Guides/Marking and Revisiting Areas

This is a short guide to teach you about marking areas you wish to come back to. There are important parts of the world known as Set Pieces that you may want to revisit at some point.

Ways to Mark the Map

 * Use a Sign. They appear on the map and is a craftable structure requiring one set of Boards. They can be used to mark points of intrest not on the map such as a mushroom ring or a herd of Beefalo.
 * A backpack . While mostly ineffective as a marker, the backpack appears on the map if you drop it, and can be easily found again. You can leave this by places where you may want to start a fight or do some potential dangerous exploring.
 * Use a Fire Pit . They appear on the appear and can used as a source of light, heat and cooking if needed.
 * Pig Houses produce a mark on the map and give you a piggy friend to help you in your labour.
 * (Woodie) Lucy the Axe has a map icon because of Woodie's curse, and thus can be used to mark the map in a rather ineffective way if ever needed.
 * Meat Effigies and Touchstones are marked on the map and if needed, spawn the player after they have died, and can used near a point of interest if the player has died there and wants to confort it again.

Revisiting Areas

 * If you have the resources to spare, it is not too terrible of an idea to leave several Fire Pits, Science Machines and Alchemy Engines across the world, specifically by resource-filled areas. This way, you have less walking to do than if you only one base. Multiple camps can increase your survival in an emergency of light, or if you do not want to spend and waste time crawling to your main camp just for a couple resources you need.
 * Bringing a backpack is useful for both regular work and revisiting points of interest.
 * Bring a torch or multiple if you lack the resources for other light objects. If you are caught at night and have no other light objects or are too far away, use torches to help you through the night. You may need more than one if the night is too long for a single torch.

Happy marking, survivors!