Defend machines?
If it was my own tank then yeah I suppose that would be an angle. Protect the machine etc…
Point being, base building / hoard mode is fine as a concept - but it’s been done while defending the ring fort within a mission so there’s a lot of grey areas still.
well sorry i of course meant that you whould defend your base from the machines, and now you will be defending your own base against machines
Personally I like the idea to be able to fight hordes of machines. I just wish you didn’t have to initiate the attack yourself, because it feels a bit fake.
should we find where we can build before the update?
I think they will give us a few predetermined options to choose from for building on.
Following the recent streaming of Pontius we have some clues what will be the base-building and how to do it and what needed.
To place/use the elements we need resources like wood we have to collect. The amount needed seems very low, that’s good.
You can select the difficulty for a wave attack (low normal high) of the mobs on your base.
The elements placed on the grid are destructible but can be repaired or dismantled also using resources.
Here are some screenshots i could make from Pontius his explanation.
The base location
The building raster
Wall elements
Defence elements
Repair/dismantle elements
Selecting difficulty wave attack
Same content topics merged.
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What about the materials, will they have a storage just for them?
Or they will use the same recycling station?
Any info on that?
So we have had a couple days to try out the base building and wave defense. I quite like it so far, gives us something to do with cool and new rewards. The one thing I hope for is some new buildings types, and/or new pieces in already made types. We have a couple walls to work with, some defenses, a tower. There are already plenty of resistance and soviet buildings and fortifications that could be used. I will provide screenshots and more detail below.
First off, some higher end tier base stuff would be cool. Like heavy sheet metal walls, even titanium ones. There are several soviet ones that can be remade by the resistance, ot straight up stolen.
We have a simple wall here. We can also have a lightly raised version.
We then have a small tower.
We have a sandbag formation here.
Finally we have this tent. I think something “inside” can be cool. Possibly be able to fit crafting stations and ammo storages in there.
Now we have a collection of resistance fortifications that could be used. These are more plausible since the resistance clearly know how to build them
This raised sandbag formation here is what I like the most. More raised position other than the small tower we have would be nice. We could possibly make this a s defense item with a small pillbox built into the bottom.
We also have these barrels here. These could be a cheap metal option.
Thanks for reading my post. The building here has a good foundation that could be made more fun and interesting with more build items and types. We have some really cool ones in game already that I fell could have some use.
If you like to have them in the game, then you should post them in the appropriate topic, link: Home Base, Feature Requests
This here is base building discussion topic. 
Aesyle, I saw how you built a very large enclosement for your base. When I first started I found the building items have a limited number of employment, even if I had more then enough building resources. For the lights for instance, and also for the walls with the tree trunks on them, that number is fairly low. How did you know that you had enough walls to get an enclosement that big?
I guess, that was in-side information. The merits of Community Manager/Moderator.
Or straight up trial and error.
It might be useful to know the upper limits of each item. So if i counted correctly…
Edit: I counted again…
Walls
Defence
Decoration
Stations
Tenebris did a video on it if I remember correctly:
150 walls
10 gates
25 lights
5 pillboxes
10 hunting towers
All walls, shooting targets and pylons are one category and all light sources are one!
150 for all? That can’t be right, can it?
You can’t have 150 small and 150 big, but I think you can have 70 big 80 small or 10 small and 140 big, if I understood everything correctly!
I didn’t. 
I just started to build my idea and once i had one layer of the outer wall complete, i constructed the inner core.
Of course, i wanted to add 4 layers of walls to the inner core and 2 layers of walls for the outer wall for extra protection but i hit the wall build limit and had to scrap that idea. What i had left, i reinforced the outer wall in the spots where i thought most machines come from.
There is a fixed number of “walls” you can place. Though, i haven’t counted my wall pieces, so, i don’t know that number. But that much i do know that every module in wall section counts.
E.g when you have a choice between low wall or high wall, it doesn’t matter which one you build, it adds towards the limit. But low wall costs less and has less HP than high wall. High wall blocks your vision and you’ll need watchtower to see and shoot above it.
When i game later today, i can count all the modules in my base.
Kind of off topic, but ill ask sine its about base building.
Where exactly are the areas in which we can build bases? I spent a good 3 hours today looking for one, with no luck.
There is only one area to build a base on so far: Top of the Tylöveden mountain in the Forest region. Travel to that area in order to get the new mission to unlock.
You can’t just build anywhere…
Ok. That’s helpful. Ironically, thats pretty much the one place i didn’t look.
