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Base Building is a core game mechanic of DayZ Standalone.
Current Functionality
As of 1.0, players can construct bases or camps, ranging from simple loot stashes in underground stashes or barrels, to complex walled structures with Fences, Watchtowers, an electricity system and vehicles.
Objects such as tents or electricity system items can be placed using a ghost 'precision placement' model. This allows you to accurately place items in a specific location and rotation.
In addition to building a camp from scratch, players also have rudimentary barricading in the form of lockpicks. Just about any functioning door on any existing structure in Chernarus can be locked for the purpose of impeding another person's ability to enter that building. This is only temporary however, since melee weapons can be used to break through the locked door. Given its current limitations, most people choose to use this ability as a distraction for creating a surprise attack or to alert them when another player may be trying to enter the building that they are currently occupying.
Player camps can be constructed out of a small variety of building pieces currently in the game. These consist of tents, barrels, and base building pieces. You can find tents and barrels spawning naturally in the world, whereas you are required to hand-make pieces like walls and towers. Keep in mind that that construction of towers and fences can only be completed with planks, nails, wooden logs, and sheet metal, though the kits themselves have to be made out rope and short sticks.
Some of the items that can be used involve the following:
Advantages to base building
Bases will provide a fortress for both a player, and even a faction should the player let them in, as long as they are careful about who to let in, bases provide defence against wandering bandits and infected, and allow the player to store all manner of items ready for anything that comes their way, compared to nomadic survival where storage can be very limited.
If there are friendly survivors around in a server, bases may also become a trading hub for some if careful, allowing survivors to barter for any items one person needs for another.
Disadvantages to base building
Building a base is a long, difficult, and arduous process, and requires very specific tools to achieve, such as shovels/pickaxes, hammers, hatchets, and nails, depending on the server, some of these items may be difficult to find due to both raiding and widespread looting.
Bases, when found by rival survivors/factions, may also become known as a prime looting target due to possible items stored, and factions may set up elaborate raids to destroy and/or steal from the base.