#Dont starve optimal layout how to

Start out with your main room, lay down the flooring type you want for it, and start building the necessary items in it first. Make a pitchfork or two, and go to the location of your desired base and start using it to dig up turf squares to give yourself a feel about the size of each room you sketched down earlier, that way you can clearly see the layout of the whole thing when it's finally finished on the ground before doing anything, and modify your design accordingly if needed.Ĭlear out anything unneeded or getting in the way, dig up any grass saplings, chop down trees/dig up their roots, dig out rabbit holes that are in places you don't want. Pig Village / Forest Room (allowing you to easily collect massive amounts of trees using recruited pigs, as well as protection if needed)īeefalo Room (for manure and fur, as well as protection if needed)īeehives & Flowers Room (for farming honey) Main room containing Effigy / Racks / Crock Pots for cooking meat foods / Fridges / Alchemy Engine / Shadow Manipulator / Storage Chests / Tents / wormhole / birdcage / Fire Pit (The entrance to this section should preferably be built like a panic room with lots of tooth traps)įarm Room containing advanced farms / birdcage / Fridge for storage / Crockpots for cooking vegetable foodīerries / Saplings / Grass Room (preferably with tooth traps for spawning gobblers when you are collecting berries) Savannah Biome preferred due to plenty of rabbit holes & the ease of relocating beefalos to a walled area inside your base since they're already very close.įigure out how exactly what kind of sections are you going to need, how big are they in terms of turf squares, sketch it all on a piece of paper while taking into account where will you place entrances, walls, traps, roads connecting rooms and such.Ĭommon sections people might consider are the following : Proximity to one or more wormholes is a big bonus (even better if you plan to build around it, making it in your main 'room'). Somewhere central on the map seems ideal in order to give you easy access to any map part without too much travel time. Thirdly, keep your initial starting base and whatever items you are using there intact while building the new one, you will eventually break it all down in the end once u finish the other one and move there permanently, but in the meantime you're still going to be using it for food/farming/managing hounds & winter. Second of all, you really need to have plenty of food & resources stocked beforehand if possible before you engage something of this magnitude, night time & winter are already a hassle, as well as regular hound attacks, you don't want to have basics like collecting food get in the way. I highly recommend using it for this purpose.

#Dont starve optimal layout how to

Here are my thoughts on how to select a location, how to design your base with your needs in mind, and how to apply that design.įirst of all, The Mod Architectural Geometry is an absolute blessing to have when trying to tackle such a project because it allows you to build/plant stuff in a proper grid in order to ensure everything is aligned and nice looking. The point of this post is not a startup base to help you survive the world, but rather an advanced base that's more of a personal mega project for you to take once you have no problems surviving up to 100 days or so, and have most of the over world figured out. I'm trying to sum up my own thoughts on how to achieve a structured base camp that's practical, functional and good looking as well. Seeing many people posting their bases, as well as other threads and previous posts in this subreddit and on the game's official forums, inspired me to try to do one of my own. So basically, I've just recently reached my day 100, all using a regular base with just whatever is necessary to survive, but I feel the need to do something more, A structured base camp. EDIT : I made a diagram of how exactly I want to set up my base, you can check it out in the following link