My bag is full of good stuff, now what?

Now you've successfully looted around for awhile, and got some scrap, and tools to survive. Now you need to decide a place to make a base. For base building, there is one major rule you are to not break when building. DO NOT BUILD MORE THAN YOU NEED.If you build more than you need, you open yourself to more and more security threats. I can tell you a really good, yet simple starter base design. First, I need to tell you how to pick a location first.Do not build right next to a road, monument, or another player. That is asking to be raided. Instead, pick somewhere tucked away, hidden and a decent hike from looting areas. Theres two reasons you want to make it a long hike from looting locations.1. If you're being followed, it gives you more chances to lose the person following you between your home and where they started chasing you. Especially at night.2. People populate near Monuments. If you build far away from a monument, you're less likely to be raided. It's inconvinient, but its much safer.If you build in a wooded/forest area, theres a tip that nobody seems to abide by. Trees cover a lot. Often times, you won't see a base until you're right next to it, if it's in a forest. That's because of trees.Trees are your supply of wood. 99% of the time, people will chop the trees around their base, losing their entire coverage, thus putting them out in the open. Don't do this. Take a good minute or two to run away from your base to chop trees.Now I will tell you about the basic, yet sturdy starter base.Pick the Triangle Foundation, and build a circle with it. Then, attach walls to each side except for one. On this one side that doesn't have a wall, place a single doorframe. Upgrade all your walls to wood or stone before continuing.After this, you're going to add the second level. Add walls on top of the first levels of walls, this time all the way around the circle. Now, you wont be able to reach the ceiling, so put in 3-4 triangle FLOOR tiles above the level 1 walls, thus creating a second floor. Upgrade them if needed.Now on the end without floors above it, put a tool cupboard on the wall without a floor above it. Put a small box right next to the tool cupboard. Then, use the box to jump on top of the Cupboard, then you can access the second floor. Then fill in the ceiling and upgrade.Lastly, add an airlock in front of your door by just adding triange foundation in front of it with an additional doorway.Use the second story of this base to put large boxes, use the bottom floor for 2 furnaces, sleeping bag, campfire and you might be able to fit a workshop in there if youre lucky.From here, just use your tools from roadrunning to gather resources necessary.That's about it. Use these steps and you'll have a much easier time and skip a lot of the boring early game progression.