Bexx replied to Basic and Advanced Building Tips Please May 25, 2022 @ 5:43:57 am PDT
I'm on my 3rd playthrough now (first was co-op where my mate let me build everything, 2nd was Singleplayer and now again co-op, where again I am the builder).
I think by the time and with every new base one develops his own style of building. Every time I get to stone I want to build huge things with stone but then ending up just mixing stone and wood because of the natural look. I use stone for floors only and the harbour area, and this time for the kitchen area (yes farming stone is a grind, that's why I always keep the stones when mining copper, later mining up al the rocks around my base and the big rocks that you find near the surrounding shores in meadows).
Watching YouTube videos about building not to copy stuff but to get some nice impressions and little ideas. This time I've build a viking style long house, so yes I use a flat terrain for that and 1 floor only. Sure its a little bit of work to have a real flattened terrain! Other buildings in my base like portal hubs or pig pens can be in elevated or lower natural terrain though.
This time my house is that big, that for the first time I used ironwood poles to support the huge roof structure. In the beginning that house was smaller, but now it's pretty big after reaching iron age. It's much work to change existing structures. For long houses I like to use oriel windows at the side, where you can add more space/rooms later if needed. Especially in the first playthrough it can happen that your house/base is too small to add stuff while you advance through the different biomes, or your base ends up beeing cramped because all the stuff you want to have there. On further playthroughs you have an Idea of how much space you need and plan ahead from the beginning.
Also this time I've spent a lot of time in decorating, and I love the results.
Like others said, do you want to have just a safe base with only all the necessary things or do you want to have something big like a huge house with many decorations or a complete cosy village where you feel home every time when you come back from your adventures and where you can feel all the work that you have spent into.
Creative mode could be an option, if you don't want to spend much time into getting resources. As far as I know you can build up your base with all the stuff that's available ingame in a new world and then just start playing in that world normally, but I think that takes away some of the motivation to advance through the biomes/ages.
Let me see if I can provide some screenshots of my base to give you an idea of what I'm talking about!
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198086684768/screenshots/#scrollTop=0
That's a link to my profile's screenshot area, where you can find some screenshots of my base.
I think by the time and with every new base one develops his own style of building. Every time I get to stone I want to build huge things with stone but then ending up just mixing stone and wood because of the natural look. I use stone for floors only and the harbour area, and this time for the kitchen area (yes farming stone is a grind, that's why I always keep the stones when mining copper, later mining up al the rocks around my base and the big rocks that you find near the surrounding shores in meadows).
Watching YouTube videos about building not to copy stuff but to get some nice impressions and little ideas. This time I've build a viking style long house, so yes I use a flat terrain for that and 1 floor only. Sure its a little bit of work to have a real flattened terrain! Other buildings in my base like portal hubs or pig pens can be in elevated or lower natural terrain though.
This time my house is that big, that for the first time I used ironwood poles to support the huge roof structure. In the beginning that house was smaller, but now it's pretty big after reaching iron age. It's much work to change existing structures. For long houses I like to use oriel windows at the side, where you can add more space/rooms later if needed. Especially in the first playthrough it can happen that your house/base is too small to add stuff while you advance through the different biomes, or your base ends up beeing cramped because all the stuff you want to have there. On further playthroughs you have an Idea of how much space you need and plan ahead from the beginning.
Also this time I've spent a lot of time in decorating, and I love the results.
Like others said, do you want to have just a safe base with only all the necessary things or do you want to have something big like a huge house with many decorations or a complete cosy village where you feel home every time when you come back from your adventures and where you can feel all the work that you have spent into.
Creative mode could be an option, if you don't want to spend much time into getting resources. As far as I know you can build up your base with all the stuff that's available ingame in a new world and then just start playing in that world normally, but I think that takes away some of the motivation to advance through the biomes/ages.
Let me see if I can provide some screenshots of my base to give you an idea of what I'm talking about!
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198086684768/screenshots/#scrollTop=0
That's a link to my profile's screenshot area, where you can find some screenshots of my base.
2:13 pm, May 25, 2022