Dimraeth Base Building Guide: Your Sanctum, Station by Station

Base building is the quiet other half of Dimraeth's adventure loop. Your sanctum — the home ground you claim early in the campaign — is where crops grow, materials get refined, gear gets crafted, and ally facilities slowly expand what your expeditions can pull off. The official description confirms this rhythm as core design: you head out into Mirkea, then return home to feed farms and quarries that supply the next run. This page walks the current Early Access build order from your first campfire to a working station network, based on what official sources confirm and what community players have established since launch.

Claiming your sanctum: the blueprint quest

Your base starts right after the opening. Community walkthroughs agree on the flow: clear the Lost Caverns, meet Faustas, finish the conversation and the surrounding cleanup of debris, and the area becomes your home ground. Building a tent and a campfire — which gives you cooking and water — completes the quest that unlocks blueprints for the workbench, the alchemy station, and the storage chest. You cannot place the stations immediately, because they require planks and nails, and that is exactly why the workbench comes first in every sensible build order.

The workbench turns loose stone into nails and pine wood into planks. Gathering those materials wants an axe and a pickaxe, plus gloves for picking advanced plants, but you do not have to buy or craft any of them. Community players report that pushing the main quest north and completing the melee trainer's training line gets you these tools for free — the conversations at the Earlwood Village guild hall tend to be the trigger, so clearing Farmlands quests on the way north is the practical fastest route to a functioning base.

The storage problem, and how players handle it

Storage was the loudest complaint right after launch. The guild hall's chest holds only about 18 slots by community measurements, and the moment you start collecting gear sets your inventory tightens up fast. The established play pattern is to commit to one set, salvage everything else at the smithy into upgrade materials, and lean on upgrade paths instead of hoarding — early sets underperform anyway, and better pieces come soon. Your own storage chests, craftable once the blueprint quest is done, are what actually fix the squeeze, so build one early and expand as your material piles grow.

Mudtek has also been improving this directly. Around the Early Access launch, community playthroughs confirm a batch-deposit button arrived that dumps matching items into a chest in one action. It recognizes set pieces too: if a chest already holds a piece of a set, later pieces of the same set get identified and stored automatically, which reviewers noted took most of the pain out of experimenting with multiple builds. Fine details may still shift between patches, so re-check behavior after major updates rather than trusting old footage.

Production structures: farms, the quarry, and allies

Production is where a base stops being a camp and becomes an economy. Community base guides describe farm plots growing crops on a real-time cycle — a renewable source that feeds both cooking and gold-making — while the quarry supplies ore and stone so you stop hand-fetching crafting materials. Ally facilities add another layer: recruited NPCs bring permanent perks like expanded shop stock and boosted farm output, feeding the loop the official pitch describes, where the base strengthens the hero and the hero's quests widen the base's options.

Watch your investment balance, though. Early structures are cheap, but higher tiers demand large amounts of refined materials, and community players warn that over-investing before you understand the economy mostly costs you time. You can finish the campaign while ignoring your base entirely — you just give up the compounding convenience that smooths the mid-game. Where farm crops and quarry output fit into repeatable income, the farming guide covers the XP and gold loops in detail, and the water guide ties into wells and the alchemy station.

How bases work in co-op

The persistence rules around bases are stated officially on the Steam page: your hero's level, equipment, inventory, spells, and personal progression travel between worlds, while buildings and recruited allies stay bound to each individual world. A base is therefore not "your room" — it belongs to a specific world. Facilities built at the host's place are usable by everyone in the session, and the base in your own solo world waits for you untouched whenever you return to it.

The practical community advice follows directly from those rules: pick one world as your main base and treat other worlds as expeditions, rather than maintaining half-built outposts in three different saves. Closing a session with a base routine — unload, salvage, sleep — banks both your storage and the overnight buffs in one stop. For the world systems this sits on, the gameplay overview is the wider map; the saving guide covers the pre-expedition habit; and the guide hub indexes every how-to on the site.

Build order at a glance

Putting community findings together, the priority line runs: finish the Faustas quest to unlock the workbench, alchemy station, and storage chest blueprints; build the workbench first; get the free trainer tools via the guild hall line; loop stone and pine wood until you have a storage chest; then push materials into farm plots, the quarry, and ally facility upgrades. Treat base building as a permanent part-time job that grows a little every expedition, not a one-time construction project — in the current Early Access build, that pacing is what keeps it fun instead of chores.

Related pages

• Farming guide — what your farm and quarry output are actually for.
• How to get water — wells, the alchemy station, and every reliable water source.
• Gameplay overview — the full loop your base exists to support.
• How to save — the sanctum rest, overnight buffs, and pre-expedition habits.