Base layout rules
10 tiles
Chests around your stations
Stations can craft from chests within 10 tiles (the nearest 20), so the basic layout is chests arranged around a central station.
5×5
Farms in sprinkler blocks
One sprinkler covers 24 tiles. Line up 5×5 blocks. Keep them separate from cattle pens.
16×16
Fit mob farms to chunks
Spawn tiles are counted per 16×16 chunk, so build along the chunk borders.
Layout rules by facility
| Facility | Game rule | How to arrange it |
|---|---|---|
| Stations and chests | Chests must be within 10 tiles of the station (the nearest 20 can be used) | Put the station in the middle with up to 20 chests around it. Materials from the 21st chest on can't be used |
| Chest organization | Quick stack reaches the nearest 20 containers | Group chests of commonly used materials nearby. Sort them with colors and signs |
| Farms | One sprinkler covers 5×5 (24 tiles) | Line up 5×5 blocks and put walkways outside the blocks |
| Cattle | Cattle eat crops, including crops still planted in the ground | Keep farms and pens separate |
| Merchant rooms | Interior of 64 tiles or less, a bed and 1 free floor tile | Line up small rooms, e.g. 8×8 |
| Mob farms | Tiles are counted per 16×16 chunk. Nothing spawns within 6 tiles of a player | Build to fit the chunks and wait more than 6 tiles away |
| Root Seeds | Once grown, roots spread around them every 2–3 minutes | Keep them away from paths and other crops |
| Teleporting | Portals become usable about 6 minutes after placing | Put them near the base entrance |
Example: splitting your base into zones
- Workshop: workbench, furnace, cooking pot and salvage and repair station in the middle, with chests around them (within 10 tiles).
- Living area: a bed and a row of small merchant rooms (64 tiles or less) (residents (merchants)).
- Farm: rows of 5×5 sprinkler blocks (farm automation).
- Ranch: fenced in, away from the farm (how to raise cattle).
- Factory: automation with drills, conveyor belts and furnaces (automation guide).
- Mob farm: aligned to 16×16 chunks, away from the living area (mob farms).
For getting started see how to build a base, and for looks see base design tips.
Chest range and count (10 tiles, 20 chests), the sprinkler's 5×5 area, the 16×16 spawn chunks, the portal's 360-second charge-up, what cattle eat and how roots spread are read from the game files of Core Keeper 1.3.0.6 (the game's program and prefabs). The merchant room size and the 6-tile no-spawn distance around players could not be checked in the game data; they are based on the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) pages Merchants and Spawning tiles (CC BY-SA 3.0). The example layout is this site's own suggestion.
Unless a note on the page says otherwise, numbers are read from the game files of Core Keeper 1.3.0.6 (prefabs, configuration files, drop tables and the game's program) and calculated by this site, including upgraded (per-level) values, sell prices and mana costs. Names and descriptions are the game's official English text. Only reinforcing materials, minion and pet attacks and some food values are based on the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) data (CC BY-SA 3.0). Core Keeper and its images are © Pugstorm. This is an unofficial fan site.