Spend some silver to upgrade your base when possible. Do not put too much effort into its layout, however. It will never be attacked by other players. Tents, chicken coops, and sheds will help maintain your group's morale, as well as provide essential supplies. As your base gets larger, you can eventually expand beyond the basic square of landscape that it started on. Place advanced structures and defenses to get additional benefits and help repel attacks from NPCs and other players. Every structure provides a timed bonus of silver currency which grows as the structure is upgraded. You can bypass a structure's construction time by spending gold bars. Your starting stack of 500 bars will allow you to upgrade some of your starting structures to get an early boost in morale and silver income.