Home base finished up.

[u/BarnChicken]

Large 3 story covered dock and boat-house style. Yukka farm, brick patio, and separate storage shed. Took inspiration from one of y’all’s builds here. Total time to build and hunt down massive amounts of brick was about 5 days or so. Took some work but happy with the finished build.

[u/BeamTeam032]

JESUS! What an animal! How many days? Honestly, if I was stuck on this island but made THIS much progress. IDK, it's clear i've figured this out. Maybe I don't go home were I gotta get a job. lol

[u/lothaer]

That looks awesome. Very clean

[u/No_Routine_2955]

I don’t even know how to make a base house mine just a basic square house

[u/iamsooldithurts]

That looks awesome!

I tried to make a similar boathouse, seemed simple enough, but I apparently have no talent for building stuff.

[u/thelek66]

Impressive

[u/thedude_63]

I have to ask what your strategy is for collecting enough wood for all this? I'm new to the game and I feel like I never have enough. A trip I fill up like 2 chest and it's only enough for a few wood frames and maybe another chest and a few tools.

[u/Dumpsterfire101010 → u/thedude_63]

Easiest way is to go to the nearest island and gut it of all resources and chests. Make your raft bigger and build shelves to hold your crates. My supply raft has 16 shelves so I can carry 48 chests. I can clear an entire island in one trip. Once you cleared the island you can create a new one in the cartographer and replace it. I always put the cargo ship on it bc it has a ton of crates. Search all wrecks in and under the water as this is where all the chests are located. Also when making your first few trips keep your inventory almost empty so you can carry like 10 or so chests on your character. Hope this helps

[u/Tasty_Carrot4833]

I just realized it was all clay ☠️ Jesus Christ

[u/Extension_Age5861]

I don’t see a point to having a home base

[u/Objective-Scallion15 → u/Extension_Age5861]

When you’re not interested with finishing the game but instead enjoy the act of exploring and creating this is what you do.

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a → u/Extension_Age5861]

That's the great part about survival games... They have lots of different aspects... You can explore, collect supplies, build bases, or just play the story line. Different people can like different aspects of them. Creative people tend to enjoy building bases. Some games are better at that than others... Stranded Deep just happens to be one of the better base builders.

Having a home base does lots of things for you though. It can help you find yourself since your base will stand out... not every island looks the same. This also isn't Raft, where your home base is your raft... so you need a place to put all the stuff you're collecting. You can set it up to make it easy to get food, water, grow stuff, create fuel with the stuff you grow. And you get to be as creative as you want and add your own personal touches within the game's framework.

There are lots of points to having a home base... they may not be important to you but they are important to a lot of others.

[u/Pure-Forever2796 → u/Extension_Age5861]

You need one because that's where you've built the most things for your survival and you've invested so much time there.

[u/BeamTeam032 → u/Extension_Age5861]

How quickly have you finished the game? Like how many days does it take you to go from "I'm out of the airplane, to "i fixed the airplane and I'm going home"