Base Building Tips

Learn conan exiles base building tips for location, decay, and construction. Prevent base decay with a 336-hour timer before abandonment.

Choosing a good location for your base is a must. Ideally, you will want to choose a spot that is close to the resources you need to prosper. In the early game, this will be around the starting areas of the Isle of Siptah and the Exiled Lands. Once you can make Iron weapons, you can start to move further into the map and branch out to other locations. Ideally, no matter where you choose to build your base, you will have access to water and animals to hunt for food. This gets a bit easier once you reach level 25 and can build a well that provides you easy access to water. The difficulty of choosing where to build a base goes up depending on what map you choose to play on. If you are in single-player, you are good to build your base just about anywhere that places you near a food source.

Recommended Locations:

• Bridge of the Betrayer
• The Den
• Circle of Swords
• Violet Isle (Siptah)
• Witcheye Lake (Siptah)
• Scavenger Coast (Siptah)

In both PVE and PVP servers, you will also have to deal with base decay. This is to keep offline players from eternally hogging land or having a second base hogging up land that they never visit. If you and your clan have been away from your base for 336 hours in total, then it will enter an abandoned state. Once the abandoned state is reached, you have around 48 hours before the server gets rid of your base. Additionally, some buildings decay faster than others, like chests, which can disappear in around 2 hours when not placed inside of a base. The decay timer can be checked by using a Repair Hammer, so keep this in mind so that you don’t accidentally lose your home.

If you choose to play on a PVE server, then many of the premium or easy spots may already be taken, but you should be able to find some unclaimed land to set up on. If you are playing on PVP, though, then not only do you need to worry about finding an untaken spot and having access to basic resources, but you will need to worry about hostile players attacking your base at all times. This threat only increases when you log out for the day.

Basics of Base Building:

Once you start building your base, you need to choose what you want your house to look like. There are some limitations to the building system that you should consider before you get too far in. For example, if you build walls in a close zig-zag pattern, you won’t be able to properly roof them as they are too close together to make your base look nice. You will also want to place your doors and windows in strategic positions. Windows allows you to safely view your base from all sides without opening your door. Your door should be placed in a way that easily allows you to enter and exit. Additionally, if you have a flying mount, then making a roof hatch can be an excellent way to give you an extra exit option in case of attack.

When making multiple floors, you will need to take into consideration the placement of steps. You can build decently high in conan exiles. If you choose to have a tower consider making an elevator to make moving around your base easier. You can even connect to separate towers using a bridge. If you are using steps then you will want to ensure that you can easily have them lead to the next floor without disrupting any crafting stations or making it hard to move around inside your base. For the most part, building the interior of your base is pretty straightforward.

How to Make a Proper Roof For Your Base:

The trickiest part of building a base by far is putting a roof on it. If you’ve built a small base, then this won’t be much of a problem, as the pieces can easily connect. If you have a larger base, though, then you are going to need to place multiple roofing pieces on each side to make them meet in the middle. The problem with this is that the game won’t let you build but so far out before it considers the roof unstable. In this case, you can use the Vertical Decorative Beam and the Horizontal Decorative Beam to secure your roof.

• You can place beams on top of each other for higher roofs, giving them the support they need to be placed.
• Don’t forget to use sloping wall pieces to help feel in roofing caps.
• You can even use them to create unique larger windows at the top of the base to look out of.

How to Make Support Beams:

Both the Horizontal Decorative Beam and the Vertical Decorative Beam recipes can be learned once you hit level 13. These are both easy-to-make recipes that only require five Wood and five Twine each. Wood is easily obtainable from trees, and Twine can be made from Plant Fibers.

Base Building in PVE:

When you are just facing the environment, things are a bit easier. For the most part, you aren’t going to need to worry about a bear ripping through your walls. In fact, it’s pretty easy to place your base far enough away from hostiles to never really worry about having to take enemies home with you. The only time you will need to worry is if a Purge is if you decide to trigger one yourself, and this is something you can prepare for. During Purges, your base will be attacked by invaders who are after the treasure you have placed inside. They will only target openings like doors, so you can easily create a funnel to control them.