Base building in Enshrouded isn't just about stacking walls and hoping the Shroud stays outside. Pick the wrong patch of dirt and you'll spend the next twenty hours hauling resources uphill. Pick the right one and the game practically plays itself.
PC Gamer has put together a rundown of its favourite spots to settle, split between two very different fantasies: the postcard base and the fortress. The Springlands gets the nod for the former — rolling green, decent sightlines, and enough open ground to actually plan a layout instead of wedging a workshop into a crevice. The Veilwater Basin covers the other end of the spectrum, with terrain that does more of your defensive work for you.
The logic is the same one that governs every survival-crafting game worth its salt: elevation is free security, water is free logistics, and a pretty horizon is worth more than a slightly shorter walk to the iron vein. Enshrouded's building tools are generous enough that players have already turned single-player camps into full villages, so where you drop that first altar shapes everything that follows.
Worth remembering that "best" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. A cliffside perch with a sunset view is lovely until you need to carry a chest full of ore up it. The guide's picks lean toward spots that balance the two — good light, defensible ground, and no long commute to whatever you'll be farming for the next hundred hours.
If you're starting fresh, or finally relocating that ugly starter shack you built in a panic on day one, it's a solid shortlist.