Tent

The usual tent.

A tent is a small personal hideout that you can create in almost any random encounter map in the wasteland. Items stored inside the tent are safe, as long as you don't bring any other player there, which makes it a must have for any character who has no other way to store items safely.

If a tent is ever deleted, all items left at the tent will be permanently lost.

How to make a tent

• Get a folded tent kit, by crafting it, buying it, or as a reward for completing the new tent quest.
• Enter a random location on desert (the map should be empty with no NPCs at all).
• Open inventory and use the folded tent. A message will be displayed, the screen goes dark for a moment, and the map will be turned into a tent map. If you have any followers with you, they will also gain access to that tent. Parked cars will also stay with you when you make a tent.
  • Make sure no one is with you in the encounter (Any other player with you in the encounter, who is arrowed on you and following you, will also have access to the tent on the world map, so make sure only other players who you want to have access to the tent are present).
  • If your character has ten (10) tents already, one of the old tents must be chosen for deletion and all items left there will be lost. You can have only ten tents per character.

If your character has the Ranger perk, building a tent yields a Safe House with a workbench instead of a standard tent with a crate.

The Campfire

The small fire pit at any standard tent can be upgraded to a Campfire by using 3 Wood on the fire pit, which changes it into a work place where you can make metal parts from iron ore, and gunpowder from minerals. This is very handy for players who work in a nearby mine, since these materials can be processed in safety at the tent and their weight gets largely reduced. This feature is useful as it provides an easy refinery otherwise found only at a Workbench.

Shared tents

As said above, if you make a tent and there are other players on the same map that are tagged on you, they will gain access to that tent and will see it on the world map. However, the tent will still belong to the player who created it.

If player X creates a tent, and player Y has access to it (i.e. was there in the encounter when player X created the tent), Y can still create a tent and have access to both, however, X won't be able to create another tent without deleting his first one. Players can have access to an unlimited amount of tents provided they are not their founder.

If the account of a tent creator is deleted for any reason, any other players who had access to that tent will retain their access and the tent will remain, provided it is visited at least once every 4 weeks so it is not deleted due to inactivity.

Extra Information

Nobody can enter your tent unless they follow you (or anyone else with access to your tent), so take care. People like to arrow you and follow you, and if you're not cautious and don't look at who you're carrying, you may introduce enemies into your tent. But if you're not carrying people into your tent, then stuff stored inside is totally safe. (Note, if someone has arrowed on you and follows you into the wasteland, you can remove them from your party by holding your left click down on their player name and selecting the remove from party option)

Your tent has a crate container with limited storage space, but the tent map itself may contain an infinite amount of stuff, since you can harmlessly put stuff on the ground. Gangs may use tents to store fighting gear or their fresh loot.

Items dropped outside a tent.

It is common practice to arrange large amounts of items in rows on the ground outside a tent. The tent has only one container which has limited space, and some tent owners prefer to keep the container free of clutter. Dropping items on the ground also provides a quick way of visualizing which items have been collected. Items dropped outside the tent will never disappear unless the tent is deleted due to lack of activity as mentioned above (no players visit it for four weeks), or replaced (the tent's owner builds a new tent).

The only players who are able to access a tent are those who are there in the encounter when the tent is created. If the owner creates a new tent, anyone who had access to the old tent will NOT have access to the new one, unless they are again in the encounter with the tent creator.

Limits

• Unlike a faction base you cannot modify which other players have access to your tent. As stated previously, the only people that gain access are those who are following you and are in the encounter during tent creation.

• Each tent is first made with only one small storage crate.

• Tents are only useful as a personal hideout. They have the advantage not to require a faction name, however.

If you're curious about the past, read how tents used to be made before Feb 14th, 2013.