resources in large quantity and I know what tiles/regions to go for so many things. Though there's a few things I haven't found yet (probably because i got tired of going ashore on every island and just started blowing through tiles) and will have to adventure some more.

[Liatni]

Temperate seems the most mild, for weather anyway and plenty of stuff but, I actually like lower desert, yeah I am weird :P But, like everyone has said, settling on a grid as long as you can find most the resources there is fine but, you will have to travel to the other biomes when its time to upgrade most things and, well few resources like, salt.. unless you are in a grid with it, you need to travel :)
I am going to assume that those that like to breed certain beasts over others, they will settle in a biome that is native to their favorite pets hehe

[Liatni]

A grid that offers both Crystal and Gem is prolly a solid grid to be in :)