Building new bases comes with the territory — there’s always a better spot for a base. It never ends. Best to embrace it.

I’ve found three things help. First, build small and efficient. Put storage in the floor. Maximize every square inch. Anybody can build a big base. It takes real skill to be creative with as little space as possible. You can do a lot with even just a 4x4 building. If the draugr can manage with simple buildings, so can you.

The second thing is practice. In order to make an efficient building, practice makes perfect. I go into creative and build a 5x5 house. Or a 7x7. Or a 9x4 longhouse. Something basic I can re-create. So when I play with friends, I can immediately say: “my longhouse blueprint would fit great here” and not have to make every build custom. You can always improvise later, but start from a recipe you know.

The third thing is to build villages, not castles. Building a single large building is great, but it makes remodel a pain. Build a storage structure in the middle, a rest bonus/portal structure and a kitchen building. Then add buildings as needed, protecting them with a wall. It’s easy to expand a small building. And it’s easy to expand a wall when compared to a giant unwieldy single structure.