base building
Establishing operational headquarters
Base building refers to gameplay focused on constructing and expanding a home location in video games—gathering resources, placing structures, and developing infrastructure.
The term appears across survival games, strategy games, and city builders: I spent six hours on base building in Minecraft.
Extended to real-world contexts, it can describe grassroots organizing—building political power through local networks and community engagement rather than top-down campaigns.
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- constructionProcess of building something
- headquartersCentral command location
- fortressHeavily defended military structure
- campTemporary outdoor shelter site
outpost · settlement · crafting · resource management · resources · walls · tower · shelter · stronghold · expansion · upgrade · survival · supply depot · garrison · safe zone · blueprint · architecture · compound
- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- game activitiescooking, crafting, farming, fishing, mining
- sandbox gamesMinecraft, No Man's Sky, Roblox, creative mode, Spore
- RTS GamesStarCraft, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Red Alert
- running traininglong runs, interval training, intervals, easy runs, fartlek
- SeabeesSeabees, CBs, naval stations, naval docks, landing strips
base buildingexploration
Traveling through unknown regions
combat · dungeon crawling · raiding · looting · questing
base buildingrushing
Rapid forward movement
aggression · hit-and-run · zerg rush · blitzkrieg · scorched earth
base buildingroaming
Moving without fixed purpose
exploration · wandering · scouting · fast travel · migration
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