me personally i would recommend building next to a lake

so one of the better places to make a base (surprisingly) is just above the red 3 boarder.

it's a small flattened area that goes down to beach and the water is just shallow enough that you can easily make a bridge to the larger island on the east side (also close to an underwater cave), the mountains/plateaus above are for the most part safe as long as you don't go to the top of them, where you want to base is basically a wall connecting from the southern section of beach (a bit closer to north than to the cliff) to the river on the north (note there are boulders so you'll have to adjust for that) but after you set up a bridge and wall most enemies won't attack and the only one that really can reach you is worm but he only spawns on day 40 and above

so for note of key stuff (not story items) in this location...
Rocks spawn like wildfire here
Food/Water turtles spawn like crazy here and so do birds
Logs move west into the forest
Berries plenty west and south
Rabbits/Lizards in the forest to the west
Cannibal Patrols seem to break here (most are on the top of the plateaus or on the hill for sword cave)
Mutant spawns seem to only appear sword cave hillside or to the north plateau and inner river (between green 1 and red 3)
Main Cannibal Village is southwest (also near a gun part)
if you make a raft you can get the other gun part and the yacht with ease

so the hardest part of this location is bringing logs back and fourth otherwise you shouldn't have much issues until day 20 or 30 but you'll be pretty damn prepared by them or have already finished the game

Instructions unclear. I have built a base on all of the cannibal camps and am now the dictator of the peninsula.

you should probably build it on the ground

bro the best place is the start aka the plane

I am currently playing 100 days normal but I turned the big village into my base (I am at day 33 and things are bad)

something funny that happened is i was playing with my sister on the forest for the first time and we built right beside the biggest cannibal base thinking it was just decoration 3 days after we had the base there those 6 legged thing attacked our base i just turned it into nothing

building on the west side of goose lake was a mistake. but we later abandoned the camp in favor of a house boat on top of the lake, and thats been amazingly easy to defend

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