Rylanor Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 I just curious to see all your interesting bases and ideas, feel free to share. I know there are one topic about base designs, but he exist more for decorative bases, what about your usual base that you build just for everyday-survival or with friends for fun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BezKa Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 My fav is a convoluted mess that maybe I will clean up someday but not now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigfrids hat Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 i have two designs i tend to fall back on: the house style of base separated into rooms and blocked in by walls; and the "square-in-a-square" where carpet is placed in the middle of a square of wood or linoleum and built around it in an outwards pattern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuroite Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Whichever the character im playing, ill try to do something like that (Kitchen, Drying rack, Gecko pen, chest area). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToXic Cur3 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 This is the base i make in a world not the most organized but it keeps me alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaZoul Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 At first I read "your favorite boss design" and I was getting excited, Then, of course, I slowly realized that I might've misread something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondayNight Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 In a pretty distant past (long before "Reap What You Sow" update), when I was playing more Endless community/private servers and did bases (as opposed to a nomadic play-style on Survival pubs now with at most an elaborate Boat micro-base - example in spoiler at end-of-post) I reached a medium-size design combining both functionality and aesthetics that were pleasing to me - at least one that could accommodate 1-2 players with ease in quite harsh environments (Cave Swamp, Labyrinth entrance, Pearl's island). Core was kitchen, and light/warmth. Sadly still way too boxy and radial symmetry as opposed to a more desirable Wabi-sabi nature-like soothing asymmetry I would want to dab into in future. Cave Swamp design: Details in spoiler below. Spoiler Labyrinth's entrance design: Details in spoiler below. Spoiler Pearl's Island experiment (using [DST] Legion mod): Mentioned Boat micro-base concepts in spoiler below. Spoiler Final "the most useful elements in the least space" design: Eye-Turret Experiment: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondayNight Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 20 minutes ago, gaymime said: perhaps i am mistaken and there are just two base that are a lot alike but if i am correct this image right here is the one that made me become a cave baser(well, until the rwys beta when i abandoned most of my worlds and just started playing nomadic in tropical experience) May very well be so. I do remember I've posted it in another thread some time ago, a general bases-design one like present I believe; but that topic disappeared. I think it got archived because lack of interaction. Perhaps this topic will survive longer. Seems if OPs of such threads don't keep them alive somehow, usually with posts of their own (and/or their friends), they don't get much traction. About 3 years ago, "legit" (actual game-play as opposed to just spawning stuff via console commands/Creative in God Mode) base designs were popular, most likely because DST was fairly new. In time interest dwindled. If I'm not mistaken even @NSAiswatchingus made a base-design topic in recent past (as in last year?!). But DST is getting pretty old by now, not much innovation people are willing to think and experiment with by this point. Who knows.. I as well for last year-and-some stopped doing bases at all. Mostly 'cause personal servers don't interest me anymore and Endless pubs where I played were either resetting before I got to finish my work (aka reaching a base form I was glad with for print-screen) or the dedicated server disappeared completely in the meanwhile. For last year I've done mostly short Survival pub sessions, punctual rushes (bosses, ruins, Moon, Pearl, just fishing etc) via nomadic play-style, but after 3 times at the end of last year of being spawn-killed by traps (Walls/Fossils pens and spawned Tentacles inside/all around pen on 2 separate EU servers) I've ditched Survival public rooms too. Atm am trying something on a friend's personal server - hope some nice new print-screen designs will come out of it to share. If present thread won't get nixed as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainChaotica Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Design? My bases tend to kind of have the square-in-a-square thing in the middle, but then after that things get put wherever it's convenient/I have room for them at the time. My most recent example: (it looks better when frogs aren't knocking everything out of my inventory, I swear) (More) drying racks and now-defunct farms (this base goes back to 2019) to the south, off to the right is my cherry trees, "cafe area" and shrines, and to the slight northwest is "the choppin' trees", aka the ones you can freely beat up because they're not meant to be decorative. (You CAN chop a cherry tree...as long as you replant.) Grass and berry bushes are everywhere, including in the carpet, because I'm in a meadow that borders a savannah. There's also a moleworm who was a resident before I got here and still is. Here's an older example, from "Camp One-Foot-in-the-Grave" aka my best run that got stopped by a glitch: As you can see, I haven't changed much since 2016/2017. I slop things down wherever. : P ...Notorious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousChimera Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Pearl and boat bases are my favorite so far because we travel a lot on the ocean with boat camp: Pear/boat bases Spoiler Boat camps Spoiler Heathen boat Fancy boat Survival servers won't last for long so occasionally, we enjoy our time in random pup by building functional one-flingo bases for everyone. Spoiler Moon garden RIP old circle farm no monster base Fixed station base: Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinancoTheBest Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 I don't often put much of a 'design' to bases myself but yesterday in this public server, our Wendy player was pretty into designing so she went with these simple square spaces around the oasis and it shaped quite nicely. I guess with walls, pathways and decorative items, this method can make pretty bases quite easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rronine Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Here's the kitchen of my 1k world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSAiswatchingus Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 9 hours ago, x0-VERSUS-1y said: If I'm not mistaken even @NSAiswatchingus made a base-design topic in recent past (as in last year?!). But DST is getting pretty old by now, not much innovation people are willing to think and experiment with by this point. Who knows.. I didn't start the thread but kept a close eye on it looking for inspiration. I do kind of miss the days when everyone wanted to show off their megabases they built off a checklist. Edit: my favorite base design I've made. Center of Imperator City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intrepidpioneer Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 17 hours ago, ToXic Cur3 said: This is the base i make in a world not the most organized but it keeps me alive If you position them just right you can fit 7 drying racks on a single boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigfrids hat Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 8 hours ago, Rronine said: Here's the kitchen of my 1k world love how ominous this kitchen is XD i really dont think i want to know what those birdies have seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinisterrkid Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 On 2/10/2021 at 7:06 PM, x0-VERSUS-1y said: Yes, I finally get to give you a shoutout! I remember you posting this image some time ago and feeling really inspired, but later I ended up forgetting who had posted it. My bases used to be overly symmetrical, almost in a grid, and your beautiful base here motivated me to break out of that rut, and it's still my favorite base setup I've seen. Here's the one I'm currently working on (But after seeing your base again I'm still itching for the vibe I get from yours.) Oh, and disregard Chungus on the top right. It's from the Chungus mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondayNight Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 3 hours ago, sinisterrkid said: Yes, I finally get to give you a shoutout! I remember you posting this image some time ago and feeling really inspired, but later I ended up forgetting who had posted it. My bases used to be overly symmetrical, almost in a grid, and your beautiful base here motivated me to break out of that rut, and it's still my favorite base setup I've seen. Here's the one I'm currently working on (But after seeing your base again I'm still itching for the vibe I get from yours.) Oh, and disregard Chungus on the top right. It's from the Chungus mod. Indeed well-made asymmetrical designs are more pleasing to the eye, makes for more (nature-like) focal points of interest as opposed to a central one, more-so if soothing transitions are made between elements, like turfs. Speaking about turfs, here's a small suggestion if you may, that perhaps you'll fancy in your future designs: Cave Rock Turf (works very well imo with Wooden Flooring, Checkerboard Flooring, Cobblestones, Rocky Turf), Rocky Beach Turf (excellent in combination with Ponds, Grass and Rocky Turf to create the impression of micro delta tranquility environments), and Ancient Stonework for "oriental high-class" kitchens (bonus elements: if also using Terracotta Cooking Pot skin, Tureen pot, Baroque Birdcage plus Clawfoot Furnace skin, they work swell with Ancient turf; likewise if decorating further with Ancient Ornamental Thulecite walls and Potted Succulents). You can make cute interesting arrangement on Sandy Turf with Spiky Bushes, Fossils, Antlion's Cavein Boulders, Thulecite Walls and Potted Succu/Ferns, asymmetrical as well. In following spoiler are old bits and pieces of what I've pointed at above. Spoiler A decorative Bee garden with various walls, plants, Relic Replicas: Skeleton, More Relic Replicas, Cavein Boulders, Thule Walls and Potted Plants: Very old Skeleton Shrine using More Sculptures mod (sadly is bugged and causes crashes; featuring DST Path Lights mod) as example for Sandy Turf plus Spiky Bushes mixture: PS: some theoretical asymmetric-design stuff in spoiler below for anyone interested. Spoiler In that line of the Wabi-sabi principle I point at time-and-again, one can take as a template-base the Golden ratio geometric concept; more precisely its golden spirals graphic application - focal points where one should place main elements of design for the most soothing effect to the onlooker: When viewing map from above (btw, I recommend Aerial View client-side mod for anyone into base designs - if not already using it), one should consider Rule of Thirds too for main/focal points: (Yep, can be seen as "over kill"; but still - good trivia to take into account for DST base-designs as well.) PPS: a fairly recent 1-Flingo mini Walter base centered around farming Krampi for Sacks during last Hallowed Nights event; sadly didn't manage to finish it as envisioned because Endless server I was playing on got reset at some point: And lel Chungus. If you want some more dopey-derp client-side mods, you may wanna check Screaming Man Rabbit (very manly-men lil rabbits) plus "WHERE IS BASE?" Pigs (for when you never get tired of someone asking "WHERE BASE?!" ..when in base *thumbs-up*) On 2/10/2021 at 7:35 PM, gaymime said: Only now have I realized we can place Grass Tuft and Saplings on the Farm Soil Turf-plot made via Rigamajig (never tried to do so). Can make for nice decorations especially at plot's margins - good concept! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picklesaurus Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 On 2/10/2021 at 1:52 PM, BezKa said: My fav is a convoluted mess that maybe I will clean up someday but not now I made it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuroite Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 9 hours ago, Picklesaurus said: I made it myself. I'm so trigerred I'm gonna faint. Hope we never play together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArubaroBeefalo Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 9 hours ago, Picklesaurus said: I made it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invogue Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Hope you like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Giggio Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 im still trying to decide between these two for play in public servers once i always do the same structures just to play a few hours In this printscreen im on creative mode so its kinda impossible to have all this stuff in this early What u guys think?? Left or right?? the right one has more stuff but in the left one these stuff will be builded side by side in a mirror effect, this one expanded to sides, not in a long way as the right one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxil20 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 On 2/10/2021 at 11:52 AM, BezKa said: My fav is a convoluted mess that maybe I will clean up someday but not now Admittedly it’s what I usually fall into. I always usually have a “temporary base” before making a serious base around a few hundred days in. Making a small base would be more pretty, but A. I’m tearing the temporary base down anyways the moment I get established, and B. At minimum, you really only need some crock pots, science/magic, an ice box, turf, and a lightning rod to get by. Other stuff is helpful, but it isn’t always required. I especially don’t make chests until I get established, as a floor storage works pretty well early on and chances are you not much is going to be destroyed when left on the ground anyway, unless it’s minerals if it’s in the caves. So yes, while I do enjoy making bases, I’m not in a rushing mood to get them started. Here’s a picture of my current 9000+ day world on ~day 140, for a quick reference :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondayNight Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 6 hours ago, MrSoratori said: im still trying to decide between these two for play in public servers once i always do the same structures just to play a few hours In this printscreen im on creative mode so its kinda impossible to have all this stuff in this early What u guys think?? Left or right?? the right one has more stuff but in the left one these stuff will be builded side by side in a mirror effect, this one expanded to sides, not in a long way as the right one In pubs, if you make the communal base with purpose of sustaining many players, you'll more-or-less have to feed most if-not-all people coming in. Thus, naturally, you should go with the setup best suited to "mass produce" food - aka one in right. From my experience is actually not hard to obtain in first 20 days all that you have there doing "multi-purposing": basically you gather needed materials while doing a solo DF run, with some small detour to one of the Broken Ancient Pseudoscience Station for Starcaller Staff. Still the plot-farms space seems to me kinda excessive - a 2x 4x4 should suffice (having Berry Bushes included, fillers are mostly assured). GL in your endeavors, public runs are quite fun! (well, minus the griefers that is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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