I have a spot located where I plan to build my water pen and there is a nice piece of land next to it so I have started constructing a new base there. The base I have been working on to date has always been planned as a storage base. Its there to put all my extra dino's (as well as a few vanity projects). Well I've started on an actual base this time. I had a idea for a base design that looked fantastic in my head. The effect I was going for hasn't completely translated so far but it still looks good.
This is the foundation work. It will prob all be filled in at some point but I wanted to get the outer wall up ASAP so I could start on the idea I had and make it safer to work in.
This is the first section of wall completed. As you can see the bottom is sloped and the top has the spiral curve. It did have more of a spiral but I removed it as you won't be able to see it anyway. I ended up having to tame a couple of Dilo's to cover me while I built as there seems to be a fair few Dilo's on this beach and they were getting annoying while I was doing the foundation work. I didn't want to have to keep jumping on the wyvern. Once the walls were up I set them on aggro inside the base and they died to a trike lol.
I managed to get the spiral done all the way around the outerwall. I've left a gap here for where the entrance will be. The walls everything are connected to are 2x large walls. I am thinking of removing a few and adding glass panels so that on the inside you can look in on the spiral.
Here is another great example of how I do my initial foundation work. I actually built this twice. First time I built it too far in land and it went up the hill which I didn't want. I started with 6 tri in the middle and had made it out to fit the 4 squares seperated by 1 tri. Then it was a dozen square out from that center. On moving it I removed all but the line of square pointing towards the ocean. I knew I was doing 12 foundations outwards to start with so I just took that close to the water and then in the center I didn't even bother filling it in. I made the 'circle' of foundations in the center then all the square runs went out 12. On the outside edge I ran the tri to join them all then chucked up the walls. I did a section of the ceiling to see how much foundations I needed to at least get support and it turned out to be very little as you can see. I couldn't do the center tho so I just added a few tri sticking into the middle which added enough to complete that middle section. That will be removed anyway as that will be my storage which will be mounted in the floor. This is a tried and true method I have used across a number of builds. I have the storage, kitchen and crafting as my central building on the main floor as they are the most important things I use.
I plan to assemble this base using the scroll work I used on the storage base. This time however I will be building with that specifically in mind so I hope to have it turn out a lot better. It also won't be nearly as tall as the storage base which was required as the cliff was so high. I'm thinking that I won't have seperated scrolls this time but use a glass structure between them and make it more of an enclosed tower structure. At least thats the plan at this very moment. Give it a couple of days and that may be completely different lol.
This structure went up really quickly. This is a great example of what I keep telling people. If you get your foundations sorted right from the get go, then the rest of your build will be far easier to complete. I'm not sure you noticed but I swapped the tri and square outside the orig foundations I laid. I had to add extra to support the overhanging spiral so I swapped the large sides to square. This was a tactical choice. I love working in the tri but it can be a pain when it comes to making the slopes and it takes a LOT more tri to fill a space in compared to square. By swapping it made it so that the tri slopes of the spiral were on the shortest sides of the other wall thus much less effort :) Remember when your doing bigger builds to take the time to think things out to try reduce what effort is involved. And build big. It is my opinion you should build bigger than you think you need rather than trying to expand an existing structure and having to mess with the foundations again. Expansion does lead to some interesting designs I must admit but if you already have the extra foundation size all sorted then it will be easier if you do decide to. I've built big enough times I have a good idea of how big I a space I will need.
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