Minute zero to fifteen
Spawn, run inland, and do not stop to fight. The coast on wipe day is the most dangerous terrain on the map and the least rewarding. Your only objective in the first fifteen minutes is a hatchet, a stone pickaxe and enough wood to place a foundation.
Minute fifteen to forty-five
Place the tool cupboard before you place anything else. A base without a cupboard is not your base — it is a building someone else will finish.
Farm stone until you can upgrade the core, then stop. Hoarding beyond what you can spend in this window is how people end up rich and homeless.
Where to land
Look for a slope with a rock formation on at least one side. You want cover for the build, not a view.
Minute forty-five to ninety
Now you can be greedy. Run the nearest low-tier monument, come back, upgrade, and only then think about neighbours.
Put it into practice
Reading is cheaper than sulfur.
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