Protect Your Stuff
By: Provash Sarker
Tags: Game of Thrones, Game Design, Game Notes, Jcf, Games

I get comments on my videos all the time saying things like I got raided and they stole everything I have or I got ganged up on by P2W players and now I have nothing left. Guys! Stop it. No matter how powerful your enemy is, if you follow my guides, they will not be able to take a single thing from your base.

All right. Let’s go over the 10 ways to protect your stuff.

First, you have your vault in which you get 25 slots for items that can never even be seen by your enemy. Make sure that before the raid starts, you have all 25 of these slots filled with your best stuff. And don’t fill it with stuff that you’re going to need to defend your base in a raid because coming down and grabbing stuff out of your vault during a raid defeats the whole purpose of the vault. These 25 slots should be filled with your best stuff that you will not be using during the raid.

The second way to protect your stuff is the bank which is pretty much exactly like the vault except when you’re first starting off you only have one or two spaces and eventually that will grow to up to 30 spaces, but the concept is the same either way. Keep these slots filled with your best stuff during raid times again with the exception of things you need to defend your base.

So you already have at least 27 slots that can’t be raided, but an addition to that, any items that you put in your workbenches are also unraidable so don’t take things out of your workbenches until you need them and right before a raid, make sure to fill them even more so that both sides are keeping items safe. This adds up to a ton of items that cannot be raided. The engineering table is especially useful in this as it can hold iron, nails, copper, oil and tons of other things. Between just your two engineering tables, you can keep up to 10 slots of items safe and when you account for all of the workbenches, you can keep up to 65 slots of items safe.

So now we are up to 90+ slots of stuff that no one can take from you which I would argue is all you need to keep advancing in the game, but let’s keep going.

The fourth way to protect yourself is just to stick it in your backpack and log off the game. Even with the level one backpack, you can equip seven items and hold 15 more. As long as you don’t enter your base, those items can never be stolen from you.

So now we’re up to 115–153, But for those of you that that is still not enough, you can go and open Odin’s right before the raid, and transfer hundreds and hundreds of slots of items over into the chests of Odin’s for the duration of that 20 minute raid and then haul it all back over to your base after the raid is over.

Now some of you guys might be thinking, this guy is crazy. I don’t want to haul all of my stuff over to Odin’s every time I do a raid. That’s not a very fun way to play the game. And I would say, you’re right. I don’t actually recommend doing this because it’s not a very fun way to play the game, but I’m telling you it is an option so that you’ll stop complaining about losing your stuff. This is frostborn. It is a survival game with other real players that want your stuff and most of them don’t care whether or not you’re having a good time in the game. In fact, if they found out that you quit the game because of them, they would probably brag about it in the frostborn forums. If you don’t like that challenge, then there are a lot of single player versions of this game where you can go play with bots and pretend like you’re playing a survival game.

But if you want to rise to the challenge of frostborn, then you need to think like a survivor. So if you’re not strong enough to defend your stuff, then make sure to hide it. And if you have too much stuff to hide in your vault, bank, workbenches, and backpack, then you can take it to Odin’s for a couple raids while you were trying to figure out how to pair down your stuff which brings us to our next tip.

The sixth way to protect your resources is to use them. This may seem too simple, but a lot of people don’t use the resources they have before clicking the raid button. I have raided people and stolen stacks of planks and Stone from people with mostly level one walls and I think to myself. if you had used these planks and stone to make these into level two walls then I might not have even gotten this far into your base and I definitely wouldn’t be stealing these planks and Stone from your base because you would have used them to build those walls. So use your resources to build workbenches and upgrade your walls because not only does it help you advance in the game, but those resources you use can never be stolen from you.

This leads us do the 7th way to protect your stuff which is to build the maximum amount of chests and a base with the maximum amount of doors. I’ll get into the doors a little bit later, but the most important thing you can do is build the maximum amount of chests as soon as you can. Making level one chest are super cheap so you can easily build all 40 in the first day you’re playing if you want to. By building this many chests your enemy does not know where your stuff is. They still have to use a lock pick to open an empty chest so go right now and build the maximum amount of chests in your base. You will be amazed how much of your stuff you save by doing this.

The eighth way to protect your stuff is similar. Upgrade your chests and your walls and doors. Upgrading a chest might seem like it cost a lot of materials and you might want to wait until you have built your workbench, but the requirements to build a level two lockpick are far more expensive than the cost of upgrading your chest and again, the materials you use to upgrade your chest can never be stolen from you. and this difference is even more exaggerated when you upgrade a chests to big or massive chests.

The ninth way to protect your base is to buy an orb of protection which extends your shield by 24 hours. Using this is more of a convenience thing which I would definitely recommend if you have the money but it’s not really a long-term solution unless you are a very wealthy person. But even if you are a very wealthy person, I think it is much smarter just to follow the other tips that I’ve already shared in this video. Now if you want to break from the game, then use as many resources as you can, donate a bunch of stuff to Odin’s, participate in one last raid to get the 48-hour shield, fill your backpack and then log off the game. When your shield runs out in 48 hours, you will likely get matched and they might be able to get a few not that great items, but then after that shield runs its course and you’ve hit the 96 hour mark, your base will never get matched again allowing you to take as long of a break as you want without worrying about getting raided. I’ve done this several times now and I never lost any progress.

And then the 10th and final way to protect your base is to defend your base. Now I know some of you have had bad experiences with this and if you’re low level then I understand that sometimes you get out matched, but frostborn’s matchmaking system is pretty good and more importantly, it is important to realize that defenders have the advantage in frostborn. The ability to hide in your house to know where your enemy is but not have them know exactly where you are. And to be able to use your doors to initiate a fight when things are favorable but disengaged from that fight when they are not is an incredible advantage. So when you do finally advance in the game to have good gear, defending your base is the best place to use it. And then when you use your defender’s advantage to beat your enemy, you get to keep their stuff making you richer and richer.

So, those are the ten ways to protect your stuff in Frostborn. Now, some of you might be thinking, “Ugh, you’re telling me that if I want to have more than 115–153 slots of stuff, I have to move all my extra stuff every other day?!” And the answer is…yes. Yes, because right now you are weak and you can’t defend yourself. After you play for a little bit longer and get some decent gear, not even the best gear, just some decent gear, you will be able to use your defender’s advantage to defeat any family, no matter how pay-to-win they are. In fact, you will be able to kill them and take the stuff they paid for as your own.

Honestly, I think a lot of us have gotten so used to the single player versions of this game where everyone can hoard as much stuff as they want that we have forgotten that in multiplayer games that is a luxury of only the most powerful players. And even then, usually the underdog will eventually find a way to break in and get the raid of a lifetime. Instead of seeing it as a hassle, I would argue that it makes the game more interesting. It is precisely because you are playing with real players and not some bot that a developer programmed, that you don’t know what to expect. Every zone is a new zone in Frostborn with the chance of unexpected riches or unexpected disaster. Every raid is a new raid with new fears and new excitement. Frostborn does not grow old nearly as fast as the other games because the players make it fresh every time. And every item you have is precious because someone would gladly steal it from you if they could.

So this is the challenge of Frostborn. It is not a simple game that requires no strategy to succeed. Frostborn requires you to play smart, particularly if you are free-to-play, and if you do play smart and succeed, you will know that you earned it. It may be a challenge to survive, but when you complete it, the satisfaction will be oh so sweet. And then when you get really good, you will be able to do like many of the pro teams of this game and hoard vast amounts of resources and no one will be able to take it from you, because if they tried, you would just take them out and keep all of their stuff.

Well. That’s it guys. Hope that helps. If you think of anything that I missed, please let me know in a comment so that I can improve.

Alright guys, I’ll see you next time.