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Build a base by a landmark straight away

While you won’t need to go to the trouble of stacking grass planks for walls early on, setting up simple utilities like the Lean-To, Workbench, and Roasting Spit can take the stress away from attempting to survive your first night in the wild. They won’t protect you from the spiders stalking the garden at night, but you can sleep your way to the next morning and cook up some breakfast.

To bypass the need for actual shelter, setting up base by the Mysterious Machine is a good starting point.  You can’t build inside it, but place your workbench and Lean-To just outside its two little entrance holes and you’ve got yourself a spacious shanty to sprint into when something too big to handle comes crawling over. You can actually get in and out through the top, too. Any landmark (like a can or box) will do, but the Mysterious Machine is a great first place to call home.Once you’re all set up, remember to interact with your Lean-To. You might not be able to sleep right there and then, but you use the Lean-To to set your spawn point. This way you’re sent straight back to familiar ground each and every time you kick the bucket.