# Tutorial for beginners

**URL:** https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/tutorial-for-beginners/903
**Category:** HWS General Discussion
**Tags:** support, help
**Created:** [September 6, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/tutorial-for-beginners/903 "2016-09-06T23:48:30Z")
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### Author: ![AzTraxius](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/user_avatar/forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/aztraxius/32/144_2.png) [@AzTraxius](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/AzTraxius)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/tutorial-for-beginners/903/3 "2016-09-07T11:19:36Z")

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> [@icecub](#):
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> On a planet it’s recommend to dig down to the bedrock and build your base there with sufficiant protection of course. Don’t just protect the entrance! Nothing will prevent another player from just digging their own entrance to your base.

IIRC we now have an antigriefing distance of 250m which should help to prevent moles, along with the offline protection coming back on 9/9/16 (please correct me if im wrong)  
but great guide wish i had this when i started

> [@HWS 3.3 / Patch 3.3](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-3-3-patch-3-3/765/1):
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> We can now set a PvP AntiGriefDistance, what we did: 250 meter! So you can’t dig or build 250 meter around a PvP base anymore.
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> I thought if I only set it on PvP the default parameter of 30m will come into play on PvE. Failed.  
> So I set 250m on ALL playfields now.  
> Should also help with the overcrowding problem if bases are not build on top of each other.

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