Bases

Bases are private locations established and controlled by individual players. They provide a safe space to store loot and relax that cannot normally be accessed by anyone the owner did not invite.

Bases in FOnline 3 have come a long way and some of the old info floating around may no longer apply.

Most bases can be created anywhere using specialized items that can be either crafted, looted, or purchased.

Faction leaders can convert their private bases into faction bases, which allows them to be automatically shared with faction members; see player-driven factions for details.

Basic information

In FOnline 3, bases start in the form of a map item, or a craftable base creation kit, that can be used in any empty randomly generated map to transform it into a base. Once you've chosen the location and used the map, a construction site for the base is established to which you must then deliver materials to complete the construction process. If you're establishing a tier I base using a base creation kit, the resource collection phase is skipped and your base is instantly ready to use.

There are several ways to get your hands on an itemized base:

• New characters can get a free Folded Tent, which lets them set up a tier I "Tent" base, by completing the quest A Tent in the Wasteland.
• All tier I bases can be established using base creation kits that can be cheaply crafted once your character reaches level 24 provided your Crafting skill is above 50%, see the Tier I section below for details.
• Tier I, II, and III bases can be bought for 10,000, 25,000, and 50,000 local currency respectively from Construction Foreworkers in NCR, New Vault City, and San Francisco.
• Tier IV and V bases can be obtained as rewards for supporting the game.
• All base tiers can drop from the sources with a percentage value in the loot table's "base map" column.

Base map cost by tier Tier Image Cost I 10,000 currency II 25,000 currency III 50,000 currency IV random drop only V random drop only

Construction Foreworker in NCR Construction Foreworker in New Vault City Construction Foreworker in San Francisco

Construction Worker near the Bulletin Board that shows the resources you have gathered/still need

Once you have an itemized base, move to your desired location on the world map, enter it, and then immediately use the base map. This will either create your base or set up a construction site, depending on the item you used. If you used a map to create a construction site, you will need to gather enough resources to finish the construction. The resources can be dropped anywhere on the construction site. Each construction site has a construction worker NPC overseeing it, and a bulletin-board on an A-stand that tracks your progress. When everything is ready, talk to the construction worker to finalize the setup by naming your new base, but make sure that there aren't any valuable items on the ground first as everything on the map will be wiped!

Legacy premade bases

In the old days, bases were inseparably tied to the faction mechanic and could only be purchased by a group of players who wished to establish a faction. While this is no longer true, some remnants of the old system remain available to players who crave for a "blast from the past" experience.

Legacy premade bases don't require gathering resources for their construction; you simply pay a fee and get a ready-to-use base right away. The catch is that the selection of bases is very limited, they don't let you pick the spot where you want them placed (instead, they spawn in the general vicinity of where you bought them), and they do still require that you establish a faction at the moment of purchase.

There are three trapper NPCs that sell premade bases, mostly caves, for between 30K and 50K of local currency:

• Smiley in Klamath (Downtown, Buckner House)
• Hurl in Redding (Malamute Saloon)
• Earl in Junktown (Bar just south-east of the hospital building)

If you're looking for something truly exceptional, the Abandoned Bunker questline that lets you purchase a prebuilt Old Bunker base for 350,000 units of the faction currency that Necropolis uses is also still available. And it too will require a faction to purchase.

Available bases

This section contains a complete list of all the bases currently available to FOnline 3 players.

Tier I

Tier I bases have one parking spot and do not require a map: you can simply craft their base creation kits, which lets you skip the material gathering process. Their crafting requirements are listed below.

If you prefer to instead use a map you've found/purchased, the materials required to construct the bases are also listed in the table below.

Tip: New characters can get a free Folded Tent for completing the starter quest A Tent in the Wasteland.

Base	Image	Crafting recipe	Construction materials
Tent		Folded Tent Crafting 50%, Level 24, Workbench 5 x Brahmin Hide 1 x Rope	10 x Brahmin Hide 8 x Wood 3 x Flint 10 x Fibers
Cave		Hollowmaker Tools Crafting 50%, Level 24, Workbench 5 x Wood 1 x Shovel	10 x Junk 8 x Wood 3 x Rope 10 x Fibers
Ruins		Patch Kit Crafting 50%, Level 24, Workbench 5 x Metal Parts 1 x Lock	10 x Metal Parts 8 x Wood 3 x Gecko Pelt 10 x Junk
Workshop		Scrapshaper Kit Crafting 50%, Level 24, Workbench 5 x Junk 1 x Move Amplifier	10 x Junk 8 x Plastic Bottle 3 x Metal Parts 10 x Glass Bottle
Station		Trackshaper Tool Crafting 50%, Level 24, Workbench 5 x Alloys 1 x Wrench	10 x Metal Parts 8 x Flint 3 x Scorpion Tail 10 x Alloys

Tier II

Expand to see the full list of T2 bases (with pictures)

Name Required materials Safehouse 30 x Wood 24 x Metal Parts 9 x Alloys 30 x Junk Small Bunker 30 x Electronic Parts 24 x Metal Parts 9 x Alloys 30 x Junk Small Shelter 30 x Iron Ore 24 x Metal Parts 9 x Minerals 30 x Junk Steelveil Tunnel 30 x Alloys 24 x Metal Parts 9 x Wood 30 x Junk Verdant Hollow 30 x Wood 24 x Metal Parts 9 x Flint 30 x Junk

Tier III

Note: Construction Foreworkers sell two somewhat similar but ultimately different T3 bases under the same name:

• Cave HQ without tents outside and only one brahmin inside; called "Secret Cave" on the world map. It appears first on the list of T3 bases for sale. Marked as "v1" in the table below.
• Cave HQ with two tents outside, two cows inside, and no parking spots; appears as "Cave HQ" on the world map. Located at the bottom of the list of T3 bases for sale. Marked as "v2" in the table below.

Expand to see the full list of T3 bases (with pictures)

Name Required materials Basement 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Alloys 90 x Fibers Blades HQ 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x High Quality Minerals 90 x Fibers Camp HQ 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Chemical Component 90 x Fibers Cave HQ v1 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Flint 90 x Fibers Cave HQ v2 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Scorpion Tail 90 x Fibers Church 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Metal Parts 90 x Fibers Depot 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Iron Ore 90 x Fibers Gas Station 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x High Quality Iron Ore 90 x Fibers Hazmat Den 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Iron Ore 90 x Fibers Khans HQ 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Rope 90 x Fibers Library 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Big Book of Science 90 x Fibers Nuka-Cola Outpost 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Nuka-Cola 90 x Fibers Parking Lot 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Golden Gecko Pelt 90 x Fibers Scrapheap 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Minerals 90 x Fibers Small Cabin 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Brahmin Hide 90 x Fibers Storage 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Electronic Parts 90 x Fibers Temple 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Glass Bottle 90 x Fibers Trapper Camp 90 x Wood 72 x Junk 18 x Gecko Pelt 90 x Fibers

Tier IV

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Name Required materials Brotherhood of Steel Bunker 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Casino 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Cathedral 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Enclave Bunker 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts NCR Port 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Old Bunker 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Ruined Jail 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Trackside Nexus 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Vault 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts Vault City Outpost 270 x Wood 216 x Junk 44 x High Quality Alloys 270 x Good Metal Parts

Tier V

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Name Required materials Advanced Outpost 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Airport 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Brotherhood of Steel Outpost 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Cave Labs 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Enclave Depot 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Garrison 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Glacierwatch Base 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Hangars 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Homeland 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Large Church 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Military Base 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Military Depot 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts NCR Bunker 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Presidential Shelter 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Slavery Base 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Streets 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Underground Station 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts Underground Station MKII 810 x Wood 648 x Junk 122 x High Quality Alloys 810 x High Quality Electronic Parts

Designing your own base

The mapper tool, now in a much improved version 2.0, is available to all players. Everyone is welcome to design their own base and submit it. For more information, see this Discord message.

Base management

To access the base management menu, press Enter to toggle the message bar, type ~base, and hit Enter again to confirm.

The menu allows you to customize your base in several ways: you can add objects (lockers, decorations, and even an Advanced Workbench), ask the base to automatically populate (according to the rules you set) your containers with items that are currently on the ground, and enable other characters to access it. And if you decide that you don't need one of your bases anymore, there's also an option to destroy it.

Base access sharing

If you wish to grant access to one of your bases to another character, you can do so via map access objects.

A map access object can be either a stationary object that you built in your base and designated as such, or a map item that you created by copying the location of your base onto an Empty Map.

If you don't have any Empty Maps, you can craft one. The requirements are as follows: Advanced Workbench, level 50, Crafting 150%, 3 x Fibers, and 3 x High Quality Fibers.

To set up a stationary map access object:

1. Place 1 x Junk, Wood, or Metal Parts in your inventory.
2. Use the ~base command.
3. From the menu that appears, choose the [Build] option.
4. Select any object to build it.
5. Select "set as a map access object" from the list that appears once the object has been built...

...and you're done! Anyone that interacts with the object you just built will gain access to the base it's in. You can use the Science skill on the object to remove its ability to grant map access.

To copy the location of your base onto an Empty Map:

1. Set up a stationary map access object following the instructions above.
2. Place an Empty Map in your inventory.
3. Left-click and hold the map access object.
4. Choose the backpack icon from the drop-down menu that appears.
5. Left-click the Empty Map...

...and you're done! Any character that uses the map will gain access to your base, or bases (an Empty Map can store up to 10 locations).

WARNING: If a map access object gets blown up with explosives, its associated base will be deleted. It is highly recommended to disable map access by using the Science skill on the object as soon as it is no longer needed.

The above guide is also available in video form at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB51i8ESe6I.

Base customization

Every base you can see on the world map allows you to customize it by building objects: workbenches, containers, and decorations.

Each object you build "reserves" one point of your Engineering skill (e.g., if you have 150 points of Engineering, you can build up to 150 objects).

Whenever you create an object, you'll be given several options to choose from:

• [Can't walk on it], which will make the hex(es) underneath the object impassable.
• [Can't shoot through], which will turn the hex(es) underneath the object into aim blockers (note that those are also impassable).
• [Set it as map access object], which will make it so that interacting with the object will grant access to your base.
• [Set exit], which will make it so that interacting with the object will teleport you to the world map. Note that exit objects cannot be deleted with the Engineering skill; you need to mark them and use the ~removeobject command.
• [No more abilities], which will close the dialog window. Make sure that you've selected all the desired options before choosing this one because there's no going back.

Workbenches

There are three options related to workbenches:

• Building a regular Workbench, which costs 50 x Metal Parts.
• Building an Advanced Workbench at the cost of 30 x High Quality Alloys, 30 x High Quality Electronic Parts, and 30 x Fire Gecko Pelt.
• Removing all workbenches. This is a nuclear option that will delete every single workbench in the base.

Containers

Storing your items on the ground is fine in the early game, but as you acquire more and more loot, your base will slowly turn into a landfill. Containers can help alleviate that.

• Each container costs 1 x Wood, 1 x Junk, or 1 x Metal Parts to create.
• You can choose whether you want to allow the objects to be walked or shot through.
• The Engineering skill can be used to delete any unwanted/misplaced containers.

1. Fridge 2. Ice box (L) 3. Ice box (R) 4. Footlocker (L) 5. Footlocker (R) 6. Rusty Footlocker (L)

7. Rusty Footlocker (R) 8. Locker (L) 9. Locker (R) 10. Rusty Locker (L) 11. Rusty Locker (R) 12. Wooden Crate

13. Wooden Chest 14. Bookcase (L) 15. Bookcase (R) 16. Large Ammo Crate (L) 17. Large Ammo Crate (R) 18. Small Ammo Crate (L)

19. Small Ammo Crate (R) 20. Safe 21. Poor Box 22. Desk 23. Trash Bin 24. Wooden Box

25. Wardrobe 26. Box 27. Box 2 28. Box 3 29. Box 4

Decorations

• Each decoration costs 1 x Wood, 1 x Junk, or 1 x Metal Parts to create.
• You can choose whether you want to allow the objects to be walked/shot through.
• The Engineering skill can be used to delete any unwanted/misplaced decorations.

1. Long Planks 2. Long Planks 2 3. Pole 4. Pole 2 5. Tree 6. Well 7. Wooden Support 8. Wooden Support 2 9. Wooden Support 3

10. Wooden Support 4 11. Chair 12. Chair 2 13. Chair 3 14. Chair 4 15. Chair 5 16. Chair 6 17. Chair 7 18. Chair 8

19. Chair 9 20. Stone Bench 21. Tombstone 22. Stone Kitchen 23. Small Wooden Table 24. Restaurant Table 25. Big Table 26. Army Bed 27. Tribal Bed

28. Tribal Bed 2 29. Tribal Bed 3 30. Tribal Bed 4 31. Lamp 32. Street Lamp 33. Campfire 34. Vault Camp 35. Computer 36. Computer 2

37. Screen 38. Console 39. Console 2 40. Camera 41. Mat 42. Mat 2 43. Junk 44. Trash Bin 45. Tire

• Weapons dummy and armor dummy are currently disabled.

Loot sorting automation

The Easy Base Sorting system (EBS) lets you create container-specific rules for automatic loot distribution, and then, with the press of a button, move items from the ground into containers set up with those rules.

To access EBS, use the ~base command, wait for a dialog window to appear, then click [Login] → [Password] → [EBS].

This will present you with five options. Here's what they do:

• [Information] displays some basic information about the system;
• [Edit Container] allows you to edit containers (one at a time);
• [Wipe.exe] distributes all of the items currently on the ground to their respective containers according to the rules you've set. If there is more than one container that an item could go into, the container with the lowest ID (the oldest one) will be used.
• [Back] takes you to the previous menu.
• [Exit] closes the dialog window.

If you wish to edit a container, you must first select it by marking the hex, or one of the hexes, that the container occupies. If the container has either the "can't be walked on" or "can't be shot through" property enabled, the correct hex to mark will display an X in the middle when you try to step on it. To mark a hex, press and hold the left alt key, left-click the hex you wish to mark, and then select one of the commands (Attack, Defend, or Move) from the menu that appears.

Selecting the [Edit Container] option allows you to perform several operations on the currently selected container: you can (re)name it, set custom rules for it, or reset it and start over.

A marked and labeled box

[Rename container] lets you set a custom name for the marked container that will be displayed when you mouse over it. If you don't name the container, it will instead display the custom rules that were applied to it as its label. To undo the renaming, simply use the "Rename container" option again without providing a new name. Note that resetting the container will not clear its custom label.

[Set Global Rule] allows you to select a category of items, such as drugs or ammo, that will be placed in the container. Note that rare items (such as the Water Chip) are separate from rare parts (such as Unique Plasma Parts), and that body armor is separate from helmets.

[Set Rule 1], [Set Rule 2], [Set Rule 3], [Set Rule 4], and [Set Rule 5] allow you to assign a specific item (rather than a group of items) to the container. The item you wish to assign to the container must be in your active hand slot for this to work.

[Set Tier] allows you to relegate all items of a specific tier to the container.

[Set Minimum Rank] allows you to exclude items based on the sum of their armor/weapon perk ranks. The value has to be between 1 and 56. Keep in mind that rank F = 1, rank E = 2, rank D = 3, rank C = 4, rank B = 5, rank A = 6, rank S = 7, and rank S+ = 8.

[Reset Container] removes all of the rules from the container. The custom name you gave it will remain unchanged.

Once you're done setting up the containers, drop your loot on the ground and execute [Wipe.exe] to distribute the items to their assigned containers.

Note: Since vehicle trunks are containers, it is possible to modify them using the EBS as well. To find the correct hex to mark, simply have your character access the trunk and they will position themselves on an adjacent hex, facing the trunk's location.

The trunks that can be tricky to find are in the table below:

Vehicle trunks

Vehicle Trunk location Cockroach Scout Hummer Police Car Corvega

Base security

• To avoid having your base raided, make sure you do not have any unwanted followers before you enter.
• Doors and containers inside a base can be secured using Fingerlocks, which also protects those objects from accidental deletion.
• Consider putting some defenses (such as mercs) around the perimeter in case a Mad Scientist pays you a visit.
• Try not to die while carrying an Empty Map that contains the coordinates of your base(s).
• Placing a juicy-looking exit object right next to the entrance might trick any possible invaders into kicking themselves out.

World map color

Bases' world map icons change color as follows:

• There is a player inside = pink
• There is a companion inside = yellow
• There is a car inside = cyan
• There is a car and a companion inside = orange
• There is a car and a player inside = purple
• There is a companion and a player inside = blue
• There is a companion and a player and a car inside = black
• The base is empty = gray