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* Take a look around before you build. Do you want to eventually make a permanent settlement here? Even if you don’t know it can’t hurt to plan toward this. See if there will be room to expand and build a fenced area and or eventual settlement around or behind you. If you do eventually plop down a settlement token it will be at minimum 5 tiles deeded in every direction, and an additional 5 for the perimeter . So Including your center tile this will result in an area of 10 tiles out from the center of your settlement which needs to be free in order to make it your own claimed territory. * Consider what you are looking for in a location. Do you want a mine but don’t want to dig a huge hole in the ground looking for rock? Then build by one of the public mines or areas with exposed rock. Like fishing and boatboating? Then look by the water, etc. Take your time and find a good dream location. You can’t undo the location of your house once you place it down. But you can modify the terrain any way you wish given enough time. Don’t worry about building near water for drinking purposes. Later on you can build a well or fountain on your own place.
With this I mean analyze your location before plunking down. A common mistake newbies make is building too close to someone else’s house, or perimeter. If you do that you will never be able make a deed later on to encapsulate your house and you may upset your neighbors in the event they had expansion plans. I did this with my first house and it was frustrating because I put a lot of time and pride into that first house and later realized it could never be deeded on a settlement of my own since I built it too close to both another house and another settlement’s perimeter. Double click on the ground to see if it is in someone else’s territory then start counting from there how many tiles away you want it.
* If you don’t want to join an existing settlement then at minimum make Make sure any house tile of yours is at least 10 tiles between your house and : 1) any other settlement’s [[perimeter]], ; and 2) anyone else’s house. That way you can settle it on claim the area later with your own [[deed later ]] if you wish. 10 is the bare minimum though and that is cutting it close. You may want to go further out just in case they expand their territory. And if your hope is that one day your new house might be the exact center of your own settlement then you will want to build out even furtheraway. If you do eventually plop down a [[settlement token]] it will be a minimum 5 tiles deeded in every direction, and an additional 5 for the perimeter . So Including your center tile this will result in an area of 10 tiles out from the center of your settlement which needs to be free in order to make it your own claimed territory.
* Don’t rule out abandoned places. A lot of areas have been settled and then abandoned long ago leaving large areas of nicely terraformed land. If their buildings and deeds are gone you can move in. While this takes some of the thrill out of [[terraforming]] the place from scratch, it will most likely already have plenty of flat land which makes it much easier if you are new and want to build. You can then terraform it later and radically redesign it in your own image.
