Talk:Tumbleweed/@comment-39421695-20190510161746

The more I think about it, the more I feel the optimal mid-to-end game base location outside the caves is in the Tumbleweed Desert, once you've penned in the Tumbleweed spawners. There's nothing you can't relocate (Glommer, tufts, gekkos, koalefants, saplings, trees, etc) except for Pig King (and you can use tons of the trinkets you get from Tumbleweeds on a single trip to the King just get hundreds of gold) or reeds (you can get like 40 in a single trip to the swamp, and they drop periodically from tumbleweeds.)


 * You're close to the Dragonfly, so it's not a pain to have to leave your base every 20 days to farm it.
 * Cactus Flesh can be used for Sanity without the Living Log cost of Mushroom Planters, and continue to respawn in Winter outside of Caves (plus 6 give you 75 hunger, if you have other things to do right this second other than make Crock Pot food)
 * You can farm gears in your spare time if you decide to switch to WX-98 and want a gear buffer against several deaths
 * Tons of grass/twigs right here right now, without having to set up a gekko pen or twiggy farm or sapling field or use Applied Horticulture
 * You can set up a Hound Mound farm if you don't want to go through the hassle of tracking down a Varg to pen up with Telelocator Focus
 * Easy Desert Stone Fodder if for some reason you run low
 * Volt Goats are near and less of a pain to chase into a pen