Ariella's Setting Up Your Homestead

Setting Out Your Camp and Building a Compound

• Step 1 - Make Camp

You may reposition your camp about 3-4 coords, up to 3 times.

• Step 2 - Build Your Compound (100 Boards + 200 Bricks) Don't forget you can Take materials from your camp!
  

You will not be able to expand your compound where your door is so face the direction you want your door to face.

• Step 3 - Build Your Crafting Bench by raising your Carpentry Skill.
  

Click on the upper left Skills icon. Make boards to raise the Carpentry Skill.

You'll need to build a Wood Plane (1 Slate Blade + 4 Slate) from Self/Projects/Carpentry.../Wood Plane.
Hold on, we need to also Self/Skills/Knap a Slate Blade. So find a shore and run to find more Slate. Slate can appear where the Mud icon lights up.

You need to click Build on the icon with all the arrows in the upper left.

Picking Wood from Trees. An explanation of Oasis is needed here.
An Oasis in this game can be 1 - 12 flora (trees, plants, thorns) in a group.
In the pic below there is an Oasis of 4 trees and several plants.
Each Oasis group has a chance of spawning an herb.
The pic below says the Bottle Tree will give you 4 Wood. But why do you get ?? Wood when you click Gather?

Plane ?? Boards to raise your Carpentry Skill each level.