Base Infrastructure To Build First

Key Takeaways

• Build a basic base with floors & walls early on to unlock tech and create a crafting base.
• Craft a bed or sleeping bag ASAP for spawn point and fast-forward nighttime to dawn.
• Upgrade the tiny player inventory with storage boxes to hold resources for crafting new items.

Sunkenland offers a unique twist on the survival game genre by immersing players in a world where much of the map lies underwater. Exploring submerged environments, players must dive into wrecks to scavenge resources. However, this task is far from straightforward. The clever map design often places rare materials at perilous depths, requiring precise timing to resurface safely.

Crafting and base-building are integral elements of the game, with players tasked with fortifying their bases to fend off frequent enemy NPC raids. Fans of survival games will appreciate Sunkenland’s innovative approach and engaging gameplay, making it a refreshing addition to the genre.

8 Floors And Walls

Start With The Wooden Versions

New players in Sunkenland need to build a very basic base to start with, even if they intend to move away from the starter island quite quickly. This is because many of the tech unlocks require a base to achieve them.

This means building some foundations or flooring, as well as some walls, to put a simple platform or shack together. This will become the basis of a small crafting base until the player moves on to a more challenging area a little later in the game.

7 Sleeping Bag Or Bed

Players Need A Place To Sleep

Building a bed or a sleeping bag is something that new players to Sunkenland will want to do as soon as possible. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it sets the player’s spawn point, where they will appear if they die.

Secondly, it can be used to pass time at night. If a player sleeps on a bed in the evening, the game goes into fast-forward mode and moves the player from night to dawn automatically. This is useful, as it can often be too dark at night to do anything practical.

6 Storage Containers

The Player Inventory Is Tiny

Many crafting games provide the player with a tiny inventory of their own, meaning they need to craft some kind of storage early on. Sunkenland follows this trend, and the initial player inventory can carry very little. However, it can be upgraded by crafting a backpack.

Therefore, it is going to be crucial that a player crafts at least a couple of storage boxes or containers at the start of the game. They will need a place to stash the resources they have farmed and will use later to upgrade recipes and make new items.

5 Water Purifier

Water All Around, But Can’t Be Drunk

Oddly, a lack of water can be a problem at the start of a game of Sunkenland. The player is surrounded by water, but it is all salt water. Therefore, the player needs a way to gather water for drinking. This is done with a water purifier.

Once it has been constructed, it needs to be fed wood or another fuel, as well as some salt water. Then, it will slowly purify and produce pure water which the player is safe to drink.

4 Cooking Facilities

A Campfire Or Cooking Station

Just as water production is vital for new Sunkenland players, food is also a big issue, although not as problematic as ensuring a good supply of water. There are raw foods such as mushrooms and strawberries that a player can pick, but they don’t fill the player up very much, and they go bad quickly.

Therefore, cooking food is essential, as it becomes more beneficial to eat, and it lasts longer before it goes bad. A basic campfire is fine at first, but a proper cooking station is a good option if the player has the resources to build one.

3 Workbench

Enables Basic Crafting

Some basic crafting recipes require nothing more than a few basic resources to make. However, for anything more advanced, the player needs to use a crafting station. The workbench is the first of these that the player should build.

The workbench can be used to craft better tools, basic armor, and a whole host of subcomponents that the player will need to use for more advanced crafting recipes. Overall, it grants players access to slightly better equipment before they need to start building advanced crafting tables.

2 Planters

Grow Some Food

By now, players should realize that food and water are big issues in Sunkenland. At the start of the game, it can be quite an effort to find enough food to keep healthy and fully healed. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that players lose filling when sleeping.

One of the best ways to make sure there is always a supply of food on hand is to grow some. Planters can be set up close to a player’s base, and seeds can be planted that will grow into a sustainable source of food through farming.

1 Defensive Spikes

Defenses Are A Requirement

New players to Sunkenland are often shocked by the brutality of NPC raids on their base. The game pulls no punches here, and if the raid is not fought off, it will result in the player’s base being destroyed.

Therefore, defenses are a huge consideration, and one of the best early-game defenses is defensive spikes. These work exactly as the name suggests. They are placed on the ground, and NPC raiders take damage by moving across them. They will take some iron to craft them, so they are not available right at the start of the game, but they should be pretty easy to craft after a few hours of play.