Just recently I spent 15 to 20 hours building a large base in stranded deep. Along the way I learned a few things, some tips, that I thought I would share with you here in this blog post.



1) At first the temptation is to use the planks, corrugated steel, and anything else of quality. But I recommend that you hold off and just gather your materials together and in the first place build a starter base out of sticks. Then you can really decide what you want to do with the better resources which are actually quite scarce around the map especially considering the maps in the most recent updates are fairly small to medium size.



2) When placing the foundations to the structure look carefully at the level. In the first instance it’s very tempting to maybe place your first foundation by a rock but this may well impede the second foundation and you might not be to build the base you want to build because the foundations won’t go down. It can be quite annoying at times when objects don’t appear to be in the way, look for a clear a space of sand and then hopefully you should be able to build the base you desire.



3) Recently the developers added a triangle size foundation this allows you to build all sorts of shapes for your foundations and therefore creating structures that are other than square boxes. Give these a go.



4) When placing walls, so not to waste resources, they need to be supported and the same goes for ceilings. It sounds like an obvious thing to say but you will need more walls than you would imagine and when placing ladders you want the space that accommodates entrance to that ladder. The ladder once attached to a floor spans one whole foundation and so you’ll need to take that into consideration when building.



5) I found it useful to be able to carry back the logs from palm trees especially if the axe you are carrying is near to breaking. So you don’t actually have to break them up into sticks to carry them back to your main island.

6) Tarps seem to respawn. Whereas the planks and metals do you not making them very precious. Tarps are great for making walls and you only need one to make a wall which will rapidly increase the size of your settlement.



7) Collected items can be placed on foundations, so you can drop your treasures on foundations if you want but certain crafted items, like the smoking rack, cannot and have to be placed on sand to take that into consideration when designing.



I hope you find these tips useful and if you’ve got any yourself you can add them below which would be awesome. If you want to see the build that I did you can watch it here at my YouTube channel, this is a direct link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxG7YMEeD4M Thanks again.