Land Strategy Update: My 3-Phase Plan + Understanding Base vs Boosted PP

in Splinterlands26 days ago

Land — one of my favorite topics over the last few months — as many of you know if you’ve been following me!

This week, I want to dive into two key topics:

  1. My personal land strategy
  2. Some basic (but often misunderstood) concepts around Base PP vs Boosted PP

🛠️ My Journey Since Land 1.75

Before Land 1.75, I only had a few plots and honestly, they weren’t doing much. I’d just harvest them every other day. Nothing special.

But when Land 1.75 dropped, it clicked. Yes, land is still a bit limited in what you can actively do, but it's finally starting to feel real — especially with new resources and production items entering the game.

🔔 Reminder: This is just the beginning. If you haven’t yet, take a peek at the whitepaper and see what’s coming for Land 2.0:
📖 Splinterlands Land Phase 2 Whitepaper

🎯 My 3-Phase Land Plan

Setting goals helps me stay focused and usually leads me to overshoot them (which is a nice bonus 😉). Here's my current strategy:

✅ Phase 1: Acquire 50 Plots

image.png

Why 50? Because that’s what you need to become a Land Baron!
But beyond that, I aimed for diversity — a good mix of terrain types, rarities, and magical/natural splits. This will give me more flexibility later on.

Sure, some people go all-in on one resource type (nothing wrong with that), but I like a balanced approach. Will it be the best strategy? Time will tell. BTW: still heavy on some wood plots in region 85 🤣

🎉 Status: Achieved!

🔁 Phase 2: Fill Every Plot with Workers

Now that I have the plots, the next bottleneck is DEC and workers.

Sub-Goals:

  • 🛠️ 1 Worker per Plot – My first milestone. I know some would rather max out a few plots first, but I like to see all my land active.

  • 🛠️ 5 Workers per Plot – Eventually, I aim to fully staff each plot. I’ll prioritize Rare and Magical plots first, then the rest.

Note: I’ll have to reshuffle some older plots to align with this plan — not fun, but necessary.

🚀 Phase 3: Optimize with Better Units (Long-Term)

This is a 1+ year plan, no rush here — land is costly.

I’ll aim to replace existing units with better PP (Production Points). Now, some might argue it’s smarter to immediately place high-PP gold cards — and I agree that’s valid. But I prefer to:

  • Quickly stake max DEC on each plot (even with regular units)
  • Then swap units over time as needed

Yes, it’s less efficient in the short term, but once DEC is maxed, I don’t have to worry about staking anymore. I’ll be free to rotate units however I like.

Is it controversial? Maybe. Efficient? Maybe not. But it works for me.

📊 Let’s Talk PP: Base vs Boosted

I see a lot of confusion around how PP works, especially when people rush to place Gold cards thinking it's always better.

Here's a quick look at Base PP per rarity:

RarityReg Max PPGold Max PPReg 1 BCXGold 1 BCX
Common1,0002,0002.5052.63
Rare1,1004,0009.57181.82
Epic1,2506,00027.17600.00
Legendary1,50010,000136.362,500.00

⚠️ Important Notes:

  • Gold units have much higher Base PP than regulars.
  • But! Higher BASE PP = higher resource (consume) cost as well.
  • So when you go full gold units on a plot, the resource cost scales up accordingly.

Many players forget that the cost to produce increases linearly with the Base PP. So unless your plot has significant boosts, you may not gain much efficiency from just stacking gold units.

💡 Example: PeakMonsters Land Calculator

Its outdate according peakmonster but still works:
https://peakmonsters.com/land/calc

Let’s visualize it for a grain plot:

Common plot without any boosts (reminder 50% of the grain is consumed on harvest):
image.png
Max common regular foil: 2.4$ (at the time of writing)
Max common gold foil: 6.8$
2.4/6 = $0.4 per grain
6.8/11 = $0.62 per grain
0.22 differnce


Rare plot without any other boosts:
image.png
2.4/6.6 = $0.36 per grain
6.8/13.2 = $0.52 per grain
0.16 difference so with terrain boost only, the difference is decreased


Max plot with all the boost (and these boosts are expensive as hell)
image.png
2.4/44 = $0.055 per grain
6.8/88 = $0.077 per grain
0.022 so here you can see that the more boost you can place on a plot the better its to place gold level unit on the plot.

You’ll see that with boosts active (rarity, type, totem, title), your production gets amplified, and the cost/benefit ratio improves. This is where investing in high-PP units starts to make sense.

So like @mori-no-giant always says:

It’s about the boost!

TL;DR:

The old PeakMonsters land calculator still works, and it gives a decent idea of cost per grain across different setups.

  • Without boosts, gold foil units give better grain per dollar—but the difference isn't huge at first.
  • With terrain boost, the cost gap shrinks a bit.
  • With full boosts (rarity, terrain, title, totem), gold units become way more efficient per grain.

So what's the move?
If you're on a budget, start with a few plots and regular foil units—get things running. If you're working with just a handful of plots and want to squeeze max value, go gold and boost them hard.

Just remember: putting gold units on aura/research/SPS plots raises costs across the board, so only do that if the plot itself is boosted imho.

Personally, I’m going deep first—regular foils to get every plot online, then go for the shiny stuff later. Some folks go gold (1bcx epics for instance) early to save on DEC staking—valid strategy too!

No single best answer. Depends on your goals, DEC, and plot count. For low-plot setups without boosts: start small, go smart.

🌱 Final Thoughts

So to come down to my own decisions, and for sure this can change over time... go deep with more plots with lower PP cards first. Down side cost me more staked DEC... once that hurdle is done, upgrade upgrade....

You can:

  • Go deep on a few boosted plots with gold cards
  • Or go wide with more plots filled with commons

Both are valid — it just depends on your strategy and DEC.

I hope this breakdown helped clarify the Base PP vs Boosted PP topic.
Let me know in the comments:

  • What’s your plan?
  • Are you going wide or deep or ...?
  • What do think of my 3-phase strategy, see any flaws?

As always, open to feedback if I got anything wrong too! Let’s keep learning and building together.

I’ll see you on the battlefield! 🧙‍♂️⚔️

Do you also want to be part of this amazing play to earn game consider using my referral link.

Sort:  

@beaker007 - i know this has probably been explained somewhere but I cant seem to find anything to explain why the daily Production/consumption overview doesn't appear to include amounts consumed by plots mining SPS, shouldnt it be consuming around twice as many resources as Research based on raw PP. Apologies if i'm missing/misunderstanding something

Very good question indeed i have not included SPS because the determination of the supply and production is debatable...

But you are correct on the part it consumes resources, i thoughted the python version takes it into account.. But with the new layout i have improved it a bit
(this will be released probably next week)

image.png

Here i still have doubt if the produced daily is correct... maybe someone knows how much SPS is allocated to be distributed on a daily basis.

Thanks, was just interested to see how close we were to 100% daily consumption, that makes quite a difference when you look at it with the SPS included - 81.6% for wood, yes we are still inflating the resources but not by as much as I was originally thinking - now if they make wagon repair kits cost a few hundred thousand wood… 😂

My next target is card updated...

This post has been supported by @Splinterboost with a 12% upvote! Delagate HP to Splinterboost to Earn Daily HIVE rewards for supporting the @Splinterlands community!

Delegate HP | Join Discord

Thanks for sharing! - @azircon

Congratulations @beaker007! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain And have been rewarded with New badge(s)

You received more than 55000 upvotes.
Your next target is to reach 60000 upvotes.

You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP