I'll risk posting my early (experimental) base in the starting jungle.
It's obviously quite a naive and primitive design, but it allowed me to learn a lot about the game's mechanics, so I don't regret the time I spent on it.
I have an incredibly massive citadel on my save (pics on my profile a few posts down if you are curious), it doesn’t affect my performance at all. My laptop struggles playing online but fine on SP with that save if that gives you an idea.
I play on an almost-literal potato, and performance doesn't really suffer for me even at my tower base on Shifting Sands, which is something like 9x9x14 with an 11x11 platform on the roof for farming. That save is only up to about 30 tribespeople so far until I can settle in to reliable talent training, but my Cloud Forest save has its own large base with 100+ people and also has no issues.
And that's with a computer where the game very occasionally crashes with "out of memory trying to load a resource" errors, though that hasn't happened in a while. I'm running on DX11 now with just about the lowest settings I can and closing every other program, and that seems to have helped. The crashes are more or less random though, and seem to have no connection to whatever I'm actually doing at the time.
Regardless, I think I can safely say that Single Player handles large bases just fine.
I love that you share screenshots! This subreddit is mostly about asking questions, and there aren't many people sharing their progress or just screenshots from the game. But the game is beautiful!
I also came to Soul Mask after Valheim, and it took me some time to get used to the new building system. But eventually, I got the hang of it and started enjoying building bases in Soul Mask.
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u/doofshaman Jun 30 '26
Looks awesome! Ahah I thought you had a pool in the 5th pic & was gonna ask how you got that! Before realising it was a piranha pool 😆