Dimraeth Sanctum: storage, planks and building
Place storage chests from the Sanctum’s build menu, not the workbench; they have their own tab. Your first workbench needs Pinewood Planks you have to loot, and until you have chests you can use the shared chest in the Guild Hall. From there the Sanctum grows with crafting stations, farms, production buildings and the allies you recruit. Do not place your tent next to a campfire until the fix reaches the main build.
The first hour of building, in order
- Loot Pinewood Planks
The workbench needs them, and you cannot craft them until you have one. Where to look is below.
- Build the workbench in the Sanctum
Once it stands, craft planks on it, and nails from stone.
- Open the build menu and place a chest
Chests sit on their own storage tab. On older versions they were under Furniture, then Storage, as a pinewood chest. The row of tabs is easy to miss along the bottom of the screen.
- Keep the materials in your inventory when you build
If a build will not place, one player’s fix was to take resources out of the workbench first.
Where the storage chest is
Open the Sanctum build menu and pick the storage tab. The chest is placed there, but its materials are made at the workbench. Each chest holds only 18 slots, so you will need plenty. The trailer frame below shows the build menu tabs from before chests got their own tab.
The Guild Hall chest
Use the chest on the right side of the Guild Hall for storage until you can make your own. A crafting bench also works as a small storage box: its item slots hold items.
What to stash first
Logs, stone and planks are heavy, so stash them first. Before you have chests, break down gear at the blacksmith and sell what you do not need. Why weight, not slot count, is what stops you is on Dimraeth inventory and encumbrance.
Your first Pinewood Planks
Search the Farmland just north of Earlwood Village. Planks turn up most often in chests and on corpses, and also in the little holes in logs. A thorough first loop of the area should leave you with two. The farmland is placed on the Dimraeth map, and the later Heart Oak planks, plus the traps that eat planks you already have, are on Dimraeth planks: Pinewood and Heart Oak.
Crafting stations
Stations decide what you can make: many recipes need a specific station, so each new one widens what you can produce. The Workshop achievement names three: a Workbench, an Alchemy Table and a Woodfire Stove. Build the alchemy table early for better health potions. Station crafting keeps going while you are away.
- Tools of the Trade Build your first crafting station52.1%
- Workshop Build a Workbench, an Alchemy Table and a Woodfire Stove12.7%
- Patron Upgrade a facility to its maximum level39.7%
If Maintaining the Defenses will not complete, update the game: a hotfix fixed it. Other known problems are on Dimraeth bugs and fixes.
Recruiting allies to the Sanctum
Some characters you meet through quests move into your base, where they unlock upgrades, offer services and can give you pets that help in combat. What they sell and make depends on what you invest:
“Invest materials in your allies’ facilities to expand shop inventories, add new crafting services, and open more farming plots.”
Mudtek
Recruited NPCs also craft spell books from monster and boss materials.
| Ally | What they offer |
|---|---|
| Befr | Upgrade Befr’s shop at the desk in the Sanctum and Befr sells the Elixir of Rebirth, a respec for 500 gold. Some players say shop level 1 is enough; others say level 2. |
| How Befr joins | Players report that rescuing a lost child unlocks Befr in your Sanctum. |
| Myrll | Has a companion trade menu where an unlocked pet appears. |
The respec itself is disputed; both sides are on Dimraeth leveling and respec. Pets are on Dimraeth pets, and what relationships with these characters lead to is on Dimraeth romance and allies.
- A New Ally Recruit your first NPC to the Sanctum44.1%
- Sanctum Society Recruit 5 NPCs to the Sanctum9.5%
Farms and production buildings
“You build farming plots, plant seeds, and harvest them when they mature. Beyond seed plots, you can also build production structures such as wells and animal or monster pens.”
Phillip, Game Director
- Find plants in the build menu under Production, then Farming.
- Timed quests give you followers who harvest farms for you; you can even run a droop farm.
- Industrialist asks for seven different production buildings.
- Out of plots? Players report you need the golem NPC for more, and that with all upgrades you can reach 60 plots. Another character in the same world can plant 20 more.
Where the eggs for a Chicken Coop come from
You need a few eggs to make Chicken Coops. Players find them in three places:
- Random chests and holes in trees while exploring the farmlands.
- Tree stumps.
- As a reward from the deed board, the Guild Hall’s repeatable content covered on Dimraeth endgame and deeds.
The farmland is the area just north of Earlwood Village where you found planks; it is placed on the Dimraeth map.
- Green Thumb Harvest your first crop42.8%
- Industrialist Build 7 different production buildings5.6%
Resting in the Sanctum
Your tent or bed only works at night. Sleeping there gives buffs and Well rested, +15% XP. Campsites out in the world work at any hour.
The tent and campfire trap
If you load into your base and cannot move out of a small area, the tent and campfire are the cause. A developer explained the way out:
“If you have completed the tutorial you can simply teleport to a waypoint to get unstuck. Still identifying why it’s always the tent and campfire combination causing this.”
mudtek, developer
playtesters branch; how to switch is on Dimraeth bugs and fixes.Building with friends, and who can open whose chests, is set per world; see Dimraeth co-op.