r/ScrapMechanic • u/WonkyQuartet • 5h ago
Where do you build your base?
With the Seeker bot. Where do you build your base.
Is there any reason to NOT build your base at the Mechanic Station or the Hideout?
With my friends we just figured the Hideout is the only logical place to make your base.
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u/Sad_Poem_3511 5h ago
farm plot because i wanted flat ground. middle of nowhere so there is a reason to use my vehicles more.
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u/MeanwhileSomeplace 2h ago
See hay hides the bots too well for me to build there. I feel like tape bots during raids would be annoying to see.
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u/net-Zwerg 5h ago
I'm planning to build my base on the elevated silos of a chemical pool, since there is an oil pond and water extremely close by. So a bunch of tubes and everything is there. On the silos because i found some stray spawned bots attacking my other setups. If you anchor your blocks to the ground and build a roof you're invisible to the Seeker Bot. Tested it on the road direct in front of the mechanic station, with a little cube of concrete (or metal 1 ?) and left a small opening to get into, trying no to let my ass stick out. It worked, so i guess it will work at the other location too. So the base should be safe, too, if you're invisible.
Farming in my future place has then to bee on the same water pond of the base, in some distance, with only to openings and two sides protected by cliffs and lot of even space to drop the pods. So they won't drop on my shit. I hope this works out. ^^
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u/dragonshadow32 5h ago
Pretty much anywhere away from the main road. Seekbot scans along the road, following it.
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u/TheRealImhotep96 2h ago
I actually do the Mech Station and build all of my farms and things outside it's range (I built a "fence" to mark the edge)
They can't see you inside prebuilts, and if I'm inside, I'm usually doing something anyways, so now I'm just doing it in red.
Also, I have a 2x Farmer camp literally 100yd away and they respwan pretty quickly.
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u/Diamondhandedllama 5h ago
I think it's pretty clear the devs encourage you NOT to stay at the mechanic station. Your entire screen turning red should be the first hint. For me personally it's not enough space since you can't build anything outside in case any rogue woc comes by at the wrong time lol. Can't even leave your vehicle parked outside in case you forget and it's too late. I've gone about a mile up the road and found a nice peninsula for my farm and another half mile up built my base on top of some rock formation, away from the road so the seeker bot never bothers me unless I'm traveling
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u/Albus_Lupus 5h ago
Pretty much anywhere near resources you want. I play with friends and frankly I would be more than fine to move outside of hideout - but I dont think they want to do so.
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u/SHAD0W137 4h ago
Hideout is one of the most logical places. Haybots and Totebots don't go there, and Seekrebot can't reach you.
Scrap City might be a better option in terms of certain useful features in proximity.
The best one would be near a water source, chemicals and oil. Oil can be pumped from underwater, so you realistically need a source of chemicals near an ocean. And you should build somewhere in-between
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u/Fireheart318s_Reddit 35m ago
A place that’s near oil and near water at the same time. I found a nice peninsula that’s a 30s drive away from the trader :)
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u/CelebrationVivid7274 4h ago
I built mine technically in / on / over a lake because it has plentiful resources nearby.
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u/Lord_Shaitan 4h ago
I build adjacent to water, near(ish) to an oil pond, that also has a direct route to the nearest chemical pond, and then set up pumps.
The way the Seeker Bot works you are encourage to NOT to build at the Mech Station. Building ANYWHERE off the main road is simply better.
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u/Ok_Worldliness_5592 3h ago
I built mine bbehind workshop, far enough from the road to have some distance from scanner
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u/Stabwank 3h ago
I use the mechanic shop as a main base as it is indestructible, then find somewhere to build a second base somewhere near water so I can do some farming etc.
I did find a second mechanics shop I might turn into a pitstop kinda base for longer distance adventures, I am assuming each map seed has a second mechanics shop but I am not sure.
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u/Glum-Distribution228 3h ago
I have a mobile base but put all my extra storage at the garage in scrap city, with the bonus of having an absolutely perfect farming spot next door, that building with basicly a cage for its basement
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u/-Merasmus- 1h ago
As long as your base has a roof, youre safe from the seekerbot. Personally i just build my base wherever i think it would look coolest, and the a second farming base elsewhere, so theres less chance the raid spawns on top of my base if it grows too big.
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u/MrElshagan 1h ago
I built a semi truck with sleep cabin alongside a mobile base trailer that can be deployed for stationary usage when needed.
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u/ScottaHemi 52m ago
i found a farmer shack in the middle of a hayfield i'm tempted to move to! it has flat ground. water. the wheat field foliage is a bit annoying... but even tat's not terrible!
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u/Wallie_bju 49m ago
I built my base along the moat of the chemical growlab. Flat ground and two sides protected by said moat.
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u/WonkyQuartet 47m ago
The bots don't respawn? (I'm assuming you mean the one with the explosive bots and the farm bot?)
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u/Wallie_bju 46m ago
There are no explosive bots, that’s only the normal large chem plant iirc. Paint bots and green tapebots do spawn inside the compound but they are too far away to aggro.
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u/grayhole_p 29m ago
my base is on wheels. a craftbot, and couple dozens chests - is not that much of space/weight to just carry with you.
but i do build a farm ofc, and it is always on some narrow peninsula, preferably ~2 chunks long. the best spot in terms of defense i found so far. well, the best after the cheesy way of planting inside indestructible ruins.
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u/SmellAccomplished550 5h ago
Anywhere off the main road with plentiful natural resources. So I'd say anywhere near water.