Quick answer
Treat a second camp as its own settlement. Establish connections, housing, food, drink, storage, and pier logistics locally before expecting workers to relocate or production to stabilize.
What to do
- Place the camp and connect its essential buildings inside the local radius.
- Add housing plus reliable food and drink before opening many jobs.
- Build a warehouse and pier to create a short logistics loop.
- Keep a crewed ship available as emergency defense while the camp grows.
Gameplay details
- Each Pirate Camp has its own operating radius and must locally meet housing, food, drink, and logistics needs.
- Drifters cannot be manually transferred between camps; jobs and available beds attract them instead.
- A safe expansion order is camp, connectors, housing, food, drink, optional warehouse, connected pier, and then defenses if threatened.
- attacks after founding a camp include randomness but are generally balanced to allow reaction time; ships can provide emergency defense.
Keep in mind
Drifters cannot be transferred manually. Available jobs and beds attract them, so expansion works best when the destination is ready first.
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