Hello Survivors.
There's a distance between the shack you throw up on night one and the settlement that runs itself while you're out exploring. Today we explore how to get from one to the other.
Your first day on the Isle turns to night faster than you expect. Instinct takes over. Sprint for the first structure you see and shut the door behind you. Or grab your building hammer and throw up a 1x1 in a hurry. Anything with walls. If neither instinct kicks in, you'll likely draw the attention of the Night Beast.
You don't want that.
After surviving that first night (if you do), the 1x1 that saved your life starts to feel cramped. This is where two items become essential: the property deed and the resource cabinet.
Once the deed goes down, your build stops being a shelter and starts being a home. If you missed our earlier log on comfort, that's the moment the Comfortable Buff starts working for you. The deed also marks your territory. Inside its radius, only you and trusted players can build. It also defines the zone your resource cabinet manages.
The resource cabinet keeps your build from rotting. Feed it the right materials and your structures and deployables stay standing. Feed it wrong and things start to deteriorate. You wouldn't fix a stone house with just wood, and neither can it.
With workbenches placed, beds down, and cabinets stocked, most players would call it good. And they'd be right. But keep building, and the base starts to pay you back in ways the earlier version didn't.
Looking at the property deed you'll find a section called the Settlement Report. It tracks four scores: Prosperity, Antiquity, Architecture, and Industry (previously called Luxury, Science, Industry, and Culture). Every deployable you place shifts these numbers, and the numbers change how your base actually functions.
Architecture reduces your upkeep cost, increases build height, reduces build cost, and allows higher upgrade tiers. Fill a base with the right cultural touches and, counter-intuitively, the larger build costs less to maintain than the smaller one did.
Prosperity shortens the respawn cooldown on every bed inside the deed's radius, allows faster crop growth, grants a comfort buff and food buffs that last longer when applied within the deeds radius. If your base doubles as a clan hub, this one matters.
Industry makes your machines, refiners and craft times quicker; it also allows for fuel to last longer. Every workbench, every furnace, every processing station.
Antiquity increases mote gain, allows more crystal production and grants Arcana buff which gives an hour buff of insanity resistance as soon as you leave your base.
All these new changes are on their way, so leave room to go up when it lands.
Which deployables push which score is worth learning by trial. The base you end up with will look different depending on which scores you chase, and that's the point.
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