Last Shelter: Survival by Long Tech Network Limited has been gaining momentum since its launch three years ago and remains one of the top-grossing mobile games in the few countries where it’s available. Despite the abundance of base-building strategy games in the mobile gaming market and their number in a zombie apocalyptic setting, Last Shelter: Survival still provides its players with a huge amount of content and features that are unique within the genre.
Whether you’ve just discovered Last Shelter: Survival and are still trying to understand its core mechanics and features, or a returning player who needs to upgrade new skills and strategies to survive the zombie apocalypse and other survivors, our latest Shelter Survival Guide (2020 Update) aims to provide you with useful tips and strategies to help you start your adventure.
While Last Shelter: Survival is set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with all sorts of zombies, actually being undead isn’t something you need to worry about. As with most modern zombie-themed movies and shows, you should prepare for other survivors who “need” to have what’s yours in order to survive. After all, Last Shelter: Survival is a base-building strategy game, and like all other games in the genre, the focus is on massive P2P and guild-to-guild battles.
Last Shelter: Survival can still cater for players who can’t stay online all the time to protect their bases, and even casual players to some extent. In the same way, constantly and efficiently acquiring and managing the resources and structures in your base becomes an ongoing necessity.
There is a lot of time to spend initially as you aim for rapid leveling and upgrades here and there. However, as you progress further, regular visits will suffice, especially since the latest updates and research take longer.
1. Complete the basic tasks first.
A common scenario for new players, especially those new to the base building strategy MMO genre, is that they are intimidated or overwhelmed by the initial barrage of features that greet them as soon as they dive into the game. Last Shelter: Survival certainly doesn’t shy away from taking players through a roller coaster of features and activities to showcase what’s in store for them as they progress further in their post-apocalyptic adventure.
Although Last Shelter: Survival is not a standard feature in most strategy MMO games, it is a brief but reasonable story from which you can follow what and why surrounds the game’s world. The first chapters actually serve as a tutorial for the game and hint at what you need to do to progress in the game. While there is a lot of room for variation, especially as you progress, completing core tasks should be your priority as this is the best path to rapid progress.
In addition to completing basic tasks, which serve as the key to unlocking more features, each task you complete also earns you the essentials you’ll need to ensure steady progress. You can see the recommended task or goal in the lower left corner of the screen, but clicking on the menu icon next to it opens the full list of tasks for the chapter.
You should consider sticking to the objectives as strictly as possible, but given that there are upgrades or structures dependent on other buildings or building levels, you can deviate a bit when necessary. It may happen that deviating from your goals will force you to complete some tasks that are not yet included in the list of main tasks. In such cases, the goals will already be displayed as completed when they finally appear.
Completing the basic tasks will provide you with a busy time, especially at the beginning of your journey. As you continue to complete one challenge after another and progress enough to unlock more expansions for your ever-growing base camp, you’ll start to see how much more you can do beyond what’s listed in the main challenge. The pace of growth in Last Shelter: Survival is huge at the beginning, and while it can be a truly overwhelming effort, you’ll surely get the hang of it within a few hours.
2. Be multitasking
Like all base-building strategy MMOs, Last Shelter: Survival requires you to be efficient at all times. This goes beyond just doing something productive in the game and includes making sure all production facilities and tools are running smoothly.
Firstly, it can be very difficult to keep track of all production facilities, as well as activities that you constantly need to keep in mind. Luckily, Last Shelter: Survival provides features that make it much easier for you to identify buildings or activities that need attention.
The most important task that you constantly need to prioritize is building and upgrading. Please note that improvements and construction are most dependent on your base. Initially, you will have only one construction line, but a second one will be available soon. Priority should be set on buildings that you need to build or upgrade according to the main tasks, although you will naturally have to deviate from this as a result of the dependencies we mentioned.
They can be upgraded, and they are unlikely to become part of the main tasks. At some point, you will naturally be able to build multiple structures of the same type, and while you only need to keep updating one to complete tasks, doing the same for all resource production objects is actually a basic necessity.
Each of the main resources that you continue to produce and collect are sent to separate storages, which can only contain a limited amount of resources. These are a granary, an oil storage tank, an energy storage tank, a water tank, a lumber warehouse and an iron warehouse.
As the construction, upgrades, training, research, and even the base supply of your base camp continue to grow as you progress, you will also need to continually upgrade these storages to be able to hold and store more resources. Note that resources earned in excess of what can be stored are wasted unless they come in packs that run out of your inventory.
Ration trucks and power stations also require attention from time to time. Food trucks ensure that the population is well fed, while power plants constantly need fuel to generate power. Filling both of these structures can sometimes require more than what you have in stock, but keep in mind that it’s okay if you’re not carrying the full amount, as long as you can keep a close eye on when each one runs out of the necessary resources. function.
