Southern hogs are much like our hogs, they are attracted to open sunny sandy areas, particularly with some wetlands nearby.
The mass, would be the sandy earth that holds temps and humidity the animals utilize. When I say mass, it includes a large enough area that temps and humidity are steady, over long periods. Fall, winter, spring is where they mass areas are very important, mid summer is usually a time for feeding and they will often move to areas, edge of wetlands to feed. Including areas where they do not burrow. There they shelter at the base of bushes.
We have witnessed on our long term studies, where snakes utilized a mass area and it was ruined and abandoned because a tree grew up and blocked the sun. Which intern changed the temps of those areas.
So if you have a sandy area with unobstructed southern exposure, You may have a good start.
I will say, outdoors is far more difficult then indoors, but once you get it right, its so much fun and educational.
Home mass areas can include, deep sandy areas for hogs, or rock out crops, cobble layers in the ground for other species like crots and lyresnakes and some types of kings, dead trees, or dead parts of live trees, for ratsnakes, etc.

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