From my experience, filled with 3 stacks it can last almost a month without care that way. The totem even has 3 inventory slots it feeds from, you can put the rocks in there to prevent decay for as long as you want or can. A full decay takes 2 weeks, so you have enough time to farm some. It's also set to PvP in singleplayer, but that can be fully ignored there, no worries.Īlso, it decays like these stashes and needs to be repaired with rocks. You can just hold E on it and set it to PvE like your stashes with a 10 seconds timer. When placing a totem on a PvEvP server, it is set to PvP by default.
Now you have claimed your land! But the area is quite small, your totem has a health bar and why is there a red symbol next to it? This helps finding the right spot and to estimate where you can build afterwards. While placing, you can see your totem and the potentially claimed area prior to placing it. You have found your spot to build and want to place your totem.