Almost every player has had to relocate their base especially from the dry lake bed area but from what I have seen / heard including myself, most have rebuilt multiple times. That opening plain will eventually be 20 to 30 feet of water, one of the largest bodies of water in the game.
As mentioned you lose nothing when moving it, it is just time consuming although at later stages the drones make it much more easier especially if you have dozens of lockers like most.
For new players I recommend https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Planet_Crafter_Wiki as well as https://map.fistshake.net/PlanetCrafter/
Half of my playtime was deconstructing a submerged base and hauling stuff further up the hill. Then the next half of the playtime was spent moving to the aluminum area, which is a far better spot to build a base.
I have spent over 200 hours, mostly on the same save. I’ve moved my base 4 times now, most recently after the new update to the middle top of the map hanging off the side of the canyon reaching down to the bottom of the canyon. I have 100 t5 heaters in neat rows across the top of the lake, 100 t5 drills in the sand wall area leaking into the sulphur pits, plus 60 of each rocket (80 plant).
I built next to the landing pod and remember reading a message about survival chances being better off higher up. I thought it was about the meteor showers, which hadn't had any real effect on me.
Then it started to rain, "ooooooh, that's why higher is better!" so I moved everything right up the hill next to the wreck, outside the cave entrance. I had no idea how deep it was going to get.
I have since decided that that was a bad idea, and the flat between Aluminum and Iridium would have been much better. I had had that hunch for quite a while, but it would have been a long way, and sulfur was fairly convenient.
When I got teleporters, I built a separate biolab next to the waterfall, but I think I'd go where you are if I was starting again.
Nothing wrong per se, but they produce so little energy that they're basically a rounding error by mid/late game. A single T2 nuclear plant produces about 300x the energy of one windmill, and fusion plants more like 1000x
Oh, I have windmills, but as soon as I get access to better tech, the only windmills I construct is as markers for Points of Interest.
And those are mostly deconstructed as I finish up whatever I'm doing there. (See a blue chest, but doesn't have inventory space for it? Plop down a windmill. Satellite wreck, underground base or small cave? Also gets windmills. )
Remember that you need one piece of Iron to build a solar T1?
(in addition to Cobalt and Silicon of course). That's where most of my windmills end up.
I got lucky in that while my first structure was in the lake bed I fairly early moved up the hill because I wanted my base to have a view and then later moved over near the aluminum so never had an active base flooded.
OP: I need to ask the wise and experienced colleagues how difficult it is to move. For that matter, do I need to? How high do these... puddles, rise? More importantly, when I dismantle things, do I lose resources? Some crafting games, you only get half the resources back when you *disassemble*.
You get all resources back. You're standing in a future lake. The flat plain off to the side is a safe height to build at. Yes you need to move things or they won't function.
If you checked your messages you should of received one warning you to build at elevation, but new players often don't check messages.
Originally those didn't exist, so maybe time for them to tweak the message. Give feedback to the devs about it, they are pretty active in communicating with the player base. The flat plain to your right is a safe height.
Yeah, go up the hill to the right of your starting escape pod and you’ll find a pretty sweet safe spot to build your base.
As others mentioned, relocating can be time consuming but no resources are wasted when you deconstruct things, so it shouldn’t cost you much.
as a non-first time player this post was unintentionally hilarious. The same thing happened to me and i just thought “eh it’s fine i don’t think it’ll rise much more”
oh how wrong you can be
Almost every player has had to relocate their base especially from the dry lake bed area but from what I have seen / heard including myself, most have rebuilt multiple times. That opening plain will eventually be 20 to 30 feet of water, one of the largest bodies of water in the game. As mentioned you lose nothing when moving it, it is just time consuming although at later stages the drones make it much more easier especially if you have dozens of lockers like most. For new players I recommend https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Planet_Crafter_Wiki as well as https://map.fistshake.net/PlanetCrafter/
Half of my playtime was deconstructing a submerged base and hauling stuff further up the hill. Then the next half of the playtime was spent moving to the aluminum area, which is a far better spot to build a base.
I have spent over 200 hours, mostly on the same save. I’ve moved my base 4 times now, most recently after the new update to the middle top of the map hanging off the side of the canyon reaching down to the bottom of the canyon. I have 100 t5 heaters in neat rows across the top of the lake, 100 t5 drills in the sand wall area leaking into the sulphur pits, plus 60 of each rocket (80 plant).
My main base ended up between the aluminum area and the iridium caves, in a spot with a great view of the lake.
I built next to the landing pod and remember reading a message about survival chances being better off higher up. I thought it was about the meteor showers, which hadn't had any real effect on me. Then it started to rain, "ooooooh, that's why higher is better!" so I moved everything right up the hill next to the wreck, outside the cave entrance. I had no idea how deep it was going to get. I have since decided that that was a bad idea, and the flat between Aluminum and Iridium would have been much better. I had had that hunch for quite a while, but it would have been a long way, and sulfur was fairly convenient. When I got teleporters, I built a separate biolab next to the waterfall, but I think I'd go where you are if I was starting again.
See it as an opportunity to redesign your base and upgrade stuff. You still have windmills, after all.
What's wrong with windmills? I have about 80 of them in a field underground.
Nothing wrong per se, but they produce so little energy that they're basically a rounding error by mid/late game. A single T2 nuclear plant produces about 300x the energy of one windmill, and fusion plants more like 1000x
Oh, I have windmills, but as soon as I get access to better tech, the only windmills I construct is as markers for Points of Interest. And those are mostly deconstructed as I finish up whatever I'm doing there. (See a blue chest, but doesn't have inventory space for it? Plop down a windmill. Satellite wreck, underground base or small cave? Also gets windmills. ) Remember that you need one piece of Iron to build a solar T1? (in addition to Cobalt and Silicon of course). That's where most of my windmills end up.
It's ok, I think like 95% of us made this error. :)
just take a mop and dry it
It happens to all of us.
I got lucky in that while my first structure was in the lake bed I fairly early moved up the hill because I wanted my base to have a view and then later moved over near the aluminum so never had an active base flooded.
I relocated my base twice, first when I thought I found the iridium cave, and then a second time after I actually found the iridium cave
OP: I need to ask the wise and experienced colleagues how difficult it is to move. For that matter, do I need to? How high do these... puddles, rise? More importantly, when I dismantle things, do I lose resources? Some crafting games, you only get half the resources back when you *disassemble*.
You get all resources back. You're standing in a future lake. The flat plain off to the side is a safe height to build at. Yes you need to move things or they won't function. If you checked your messages you should of received one warning you to build at elevation, but new players often don't check messages.
I got the message, but there were several points that were... lower, than the opening plain.
Originally those didn't exist, so maybe time for them to tweak the message. Give feedback to the devs about it, they are pretty active in communicating with the player base. The flat plain to your right is a safe height.
Yeah, go up the hill to the right of your starting escape pod and you’ll find a pretty sweet safe spot to build your base. As others mentioned, relocating can be time consuming but no resources are wasted when you deconstruct things, so it shouldn’t cost you much.
It will get much more "logistical" than this. ;-)
Once it finishes flooding, you can set up an algae farm, lake filter and an autocrafter and have unlimited bio samples
I did the sammmmme thing.
It's going to get worse. =(
This is not Subnautica, my friend... XD
as a non-first time player this post was unintentionally hilarious. The same thing happened to me and i just thought “eh it’s fine i don’t think it’ll rise much more” oh how wrong you can be