Decorations, Shrines and Base Designs

[Lovens]

I'm back with more pictures of my megabase. Today I'm showing my favorite build - The Oasis Garden!
 

A bit of pre-story 

Decorating around the Oasis pond is one of the main reasons I love to build in this biome. I've tried many designs in the past when I started basing in the Oasis Desert and after experimenting a bit I figured that I just love to turn the area around the lake into a garden, close to what it originally looks like but a bit more fancy. Whenever I tried something else it looked bland, especially all the artificial turfs.

A while ago I used to play in a semi-public server known as Oasis Spiderland and I sort of took the role of a base designer for our home. So we went from what your public Oasis base usually looks like...

...Back to its original green roots! The Oasis setpiece finally lived up to its name and gave us a chill place to hang around and take family pictures.

When I started my own megabase later I knew I wanted to turn my Oasis lake setpiece into the lushest garden ever to please the eye. I got very lucky with its location - it's on the border of Oasis Desert and Spider Quarry, serving as the "entrance to the base" build as well:

Alright, here's the big reveal!

The Oasis Garden

Now that the wax spray is added to the game I was finally able to lock all the trees and bushes in their blooming state and green color. This photo is taken in Autumn but all the birch trees are green just as I like them!


The bookcase by the lake is filled with rain books. When I need to farm fireflies, I switch to Wickerbottom in summer and read them at night to repeatedly stop and start the sandstorm. Each time it happens, a new set of 3 fireflies appears in the lake. 


The left side has a chest with materials for fishing rods, as well as some chests for storing crumpled packages. Sometimes I fish there for festive lights when I feel like it. Insulating pack comes in handy for storing live fish before I bundle it. Someday I'll use it for Wurt crafts/Merm King trading.

 

The right side has some bugnet materials for catching fireflies and butterflies. Also a fridge for thermal stone swapping. 

A close-up of the middle area. I used the mod that allows to plant flowers closer to create this dense flowerbed around the lake. Flowers in the middle of the lake were planted by homeless bees which are able to plant them in areas where players aren't allowed to. 

Back view of the build with some crows photobombing as usual:

Bonus picture 1: The lake in summer at night. Sadly it's hard to take good pictures with the sandstorm filter (even when wearing protective headgear).

Bonus picture 2: Current surroundings of the build are still WIP. On the "back side" that's the former Spider Quarry which I'm slowly turning into a Winter's Feast Wonderland, and on the "front side" there's my unfinished boss statue display/figure sketch storage. 


Thanks for watching! Which area of my base would you like to see next?

1. Wanda's Dressing room
2. Beefalo parking lot/Teleport station 
3. Antlion arena
4. Wickerbottom's Library
5. Hound defense
6. Cawnival park

 

[glooomy]

When I thought Year of the Dragonfly would involve dragon fruit...

or actual Dragonfly, for that matter

[BeeClops]

On 2/17/2024 at 2:43 AM, Lovens said:

Decorated my Lunar Rift 

I copied this build idea cause I loved it so much, for a relatively new world, day 1k ish. 

I underestimated big time how many signs it would take to block every other spawner, it took me like 200 days just for that even with rifts set to more. So for anyone trying to replicate this, it takes some work lol.

Please share more of your builds, that boat carousell is epic 

[BeeClops]

3 hours ago, grm9 said:

there are no spawners tho? they just spawn anywhere far away enough from stuff like signs

yes

[Lovens]

13 hours ago, BeeClops said:

I copied this build idea cause I loved it so much, for a relatively new world, day 1k ish. 

I underestimated big time how many signs it would take to block every other spawner, it took me like 200 days just for that even with rifts set to more. So for anyone trying to replicate this, it takes some work lol.

Please share more of your builds, that boat carousell is epic 

Aw thanks! I'm glad that you liked the build, and hope you enjoy using it too. It now looks even better with the new updated rift icon on the map. It glows from the very first stage and easy to know when it opened.

Yes it took a lot of work to block the entire world with signs for me too, it's a very late game task. I kinda did it gradually biome by biome. I don't even know how long it took but definitely more than 3 in-game years of slowly building them here and there. It helps that my friend joins as Maxwell from time to time and helps mass farming wood and rocks for all my megabasing needs. I often find myself too involved in building and fighting bosses, so any help with farming common resources is appreciated. The boat carousel surrounding area are almost finished now but I might want to wait a bit before posting it. I think some stuff from the upcoming update (ancient boat and new CK boat bumpers would be a nice addition to it). 

Grm is absolutely right, here are no fixed spawners. But it looks like there are some spots that are not valid for spawning rifts - usually very narrow stretches of land, or jagged places with ocean tiles in between. I have a few messed up places on my map and I didn't need to block them - rifts didn't spawn there. 

On a similar topic: I blocked all Klaus and Nightmare Werepig spawners and made dedicated arenas for both of them. It's easier to do than rifts and saves some time later - you don't need to search for them every time after. It also makes it possible to build in those biomes without worrying that bosses spawn and ruin your builds. 

[glooomy]

This isn't a base design but I thought I would share the mod I made for myself that reskins the Horror Hounds into my design of a Lunar Hound.

It is client-side and the swimming animation is currently broken but I am too lazy to work it out atm.

Lunar Hound Mod

 

Anyway I am such a SUCKER for ~themes~ and I love how well these fit with the lunar theme.

Also they look adorable with the Possessed Varg but I'm biased~

 

Horror Hound

Lunar Hound

 

Beta soon~! 

I promise the next thing I post will be actually base related...

[Lovens]

Today my Wanda celebrates day 7777 in her Dressing Room! 

I decided to take this opportunity to showcase my most used build in this world. 

Wanda's Dressing Room

This build is pretty close to the middle of the base. It's adjacent to my storage, kitchen, apiary and lazy deserter area which I often use to call friends back to the base when they play with me. And most importantly my teleport hub is close to the two farms that run only when loaded - Bunnymen Spider farm and Grass Gecko Monkey farm. 

This is my teleport hub for the entire map as well as a convenient place to drop off some loot.

I built it around a marble clockwork setpiece that I left unmined. Almost all big scaled chests have 6 teleports in each, but some are still empty (mostly the ones in the further section. I also store my personal gear and tools in smaller chests in between them.


On the left side I have a little festive tree with chests for ornament storing (my world is permanently in Winter's Feast just because I like collecting ornaments). When it gets filled with full stacks of baubles/ornaments, I transfer them to my large Winter's Feast storage. 

On the right side I have cartographer's desk for quickly erasing duplicate sketches/blueprints/adverts. After packing each boss chest with 36 figure sketches I'm now erasing them. Some unlabeled chests are for temporary junk that I need to quickly drop off, or stuff that doesn't have its dedicated place yet.

 

In the middle I have a "dressing cabinet" with come chairs, a scaled furnace and fridge for emergency thermal swapping. 

"Home" anchor spot with a scaled chest full of home teleports. They all lead to this place, and every time I come back from somewhere, I swap my home watch with a new one. Lifegiving amulets come in handy quite often - I get carried away with building and die of old age more often than I'd like to admit haha. Funny because I rarely die in actual fights. Amulet pile is sponsored by Mr. Klaus, of course!

In case you wanna take a peek inside those scaled chests:

Spoiler

Oasis base: Hound defense, Brightshade Gardens chain, Cawnival park, Salt mines, Circus and Oasis Garden

Boss arenas: Klaus, Bee Queen, Dragonfly, Lunar mutants, Moose Goose Chain, Terrarium


Surface setpieces/biomes #1: Triple Mc Tusk, The Stage, Pig King, Moonstone, Mandrake Forest, Pig Village forest

Surface setpieces/biomes #2: Rock Den, Frog Ponds, Savanna, Swamp, Second meteorite biome, Spider Quarry

Surface setpieces/builds: Celestial portal x2, Mosaic Graveyard, Hallowed Nights Lab, Winter's Feast Wonderland, Chessboard

Caves (3 top teleports go to the cave base with its own underground teleport hub, bottom one goes to a giant boulder dump in the muddy biome), Lunar Rift setpiece, Junkyard (Scrappy Werepig near tumbleweed spawners). I'd love to have a 100% Scrappy Chapauldron to mark the area but 20% is the highest I managed to get from this stupid boss. Can't even repair it 

Rarely visited surface builds: Deer herd pen and Varg farm. More teleports soon to be added...
 

Frequent ocean teleports: Malbatross pier, Crab King pier, main Frostjaw pier, CC arena, Maxwell's farms on lunar, Seaweed farm

Rarely visited ocean teleports: Pearl x2, Moon Quay x2, Safety voltgoat island


 Waterlogged.  I love ocean trees! Each row of teleports goes to the same waterlogged biome. I was able to surround all three of them with docks in my world, but only recently started working on the third one. Not sure what to mark it with, I'm running out of ideas. Maybe fireflies?

 

As usual, thanks for reading!

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2024 by Lovens

[glooomy]

testing the new bee box skin and experimenting with the closer placements

[Jimothywastaken]

the guards crab king spawns dont actually despawn so i made this little area for the crab child i kidnapped

 

[arubaro]

3 hours ago, Jimothywastaken said:

the guards crab king spawns dont actually despawn so i made this little area for the crab child i kidnapped

 

If i teleport a crab guard it stays forever? Q.Q

[Lovens]

7 hours ago, Jimothywastaken said:

the guards crab king spawns dont actually despawn so i made this little area for the crab child i kidnapped

 

This is adorable! 

[Jimothywastaken]

5 hours ago, arubaro said:

If i teleport a crab guard it stays forever? Q.Q

i didnt actually teleport the crab but i dont see why it shouldnt 
id test it just in case though 

[glooomy]

Experimenting a bit with using walls the way, I feel, Klei originally intended them to be used (to make closed-in bases).

Obviously not a real base, just a cozy cottage build.

WIP I'll never finish.

 

[Lovens]

Finally, a follow-up to my Shell Carousel post!

Ocean Boat Shrines

This is my completed Ocean Boat Shrine area. The three Boat Shrines are themed after Pearl, Crab King and Malbatross. The original idea with rotating them got scrapped since it messes up boat bumpers sometimes (they all gather in one spot and glitch). Sadly I planned this area long before another ocean boss (Frostjaw) got added into the game, so there's no Frostjaw-themed boat, and no way to fit it here without breaking everything. Not even sure what I'd put on it besides boots and his statue. Neither did I think of making a CC-themed boss - it doesn't feel like an ocean one to me. 

I was eagerly waiting for this update to finish this area and had to completely rebuild two boats after it came out - CK and Malbatross ones. Now that I look at it, using archaic boat for CK shrine was a mistake - it's not visible behind all the decorations anyway, so a regular boat would have been fine. And apparently it's impossible to reskin the boot that was already deployed, that's why I had to destroy the old Malbatross one as well :/

 

The location: It's still in the Oasis Desert, in the main part of my base. When I just started building docks around the base I started by surrounding the adjacent salt biome, and wanted to put something between it and the main base. A lot of stuff fit there besides this build but that's for a future post.

Zoomed-out view of the build: 


Boat Shrine close-ups. Pearl's Shrine:

Malbatross:

Crab King:

The whole build at night. Unfortunately sails automatically close when you unload the area and even three anchors are not enough to keep the boat in place with sails up, so I close them anyway.

I love how illuminated water looks in the dark. 

The only issue is skittersquids that like to spawn in these tiny decorative ponds and sometimes break fences. Not sure what causes them to do it - most of the time they are just stuck like that: 

Bonus picture: Rebuilding Malbatross boat because I couldn't reskin it. Did you know you could make nice symmetrical fountains in this game? Too bad they don't last long. 

I have a couple adjacent ocean-themed builds that I plan to show later when I finish working on them. 

Thanks for reading! 

Edited July 10, 2024 by Lovens

[xhyom]

1 hour ago, Lovens said:

SO GOOD whaat i want to live here

[glooomy]

Something I'm working on for the X marks the spot

(only one can spawn in a world at a time so I guess I'm never going to dig it up lol)

Update...

Edited July 19, 2024 by glooomy

[glooomy]

I attempted a Loven's carousel

 

 

 

[lowercase skye]

WIP build for my sproutrocks. You can see the sort of pattern I'll be repeating on the deciduous bits and the path, but I'm not quite sure what to put on the forest parts. Any ideas?

Edited July 24, 2024 by finn from human

[Lovens]

3 hours ago, glooomy said:

I attempted a Loven's carousel

 

 

 

This looks stunning, thanks for sharing your take on it! It's such a beautiful build, and I love the color scheme too. Great use of those blinking telltale hearts on the floor! 

Here's what I've been up to recently. I love decorating with kelp stalks so the moment I heard here on the forums about marotter dens producing them I knew I NEEDED a marotter farm! It's still WIP but I'm happy with how it's turning out. 

Edited July 25, 2024 by Lovens

[Valase]

On 7/10/2024 at 8:08 PM, Lovens said:

Crab King:

Firstly, I love your designs!

and secondly, why not use the pearled crab king ornament instead of the default ones?

[Lovens]

1 minute ago, Valase said:

Firstly, I love your designs!

and secondly, why not use the pearled crab king ornament instead of the default ones?

Thanks! All pearled CK ornaments went into decorating palm trees in CK arena and trees near CK statue in my boss trophy alley. I did around 17 pearled ones until I decided that's enough with the extra celestial tributes. So I don't have too many of the pearled ornaments compared to regular ones. 

[gaymime]

7 hours ago, glooomy said:

I attempted a Loven's carou

this is gorgeous<3 please though, what are the branches in the endtables?

[glooomy]

9 hours ago, gaymime said:

this is gorgeous<3 please though, what are the branches in the endtables?

They are petals! Every time you place a petal in an end table they have a chance of spawning a certain variety of flower boutique. I cycled through each of them until I got my desired boutique type (I felt these ones complimented the carnival lights the most). It is RNG so took me over a stack of petals to get the ones I wanted :’) pain  

[Lovens]

15 hours ago, glooomy said:

They are petals! Every time you place a petal in an end table they have a chance of spawning a certain variety of flower boutique. I cycled through each of them until I got my desired boutique type (I felt these ones complimented the carnival lights the most). It is RNG so took me over a stack of petals to get the ones I wanted :’) pain  

Oh I feel like you'd like this mod recommendation then. It's called Lasting Endtable Decorations. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1255189699
You can put them into the endtable, then cycle through all bouquet types by hammering the table to get the one you like the most. Here's my favorite two that go super well with cawnival table skin: 
 

Guess where this wormhole goes? 

Edited July 26, 2024 by Lovens

[ChintzyGnat]

Yall making me feel bad about my building and I'm not even a bad builder lol.