I'm glad you liked it. Truth be told, when I first used this base in my original playthrough, I didn't even look at the stills and wound up treating it like any other base. Too bad there aren't more bases like this one that have some kind of theme to them that sets them apart from other more ordinary bases.
@@GitGudFox I agree. I played Warcraft also and found myself going to the auction house more then grinding quests. Had my own banker character. A gnome with a tuxedo and a monocle! (Spelling) lol
Yeah that's one of the more fascinating things I find. I also play Warframe, and I often have more fun looking for stuff to sell rather than strictly looking for powerful things.
Absolutely hilarious bro the way you speak is almost identical to the way I approach things, probably why I found it so GD entertaining. so to sum up it was Entertaining, Informative and lucrative. pretty much the necessity for a BA SOD2 video and just the base I was looking for. almost had to change my shorts a couple times while watching, this is a good and a bad thing but mostly good. then the major bonus to hear you like me were an EQ fanatic from way back (Still login from time to time to reminisce). Keep up the good work brah!.
This is probably the most fun base I've claimed so far due to how interactive it is compared to other bases. That doesn't mean it is strictly the BEST base, but it is certainly a fun one to operate out of. There's only 1 base left in Meagher Valley... and that is the titanic 8-man base, Whitney Field. Will this final home base be the capstone of the Meagher Valley, or will it be just be a titanic let down?
Great video! I'm currently using this base and the Zombies do jump over the low brick wall in front of the two parking spots. I have also seen them jump over the tall chain link fence.
I have footage of them hopping the brick fence, but I had to make cuts to details about the base to prevent this episode from becoming excessively long. I think this might be the best of the 6-man bases unless you can't utilize the 2 crafting stills. I'll have to see how the Drucker County 6-mans turn out.
This is an amazing Influence maker, but there is one flaw in the video. Never buy the rucksacks of food. If you buy them from a trader at 175 each (or even later on I saw an enclave that had one for 125) it is a loss instead of a profit. It takes 3 rucksacks to make 4 beer. Even at 125 a pop that is 375 to buy 3 food rucksacks and only get 136 influence worth of beer from it. Using excess food that is found or produced is fine as it costs you nothing and does make a pretty healthy profit. Anyways man, I love all your content for SoD 2. Super informative and super fun to watch!
You will profit at the price of 125 (allied sale) as it flips the resource into 136 though it isn't a massive profit. The real flaw of this video is that it is obsoleted by the "strong painkillers" method which is the best flip in the game for influence right now. I demonstrate it in my latest playthroughs of SoD2. Return to SoD2 and SoD2 Juggernaut Edition.
This was/is my fave base on the game. I want to check out more bases but man did I love it here and I kinda sorta want to go back. I'm a big "base builder" type so I do extra measures just for fun so I boarded up literally every climb area and doors except the front entrance. So all the zombies came in up front where the sniper tower was and it was shooting ducks. What a great base
I picked up a person with bartending skill. It really enhances this base. Serving drinks in the tasting lounge gets a 50 percent boost. The biggest boost comes from brewing craft beer. You get the typical 4 pack but you also brew a Growlers of Brandywine which sells for 102 influence a piece.
I've found that if I have a survivor with the Bartending 5th skill I also craft 1 Growler of Barlywine every time I make beer. It has extraordinary trade value. Making a lot more influence for the exact same food.
The comment I have been looking all over for. My last play thru I was getting these barley wines. Started a new playthru and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do that again.. Thanks !!!
I usually used the police station, until Fox pointed out in his ranking video that it really doesn’t do much. I always passed this one over because I just didn’t like the sprawling layout. So I happened upon this video and decided to give this, plus GGF’s craft beer brew-n-sell technique out. I’m now having to call in supply drops and vehicles to stop my Influence from hitting the cap. It’s amazing how quickly you’ll get filthy rich if you put in the work and risk the noise. Another tip... you can also just keep cranking out gas, then convert it into gas cans. If you do a good bit of driving and like an eternal game (ie constantly moving maps) that will set you up nice for a long, long time
Another thing you can do is create ethanol, use a pill press in your infirmary, and have a guy with knowledge of medicine to get the level 3 infirmary which lets you make strong painkillers. Those are worth a ton, and the pill press makes them extremely cheap to make.
Very helpful Fox, thank you. I just purchased this base today. I need to figure out how to get my facilities together, and which ones make the most sense to have. I want it to work for me as a intermediate base.
If you somehow get a bar tending survivor, you can double your influence gains. I think the Alcoholic enclave works as well - you just need to have “Knowledge of Alcoholic Beverages”. It pretty much gives you an extra beverage that has 100 influence every time you brew beer, so not only can you sell bear, but you can sell this extra beverage as well.
Thanks to you video I am trying this out and loving it. Also, to your point why doesn't SOD2 have more unique bases with a sub story narrative like this? I love how you even get a brewers handook as soon as you take it over. I hope when Undead Labs does SOD 3 they have more bases like this. Thanks for a great vid!
When you said you don’t have to do anything that is cap why? Because he has a press the buttons and pay influence and drive the car just to get a supply drop
QUESTION: what happens after you make more beer after you dry out all the allies from their money? Or is that just essentially the max experience you'll get from doing that process? Or maybe just wait for/request a new enclave?
Your allies get another 500 influence per day, and the more allies you generate, the more instances of 500 influence per day you can obtain. You can also sell to the periodic wandering merchants and the more exotic mysterious merchants who come with 1500 influence. You can also call in merchants with the Trade Depot (though this costs influence to do). If you need more allies, there's a radio command to find more allies. It's bundled with the "find resources" radio command.
I started Squelones Brewing Company with a generator preloaded in the top small outdoor slot, but no cooperative. Removed it for a watchtower effectively removing nearly double threat with two swings. My threat was hi, genny is loud, what is 1 more can of fuel for a power plant without the sound? i'll take it. I can't have too much sound there if I plan on using those still slots effectively. My builder with munitions is a shh librarian for -1 zombie threat but is a 'Complainer' (-5 morale, starts fights with others, easily frustrated) I have to find another builder I can't carry that to a new map, she's a total buzz kill lol
If you plan on going this route, get someone with Bartending skill. Grants Cooking plus makes 1xBarleywine with each batch which more then doubles your influence gain(Barleywine sells for ~100 influence/ea and 3xBeer sells for 78).
@@GitGudFox The whiskey has a "Extraordinary Trade Value" whereas the Beer only has a "High Trade Value". My figures are based from selling to resource traders not allied enclaves, which is why it is lower. Just switched maps so have to see once I get enclaves settled.
The way you know that the beer has a higher value than the whiskey is because the beer is unique to Squelones' Brewery. All ordinary stills can make whiskey but only Squelones can make craft beer.
@@GitGudFox I think we are getting things mixed up. imgur.com/a/EEYWbsO When having "Knowledge of Alcoholic Beverages" you gain +1 unique trade item. So when making Craft Beer you get 4 Craft Beer and 1 Barleywine per still. For Whiskey you get Bourbon, for the Brewery you get Barleywine when making Craft Beer. So per still you gain 238 influence(136 for 4 Craft Beer and 102 for 1 Barleywine), or 102 for beer and 306 Barleywine per stack(luckily barleywine does stack in 3 even when on character). While I haven't checked whiskey, but my assumption is that the bonus trade item is of higher value.
I've played this map several times now and I always settle on the Squelones Brewing Company base. I cannot figure out why on some playthroughs, when I brew the Craft Beer, it also brews Barley Wine as a bonus. This happens every time I brew (and on both stills), but only on certain playthroughs. Is this glitched? I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the Brewmaster's Notebook. Has anyone else noticed this?
Why didn’t you keep the Keg Cooperage facility for building all of the other slots and then remove it at the end and build the last one so that you could ultimately save time?
How hard was it to get all of those allies? Takes a lot of time to keep them happy doesn’t it? Once they are allied do they just remain if you don’t recruit them or do you need to keep doing things for them?
It's easier now than it was before. When they become allies, they ask for help less frequently. You have to help them every time they become an ally, or they will leave on the first objective you fail.
I noticed something odd about your Outposts. You have an outpost just outside that provides beds, but for me that's a fire department, and provides fuel. Yet I saw no fuel Outposts on your outpost list. Are buildings randomised, or is the pc and Xbox maps different?
They shouldn't be. Buildings should always give the same resource depending on what type of building they are. It could be a building that is close by but is not the fire department because I never use the fire department as an outpost.
One biggest bad thing about this base for me is; I got addicted to it and it makes me don't want to stay on the other base. Back then if I don't get to start in the Valley I'll just rush influence to change a map so I can plop myself down at Brewing Company again.
@@GitGudFox yeah i did some more research but I decided on the camp as my base but I have two wait 2 Damn hours for a trader to leave😭 I'm tryna get that crazy unlimited power ability you have
What do you need the power for? If you just need it for a single facility, you can just use the power generator mod to get that 1 facility up and running. Otherwise, it just depends on what resources you have available. If you have a ton of influence, move into a base that has a built-in generator or claim a power outpost. If you don't have much influence, build your own generator in one of your small facilities.
You mean the place where you put the rucksacks of supplies? It's in the building with the storagge locker and the command center. They all look similar to one another and are packed together like cubicles.
BerialPhantom if you have the Alcoholic enclave as allies (you complete their goal of building a still) you get the “Knowledge of Alcoholic Beverages” which makes you get all of your beer (all 4 lots of it) plus an extra item that’s worth 100 influence. Pretty much it means you always profit.
Revisiting this. This is the video that I would want UL devs to see the most. The synergy of this base with the Trader path and Builder Boon allows for the highest degree of optimization in the game. It is an example of how SOD2 has the potential to deliver unique and highly entertaining emergent gameplay. Unfortunately, it really is the only such synergy of Leadership paths, Boons, and Bases in the game. It allows for a degree of optimization that is so far ahead of anything else in SOD2 that it almost feels like a different game. It makes the combination of Trader path, Builder Boon, and this base seem vastly over powered. But I really don't see it as overpowered so much as I see any other combination of Leader Path, Boon, and Base as under powered.
It's 125 influence to buy food rucks from an Allied Trader (they give you a discount). It's 175 influence to buy food from a non-allied trader (default price). The still spits out 4 packs of beer at a time, and each beer is worth 34, so it spits out 136 influence. That said there will be spillover food from each rucksack giving between 4-6 food, so some of the food will roll over into the next batch of beer. It's only "pure profit" if you dig it up yourself, but the 75 influence call-ins are certainly the best result. The trade post call-ins also have a fairly long cooldown of 40 mins, so you'll still have to drum up food from additional sources. I think the main value here is burning excess food that you get from just helping random survivors or looting combined with any food surplus from farms. It means you could just ask for food every time a quest gives you the option and multiply your profit because a food rucksack sells for 60 influence.
Also the call-ins from the Brewmaster enclave also comes with a luxury item than can be worth between 34 and 102 influence, so sometimes the food call-in literally pays itself off and then some. It also can outrun the speed of the trader as the trader has 3 rucksacks every 40 mins while the call-in is 1 rucksack every 9 mins.
Oh I think you just made me want to move from the police station to here. But I have 9 ppl in my Community. Would that be a bad idea? And your base videos are very useful and helpful thank you :) I’m new to the game
I know I am late to the party here, but if you get a character with the Bartender fifth skill it increases your profits. Bartender not only gives you Knowledge of Cooking, but also Knowledge of Alcohol. Every time you brew craft beer you get an additional unique beer in the process. I can't remember the name off the top of my head though.
You probably have characters that don't get along well and have negative morale traits. If you go to the base menu, you can look at a full report of your community's status. One of the options is to look at the morale situation. That'll give you an idea of what's causing the losses in morale. You may need to kick people out if they're just too bothersome. You can also build morale specialized facilities like the lounge, the red talon officer's quarters, and the kitchen (if you have a cook).
What if You used Mazarra to grow mass amounts of food, filled the extra storage, filled your vans with them, then moved to the brewing company and slowly turned it all into booze
Hmm, that'd take a long time. You only get the food once a day. You'd get food much faster just by going out into the world and searching for food rucksacks.
@@GitGudFox i did it all simultaneously, growing the food while stockpiling what i scavenged with two vans; i believe i also used 2 food outposts and had an allied enclave gifting me another 1/day i could also call an emergency drop from I had 100 food within 5 hours this way on dread (also using 2 trucks and a desperado to store the food after moving to prevent decay since the bases are easily within walking distance), but jesus it took me ages to trade it all away, id much rather do bulk plague cures with the pathologist's reduced cost and a med farm. Still, it is a neat idea, but it takes a lot of time dedication to make worth it.
It's even worse for me idk how but because I'm buddies with the brewmasters I get a special beer with every batch of craft beer I brew. And they're worth 3 times as much as the regular craft beers.
Beds seem important because we use them in our daily lives... but they wind up having very little mechanical effect in the game. Missing a bed? You just lose -7 morale per missing bed which is very, very little.
FYI cooperage is pronounced like the name Cooper, not co-op. Cooper is an archaic name for a barrel maker, a cooperage is a place where barrels are made. So a keg cooperage is a place where barrel kegs are made. The more you know...
It seems I've officially hit a wall. I have ammo, but no guns. I still have two plague hearts to take out, one of which is amongst four infested houses that in close proximity. My facilities keep breaking down due to a lack of materials. I lost water and power due to a lack of fuel, which is due to the water tower and power substation outposts. I have two farms, a garden and a command center that I'm unable to upgrade. The only remote positive in this scenario is that I still have a car...which needs to be repaired, and I think I only have one toolkit left. It's weird. I didn't have anywhere near this much difficulty maintaining my base and community in the original, but in the sequel, just when I think I'm on the road to recovery, I hit another wall. It's a neverending cycle. I lose my resources faster than I can gather them and the members of my community become frustrated or threaten to leave within minutes of each other. I'm at the point where I want to throw up my hands and say "fuck it." I don't know how you managed to get yourself to the point of self-sufficiency, but good on you.
Well, it means you have to trim back until you're self sustaining then expand. You can build a staging area to negate daily material upkeep. Make outposts to reduce resource losses. When you get some extra materials, build a trade depot and use your influence to buy rucksacks. Whenever you can't keep up with a resource, sometimes you have to cut back. For example, if you can't keep up with food, then it means you might have to start kicking people out until you can keep up.
@@GitGudFox Which facilities should I get rid of? I certainly can't get rid of the infirmary or workshop. If only I had the means to upgrade...anything. I'd probably be able to get myself situated. And I don't have enough to deal with all the zombies. I can't go ten minutes without someone threatening to leave. I was able to get a food and meds rucksack. I just radioed for fuel and materials, but they're really far out, and I have no car to speak of because they either ran out of gas far away from my base or got destroyed. One big question I have for you is this--how much grinding did you have to do to get to the point that you are in your videos?
I can fully stock a base in 2-3 hours from a brand new playthrough. When you use the trade depot to call for traders, they should come to your base directly. You shouldn't have to go out and look for them though sometimes they take time to get to your base. Well, you're not going to get much done without a car, so getting a new vehicle repaired and refueled should be your first goal. You also need to put a lot of effort into not ruining your vehicles especially if you don't have a back up. That means going out of your way to not run zombies over and going out of your way to drive safely even if it takes longer.
@@GitGudFox I'm aware that I need a car. That goes without saying. I could be careful to the point of walking on eggshells, but something stupid such as running into a horde of pop-in walkers could happen, and that happens way too much. There was one time where I lost a car because I nicked a juggernaut attempting to drive around it. I think either the rear bumper hit it or vice versa. It was so silly. Right now, I'm on the roof of a trailer trying to decide if I should attempt to take out a plague heart at this nail salon to boost one of the survivors' morale. I have some explosives, a sword and a few molotov cocktails. The reason I'm contemplating so hard is that I have very low stamina due to hunger and lack of rest. The thing that makes it odd is that it was full when I switched to her, but the sun hadn't risen yet, if that even has any effect on it.
Drive at 50% to 75% speed to avoid pop-ins. That might sound annoying, but until you have regular access to repair kits to keep in your trunk and an alternative vehicle to use, then that's what you should do.
You don't need any beds. They're just -7 morale per person missing a bed. The game makes beds seem important, but they can be ignored. If you want beds, you can keep maxing out enclaves until you get +beds from them.
@@GitGudFox Thanks, bro. I'm new to this, so your guide might be too advanced for my dumb ass lol. I keep destroying enclaves to get shit characters that I kick out
That's a good idea. Recruit enclaves and shut them down if their allied bonus is bad. After you flip enough enclaves, you'll be left with all good bonuses.
Dude, I laughed my ass off with this one! I have a new outlook on this base. Outstanding!
I'm glad you liked it. Truth be told, when I first used this base in my original playthrough, I didn't even look at the stills and wound up treating it like any other base. Too bad there aren't more bases like this one that have some kind of theme to them that sets them apart from other more ordinary bases.
@@GitGudFox I agree. I played Warcraft also and found myself going to the auction house more then grinding quests. Had my own banker character. A gnome with a tuxedo and a monocle! (Spelling) lol
Yeah that's one of the more fascinating things I find. I also play Warframe, and I often have more fun looking for stuff to sell rather than strictly looking for powerful things.
Absolutely hilarious bro the way you speak is almost identical to the way I approach things, probably why I found it so GD entertaining. so to sum up it was Entertaining, Informative and lucrative. pretty much the necessity for a BA SOD2 video and just the base I was looking for. almost had to change my shorts a couple times while watching, this is a good and a bad thing but mostly good. then the major bonus to hear you like me were an EQ fanatic from way back (Still login from time to time to reminisce). Keep up the good work brah!.
Favorite base of all time.. this is the base I always fall back too. I like farmed about 250 beers 4 packs of beer
Yeah, I've been planning on heading back to it. I've been spending a lot of influence on those retraining manuals, and now I'm broke.
This is probably the most fun base I've claimed so far due to how interactive it is compared to other bases. That doesn't mean it is strictly the BEST base, but it is certainly a fun one to operate out of. There's only 1 base left in Meagher Valley... and that is the titanic 8-man base, Whitney Field. Will this final home base be the capstone of the Meagher Valley, or will it be just be a titanic let down?
Seriously man, hope all is well Git Gud Fox... please make more content for this game
Hey, can you tell me what hammer your dude is using at 2:05?
I don’t like Whitney fields because of base management
@@justinamerican8200 Cleo warhammer, you need to play daybreak to get it
you deserve so much more subs,best of luck to you!
Thanks a lot! I'm glad my practice is paying off. Videos are worthless without an audience to view them.
Great video! I'm currently using this base and the Zombies do jump over the low brick wall in front of the two parking spots. I have also seen them jump over the tall chain link fence.
I have footage of them hopping the brick fence, but I had to make cuts to details about the base to prevent this episode from becoming excessively long. I think this might be the best of the 6-man bases unless you can't utilize the 2 crafting stills. I'll have to see how the Drucker County 6-mans turn out.
This is an amazing Influence maker, but there is one flaw in the video. Never buy the rucksacks of food. If you buy them from a trader at 175 each (or even later on I saw an enclave that had one for 125) it is a loss instead of a profit. It takes 3 rucksacks to make 4 beer. Even at 125 a pop that is 375 to buy 3 food rucksacks and only get 136 influence worth of beer from it. Using excess food that is found or produced is fine as it costs you nothing and does make a pretty healthy profit. Anyways man, I love all your content for SoD 2. Super informative and super fun to watch!
You will profit at the price of 125 (allied sale) as it flips the resource into 136 though it isn't a massive profit. The real flaw of this video is that it is obsoleted by the "strong painkillers" method which is the best flip in the game for influence right now.
I demonstrate it in my latest playthroughs of SoD2. Return to SoD2 and SoD2 Juggernaut Edition.
This was/is my fave base on the game. I want to check out more bases but man did I love it here and I kinda sorta want to go back. I'm a big "base builder" type so I do extra measures just for fun so I boarded up literally every climb area and doors except the front entrance. So all the zombies came in up front where the sniper tower was and it was shooting ducks. What a great base
It's one of my favorite bases for sure. I think only the container fort and possibly whitney field can compete.
I love this base, in fact it's my second favourite base in the game. First will always be knights family drive in ;)
This is one of the most useful bases in the game especially if you can mass produce strong painkillers.
I've been gunning for this base from the start... Gonna try and swap the Trade Depot for a Solar Array (I don't have Amenities yet)
If you have the outpost for it, grab a power plant. The trade depot can cover the fuel costs.
I picked up a person with bartending skill. It really enhances this base. Serving drinks in the tasting lounge gets a 50 percent boost. The biggest boost comes from brewing craft beer. You get the typical 4 pack but you also brew a Growlers of Brandywine which sells for 102 influence a piece.
Yeah, that improves this base quite a bit.
I've found that if I have a survivor with the Bartending 5th skill I also craft 1 Growler of Barlywine every time I make beer. It has extraordinary trade value. Making a lot more influence for the exact same food.
The comment I have been looking all over for. My last play thru I was getting these barley wines. Started a new playthru and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do that again.. Thanks !!!
@@boscodogable Happy my observation could be of help. It really does make a lot more influence this way.
I usually used the police station, until Fox pointed out in his ranking video that it really doesn’t do much. I always passed this one over because I just didn’t like the sprawling layout.
So I happened upon this video and decided to give this, plus GGF’s craft beer brew-n-sell technique out.
I’m now having to call in supply drops and vehicles to stop my Influence from hitting the cap. It’s amazing how quickly you’ll get filthy rich if you put in the work and risk the noise.
Another tip... you can also just keep cranking out gas, then convert it into gas cans. If you do a good bit of driving and like an eternal game (ie constantly moving maps) that will set you up nice for a long, long time
Another thing you can do is create ethanol, use a pill press in your infirmary, and have a guy with knowledge of medicine to get the level 3 infirmary which lets you make strong painkillers.
Those are worth a ton, and the pill press makes them extremely cheap to make.
This tactic works even in 2021 , thanks fox , I'm rich even on Dread
Very helpful Fox, thank you. I just purchased this base today. I need to figure out how to get my facilities together, and which ones make the most sense to have. I want it to work for me as a intermediate base.
It's a pretty good base. You can do a decent bit with it.
Love this video. I’ve been trying to figure out the advantage of having this base with all the unique slots. Subscribed and keep them coming!
It's one of my favorite bases.
If you somehow get a bar tending survivor, you can double your influence gains. I think the Alcoholic enclave works as well - you just need to have “Knowledge of Alcoholic Beverages”. It pretty much gives you an extra beverage that has 100 influence every time you brew beer, so not only can you sell bear, but you can sell this extra beverage as well.
I would like to see more bases like this
Never thought to use my outposts as beds! I'll be doing that on my current play through on this map
It's an older strategy of mine. These days I don't even make beds at all.
I just got this base yesterday. I made the right choice.
It's probably my favorite base in the game.
Thanks to you video I am trying this out and loving it. Also, to your point why doesn't SOD2 have more unique bases with a sub story narrative like this? I love how you even get a brewers handook as soon as you take it over. I hope when Undead Labs does SOD 3 they have more bases like this. Thanks for a great vid!
Love this base but only if they fix the glitch with the zombies ghosting through parked cars that I use to block the holes in it.
Id love to have a build here but my only high level medic is a former alcoholic, giving a 50% morale drop for stills etc
Thanks so much for the guide, I will definetly try this out!
I love this base because, in the real world, I am a Brewer. I saw the base on pkaythrough and HAD to have it.
Just your luck! It's also one of the better bases.
Thank you. I look forward to your future coverage of this game and others.
This is one of my favorite bases right here!
Iv always like that base but I can see how its going to be even better on my next Nightmare mode playthrough.
It's one of my favorite bases too.
Thank you was looking for the place
Do you have any videos on how to provide constant water and power to your base?
Beat the game with the builder leader. Unlocking the builder's legacy provides constant power and water.
Git Gud Fox thanks. I appreciate the quick response!
When you said you don’t have to do anything that is cap why? Because he has a press the buttons and pay influence and drive the car just to get a supply drop
This video is very helpful. Great work and tips as always. Thanks. Show me the money!!!
This base will show you the money once you get it setup.
The brewing company is no doubt the best base bc of its preexisting feature followed by whitney fields because it's so customizable
QUESTION: what happens after you make more beer after you dry out all the allies from their money? Or is that just essentially the max experience you'll get from doing that process? Or maybe just wait for/request a new enclave?
Your allies get another 500 influence per day, and the more allies you generate, the more instances of 500 influence per day you can obtain. You can also sell to the periodic wandering merchants and the more exotic mysterious merchants who come with 1500 influence. You can also call in merchants with the Trade Depot (though this costs influence to do). If you need more allies, there's a radio command to find more allies. It's bundled with the "find resources" radio command.
@@GitGudFox wow that's what I was missing. Appreciate the tips, very helpful breakdown
Would love to see a trumbull valley base guide
Base reviews in Trumbull County will be a high priority when it comes out.
IDK why it's so funny hearing Fox constantly saying "sh*t load", but it is.
If you have bar tending as a skill you can craft wine on top of beer which one set already sells for 300 influence x3 more than beer
I started Squelones Brewing Company with a generator preloaded in the top small outdoor slot, but no cooperative. Removed it for a watchtower effectively removing nearly double threat with two swings. My threat was hi, genny is loud, what is 1 more can of fuel for a power plant without the sound? i'll take it. I can't have too much sound there if I plan on using those still slots effectively. My builder with munitions is a shh librarian for -1 zombie threat but is a 'Complainer' (-5 morale, starts fights with others, easily frustrated) I have to find another builder I can't carry that to a new map, she's a total buzz kill lol
Would you suggest making that much food if not on nightmare? Or would you suggest something else?
If you plan on going this route, get someone with Bartending skill. Grants Cooking plus makes 1xBarleywine with each batch which more then doubles your influence gain(Barleywine sells for ~100 influence/ea and 3xBeer sells for 78).
I think that's the whiskey. The whiskey sells for 78 and the beer sells for 100something.
@@GitGudFox The whiskey has a "Extraordinary Trade Value" whereas the Beer only has a "High Trade Value". My figures are based from selling to resource traders not allied enclaves, which is why it is lower. Just switched maps so have to see once I get enclaves settled.
Just checked, the barleywine doubles the income. A batch of 3 beers sell for 102 and the wine sells for 306 per stack of 3 so 102 each.
The way you know that the beer has a higher value than the whiskey is because the beer is unique to Squelones' Brewery. All ordinary stills can make whiskey but only Squelones can make craft beer.
@@GitGudFox I think we are getting things mixed up.
imgur.com/a/EEYWbsO
When having "Knowledge of Alcoholic Beverages" you gain +1 unique trade item. So when making Craft Beer you get 4 Craft Beer and 1 Barleywine per still. For Whiskey you get Bourbon, for the Brewery you get Barleywine when making Craft Beer. So per still you gain 238 influence(136 for 4 Craft Beer and 102 for 1 Barleywine), or 102 for beer and 306 Barleywine per stack(luckily barleywine does stack in 3 even when on character).
While I haven't checked whiskey, but my assumption is that the bonus trade item is of higher value.
Wait. How do Juggs even fit through doors. Like rlly, this makes no sense
I've played this map several times now and I always settle on the Squelones Brewing Company base. I cannot figure out why on some playthroughs, when I brew the Craft Beer, it also brews Barley Wine as a bonus. This happens every time I brew (and on both stills), but only on certain playthroughs. Is this glitched? I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the Brewmaster's Notebook. Has anyone else noticed this?
Not co-operage, cooperage. It means that they had coopers making barrels there, which, let's be honest, is a rare skill these days.
Cooperage- a place where barrels are made. The cooper makes the barrels
I don't know the first thing about alcohol.
Why didn’t you keep the Keg Cooperage facility for building all of the other slots and then remove it at the end and build the last one so that you could ultimately save time?
It’s an older video, so I can’t remember what I did.
I don't want to watch through for this question and I dudn it see it at the end build. How do you power your base
Pat builder legacy
Very helpful thanks 👍 more like this please 😋
They take a lot of work to make.
@@GitGudFox IDC!!! I DEMAND YOU TO MAKE MORE... NOW!!!!!!! 🤟🤪🤟😃😝
Which base can i replicate this layout?
The brewing layout? This is the best base to do it.
Community Members : So how are we gonna survive this apocalypse?
Trader Leader : Beer... Lots and lots of Fine Crafted Beer!
Money makes the world turn even in post apocalyptic zombie land!
Just beat nightmare here, craft beer helps dull the pain
Love the description of why to get food...to get beer. 😂😂😂
I really like the anniversary cake mod
I can never get the brew masters on this map. I almost was convinced that they wouldn’t because of the brewery already on the map.
They're not as good as they used to be unfortunately. They nerfed their radio call in, increasing the cost from the original 75ish is I think 150.
How hard was it to get all of those allies? Takes a lot of time to keep them happy doesn’t it? Once they are allied do they just remain if you don’t recruit them or do you need to keep doing things for them?
It's easier now than it was before. When they become allies, they ask for help less frequently. You have to help them every time they become an ally, or they will leave on the first objective you fail.
I noticed something odd about your Outposts. You have an outpost just outside that provides beds, but for me that's a fire department, and provides fuel. Yet I saw no fuel Outposts on your outpost list.
Are buildings randomised, or is the pc and Xbox maps different?
They shouldn't be. Buildings should always give the same resource depending on what type of building they are. It could be a building that is close by but is not the fire department because I never use the fire department as an outpost.
It’s probably close to the fire department
What would you recommend using if you don’t have a trading post
Anything, there is no other facility similar to the trading post.
Why would you dismantle the cooperage first when you could have just waited until you needed the spot and benefited from the increased build speed.
You could. When the base is done, it's done. You might save 10-15 minutes. It's really not an agonizing detail to optimize.
One biggest bad thing about this base for me is; I got addicted to it and it makes me don't want to stay on the other base. Back then if I don't get to start in the Valley I'll just rush influence to change a map so I can plop myself down at Brewing Company again.
Yeah, it's tough to let go of this base.
How does the bed situation here work I don't want to waste too many slots trying to get beds for everybody
I use my outposts for beds.
@@GitGudFox yeah i did some more research but I decided on the camp as my base but I have two wait 2 Damn hours for a trader to leave😭 I'm tryna get that crazy unlimited power ability you have
Well, it shouldn't matter what base you choose too much since if you want to beat the game, your save file is concluded.
@@GitGudFox thanks for taking the time to reply this games got a lot more depth than I realized
I haven’t completed the game and don’t have the builder legacy what do you recommend for power
What do you need the power for? If you just need it for a single facility, you can just use the power generator mod to get that 1 facility up and running.
Otherwise, it just depends on what resources you have available.
If you have a ton of influence, move into a base that has a built-in generator or claim a power outpost.
If you don't have much influence, build your own generator in one of your small facilities.
Does anyone know if they increased the time it takes for the beer/whiskey to brew? It shows 15 mins in the video but on mine it takes 22 mins...
Morale influences facility action speeds. Higher morale = faster brewing.
@@GitGudFox Thank you! Love your vids!
Where is your inventory closet in this base can’t find it help please
You mean the place where you put the rucksacks of supplies? It's in the building with the storagge locker and the command center. They all look similar to one another and are packed together like cubicles.
how have you got power when all your outposts are bed and artillery?
Beat the game with the Builder leader.
Git Gud Fox how does beating the game work??
For some reason my brew masters have a 90 minute cool down did they nerf it ?
Stupid me, uh maybe. But if you have an outpost slot free you can get a cell tower to cut down on waiting.
so sometimes the orange rucsacks of food give u 3 food so 175 influence turns to 136? thats a minus (plus 100 for the trader ofcourse)
BerialPhantom if you have the Alcoholic enclave as allies (you complete their goal of building a still) you get the “Knowledge of Alcoholic Beverages” which makes you get all of your beer (all 4 lots of it) plus an extra item that’s worth 100 influence. Pretty much it means you always profit.
@@zachb1706 hmmm strong painkillers seem bigger profit and u dont need the brewery for this
BerialPhantom can’t you do both?
Nice video👍
Glad you enjoyed it, it's one of my favorite bases.
Hi I know this is late, but how did you put energy for each facility?(if that makes senes)
Gaming11Bloxy builder legacy
Revisiting this. This is the video that I would want UL devs to see the most. The synergy of this base with the Trader path and Builder Boon allows for the highest degree of optimization in the game. It is an example of how SOD2 has the potential to deliver unique and highly entertaining emergent gameplay. Unfortunately, it really is the only such synergy of Leadership paths, Boons, and Bases in the game. It allows for a degree of optimization that is so far ahead of anything else in SOD2 that it almost feels like a different game. It makes the combination of Trader path, Builder Boon, and this base seem vastly over powered. But I really don't see it as overpowered so much as I see any other combination of Leader Path, Boon, and Base as under powered.
What are the outposts??
They can be whatever you want for the most part. You can fill up your beds with them then use the rest for materials. That's a pretty common setup.
Is this still worth doing on lethal zone? Just picked the game back and was just wondering
The best strategies for Lethal Zone are my Meal Planning or my UltraCash strategy.
its 175 or 125 influence for 4 food
it takes 3 food to get 134 influence
*136
It's 125 influence to buy food rucks from an Allied Trader (they give you a discount). It's 175 influence to buy food from a non-allied trader (default price). The still spits out 4 packs of beer at a time, and each beer is worth 34, so it spits out 136 influence. That said there will be spillover food from each rucksack giving between 4-6 food, so some of the food will roll over into the next batch of beer.
It's only "pure profit" if you dig it up yourself, but the 75 influence call-ins are certainly the best result. The trade post call-ins also have a fairly long cooldown of 40 mins, so you'll still have to drum up food from additional sources.
I think the main value here is burning excess food that you get from just helping random survivors or looting combined with any food surplus from farms. It means you could just ask for food every time a quest gives you the option and multiply your profit because a food rucksack sells for 60 influence.
Also the call-ins from the Brewmaster enclave also comes with a luxury item than can be worth between 34 and 102 influence, so sometimes the food call-in literally pays itself off and then some. It also can outrun the speed of the trader as the trader has 3 rucksacks every 40 mins while the call-in is 1 rucksack every 9 mins.
how is your beer crafting time only 15minutes? mine says its 30minutes to craft a 4 stack of beer
Morale, the higher your morale, the faster facility actions go.
Does that 2 still can convert food to fuel?
Yeah, it does all the things a normal still can do.
Do you need the chemistry skill for this to work?
Not if you use this base, specifically. The base provides knowledge of chemistry.
@@GitGudFox thanks homie
Im pretty late to this party, but where does he get the power from? I may have missed it im a spastic like that LOL
What power? You're gonna have to be a little more specific.
@@GitGudFox The electricity supply for this base setup, it doesnt look like its on the outposts. Is it a base slot mod?
Beat the game with the Builder legacy to unlock power.
Ah thats how yep my bad. You probs mentioned that in the vid haha thanks for the reply ur a legend 👌
Oh I think you just made me want to move from the police station to here. But I have 9 ppl in my Community. Would that be a bad idea? And your base videos are very useful and helpful thank you :) I’m new to the game
You may need to use some outposts as beds, but it should accommodate 9 people. If you have the Red Talon Bunkroom, it'd be even easier.
How have you generated power, it’s not one of your outposts?
Beat the game with a builder for your leader.
I would like to know how much recourses he loosing though
Recourses?
@@GitGudFox I think he meant "resources"
Does it matter? You can just buy more resources
I'm new to this game, but what is supplying power to the base?
When you beat the game, you unlock a power for that difficulty based on which leader you chose. One of them gives you power.
@@GitGudFox TY, also is there a way to get rid of the 5th skills or a book that lets you do that?
how do you get +9 food per day on you hydroponics?
Well, it has a base of 3. You can get an extra 200% by having knowledge of agriculture and a compost bin.
@@GitGudFox oh okay thanks, you just earned a new subscriber, great content, keep up the good work
I know I am late to the party here, but if you get a character with the Bartender fifth skill it increases your profits. Bartender not only gives you Knowledge of Cooking, but also Knowledge of Alcohol. Every time you brew craft beer you get an additional unique beer in the process. I can't remember the name off the top of my head though.
I think either having someone with bartender or a brewmaster ally will allow you to gain that bonus.
I can’t keep my people happy it’s a pain for it any tips I could use or do? Sorry for the bother
You probably have characters that don't get along well and have negative morale traits. If you go to the base menu, you can look at a full report of your community's status. One of the options is to look at the morale situation. That'll give you an idea of what's causing the losses in morale.
You may need to kick people out if they're just too bothersome. You can also build morale specialized facilities like the lounge, the red talon officer's quarters, and the kitchen (if you have a cook).
Git Gud Fox cheers for this man
@@GitGudFox how do I build red talon officer quarters? I don't see it. I'm in the strip mall
@@morbey2011 Have you bought It from daybreak?
Wish I would’ve subbed you months ago 😔
Great stuff!!!
Thanks! I try to do what I can within my skillset.
What if
You used Mazarra to grow mass amounts of food, filled the extra storage, filled your vans with them, then moved to the brewing company and slowly turned it all into booze
Hmm, that'd take a long time. You only get the food once a day. You'd get food much faster just by going out into the world and searching for food rucksacks.
@@GitGudFox i did it all simultaneously, growing the food while stockpiling what i scavenged with two vans; i believe i also used 2 food outposts and had an allied enclave gifting me another 1/day i could also call an emergency drop from
I had 100 food within 5 hours this way on dread (also using 2 trucks and a desperado to store the food after moving to prevent decay since the bases are easily within walking distance), but jesus it took me ages to trade it all away, id much rather do bulk plague cures with the pathologist's reduced cost and a med farm.
Still, it is a neat idea, but it takes a lot of time dedication to make worth it.
Everquest. . .now there’s a kick in jiggle bells.
It's even worse for me idk how but because I'm buddies with the brewmasters I get a special beer with every batch of craft beer I brew. And they're worth 3 times as much as the regular craft beers.
What do you do about the material cost tho?
You can use outposts. You can leave the keg cooperage if you want. You can also just buy more material rucksacks with the trade depot.
Buy materials using trading post.
How does it work having no beds? :)
Beds seem important because we use them in our daily lives... but they wind up having very little mechanical effect in the game. Missing a bed? You just lose -7 morale per missing bed which is very, very little.
FYI cooperage is pronounced like the name Cooper, not co-op. Cooper is an archaic name for a barrel maker, a cooperage is a place where barrels are made. So a keg cooperage is a place where barrel kegs are made. The more you know...
excellent videos keep it up
Ah, good old Squelones. One of the best bases in the game especially for its medium size.
I can't find the claim point though o-o I've looked everywhere that I can think of.
It's in the building that doesn't have all the brewing vats and containers.
All the influence!
One of my favorite bases in the game.
@@GitGudFox with your strategy I'm not surprised
2:34 coop, like a military coup
So I've been told.
It’s a good base I run my 10 man in that base
It seems I've officially hit a wall. I have ammo, but no guns. I still have two plague hearts to take out, one of which is amongst four infested houses that in close proximity. My facilities keep breaking down due to a lack of materials. I lost water and power due to a lack of fuel, which is due to the water tower and power substation outposts. I have two farms, a garden and a command center that I'm unable to upgrade. The only remote positive in this scenario is that I still have a car...which needs to be repaired, and I think I only have one toolkit left. It's weird. I didn't have anywhere near this much difficulty maintaining my base and community in the original, but in the sequel, just when I think I'm on the road to recovery, I hit another wall. It's a neverending cycle. I lose my resources faster than I can gather them and the members of my community become frustrated or threaten to leave within minutes of each other. I'm at the point where I want to throw up my hands and say "fuck it." I don't know how you managed to get yourself to the point of self-sufficiency, but good on you.
Well, it means you have to trim back until you're self sustaining then expand.
You can build a staging area to negate daily material upkeep.
Make outposts to reduce resource losses.
When you get some extra materials, build a trade depot and use your influence to buy rucksacks.
Whenever you can't keep up with a resource, sometimes you have to cut back. For example, if you can't keep up with food, then it means you might have to start kicking people out until you can keep up.
@@GitGudFox Which facilities should I get rid of? I certainly can't get rid of the infirmary or workshop. If only I had the means to upgrade...anything. I'd probably be able to get myself situated. And I don't have enough to deal with all the zombies. I can't go ten minutes without someone threatening to leave. I was able to get a food and meds rucksack. I just radioed for fuel and materials, but they're really far out, and I have no car to speak of because they either ran out of gas far away from my base or got destroyed. One big question I have for you is this--how much grinding did you have to do to get to the point that you are in your videos?
I can fully stock a base in 2-3 hours from a brand new playthrough.
When you use the trade depot to call for traders, they should come to your base directly. You shouldn't have to go out and look for them though sometimes they take time to get to your base.
Well, you're not going to get much done without a car, so getting a new vehicle repaired and refueled should be your first goal. You also need to put a lot of effort into not ruining your vehicles especially if you don't have a back up. That means going out of your way to not run zombies over and going out of your way to drive safely even if it takes longer.
@@GitGudFox I'm aware that I need a car. That goes without saying. I could be careful to the point of walking on eggshells, but something stupid such as running into a horde of pop-in walkers could happen, and that happens way too much. There was one time where I lost a car because I nicked a juggernaut attempting to drive around it. I think either the rear bumper hit it or vice versa. It was so silly. Right now, I'm on the roof of a trailer trying to decide if I should attempt to take out a plague heart at this nail salon to boost one of the survivors' morale. I have some explosives, a sword and a few molotov cocktails. The reason I'm contemplating so hard is that I have very low stamina due to hunger and lack of rest. The thing that makes it odd is that it was full when I switched to her, but the sun hadn't risen yet, if that even has any effect on it.
Drive at 50% to 75% speed to avoid pop-ins. That might sound annoying, but until you have regular access to repair kits to keep in your trunk and an alternative vehicle to use, then that's what you should do.
2:30 It is pronounced Coop-er-age, not co-op-er-age. Meaning a place where barrels are made, since a person who makes barrels is called a cooper.
I'm never calling it that.
2 of the buildings in this base are the same :( i really wish we could remove what we dont need in the base
You mean the stills? They have a use. It doubles your production.
@@GitGudFox damn dint know thanks
Thanks for the great video. (koo-per-ij, btw)
I was actually thinking about that when I was rendering this video. Could it be pronounced coop like chicken coop?
@@GitGudFox en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cooper#English
With derivation below
Have you ever played The Elder Scrolls Online? It’s also an MMORPG.
Nah, I haven't tried ESO before.
No beds :(
Can't have everything.
@@GitGudFox True
Yo can like, someone go ahead and make a video on all the enclaves and their alternate types?
That one would be a pain since you'd need to know how many there are to begin with.
Where's the beds?
You don't need any beds. They're just -7 morale per person missing a bed. The game makes beds seem important, but they can be ignored.
If you want beds, you can keep maxing out enclaves until you get +beds from them.
@@GitGudFox Thanks, bro. I'm new to this, so your guide might be too advanced for my dumb ass lol. I keep destroying enclaves to get shit characters that I kick out
That's a good idea. Recruit enclaves and shut them down if their allied bonus is bad. After you flip enough enclaves, you'll be left with all good bonuses.