Hey everyone, Lanoma here! I'm a Rend Alpha player looking to share some of the things I've learned since the world of Rend can be confusing and rough. Before I get this guide started, here are some things that are crucial to know for all parts of the building process:

• You can't move a structure or a frame once it has been placed.
  
• You can't move stations or other placed items once they have been placed (except the Divinity Seed).
  
• You can destroy a frame by right-clicking on it with any tool (each hit does 25 structure damage).
  
• You can destroy structures and placed items through the above method, though it takes longer as they generally have more health.
  
• Plan out the design of your base before you start building. You'll save a lot of resources in the long run doing this!

Although having and building a personal base can be fun, it's not always the best idea. Personal bases can lower the amount of resources in a zone, especially if there are a lot of them in one area. I would strongly recommend that you either:

• Build a personal base away from the spawn and Faction Stronghold in a higher tier zone.
  
• Group up with other players to form a clan and create a larger clan base instead of multiple personal bases.

Doing these things will keep key areas full of resources and free from clutter. Of course it can still be a good idea to have a small, personal base in more difficult zones to store resources, and this guide will help you with bases small or large!

Let's start off with a list of the materials and tools you are going to need before you can build your base. This list covers everything you need for building and upgrading the frames and structures for your base.



Spirit Tools
You should have all of your spirit tools crafted from the "Survival Basics" crafting menu before you build a base.

Construction Hammer
The Construction Hammer is unlocked in the "Survival Basics" crafting menu. You need it to be able to open the Building Interface.




For this guide, I will be explaining how to build a base using Crumblestone Frames. You can also build a base with Wooden Frames, but the materials listed here are for Crumblestone Frames.

----Materials for Frames----

Roughwood Sticks
Collected by Left-Clicking roughwood trees with a Spirit Axe.

Crumblestone
Collected by Left-Clicking crumblestone rocks with a Spirit Mallet.

Fiber Twine
Gather Raw Fiber by Right-Clicking bushes and fruit plants with a Spirit Sickle, then craft it into Fiber Twine in the Survival Basics menu, the Loom Station at the Faction Stronghold, or the Hunter's Lodge.

--------Materials for Upgrading Structures--------

Crumblestone Bricks
Crafted from crumblestone at the Stonecutter Station (at your faction stronghold), or at the Stoneworkers Slab (in the Construction Building at your faction Stronghold.

Cement
Combine sticky sap and crumblestone in the Mortar Station with a filled water source (waterskin) in the station's inventory. This can be time consuming to make, as sticky sap is a less common drop from harvesting trees and it turns into resin overtime.

The first step to building your base is laying a foundation. Get some Roughwood Sticks, Crumblestone, and Fiber twine, then pick out where you want your base to be.


Open the building interface by pressing "B". There are a lot of things going on in this interface, so let me break down the keybinds for you.

• T - Hold to choose what structure you want to place a frame of.
  
• R - Press while looking at a placed frame (wall or platform) to change its variant. Walls can become Doors and Windows, while platforms can become Trap Doors.
  
• Right Mouse Button - Turns the structure outline diagonal, which is used for diagonal walls, triangle foundations, and triangle platforms.
  
• Scroll Wheel - Raises or lowers a foundation outline.
  
• L - Flips the structure to change the way it's facing.
  
• M - Changes what kind of frames you are placing (wooden vs. crumblestone).

Here is how placing frames works: Select the type of structure you want with T, then move the outline where you want to place it. If the outline is green, it is placeable. If the outline is red, you can't place the structure there, and the game should tell you why. When the structure is green and in position, Left Click to place it. Structures automatically snap to eachother which is great for keeping things even and organized!



Every building needs a good foundation, and it also just so happens that the only structure you can place directly on the ground is a foundation, so let's start there! Something to keep in mind when placing your foundation: you don't want the ground to be clipping through your floor, so plan out the dimensions of your base in your head and raise your first platform to be above the ground at all levels (you can always build stairs to your front door).

After placing your first foundation frame, fill out the rest of the size of your base. Step 1: DONE!















As of now, your base can be messed up by anyone. You need to set permissions on who can edit and destroy structures in your base. The game handles this through "Divinity Seeds" which can be crafted and placed in your base, protecting it while offering a spawn/teleport location. This does not protect it from enemy factions with siege weapons though. For a starter base, all you need is a Lesser Divinity Stone, which can be crafted in the Survival Basics menu. Once you have that crafted, you can either wait to place it in your base until after you finish placing all your structure frames, or place it now on your foundation.

**WARNING**
Divinity Seeds are fairly large, and require space above and around them. I personally recommend placing it before you build more, somewhere in the corner of your base, and then build around it. If you don't like where you placed it once you start building, you can pick it up and move it by holding down "F" while looking at it and choosing the "Pick Up" option.

I forgot to place my seed down until I had built more of the base while making this guide, but here is what it will look like:

Now that your foundation is down, it's time to add some shape to your base! Start placing walls by holding down "T" in the building interface and selecting "Wall". Walls can be built on any foundation or platform, and can be turned diagonal by pressing Right-Mouse button while the outline is out (these walls will match your triangle foundations if you built any). Make sure your entire base is covered by walls (you can turn them into doors and windows later), and I recommend that a good section of your base, if not all of it, should be at least 2 walls tall (a lot of structures need a height of 2 walls).

(Diagonal Wall)
Now that your walls are in place, you can edit them however you like to add windows and doors.

**NOTE** People who don't have permissions to your base (through your Divinity Seed) cannot open doors, but ANYONE can jump through your windows! If you choose to place windows, keep them far from the ground level to avoid double-jumping theives.


Here is a picture showing the difference between a wall (left), window (middle), and door (right) frame.

If the picture is hard to see, the wall frame has no center hole, the window frame has a center hole but is connected on the bottom, and the door frame has a center hole that isn't connected on the bottom.

Here is a nice looking base that is walled off from danger with a door frame on the left:

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Also, don't forget to add stairs to reach your door if it's off of the ground!

I cannot stress how important this next section will be... Well, it really isn't that important, but I have seen WAY too many people not put roofs on their base, only to have people jump into their base from a hill and take their stuff. Don't be that person who doesn't build a roof.



There is no "Roof" structure in the "T" menu, so instead you use the Platform structure. Platforms act as roofs and also as floors for your upper levels. Rend has a... Somewhat functioning physics engine, enough to require you to make structurally sound builds. This really only applies to platforms, and all it means is that they can't stick out more than 2 spaces without wall support, or more than 1 space without pillar support. Here are some pictures explaining it:

Normal platform placing:

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Platform placed 3 spaces out without support (not structurally sound):

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There are 3 ways to get around this. Your first option is to place a support pillar, which gives 1 extra length to your platforms:

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You can also place another wall under your platforms, which gives 2 extra length from where the wall is placed (the wall has to be placed on a platform/foundation below it):

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Lastly, and this is the most common case when building a base, you can connect platform sides to support eachother (if your base is 4 spaces wide, both sides of the ceiling will meet in the middle and support eachother):

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With enough building experience, you'll learn extra tricks to make things structurally sound, which is especially important in larger bases or stronghold/capture point building.



Just a reminder that you can make triangle platforms by pressing Right-Click while in the building interface to match your horizontal walls!

Now that your base is all framed out, you need to upgrade the frames to actual structures.

**WARNING** ----- Don't upgrade your frames until you're sure they're placed where you want them. Actual structures have much more health, require many more resources, and take a lot longer to break.

To upgrade your frames, simply hold down "F" while looking at a frame and deposit the required materials. For crumblestone frames, you'll need:

• x8 Crumblestone Bricks
  
• x1 Concrete

for each frame. It's a lot of resources, but here is a PRO TIP: If you craft Crumblestone Bricks at the stonecutter, you only get 1 brick per 4 crumblestone. BUT, if you craft Crumblestone Bricks at the Stoneworker's Slab (Construction Building at your faction stronghold), eventually you'll get the ability to sometimes craft an extra Crumblestone Brick. You'll be slowed down while crafting, but at least you can do stuff while crafting and the bricks go directly into your inventory! I've found the best way to mass-craft Crumblestone Bricks is to put some in a stonecutter, and craft the rest at the Stoneworkers Slab.



Crumblestone Structures can further be upgraded to Cragrock, and then even further to Granite. They're upgraded in the same way, but require a higher number of resources (more bricks and concrete per structure).

Hey, nice base you got there. It looks a little empty inside though, so let's deck it out with some crafting stations.



The Personal Crafting Table is a must-have for any base. In fact, you should actually have at least 4 of them. The reason for this is because you can add 2 attachments to each table that let you craft different things. There are 7 crafting attachments, 2 attachment slots per table, so.... Math.

You can craft the Personal Crafting Table at the Stoneworker's Slab (Construction Building) in your faction stronghold, or at a Personal Crafting Table. Luckily, the resource cost isn't too bad, so making 4 should be pretty easy. If you really don't want to make 4, look at the different Improvements and pick which ones you want for now, then only make tables for those Improvements.

**NOTE**
You can't move Personal Crafting Tables once they've been placed, and they're fairly large, so plan ahead on where you're going to put them.
The Personal Crafting Table without upgrades can craft:

• Other Personal Crafting Tables
  
• Personal Crafting Table Improvements
  
• Personal Refineries

(This is an outline of a Personal Crafting Table)




Like I mentioned above, each Personal Crafting Table can have 2 upgrades that add certain crafting recipes. You can craft the upgrades at the Stoneworker's Slab (Construction Building in Faction Stronghold) and then place them onto your Personal Crafting Tables, as shown in the picture. You can combine any 2 Improvements on a table, and if for some reason the Improvement is red instead of green when trying to place it on an open slot, switch which item you have selected on your hotbar and then try again.

All of the Personal Crafting Table Improvements will be listed below along with what type of recipes they add to your crafting table.

Light Armor Improvement:

• Cloth Armor
  
• Silk Armor
  
• Swamp Walker Armor

Medium Armor Improvement

• Leather Armor
  
• Fur Armor

Heavy Armor Improvement

• Heavy Armor (Metal Armor)

Basic Weapon Improvement

• Bows
  
• Crossbows
  
• Repeaters

Advanced Weapon Improvement

• Spike Launchers
  
• Shard Blasters

Alchemist's Tools Improvement

• Elixirs
  
• Draughts
  
• Potions
  
• Mysticism Components (Essences and Animal Blood)

Builder's Table Improvements

• Fortifications
  
• Storage

With Crafting Tables out of the way, we can move on to Personal Refineries! Since you should already have a Personal Crafting Table down at this point, you can craft all of the Personal Refineries from those.

The Personal Refineries are the same as the refineries in the faction base (Saw, Stonecutter, Forge, etc.), but you can place them in your personal base. The only downside to this is that some of them are quite large. Specifically, the Personal Forge and Personal Stonecutter take up a lot of room, and require 2 spaces of vertical room to be placed (now you know why I suggested making a tall base!).

**WARNING**
Like almost everything else, once you place a refinery down it can't be moved, so use the outlines to plan ahead where you will place them.
(The picture is the Personal Tanning Rack --->)

Here is an example of needing 2 spaces of vertical room to place the larger refineries:













If you have extra room around you, I'd recommend building a seperate section of your base to house multiple Forges, Stonecutters, and Woodcutters to maximize efficiency.

Here is a view of the size of the Stonecutter (left), Forge (middle), Saw (Right).

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Finally, your base has everything it needs to be fully functioning... Except a place to store your stuff! The final thing you should do for your base is make some storage items and add a few little extras to top things off.



You can craft storage items at any of your Personal Crafting Tables, or at the Stonecutter's Slab in the faction base. There are a lot of options, but I personally recommend the Roughwood Armor Rack and the Roughwood Weapon Rack because they look cool. They do require 2 spaces of vertical room, and are fairly large, so if you're just trying to maximize your inventory slots within the smallest place possible, definitely go for the Roughwood Trunk. It has 42 inventory slots, and its material costs are relatively cheap! Plus, it's fairly small, so you can cram quite a few into your base. The picture to the right is the Roughwood Weapon Rack. The Armor Rack is a little wider than this.






(Roughwood Trunk)








No base is complete without a Stonefire Oven. Craftable at the Stoneworkers Slab in your faction base, these babies are 1000000x better than a campfire, and although most of the food requires Essences to craft, it crafts faster, and the food gives you buffs. Here's a tip if you're struggling with food: Get a bunch of raw meat (any kind), split them into multiple stacks of x1 and wait for them all to decay. Craft Salted Festerloin in the Stonefire Oven, and BOOM! Tons of food that instantly restores hunger (instead of overtime) without using essences. Now that your stomach is full, finish off your base by placing Wood Standing Torches (craft them at the Stoneworkers Slab in the faction base) to shine some light on your hard work.



(Wood Standing Torch -------------->)

Thanks for reading this guide! I hope it helped you create a great base or add onto an exisiting one. If you have any questions still, ask them in the comments and I'll try to respond as quickly as I can. One last PRO TIP before I finish the guide though:

• Place your base over water.
  
• Remove a foundation so the water is exposed.
  
• Build stairs down into the water.
  
• Easy water access in your base.