RuneStar

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You know the base game has a building (from Casie) that allows to maintain and repair all structures within a certain range

"Certain range"

Bro. I don't care about that shet. It's useless to me.

My game and the structures I had covered almost half of the initial island. Walls with 3000 health, glass spikes, sharp wooden things. Do you understand that even with a high-level character and giving it maximum movement and attack range, it barely covered a tiny little part of what I had protecting me?

And I repeat,

" I had already posted something similar, which is fine. The cheat menu itself just corrupted my game, it won't let me enter houses or interact with the NPCs I already had..."

In case reading comprehension is not the strong suit of many.
 

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DuniX

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Does anyone have base building tips?
I am pretty sure there was a post with that but can't find it.
 

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Does anyone have base building tips?
I am pretty sure there was a post with that but can't find it.
1) Enemies are dumb and have very low chance of finding the entrance to your base, even if you have one on every side. They will start bashing the walls instead. Put spikes in front of your walls to punish them. Put cactus walls to really punish them.
2) Raid magnet amulets are important to base defenses. Put them on your scariest monster. Or, if you don't have one, on somebody set to "survivor" behavior.
3) Build a bunch of "storage"-type containers for materials, and surround them with workbenches. You can keep food production separate from that.
4) Villagers are also dumb. They will only check one house to see if there is a place for them to sleep. Make sure there's only one house in their area.
5) But the villagers have personalities, and personalities they dislike. It doesn't really matter if they like each other, but make sure to avoid putting together people who hate each other's guts.
6) Alternatively, build an arena for people who hate each other's guts, and have them fight endlessly for the glory of Rome exp farming.
7) Villagers need water to work, and food to heal from wounds. Make sure villagers are always in the radius of at least one well or food box. Note that villagers need to be in radius of a building, and not the other way around. That's why water collectors are so bad - they have very small radius.
 

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1) Enemies are dumb and have very low chance of finding the entrance to your base, even if you have one on every side. They will start bashing the walls instead. Put spikes in front of your walls to punish them. Put cactus walls to really punish them.
2) Raid magnet amulets are important to base defenses. Put them on your scariest monster. Or, if you don't have one, on somebody set to "survivor" behavior.
3) Build a bunch of "storage"-type containers for materials, and surround them with workbenches. You can keep food production separate from that.
4) Villagers are also dumb. They will only check one house to see if there is a place for them to sleep. Make sure there's only one house in their area.
5) But the villagers have personalities, and personalities they dislike. It doesn't really matter if they like each other, but make sure to avoid putting together people who hate each other's guts.
6) Alternatively, build an arena for people who hate each other's guts, and have them fight endlessly for the glory of Rome exp farming.
7) Villagers need water to work, and food to heal from wounds. Make sure villagers are always in the radius of at least one well or food box. Note that villagers need to be in radius of a building, and not the other way around. That's why water collectors are so bad - they have very small radius.
I mean how to handle walls and platforms and stuff.
 

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I mean how to handle walls and platforms and stuff.
All optional, once you want to fight high Level Raiders they don't help in any reasonable way.
It's better to distract them from your main camp and deal with them in a killing zone
 

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All optional, once you want to fight high Level Raiders they don't help in any reasonable way.
It's better to distract them from your main camp and deal with them in a killing zone
No I mean literally how to build walls as the alignment and snapping in this game is an absolute mess.
 

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5) But the villagers have personalities, and personalities they dislike. It doesn't really matter if they like each other, but make sure to avoid putting together people who hate each other's guts.
Turn off "Allow Love" if you don't want to bother with that
 
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No I mean literally how to build walls as the alignment and snapping in this game is an absolute mess.
If you are doing this for aestetic I am afraid your gues is as good as mine, like flannan said AI is pretty stupid so just placing some walls close to each other is enough for functionality, if you want some aestetic you'd likely need to unlock the Dungeon stuff which allows to build singular wood pillars and combined haveing a pallisade.
 

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No I mean literally how to build walls as the alignment and snapping in this game is an absolute mess.
Gotta painstakingly wiggle your cursor around and hope the walls and platforms snap in place. There's a slight trick where you can quickly pause and unpause the game which might hopefully force the game to update the building and do the snapping-to quicker but it's still a crapshoot. This trick is more useful when trying to align midair platforms on second storeys and higher.

A lot of people just eschew doing this for walls and use multiple wooden pillars instead, which can be quickly stacked adjacent to each other and look like better-looking wooden walls since these are aligned NS-EW instead of the weird diagonals the default walls have.

As for platforms... still have to do it painstakingly slowly. You can use a stair to help you align the height for the first platform, since you can freely adjust the height of a stair. Word of advice though: make sure you place the first platform on 1.4m stairs or higher for each storey, to avoid them blocking you from moving underneath. Technically 1.3m can also work but the main characters' movement are a bit "floaty" at higher speeds so you need 1.4m or higher (1.6m to be sure) to avoid getting stuck or slowed down.
 

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4) Villagers are also dumb. They will only check one house to see if there is a place for them to sleep. Make sure there's only one house in their area.
You can reallocate their "house". At night, wake up them, make them follow you, make them follow you to their "new house" with an empty bed and make them leave you. They will, few scond after, go to a free bed and sleep. They will use this house after. In the xml save file, an NPC has a "houseId" field. You can edit it.
 

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I don't see that working

When i go to craft and there is a chest nearby like the spider chest, it doesn't show what is in the chest
I think they meant the Spider Storage.

Storages (Cloth, Spider, Wing, Chaos) in general share their contents with nearby workbenches (and NPCs that can craft), which is visually represented by curved glowing blue lines connecting the storage to the workbenches.
 
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