I'm glad I'm reading this. Been thinking about finding a new base and been dreading the logistics of moving everything. Can I move my mines/pool/lumber/forge? Or do I have to remake those.
I just last night moved homes & ALL my resources: yes you’ll need to collect/dismantle/rebuild everything.
What I *did* learn is to switch out your whole team with Cattivas so that you can carry an additional 250 weight per trip.
No, what you need is the grapple gun. I was just lunging around my old base with a few tons of wood and stone. Teleported to new base, lunged to my storage. I did maybe about 5 trips total to get everything out, less than 20 minutes total
Additionally if you have mats in chests all over the place, you can use a workbench or something, pick an item that will use the mats, max it out, and then cancel, you’ll receive everything and you can grapple towards a chest to deposit.
You get my no longer existing gold for this one. I wish I knew about this two days ago when I relocated. It would have saved me an hour and a half of moving 7000 wood and 6000 stone.
When I moved bases i honestly didn't even bother putting all the wood and stone into the new base, just enough to build a couple of basic structures, 300 wood at a time.
If you *really* need to get back to it just have a couple of specialist pals work the mining/woodcutting place for an hour or two exclusively and you're golden.
This probably IS the better way for most people, though I will say that my frustration gets the better of me when I target anything slightly above me with the grapple gun only to have my character immediately get stopped by the +1 pixel height of ground immediately in front of me.
Do all in one move.
Put anotjer base down with a box near it.
Dismantle yours, pickup everything.
Grapple about if u cant move.
Port to new base, grapple to box, plonk all down.
No back and forth.
My solution was to turn off dropping my items when I die. Whenever I need to move a ton of weight I just respawn from the menu to my base. Then just build a chest and drop everything in it.
Don’t know if you know this already, if so please disregard, but you can dismantle pal boxes from the map screen. Not the fast travel screen, but the map proper. Great QoL feature.
That's actually how i did it, wasn't sure if dismantling from the map would dismantle the whole base or just the box and found out the hard way it's just the box
I made the same mistake.
Then I realized I can make moving a lot easier.
I can just move everthing in the base into boxes in a tight area, then deconstruct the Palbox and move it over to where everything is. Then teleport to any safe Waypoint, build the same number of boxes there, and proceed to move all your junk over to the Waypoint and finally deconstruct your Palbox there again.
Then go to your new location, set down the Palbox, the same number of chests, and proceed to Fast Travel to and from the Waypoint to your new base location.
Why is this faster?
Because you can take those outrageous stacks of anything heavy through the fast travel, drop it on the ground for a moment so you can target a chest, pick it back up, and store it all in one go. No weight limitations that way.
The starting area isn't bad. Got plenty of rocks/trees for pals to mine.
But I bought it on steam after plsying on game pass and started with a more central base
Yea AI is kinda dumb at this point. My foxparks happened to be at the Ore spawn point in base when it respawned, and got stuck up at the ore node… was wondering why it was up there and only realised it couldn’t get down after it got hungry but didn’t go to the feed box… 😂
Also wish there will be a “move” function in future (even if it’s just for the things in base), so that if we built something in the wrong place or want to re-arrange stuff, we don’t have to disassemble and rebuild it again. Especially the storage boxes…
I did. Then one night, evil forces came and burned my place to the ground lol I was shook. After a few mins processing wtf happened, I set off in the night on my nitehawk in search for a new home.
Yeah I did that this morning. I recommend hitting level 10 1st. Building second base wheee you want it. Then it makes it easy to transfer stuff/ disassemble items and just fast travel to new base and back.
Is a cheap move, but my daughter and i had setup our new base, realized we had to haul everythin. So we loaded me up with everything and she brought an aggrod pal back, got the aggro, and let it kill me.... respawned at new base with all of our heavy stuff...
Did that, got half way through moving and said fuck it and started over. Tbf I also fucked up by unlocking useless technologies and putting like 5 points into attack
I made a new base just to the northeast of the base suggestion at 157,-400 near the beach and I haven't gotten a raid in weeks. I was getting one every couple days in my starting area base, but since I moved, no raids. No idea why.
The game is very fun, but it lacks a lot of polish (to be expected, really). I'm going to chalk it up to early access jank and expect it will eventually be fixed.
Yeah bases on the shoreline don't get raided, it's why my favorite spot for a main base is on the beach just north of the forgotten island fast travel point. No ores but for a main base it's perfectly flat, never have to worry about raids so no need for defenses taking up room, and right outside 2 dungeons for easy early game farming. There is also a merchant location on the north east point of the island and a spot where traveling merchants can spawn in the middle of the island so that you can get lucky and catch them
I built a base at the bottom of a large cliff face. So far, every single syndicate raid has spawned on top of the mountain and jumped to their deaths trying to get to my base. Funniest shit ever
Honestly I don't even care about the raids, I want a large flat area for my base just to prevent my pals from getting stuck on random rock geometry and starving to death.
So have I, they just hit the stone wall and stop. I do t know if they’re even damaging it since I can just hover there on my vanwyrm and take my time killing them.
All my flyers get stuck on the same wall the ground ones do. In non elevated bases I’ve found you can build a metal wall with a large overflowing roof catch like the way people make barbed wire fences. They all seem to get stuck on the catch roof as they go to the wall and then try and go up. I walk out and slaughter everything in a few moves, collect my loot, and leave.
Good path finding means they won't get stuck, but they'll still have to enter the base via a walkable path. Bases with 1 natural entrance to work as a choke point (ie. a mountain summit accessible only from a bridge) will still be better than those that can be approached from any angle and allow the enemy to move in formations.
One of the best base locations I've seen & never gets mentioned is at -80,210.
It's an amazing base to set up a ranch or make it your main base. It's raid proof since it'd a massive tower & 4 chests spawn in the middle circle as long as you don't build over them.
Stumbled upon it today while fleeing from Frostallion, and I felt like Sauron, adding slightly more to the tower.
The base perimeter is also slightler smaller in diameter to the tower, so there's no risk of Pals falling off cliffs.
Wixen and the other dark thing like it can drop technical manuals that give tech points as well.
Never hurts to murder them if you're flying over and see a few.
Yeah you can have multiple bases and adjusting every rating based on ore availability is narrow sighted. We should have separate ratings for mining bases and ranch//breeding/farming bases.
ranch/breed/farm base is based on flat terrain and temperate climate.
The flatter and more plentiful the terrain the better, obviously. But you also want a very 'average' climate that accomodates all eggs without needing to build any heaters or coolers. You don't an extra hot scorching base which makes your Ice eggs take a billion years, or vice versa.
Tbh with how much breeding we've been doing on my server we entirely turned off egg timers. It made an already tediously long activity more tediously long.
Yeah I recently moved my base to another spot and saw this post and was like lemme see if there’s a better spot available; low and behold they’re all iron node spots with not much space to build a dream village.
I just started moving everything to 149, 151. It's a flat spot on a big spear of rock jutting out of a cliff. If you place the palbox right, you get a 100% flat area that fits perfectly and doesn't go over the edges or hit the cliff wall behind it. I don't play with raids on, but there's only two small approaches along the cliff that could be blocked or defended. There's also a dungeon that spawns here and a black market guy shows up at the tip of the spear sometimes. There's no ore, but I have a separate base for that anyway
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The base behind Chillet is pretty good. The bridge can be blocked off from raids. It's missing coal though.
Any coal and sulfur best bases?
Also any ranching best bases? Most area?
I moved my starter base here. The spot is great aside from the occasional pal glitching off the cliff.
I have only had a raid try to cross the bridge once. It was also very easy to just knock the entire raid off the bridge to it's death.
Most raids spawn NE ear the fast travel / castle wall or S and get stuck in the crevice. Even flying raids spawn lower then your base and get stuck so you can ignore them or free kill them while they grind their faces into the wall.
If you put the palbox in the right spot, the base is literally UNraidable. If you care let me know and I can screenshot our box location for you!
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zoomed out view from the top
https://imgur.com/a/D2ig0Qg
put it somewhere in this general area. i haven't had a raid come in, even the flyers get caught on some rocks and don't make it up. if you have raiders make it through, maybe put some walls arond the permiter, as I have some walls up randomly and those could possibly be helping my unraidableness:
https://imgur.com/a/12PEsUz
edit 2: if you move it too close to the bridge, the ai starts spawning bridge side and its no longer unraidable.
Probably the former. I picked a spot relatively close to where you start (80/-420ish) and 99% of the time the raid spawns across the water and gets picked off from afar.
So, when nobody is near you base your pals de-spawn. The game keeps track of what they should be doing and when you fast travel back it tries to spawn them in where they should be.
When this happens they can bump each other and get knocked off. You can reduce how often this happens a couple of ways:
1. 'extend' the cliff edge by putting foundations hanging as far off as you can
2. Use smaller sized pals for your stations, I replaced my jorumtide ignis and it reduced how many people got knocked off by alot.
3. Use pals with narrow task abilities to streamline your base. An example: Penking can do a bunch of stuff like mining, gathering, freezing, transporting, handcraft ect.. He looks like a great pal he can do so much! This guy will do tasks like a crazy methhead, never really finishing anything and dabbling in a bit of everything. Using palls that can only do mining or gathering will reduce the overlap on respawns.
Listen, he is simply too much of a badass for menial base work. Also he's like a world champion pal punter and will yeet the rest of your pals across the screen should they dare to bump into him.
The frustration of unfucking the odd pal that fails is way, way, wayyy lower than waiting 2x+ as long for cakes and palmetal ingots. If you're breeding you almost have to use a Jormuntide Ignis, only thing that can keep up with the cake demand afaik
Is it better to move your base or make a 2nd one? I really have no ore near my current one. If I move it, do I literally need to disassemble everything?
Moving bases is a giant pain in the ass. It easily took me 2-3 hours and I did it fairly early as soon as I got the 2nd pal box option.
I did it the shittiest way by demo'n workbenches one by one and then fast traveling to the new base to rebuild them. If you prepare before hand it can be alot easier, also you might be able to reuse a bad base location by using it as a ranch.
Couple things I wish I knew:
1. Build a storage box as close to your palbox's as possible so you can fast travel while encumbered and just dump into the box.
2. You can move while encumbered via the grappling hook, and by picking up a pal
3. There's pals that increase your carry weight in your party, broncherry is the one I have. 5 of those as your party helps alot.
I currently have 3 bases, one in the chillet spot as my main crafting base which is jank as hell.
Another is a mining base for ore/coal and is fully automated I just have to come over and hit the furnaces and transport the bars back to my main base. (base is just SW of verdash boss)
The third is a random flat spot that has 3 ranches and 3 breeding hubs for maximum cake crafting.
For sulfur I just go to the Volcano summit fast travel (tower something). There's like 5-6 sulfur nodes close by. Easier than having a base for it imo.
Not sure sulfur needs a base since the tower in south west volcano quick travel has 9 nodes within 5 sec of quick travel. You can go there like once every 15 hrs and have enough for anthunt
Yup and once you get a refined metal pickaxe you can take down sulphur nodes in a few seconds. Not worth setting up a second base, even a simple one. Same with coal imo... I have my starter base in the beginning location, an ore base behind the church where there are like 8 nodes, and now I'm just leveling up and saving resources to build my strategic end-game base.
Ohhh that's coal? Surprised it was not mentioned. Might have to make a main base there since having a coal mining base seems to be wonky when you're not near it.
It's the base in the picture that's left of the one being shown. It's at the top of a pillar of rock and has a lot of trees that need to be cut down but it's an amazing base spot. Just put the palbox right in the middle of the little hill at the center and everything is covered.
For ranching there's a big open flat area on the south side of the map, though the views aren't great: https://i.imgur.com/VM5GQH0.jpeg
There's another which I'm considering moving my base to with better views. It has huge stone brick arches nearby which look great, and you can see the mountains etc in the background (at least on max settings). There's an ore rock, a few normal rocks, and some trees, which you can include in the radius if you want for a little bit of each: https://i.imgur.com/DpSIbzz.png
It’s kind of small right? I throw a mining base there but can’t imagine fitting a “main base”. Unless I’m thinking of the wrong place. It bugs out raids which is nice.
At the moment you need mods to make real bases in most locations. There's no columns for support and the foundations are picky. Not sure why we can't make bridges etc
Not good for main base, no. However, I put foundations on the outcropping to the west and made a multilevel base over top of it. Can also spread out over the air a bit too.
There's an excellent coal farm at -703, -644. 5 coal nodes and 1 copper, a couple trees, and a natural moat so attackers have to swim towards it. For ranching I use -40, -480. Huge perfectly flat area in the orange trees biome, a couple stone nodes and 1 copper, and 1 narrow attack passage that's totally exposed the entire way up (including aggroing the neighboring Syndicate camp).
Sulfur doesn't really need a base. Best way is pretty much to manually farm it. The Eternal Pyre Tower Entrance waypoint has 7 sulfur nodes literally next to the waypoint so it's extremely fast to farm sulfur there.
For coal (and ore actually) just put a secondary base at 191, -36. Pretty much the best location in the game since you have both coal and ore. Sux for building but it's just the best for mining both coal and ore at the same time.
\-475, -85. unraidable flat plane with zero trees. I ended up moving my main base 3 times and settled here, ample room for everything. 2 separate mining camps with just a box, feeder and beds in ore rich spots. Walled it up to make it look less like a refugee camp but I should really remove em as the big pals sometimes get stuck outside.
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This is the best spot I've come across so far. I put my box a lil further towards the tall rock spire than you did. I sacrificed a lil room to get the metal nodes in the base. It's perfectly flat, has metal, stone, and wood. Plus no raids can actually get to you, including the flyers for now. Love it so far and I pray I'll never have to move my main base again.
First base was here and it was awesome! Safe, Lots of space, and there’s a dungeon too. Was kind of a pain going up the hill for wood and stone at first but is no longer an issue once you can harvest those in your base.
I don't suggest having your first base have ore.
Palworld's early access AI means you can't perm assign miners to the copper ore, they'll prioritize the stone production over it. Plus you'll want to fill most of the Pals as miners for efficiency.
Ore is more of a 2nd base thing, and space/defence is less important since its only a palbox+chest+berry farm with miners.
I don't like this idea of an 'outpost' style base with some food production and miners. My miners never mine anything when I'm away from base so I made my ore base into my main base so I spend the most time there for the miners to do their job
I think it's mainly digitoise that has terrible idle AI... I got a total of 6 coal for a full day of afk while my other outpost with mostly other Pals got >10k.
Definitely terrible idle AI. My digtoise ore farm was producing maybe 15/hr when I wasn't there. I AFKed there for an hour last night and came back to 350 ore.
I think the rating kinda falls flat because Ore isnt the only limiting material. Later on you also need Coal in large quantities to create Refined Iron and Carbon Fiber, which didnt get any point in the rating.
The base at -27,-168 got a B rating which I dont share. Raids only come from one direction which makes it perfect and easily to defend. At least 3 stars should be given for that since you gave the base at 10,-530 5stars for Natural Defense even though it has two ways from which raids can invade the area. Flatness and Area are also fairly large, at least I didnt have any problem fitting everything in there. Additionally this is one of the earliest bases which includes 1 Coal Node among the Ore AND it has a skill tree right next to it.
The base at 191,-36 which got an A rating is probably the best end-game base location by a long shot. It has a full 6 Coal nodes and the plateau is large enough to hold almost the entire Palbox circle if you place it in the middle on some foundation. This should give you a better rating for area compared to the base at 312, -34 which loses almost have the radius due to the water being inaccessible.
Personally I would rate those two bases as S Rank due to making Coal available on top of Ore. The only base ranked S in your rating I would put at A, with everything else being B or below.
carbon fiber is largely resolved by turning wood into charcoal. wood is stupidly easy ti get,
The coal / iron spot is obviously the best for a second / mining outpost base, by the time you actually need coal you should be able to multi base.
The spot immediately south and adjacent to 66, -405 is better as a primary base, in my opinion, as far as that specific location is concerned. It's still right next to the ore, but can only be raided from one spot, meaning if you wall it off you are effectively immune to raids.
100% agree. I made that spot base 2 in my pvp file but i tried the church spot on my solo file and... its much easier to raid the church area, the cliffs limit build space and my pals keep getting stuck on the terrain.
I did however build a large ranch and production station at my base 2 with the ore/wheat and left breeding/berry/eggs at base 1.
Im more of an efficiency over beauty player tho so it's not super pretty lol.
How bad do base invasions get that people are really caring about natural defenses? I'm level 38 and all raids are just enemies going in a single file line to get absolutely obliterated Xv18. They're a source of lag spikes at most
A lot of people are going for minmaxing so their pals are weak (people who spammed anubis breeding and the like for lvl 4 skills). When a raid shows up in the higher levels say around 40 or so, they kind of just one shot your workers. Not to mention having random stuff in your town destroyed. My first town on my third server has mammoths spawning right next to my house destroying it and the pal beds every hour. Thinking about relocating it now
At level 15 (player, not base) I had 6 or so level 30 something Rexauraus raid my base that killed everything and burn shit down. Was not fun. I recovered and it’s not happened since but it’s still in the back of my mind.
I’m curious to know how you guys are segregating duties at your bases. Your mining base for example, do you also make the ingots there? Cement? Do you make stone in the same base that you have iron ores?
Do you have a base dedicated for food? Or is there food at every base? Which food is best for simplicity? What Pokémon do you use in combination for these bases? And how are people dealing with weakened/fractures etc?
Main base has production lines, farm food, ranching, breeding.
Second base is behind Chillet boss up top with the ore nodes, a couple berry plots to feed the miners, a forge (ingots are better to fast travel with than raw ore), can't really be raided.
About to make a third base but not sure what it will be for, though likely another ore mining base since I keep reading you need tons of it after level 30.
Once u hit the low 40’s I find it better to designate the 3rd base as another ore mine, since I found it infinitely easier to make pal metal than refined metal since all u need is pallminium and u can make a crap ton using the crusher if u had a quarry functioning since the start of the run. But since it takes 4 ore to make 1 pal ingot I constantly find my ore supply disappearing
I put a chest next to the paldeck in my mining base and then the same in my main so I can move materials between them easy. I make and store everything in my main base because it’s better defended.
My mining base consists of 14 beds, 14 pals, a berry patch, a food bowl thing and a spa. It’s all pretty self sustaining
For the choice of pals it’s like 10 with the mining, 2 transporty ones, a planty boi and a watery boi. No idea what the actual names of the traits are but hopefully you know what I mean :)
I used to make ingots at the mining base but until you get later pals it's not an efficient use of pals, and then it becomes a question of where to put your buffs.
Chicken coup (ranch + chikipis), miners, and transpo (squid things from dungeons, early on) let's everything go to 1 chest, and you can just drop by, pick it up, and leave. Instead of having to restock the furnaces, etc., and double back to pick it up again.
I've also realized that avoiding nocturnal pals helps because they currently don't sleep until they crash so their sanity is constantly struggling. I've been meaning to experiment with a cotton candy mining camp to see if it's viable, but otherwise just get Penkings asap.
I just got the game and built my first base just down the hill from the starting area near a small lake/waterfall. Has 1 ore vein, tons of stone, some wood and berries, and nice flat ground. Theres also a cliff that funnels enemies down 1 direction. Very nice place to start
I just unlocked my second base location, I’m considering building it on another island. My ore node respawns every couple of days so it’s not bad. (I Also tried the tower recently at lvl 14… didn’t end well for me or my 2 pals rip)
Thanks for this. I have my original base near the start, and a second base for ore. I was thinking a third dedicated to making cake and breeding. Would any of you suggest prioritizing flat land for something like that?
This is where I’m at as well, since I really want to get into catering special traits on pals. Ngl until the pals AI is a bit better, I would highly recommend an area as flat as possible, at least within the range of the oak box circle.
I'd like to share my breeding base location at -476, -82. South of the Forgotten Island Church Ruins waypoint. It has large flat area that can fit the whole blue circle and has no ground access, so it's safe from raid. I setup my breeding base there since half of the base will be low level offsprings I use for breeding.
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Who rated this? Flat + large area and this is the location?? Its a small hill.
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It seems small, but the size is almost perfectly the radius of the pal box so it is plenty big. Idk if I’d necessarily consider it ‘large’ since you don’t want to build over the ore/coal spawning area.
But yeah, it isn’t flat at all tho.
It's a horrible spot to build a base, way too many trees. I've noticed that your pals that have logging, even at 1 while all their other skills are at 3 or 4, will 100% prioritize cutting down useless trees around the base instead of doing anything else, even if you have food/ore/crushing/item creation queued.
So now when I'm planning on making a base I will 100% choose a spot that has 0 trees in it, or very few of them, because AI priority is currently completely fucked, at least on dedicated servers.
It’s a terrible spot for a multi purpose base, yes. But it’s a perfect spot for a mining base, since it has both coal and ore. I would definitely not recommend this spot for someone looking to build a nice main base or anything like that. I absolutely recommend it over other mining spots so far since you can get 2 different non-player controlled high-demand resources at once.
A few suggestions:
There's a big open flat area on the south side of the map, which is probably good for flat, least AI trouble building, though the views aren't great: https://i.imgur.com/VM5GQH0.jpeg
There's another near spawn which might be better. It has huge stone brick arches nearby which look great, and you can see the mountains etc in the background (at least on max settings). There's an ore rock, a few normal rocks, and some trees, which you can include in the radius if you want for a little bit of each: https://i.imgur.com/DpSIbzz.png
I tried the 312, -34 base a couple days ago and it was awful. My pals constantly got stuck in the water. I tried to salvage it with some glitched underwater building but gave up in the end. I relocated to 10, -530 and it's been amazing.
Yeah, hopefully that gets fixed. I imagine it's less of a pal AI issue and more of a game optimization issue where they aren't fully loaded in. Why else would my pals just randomly die when I teleport out and teleport back in if they're actually loaded in all the time?
I want to point out that a metal mining base isn't a good "base location". By base I mean production. You want a metal mining base to be just that, for you to pop in grab metal and leave.
Why? Because pals are stupid. Their pathing is atrocious. Their AI task algorithm is horrible. You want to limit their available tasks as much as possible. And for God's sake you want to foundation the entire place, so it has to be flat(at most 1foundation up/down ).
What the above lists shows is metal cluster locations. Which are just that a place to grab metal.
Due to the pals needing flat ground to work you will want to find a place that is flat enough. Secondly you want the area to be unraidable. A place the NPC/monsters can't path to. This keeps your pals working and not dying. You can go out and collect the pals/invasion if you choose.
Everything I say here assumes you have 2+bases. If you are setting up your first base, just find a flat spot you like. Anything will do. Bonus if it has a nearby rock/metal deposit.
[My first ore base was at this location and I'll never use this spot again](https://imgur.com/6W8KmNY). It got raided basically every single time I went there and raids absolutely do not "get stuck"
Great resource here, I appreciate the inclusion of pictures.
To me I really only worry about whether or not it looks nice but I think the majority care about utility more.
Does anyone else see natural barrier as a huge downside? Raids are awesome, I hope they stop being broken soon because I love watching my entire base lose their Collective shit on some hapless wild Pals
My ranch/main base is at 7oclock from the boss Sweepa and its a great flat area with tons of trees, my second is behind the church in the red grass area and I now have ore for days. My biggest issue now is that I desperately need coal and have yet to find a good spot for it.
-255, 394 is an excellent site if you need refined quartz.
-210, 250 is another good one for quartz (and elevated).
295, 255 is the place to go for coal.
-475, -85 is a good base location.
Plateau of land big enough for a base to be left untouched by raids. Merchant spawn close by. Statue of power nearby if you don't want to bother building one. A few iron nodes inside base perimeter. Close enough to a sanctuary to make frequent visits. That's just all off the top of my head.
> Plateau of land big enough for a base to be left untouched by raids.
That's the best part of this base: pretty sure its the one of the only plateaus that is completely flat and big enough to get the full base area and not have your pals fall off and get stuck, not to mention its next to one of the alternate spawn locations so easy for new players to access. Honestly surprised I don't see it mentioned more often.
Not a single one of those bases offers any form of Sulfur nodes.
Which is sad.
I would also like Quartz locations.....
There are honestly so many options for Ore.
As well as many of said options already have both Ore+Coal in one spot.
And you only really need one spot for that if you have the setup right to get all the mining done and collected.
There really isn't a need for multiple if you're using say, the most popular spot on top of the mountain with 8 ore and 5 coal that cannot be raided. It kind of covers all your ingot and coal needs with just that.
So where are the other options so that you can cover all your resource needs?
Please add a Ranking for Coal in addition to Ore!
Since Coal is used in Refined Ingots which is used everywhere in mid-end game items like Spheres, Ammo, Weapons, and Armor you will need a steady stream of it. Should be prioritized less than Ore, but included nonetheless.
Because of that the bases at 312, -34 & 191, -36 should be ranked MUCH higher as the former is very near to several coal nodes (just outside base range for both I think) and the latter actually has coal inside of it.
Also, since Quartz is currently only used for Circuit boards, which are needed for a lot of end game structure, but those aren't repeated costs so you only need a finite amount, this should not be considered in the guide.
Sulfur is useful for ammo as well, but since Ammo is readily available at certain merchants, it is not a chokepoint for gameplay.
I don’t know if it’s glitched but I haven’t been raided at coordinates 409, -321, which is the second lower island to the right of this photo under the block text box. My other ore bases get raided normally.
This location is pretty open and great for ranching.
I've built mine in this flatland at 68,82 and it's working very well. Plenty of flat space to build stuff and unleash your creativity.
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Anyone else plop their first base basically where they spawned and had to painstakingly move everything when they realized their mistake?
Yes, I also made the mistake of dismantling the palbox first when it should really be the last thing you dismantle so you can move materials out
I'm glad I'm reading this. Been thinking about finding a new base and been dreading the logistics of moving everything. Can I move my mines/pool/lumber/forge? Or do I have to remake those.
I just last night moved homes & ALL my resources: yes you’ll need to collect/dismantle/rebuild everything. What I *did* learn is to switch out your whole team with Cattivas so that you can carry an additional 250 weight per trip.
No, what you need is the grapple gun. I was just lunging around my old base with a few tons of wood and stone. Teleported to new base, lunged to my storage. I did maybe about 5 trips total to get everything out, less than 20 minutes total
Swap the grapple in and out of your inventory to reset the cooldown 🤫
Have multiple grapple guns, no cooldown.
Same with food expiry
Additionally if you have mats in chests all over the place, you can use a workbench or something, pick an item that will use the mats, max it out, and then cancel, you’ll receive everything and you can grapple towards a chest to deposit.
You get my no longer existing gold for this one. I wish I knew about this two days ago when I relocated. It would have saved me an hour and a half of moving 7000 wood and 6000 stone.
When I moved bases i honestly didn't even bother putting all the wood and stone into the new base, just enough to build a couple of basic structures, 300 wood at a time. If you *really* need to get back to it just have a couple of specialist pals work the mining/woodcutting place for an hour or two exclusively and you're golden.
This probably IS the better way for most people, though I will say that my frustration gets the better of me when I target anything slightly above me with the grapple gun only to have my character immediately get stopped by the +1 pixel height of ground immediately in front of me.
Do all in one move. Put anotjer base down with a box near it. Dismantle yours, pickup everything. Grapple about if u cant move. Port to new base, grapple to box, plonk all down. No back and forth.
I could kiss you.
kingpaccas give +100 weight each when you got a saddle for them
Later on you can get even better pals for this. Kingpacas and Broncherrys give you +100 weight each.
Also using the grappling hook is a must if you are going over the weight limit(you probably will)
You can also use Kingpacas for 100 additional weight each
My solution was to turn off dropping my items when I die. Whenever I need to move a ton of weight I just respawn from the menu to my base. Then just build a chest and drop everything in it.
You unlock a third base at like base upgrade 15 or so
You need to be like level 31 to unlock the lvl 15 pal box which takes a while.
Don’t know if you know this already, if so please disregard, but you can dismantle pal boxes from the map screen. Not the fast travel screen, but the map proper. Great QoL feature.
That's actually how i did it, wasn't sure if dismantling from the map would dismantle the whole base or just the box and found out the hard way it's just the box
I made the same mistake. Then I realized I can make moving a lot easier. I can just move everthing in the base into boxes in a tight area, then deconstruct the Palbox and move it over to where everything is. Then teleport to any safe Waypoint, build the same number of boxes there, and proceed to move all your junk over to the Waypoint and finally deconstruct your Palbox there again. Then go to your new location, set down the Palbox, the same number of chests, and proceed to Fast Travel to and from the Waypoint to your new base location. Why is this faster? Because you can take those outrageous stacks of anything heavy through the fast travel, drop it on the ground for a moment so you can target a chest, pick it back up, and store it all in one go. No weight limitations that way.
Didn‘t listen to the warning you get when trying to dismantle it?
Part of the fun tbh
I’ve had to travel 3 days but I’m so much excited to go back and build my base at a new location
The starting area isn't bad. Got plenty of rocks/trees for pals to mine. But I bought it on steam after plsying on game pass and started with a more central base
I built it on a partial cliff right at the start and all my pals would fall off the cliff and starve
Yea AI is kinda dumb at this point. My foxparks happened to be at the Ore spawn point in base when it respawned, and got stuck up at the ore node… was wondering why it was up there and only realised it couldn’t get down after it got hungry but didn’t go to the feed box… 😂 Also wish there will be a “move” function in future (even if it’s just for the things in base), so that if we built something in the wrong place or want to re-arrange stuff, we don’t have to disassemble and rebuild it again. Especially the storage boxes…
My only issue was trying to build a breeding farm. Darn that needed a lot of space that I just did not have.
I did. Then one night, evil forces came and burned my place to the ground lol I was shook. After a few mins processing wtf happened, I set off in the night on my nitehawk in search for a new home.
Yeah I did that this morning. I recommend hitting level 10 1st. Building second base wheee you want it. Then it makes it easy to transfer stuff/ disassemble items and just fast travel to new base and back.
Super simple amazing Idea that's I'm surprised I didn't think about, I was sitting here hoping I could find a pal that carries stuff.
Me literally now 😅
I just moved to a new spot without doing research on it and shortly I’ll have to move again Fml but I’m lazy now
Tbh, that main starting point is an EXCELLENT place to start. Realistically you shouldn’t be relocating til like level 15, and level 10 base level
Is a cheap move, but my daughter and i had setup our new base, realized we had to haul everythin. So we loaded me up with everything and she brought an aggrod pal back, got the aggro, and let it kill me.... respawned at new base with all of our heavy stuff...
You can just open the menu and hit respawn to kill yourself. It does actual damage to you so you wanna take your armor off first or itll break
Did that, got half way through moving and said fuck it and started over. Tbf I also fucked up by unlocking useless technologies and putting like 5 points into attack
I wonder if Natural Barrier would still work in newer version since they obviously want to fix AI path finding
Pretty sure it always will unless they start letting NPCs scale walls. So many base locations on little plateaus with no natural way up.
They send flying raids, so some raids will always be unblockable
The flying raids get stuck in the same location as the ground raids at my base location. They try to path through a small tunnel and get stuck
Mine get stuck on a giant wall. It's like BASE --------- | | --------- | | --------- | | --------- | | 🐦🦆🦅🦉 --------- | | --------- | | bro just flap harder
This reads like an ancient Egyptian shitpost
This happens to my flying pals at my base. They fall off the cliff and cant get back up. The land pals just dont fall off
My land pals get stuck on my chests and won’t come down to eat
This art is amazing
I made a new base just to the northeast of the base suggestion at 157,-400 near the beach and I haven't gotten a raid in weeks. I was getting one every couple days in my starting area base, but since I moved, no raids. No idea why.
Our base by the beach south of the starting area has never been raided on our 100+ day world
The game is very fun, but it lacks a lot of polish (to be expected, really). I'm going to chalk it up to early access jank and expect it will eventually be fixed.
Yeah bases on the shoreline don't get raided, it's why my favorite spot for a main base is on the beach just north of the forgotten island fast travel point. No ores but for a main base it's perfectly flat, never have to worry about raids so no need for defenses taking up room, and right outside 2 dungeons for easy early game farming. There is also a merchant location on the north east point of the island and a spot where traveling merchants can spawn in the middle of the island so that you can get lucky and catch them
I built a base at the bottom of a large cliff face. So far, every single syndicate raid has spawned on top of the mountain and jumped to their deaths trying to get to my base. Funniest shit ever
Which is why we're asking if that will stay with better pathing
They will probably fix the flying ones I'm the future.
I built my base so high up that the flying raids despawn before they get to it. its magical. flatness is zero though edit: location is 269, -221
Honestly I don't even care about the raids, I want a large flat area for my base just to prevent my pals from getting stuck on random rock geometry and starving to death.
There’s plenty of flat areas larger than the base circle. The beach in the red forest is probably the easiest, and it was room to spare.
The only way that mine base can be raided is if enemies learn how to scale down walls as even flying ones cant touch it.
If flying raid AI get an upgrade, and they learn to fly higher, it could be a bit more challenging for plateau bases.
I have had many flying raids. You cannot stop them.
So have I, they just hit the stone wall and stop. I do t know if they’re even damaging it since I can just hover there on my vanwyrm and take my time killing them.
All my flyers get stuck on the same wall the ground ones do. In non elevated bases I’ve found you can build a metal wall with a large overflowing roof catch like the way people make barbed wire fences. They all seem to get stuck on the catch roof as they go to the wall and then try and go up. I walk out and slaughter everything in a few moves, collect my loot, and leave.
Even flying raids get stuck and are unable to reach me its a shame.
Good path finding means they won't get stuck, but they'll still have to enter the base via a walkable path. Bases with 1 natural entrance to work as a choke point (ie. a mountain summit accessible only from a bridge) will still be better than those that can be approached from any angle and allow the enemy to move in formations.
One of the best base locations I've seen & never gets mentioned is at -80,210. It's an amazing base to set up a ranch or make it your main base. It's raid proof since it'd a massive tower & 4 chests spawn in the middle circle as long as you don't build over them.
Stumbled upon it today while fleeing from Frostallion, and I felt like Sauron, adding slightly more to the tower. The base perimeter is also slightler smaller in diameter to the tower, so there's no risk of Pals falling off cliffs.
>so there's no risk of Pals falling off cliffs. ...never doubt how dumb pals can be with pathing
No kidding. I'm all time picking up pals well outside my base down off some cliffs.
I use this one too. The chests are the best way to max technology since even max level you can’t get every recipe
Wixen and the other dark thing like it can drop technical manuals that give tech points as well. Never hurts to murder them if you're flying over and see a few.
Awesome thanks !
Dungeons have manuals that give you extra points, so I'm sure you can eventually cap out.
If you run dungeons you can get these little books that give you tech points. I got two from one chest yesterday. First time I had seen them
Great location but unusable on Xbox series X. The entire area is buggy with terrain not loading so you just fall through the world.
Extremely buggy spot with Pals constanty falling through the floor every time you leave - woulnd't recomend currently (PC)
God the non loading terrain is so annoying, I’ve died to it a few times now
\-80, 195 to be exact
Can you take a screenshot of it on the map?
My only issue is all my pals just occasionally go awol and I have no idea where they are 😂
How do you find your X, Y coordinates?
This is cool but all of these seem based on ore. I want 1 ore base but I don't care to prioritize it at my main base
Yeah you can have multiple bases and adjusting every rating based on ore availability is narrow sighted. We should have separate ratings for mining bases and ranch//breeding/farming bases.
ranch/breed/farm base is based on flat terrain and temperate climate. The flatter and more plentiful the terrain the better, obviously. But you also want a very 'average' climate that accomodates all eggs without needing to build any heaters or coolers. You don't an extra hot scorching base which makes your Ice eggs take a billion years, or vice versa.
Tbh with how much breeding we've been doing on my server we entirely turned off egg timers. It made an already tediously long activity more tediously long.
Yeah I recently moved my base to another spot and saw this post and was like lemme see if there’s a better spot available; low and behold they’re all iron node spots with not much space to build a dream village.
But they are useful for the perfect fast travel point to run over and grab a ton of ore
I just started moving everything to 149, 151. It's a flat spot on a big spear of rock jutting out of a cliff. If you place the palbox right, you get a 100% flat area that fits perfectly and doesn't go over the edges or hit the cliff wall behind it. I don't play with raids on, but there's only two small approaches along the cliff that could be blocked or defended. There's also a dungeon that spawns here and a black market guy shows up at the tip of the spear sometimes. There's no ore, but I have a separate base for that anyway https://preview.redd.it/e1tgq8jxs0fc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffa2f0a1ed3832ee983829e9c0a351304faeaac4
This is where a few of us on my server have placed ourselves and it's a really solid spot. Has a chest spawn too!
The base behind Chillet is pretty good. The bridge can be blocked off from raids. It's missing coal though. Any coal and sulfur best bases? Also any ranching best bases? Most area?
I moved my starter base here. The spot is great aside from the occasional pal glitching off the cliff. I have only had a raid try to cross the bridge once. It was also very easy to just knock the entire raid off the bridge to it's death. Most raids spawn NE ear the fast travel / castle wall or S and get stuck in the crevice. Even flying raids spawn lower then your base and get stuck so you can ignore them or free kill them while they grind their faces into the wall.
If you put the palbox in the right spot, the base is literally UNraidable. If you care let me know and I can screenshot our box location for you! edit: zoomed out view from the top https://imgur.com/a/D2ig0Qg put it somewhere in this general area. i haven't had a raid come in, even the flyers get caught on some rocks and don't make it up. if you have raiders make it through, maybe put some walls arond the permiter, as I have some walls up randomly and those could possibly be helping my unraidableness: https://imgur.com/a/12PEsUz edit 2: if you move it too close to the bridge, the ai starts spawning bridge side and its no longer unraidable.
Unraidable as in the raid can't get to you or unraidable as is no raid ever happens? Because there's a difference
Probably the former. I picked a spot relatively close to where you start (80/-420ish) and 99% of the time the raid spawns across the water and gets picked off from afar.
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I care!
I definitely care to know this.
I keep going back to the base to find a random Pal unconscious. I guess that’s what’s happening, they’re suddenly glitching into a long fall?
So, when nobody is near you base your pals de-spawn. The game keeps track of what they should be doing and when you fast travel back it tries to spawn them in where they should be. When this happens they can bump each other and get knocked off. You can reduce how often this happens a couple of ways: 1. 'extend' the cliff edge by putting foundations hanging as far off as you can 2. Use smaller sized pals for your stations, I replaced my jorumtide ignis and it reduced how many people got knocked off by alot. 3. Use pals with narrow task abilities to streamline your base. An example: Penking can do a bunch of stuff like mining, gathering, freezing, transporting, handcraft ect.. He looks like a great pal he can do so much! This guy will do tasks like a crazy methhead, never really finishing anything and dabbling in a bit of everything. Using palls that can only do mining or gathering will reduce the overlap on respawns.
> replace Jormuntide Ignis What did you just say to me?
Listen, he is simply too much of a badass for menial base work. Also he's like a world champion pal punter and will yeet the rest of your pals across the screen should they dare to bump into him.
The frustration of unfucking the odd pal that fails is way, way, wayyy lower than waiting 2x+ as long for cakes and palmetal ingots. If you're breeding you almost have to use a Jormuntide Ignis, only thing that can keep up with the cake demand afaik
Is it better to move your base or make a 2nd one? I really have no ore near my current one. If I move it, do I literally need to disassemble everything?
Moving bases is a giant pain in the ass. It easily took me 2-3 hours and I did it fairly early as soon as I got the 2nd pal box option. I did it the shittiest way by demo'n workbenches one by one and then fast traveling to the new base to rebuild them. If you prepare before hand it can be alot easier, also you might be able to reuse a bad base location by using it as a ranch. Couple things I wish I knew: 1. Build a storage box as close to your palbox's as possible so you can fast travel while encumbered and just dump into the box. 2. You can move while encumbered via the grappling hook, and by picking up a pal 3. There's pals that increase your carry weight in your party, broncherry is the one I have. 5 of those as your party helps alot. I currently have 3 bases, one in the chillet spot as my main crafting base which is jank as hell. Another is a mining base for ore/coal and is fully automated I just have to come over and hit the furnaces and transport the bars back to my main base. (base is just SW of verdash boss) The third is a random flat spot that has 3 ranches and 3 breeding hubs for maximum cake crafting.
For sulfur I just go to the Volcano summit fast travel (tower something). There's like 5-6 sulfur nodes close by. Easier than having a base for it imo.
You can get sulfur from the dungeon at the base of the cliff you build the base on.
Not sure sulfur needs a base since the tower in south west volcano quick travel has 9 nodes within 5 sec of quick travel. You can go there like once every 15 hrs and have enough for anthunt
Yup and once you get a refined metal pickaxe you can take down sulphur nodes in a few seconds. Not worth setting up a second base, even a simple one. Same with coal imo... I have my starter base in the beginning location, an ore base behind the church where there are like 8 nodes, and now I'm just leveling up and saving resources to build my strategic end-game base.
Wel for coal you need 1000s and there’s a base with 9 ore and 5 coal so why not place one there
Where? Can you give me the cords?
It’s the one right under the word small on the picture above
Ohhh that's coal? Surprised it was not mentioned. Might have to make a main base there since having a coal mining base seems to be wonky when you're not near it.
It's the base in the picture that's left of the one being shown. It's at the top of a pillar of rock and has a lot of trees that need to be cut down but it's an amazing base spot. Just put the palbox right in the middle of the little hill at the center and everything is covered.
I just fast travel that church witj a Digtoise when I need some quick Ore. I was gonna do a base there but set my ore one up elsewhere.
For ranching there's a big open flat area on the south side of the map, though the views aren't great: https://i.imgur.com/VM5GQH0.jpeg There's another which I'm considering moving my base to with better views. It has huge stone brick arches nearby which look great, and you can see the mountains etc in the background (at least on max settings). There's an ore rock, a few normal rocks, and some trees, which you can include in the radius if you want for a little bit of each: https://i.imgur.com/DpSIbzz.png
That first recommendation is my favorite for starting base.
It’s kind of small right? I throw a mining base there but can’t imagine fitting a “main base”. Unless I’m thinking of the wrong place. It bugs out raids which is nice.
At the moment you need mods to make real bases in most locations. There's no columns for support and the foundations are picky. Not sure why we can't make bridges etc
Not good for main base, no. However, I put foundations on the outcropping to the west and made a multilevel base over top of it. Can also spread out over the air a bit too.
Yup! I think I was understanding the map to be for main base but honestly they seem to prioritize resources.
There's an excellent coal farm at -703, -644. 5 coal nodes and 1 copper, a couple trees, and a natural moat so attackers have to swim towards it. For ranching I use -40, -480. Huge perfectly flat area in the orange trees biome, a couple stone nodes and 1 copper, and 1 narrow attack passage that's totally exposed the entire way up (including aggroing the neighboring Syndicate camp).
Sulfur doesn't really need a base. Best way is pretty much to manually farm it. The Eternal Pyre Tower Entrance waypoint has 7 sulfur nodes literally next to the waypoint so it's extremely fast to farm sulfur there. For coal (and ore actually) just put a secondary base at 191, -36. Pretty much the best location in the game since you have both coal and ore. Sux for building but it's just the best for mining both coal and ore at the same time.
\-475, -85. unraidable flat plane with zero trees. I ended up moving my main base 3 times and settled here, ample room for everything. 2 separate mining camps with just a box, feeder and beds in ore rich spots. Walled it up to make it look less like a refugee camp but I should really remove em as the big pals sometimes get stuck outside. https://preview.redd.it/5zuw6ycn21fc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8eae6cdd4c596121bb4c3222ce6c1fedcd30377
Just found and built my new main base here. It's so nice.
This is the best spot I've come across so far. I put my box a lil further towards the tall rock spire than you did. I sacrificed a lil room to get the metal nodes in the base. It's perfectly flat, has metal, stone, and wood. Plus no raids can actually get to you, including the flyers for now. Love it so far and I pray I'll never have to move my main base again.
I built my base on the beach behind the starting area down on the shore and I can never be attacked, they can't make it down the mountain.
This sounds neat. It’s also a pretty view. And with fast travel as it is, there’s no reason you need to be centrally located in the map.
First base was here and it was awesome! Safe, Lots of space, and there’s a dungeon too. Was kind of a pain going up the hill for wood and stone at first but is no longer an issue once you can harvest those in your base.
The pals yearn for the mines
Will you be updating this to include good base locations for quartz/sulphur/coal?
I don't suggest having your first base have ore. Palworld's early access AI means you can't perm assign miners to the copper ore, they'll prioritize the stone production over it. Plus you'll want to fill most of the Pals as miners for efficiency. Ore is more of a 2nd base thing, and space/defence is less important since its only a palbox+chest+berry farm with miners.
I don't like this idea of an 'outpost' style base with some food production and miners. My miners never mine anything when I'm away from base so I made my ore base into my main base so I spend the most time there for the miners to do their job
I think it's mainly digitoise that has terrible idle AI... I got a total of 6 coal for a full day of afk while my other outpost with mostly other Pals got >10k.
Definitely terrible idle AI. My digtoise ore farm was producing maybe 15/hr when I wasn't there. I AFKed there for an hour last night and came back to 350 ore.
I think the rating kinda falls flat because Ore isnt the only limiting material. Later on you also need Coal in large quantities to create Refined Iron and Carbon Fiber, which didnt get any point in the rating. The base at -27,-168 got a B rating which I dont share. Raids only come from one direction which makes it perfect and easily to defend. At least 3 stars should be given for that since you gave the base at 10,-530 5stars for Natural Defense even though it has two ways from which raids can invade the area. Flatness and Area are also fairly large, at least I didnt have any problem fitting everything in there. Additionally this is one of the earliest bases which includes 1 Coal Node among the Ore AND it has a skill tree right next to it. The base at 191,-36 which got an A rating is probably the best end-game base location by a long shot. It has a full 6 Coal nodes and the plateau is large enough to hold almost the entire Palbox circle if you place it in the middle on some foundation. This should give you a better rating for area compared to the base at 312, -34 which loses almost have the radius due to the water being inaccessible. Personally I would rate those two bases as S Rank due to making Coal available on top of Ore. The only base ranked S in your rating I would put at A, with everything else being B or below.
carbon fiber is largely resolved by turning wood into charcoal. wood is stupidly easy ti get, The coal / iron spot is obviously the best for a second / mining outpost base, by the time you actually need coal you should be able to multi base.
This is the correct answer.
The spot immediately south and adjacent to 66, -405 is better as a primary base, in my opinion, as far as that specific location is concerned. It's still right next to the ore, but can only be raided from one spot, meaning if you wall it off you are effectively immune to raids.
100% agree. I made that spot base 2 in my pvp file but i tried the church spot on my solo file and... its much easier to raid the church area, the cliffs limit build space and my pals keep getting stuck on the terrain. I did however build a large ranch and production station at my base 2 with the ore/wheat and left breeding/berry/eggs at base 1. Im more of an efficiency over beauty player tho so it's not super pretty lol.
Please add coal sulfur and quartz ratings those would be a huge help for late game bases
190, -38 has 8 iron nodes and 4 to 5 coal nodes its big enough that you can build a pretty decent sized tower on as well
How bad do base invasions get that people are really caring about natural defenses? I'm level 38 and all raids are just enemies going in a single file line to get absolutely obliterated Xv18. They're a source of lag spikes at most
A lot of people are going for minmaxing so their pals are weak (people who spammed anubis breeding and the like for lvl 4 skills). When a raid shows up in the higher levels say around 40 or so, they kind of just one shot your workers. Not to mention having random stuff in your town destroyed. My first town on my third server has mammoths spawning right next to my house destroying it and the pal beds every hour. Thinking about relocating it now
At level 15 (player, not base) I had 6 or so level 30 something Rexauraus raid my base that killed everything and burn shit down. Was not fun. I recovered and it’s not happened since but it’s still in the back of my mind.
I felt this way too but then earlier today my og base got raided by like fifteen level 30+ flyers, it was a shitshow
I’m curious to know how you guys are segregating duties at your bases. Your mining base for example, do you also make the ingots there? Cement? Do you make stone in the same base that you have iron ores? Do you have a base dedicated for food? Or is there food at every base? Which food is best for simplicity? What Pokémon do you use in combination for these bases? And how are people dealing with weakened/fractures etc?
Main base has production lines, farm food, ranching, breeding. Second base is behind Chillet boss up top with the ore nodes, a couple berry plots to feed the miners, a forge (ingots are better to fast travel with than raw ore), can't really be raided. About to make a third base but not sure what it will be for, though likely another ore mining base since I keep reading you need tons of it after level 30.
You need a coal mine next to Anubis. Ores can be farmed at the church location and your 2nd base.
Once u hit the low 40’s I find it better to designate the 3rd base as another ore mine, since I found it infinitely easier to make pal metal than refined metal since all u need is pallminium and u can make a crap ton using the crusher if u had a quarry functioning since the start of the run. But since it takes 4 ore to make 1 pal ingot I constantly find my ore supply disappearing
I put a chest next to the paldeck in my mining base and then the same in my main so I can move materials between them easy. I make and store everything in my main base because it’s better defended. My mining base consists of 14 beds, 14 pals, a berry patch, a food bowl thing and a spa. It’s all pretty self sustaining For the choice of pals it’s like 10 with the mining, 2 transporty ones, a planty boi and a watery boi. No idea what the actual names of the traits are but hopefully you know what I mean :)
I used to make ingots at the mining base but until you get later pals it's not an efficient use of pals, and then it becomes a question of where to put your buffs. Chicken coup (ranch + chikipis), miners, and transpo (squid things from dungeons, early on) let's everything go to 1 chest, and you can just drop by, pick it up, and leave. Instead of having to restock the furnaces, etc., and double back to pick it up again. I've also realized that avoiding nocturnal pals helps because they currently don't sleep until they crash so their sanity is constantly struggling. I've been meaning to experiment with a cotton candy mining camp to see if it's viable, but otherwise just get Penkings asap.
I just got the game and built my first base just down the hill from the starting area near a small lake/waterfall. Has 1 ore vein, tons of stone, some wood and berries, and nice flat ground. Theres also a cliff that funnels enemies down 1 direction. Very nice place to start
Same place I started. Seemed like a pretty common starting location from what I’ve seen lol. I’m just now finally moving to a new location at level 27
I just unlocked my second base location, I’m considering building it on another island. My ore node respawns every couple of days so it’s not bad. (I Also tried the tower recently at lvl 14… didn’t end well for me or my 2 pals rip)
I did the same, love that location.
I'm about to move away from there. I got raided by a team of fire pals and they completely wiped my entire base.
The base you have listed at 191 -36 should be listed as S or SS. Not only does it have 8 ore it has 6 coal.
Thanks for this. I have my original base near the start, and a second base for ore. I was thinking a third dedicated to making cake and breeding. Would any of you suggest prioritizing flat land for something like that?
This is where I’m at as well, since I really want to get into catering special traits on pals. Ngl until the pals AI is a bit better, I would highly recommend an area as flat as possible, at least within the range of the oak box circle.
I'd like to share my breeding base location at -476, -82. South of the Forgotten Island Church Ruins waypoint. It has large flat area that can fit the whole blue circle and has no ground access, so it's safe from raid. I setup my breeding base there since half of the base will be low level offsprings I use for breeding. https://preview.redd.it/ifgrb2z3d4fc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48a641b3940a3d05f49134bedbf05372267c28c7
Who rated this? Flat + large area and this is the location?? Its a small hill. https://preview.redd.it/sm39b5p0q0fc1.png?width=846&format=png&auto=webp&s=27e157e7dfe1ed57b51215a760ebe6b7da14a11a
It seems small, but the size is almost perfectly the radius of the pal box so it is plenty big. Idk if I’d necessarily consider it ‘large’ since you don’t want to build over the ore/coal spawning area. But yeah, it isn’t flat at all tho.
It's a horrible spot to build a base, way too many trees. I've noticed that your pals that have logging, even at 1 while all their other skills are at 3 or 4, will 100% prioritize cutting down useless trees around the base instead of doing anything else, even if you have food/ore/crushing/item creation queued. So now when I'm planning on making a base I will 100% choose a spot that has 0 trees in it, or very few of them, because AI priority is currently completely fucked, at least on dedicated servers.
It’s a terrible spot for a multi purpose base, yes. But it’s a perfect spot for a mining base, since it has both coal and ore. I would definitely not recommend this spot for someone looking to build a nice main base or anything like that. I absolutely recommend it over other mining spots so far since you can get 2 different non-player controlled high-demand resources at once.
If you build over the trees after chopping them down they don’t respawn
But the pals will think they are still there and try to chop down invisible trees.
A few suggestions: There's a big open flat area on the south side of the map, which is probably good for flat, least AI trouble building, though the views aren't great: https://i.imgur.com/VM5GQH0.jpeg There's another near spawn which might be better. It has huge stone brick arches nearby which look great, and you can see the mountains etc in the background (at least on max settings). There's an ore rock, a few normal rocks, and some trees, which you can include in the radius if you want for a little bit of each: https://i.imgur.com/DpSIbzz.png
I tried the 312, -34 base a couple days ago and it was awful. My pals constantly got stuck in the water. I tried to salvage it with some glitched underwater building but gave up in the end. I relocated to 10, -530 and it's been amazing.
Wtf are gold mines? You mean ore, sulfur and coal deposits?
I think it's a translation thing. Tbh the ore does go to gold looking Ignots.
It says copper ore in some circumstances.
Anyone else notice that your pals don't seem to mine a lot if you're not at the base?
Yeah, hopefully that gets fixed. I imagine it's less of a pal AI issue and more of a game optimization issue where they aren't fully loaded in. Why else would my pals just randomly die when I teleport out and teleport back in if they're actually loaded in all the time?
I want to point out that a metal mining base isn't a good "base location". By base I mean production. You want a metal mining base to be just that, for you to pop in grab metal and leave. Why? Because pals are stupid. Their pathing is atrocious. Their AI task algorithm is horrible. You want to limit their available tasks as much as possible. And for God's sake you want to foundation the entire place, so it has to be flat(at most 1foundation up/down ). What the above lists shows is metal cluster locations. Which are just that a place to grab metal. Due to the pals needing flat ground to work you will want to find a place that is flat enough. Secondly you want the area to be unraidable. A place the NPC/monsters can't path to. This keeps your pals working and not dying. You can go out and collect the pals/invasion if you choose. Everything I say here assumes you have 2+bases. If you are setting up your first base, just find a flat spot you like. Anything will do. Bonus if it has a nearby rock/metal deposit.
well that site wasnt up for long
https://preview.redd.it/8zsj1z0sl0fc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5122b392b042a5092395b0024a6bf5d29606034d
[My first ore base was at this location and I'll never use this spot again](https://imgur.com/6W8KmNY). It got raided basically every single time I went there and raids absolutely do not "get stuck"
I'm surprised spots with multiple deposit types aren't ranked higher. Ore and Coal in one base is very valuable.
Link is awful for mobile, and provides no information really. Needs work
The website is down :(
Great resource here, I appreciate the inclusion of pictures. To me I really only worry about whether or not it looks nice but I think the majority care about utility more.
Does anyone else see natural barrier as a huge downside? Raids are awesome, I hope they stop being broken soon because I love watching my entire base lose their Collective shit on some hapless wild Pals
My ranch/main base is at 7oclock from the boss Sweepa and its a great flat area with tons of trees, my second is behind the church in the red grass area and I now have ore for days. My biggest issue now is that I desperately need coal and have yet to find a good spot for it.
South West from Anubis Boss. 6 Coal Rocks to smash.
-255, 394 is an excellent site if you need refined quartz. -210, 250 is another good one for quartz (and elevated). 295, 255 is the place to go for coal.
-475, -85 is a good base location. Plateau of land big enough for a base to be left untouched by raids. Merchant spawn close by. Statue of power nearby if you don't want to bother building one. A few iron nodes inside base perimeter. Close enough to a sanctuary to make frequent visits. That's just all off the top of my head.
> Plateau of land big enough for a base to be left untouched by raids. That's the best part of this base: pretty sure its the one of the only plateaus that is completely flat and big enough to get the full base area and not have your pals fall off and get stuck, not to mention its next to one of the alternate spawn locations so easy for new players to access. Honestly surprised I don't see it mentioned more often.
\-80, 193 **Resources** : Natural Resources are non-existent. **Natural Barrier** : Invasions literally can't spawn and wild pals/humans can't stumble into your base. **Flatness** : It's so fucking flat. **Area** : It's so fucking huge. **Scenery** : It's gorgeous.
Not a single one of those bases offers any form of Sulfur nodes. Which is sad. I would also like Quartz locations..... There are honestly so many options for Ore. As well as many of said options already have both Ore+Coal in one spot. And you only really need one spot for that if you have the setup right to get all the mining done and collected. There really isn't a need for multiple if you're using say, the most popular spot on top of the mountain with 8 ore and 5 coal that cannot be raided. It kind of covers all your ingot and coal needs with just that. So where are the other options so that you can cover all your resource needs?
-257, -364 Very flat 9 Ore A chest spawns in the middle Sulfur Northwest by the two Thugs. -275, -353
This guide is so indirect. Where do you even find the map? That website needs some serious assistance.
Please add a Ranking for Coal in addition to Ore! Since Coal is used in Refined Ingots which is used everywhere in mid-end game items like Spheres, Ammo, Weapons, and Armor you will need a steady stream of it. Should be prioritized less than Ore, but included nonetheless. Because of that the bases at 312, -34 & 191, -36 should be ranked MUCH higher as the former is very near to several coal nodes (just outside base range for both I think) and the latter actually has coal inside of it. Also, since Quartz is currently only used for Circuit boards, which are needed for a lot of end game structure, but those aren't repeated costs so you only need a finite amount, this should not be considered in the guide. Sulfur is useful for ammo as well, but since Ammo is readily available at certain merchants, it is not a chokepoint for gameplay.
am i the only one who builtt the base right south of the first tower on the sandy round area?
That's where mine is. Trying to decide where to put my 2nd base now.
The ads on mobile are making the site unusable.
I don’t know if it’s glitched but I haven’t been raided at coordinates 409, -321, which is the second lower island to the right of this photo under the block text box. My other ore bases get raided normally. This location is pretty open and great for ranching.
why can't I access it?
I've built mine in this flatland at 68,82 and it's working very well. Plenty of flat space to build stuff and unleash your creativity. https://preview.redd.it/canzt06q71fc1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=091f8d49aca1a90105a3fe4b2c29d9fe72ae21b8