{"id":21686,"date":"2026-06-08T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/conan-exiles-base-building-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:52:14","slug":"conan-exiles-base-building-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/conan-exiles-base-building-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan Exiles Base Building Guide: Tiers, Stations &#038; Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong base is your survival and your statement in Conan Exiles \u2014 a place to craft, store loot, and withstand the Purge and other players. This guide covers base building in Conan Exiles.<\/p>\n<h2>The building tiers<\/h2>\n<p>Building pieces come in three strength tiers \u2014 don&#8217;t waste effort on the weak ones for your real base:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T1 Sandstone<\/strong> \u2014 cheapest and weakest. Fine for a temporary starter shelter only.<\/li>\n<li><strong>T2 Stonebrick \/ Insulated Wood<\/strong> \u2014 moderate strength, decent mid-game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>T3 Reinforced Stone \/ Black Ice<\/strong> \u2014 the strongest. This is what you build your permanent, raid-resistant base from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Save your serious building effort for <strong>T3<\/strong> \u2014 T1\/T2 walls are easily destroyed.<\/p>\n<h2>The essentials<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Foundations first<\/strong> \u2014 everything needs support; lay foundations, then walls, ceilings and a roof.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A bed\/bedroll<\/strong> for your respawn point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crafting stations<\/strong> \u2014 campfire, furnace, blacksmith&#8217;s bench, armorer&#8217;s bench, and a Wheel of Pain for thralls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage<\/strong> \u2014 chests and vaults to keep your loot safe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Where to build<\/h2>\n<p>Pick a spot with resources nearby (stone, wood, iron), defensible terrain, and access to water \u2014 but remember the <strong>Purge<\/strong> difficulty scales with location, so a remote, hard-to-reach base is safer. Cliffs and elevation help against both NPCs and players. Plan your material costs with our free <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/tools\/conan-exiles\/building-calculator\">building calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Defend it<\/h2>\n<p>Place <strong>fighter thralls<\/strong> and archers to guard your base (see our <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/conan-exiles-how-to-capture-thralls\/\">thralls guide<\/a>), and build in layers so a single breach doesn&#8217;t expose everything. The <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/conan-exiles-the-purge-guide\/\">Purge<\/a> will test your walls.<\/p>\n<h2>Build freely on your own server<\/h2>\n<p>On your own <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/conan-exiles-server-hosting\">Conan Exiles server<\/a> you control build limits, decay and raid settings \u2014 so the base you build with friends actually lasts. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/xgamingserver.com\/blog\/conan-exiles-building-decay-guide\/\">building decay guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<h3>What is the strongest building material in Conan Exiles?<\/h3>\n<p>T3 \u2014 Reinforced Stone and Black Ice. Build your permanent base from T3; T1 Sandstone and T2 are easily destroyed.<\/p>\n<h3>Where should you build a base in Conan Exiles?<\/h3>\n<p>Near resources and water, on defensible terrain. Remote, hard-to-reach spots are safer since Purge difficulty scales with location.<\/p>\n<h3>How do you defend a base in Conan Exiles?<\/h3>\n<p>Place fighter thralls and archers, build in layers with strong T3 walls, and prepare for the Purge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conan Exiles base building guide \u2014 the T1-T3 material tiers, essentials, where to build, and defending against the Purge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conan-exiles-server-docs"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conan Exiles Base Building Guide: Tiers, Stations &amp; 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