Decorations, Shrines and Base Designs

[raniskog]

Does anyone have any cool boss arenas they want to show off? Looking for some inspiration for my new megabase world!

[Lovens]

1 hour ago, raniskog said:

Does anyone have any cool boss arenas they want to show off? Looking for some inspiration for my new megabase world!

Hey, I've got a couple to show!

Antlion Arena

Antlion arena almost in the middle of my base so it's the most elaborate one and the one I prioritized decorating first things first:

Here's the zoomed out view. Sorry for the glass spikes in the middle. I was kinda lazy to clean them up haha, I usually do it right before the next fight. Every time I fight her I'm trying to get a few even though I already have lots of them and I barely use any. 

My fave thing about it is how the arena looks at night, I made those glowcaps orange:

Some details:

Here's the arena in Summer:

The fight is safe. She won't destroy any of the surrounding decor as long as I stay inside of the sand castle ring during the fight. The only things that get moved slightly are the closest corner desert rocks that I use as a trim. 

And now, another fun thing this place can do! It looks a lot cooler in the motion but you get the idea. It's like a small sandstorm on the edge of the arena haha. 

Malbatross dock

Malbatross "arena" is my next fave one. I got blessed with a Malbatross spawner very close to the shore of my Oasis, and I ended up building a dock to fight it there: 

[A keen eye might notice a second similar build in the bottom right corner, but it's still not finished. Same idea pretty much, but the spawner is a less convenient location and the dock is smaller.]

The zoomed out view of the build during the day:

And at night. I went out of my way to light up all those mast lights, usually they are off. I wish I could put CC crown shards in them, they look so pretty! 

The entrance bridge: 

Side view:

Boat entrance/parking spots that I left for using this as an actual dock where I might stop my boat and drop off some treasure chests:

In the right corner there's this one stubborn missing fence that Malbatross keeps dashing over and breaking. I was tired of fixing it for the 20th time and just covered it with treasure chests on the other side. Klei, it's a flying boss, why does it even break fences? It makes absolutely no sense!

This used to be my main fishing place for when I'm not playing Wicker or hiring Maxwell to help me with some heavy/seasonal fishing. Now it's just a fish storage pretty much, I rarely go here:

That crappy boat parked there used to be my main boat since when I started this world. That's the one I used to do Pearl's quests, fight Crab King for the first time and do other ocean shenanigans. Now it's forever parked here and I kept it just for the memories.

Ok, now to some dangerous stunts with Malbatross! This is my fighting boat, equipped with anchors and boat repair materials, as well as a cannon (in case a monkey raid shows up. Learned the hard way this place is in their raid radius haha). 

One downside of having a dock near a Malbatross spawner is that Malba despawns if you fight him while standing on docks or let it hang over the docks during the fight for too long. So my strategy (when I do wanna kill it) is to jump on the boat and aggro it onto me asap, preferably without it flying over those masts and fences (it breaks them).

From there it's simple: Wanda just tanks, swaps bone armors and kills it in a few seconds. I try to position it so he pushes the boat against the dock. Then the boat doesn't drift away too far from it (it can happen even with two anchors if he gets a hit on it from the other side).

I like luring Malba on the dock before dealing the last blow and kill him over it instead of water, for easier cleanup after the fight: 

I fought it so many times that I have way more beaks than I'd ever use. I dump them in this corner and their shadow is slowly turning into a black hole. There must be at least 50 in there, the rest are sitting on boats/docks and in my ocean storage. 

So now when I visit this place (for fishing or to grab a beak) I just take the advantage of the Malba despawn mechanic and deliberately lure it over the docks so it goes away and lets me do the thing I came here for. I had to do it a couple of times when placing finishing touches on the dock before taking these screenshots. 

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Thanks for reading!

I also have a couple of semi-finished arenas (Crab King dock, Klaus, Deerclops/Mutated Lunar bosses) and a few WIP ones (Dfly, Scrappy Werepig, Moose Goose spawners) but this post is already too long. I could show them in one of the next posts, tell me if you are interested. Oh and I also posted my BQ arena here earlier. It's pretty much unchanged except I added a couple of flingomatics and reskinned catapults and gemerators in it. Unfortunately I can't really solo cheese it with catapults as Wanda like I used to, so I only fight her now when friends join my world as Maxwell or Winona. I could switch to Winona myself or do the fight legit as Wanda (takes a bit longer and is more resource demanding) but I don't really need BQ drops for now, so I don't bother. 

 

[NPCMaxwell]

43 minutes ago, Lovens said:

Hey, I've got a couple to show!

Antlion Arena

Antlion arena almost in the middle of my base so it's the most elaborate one and the one I prioritized decorating first things first:

Here's the zoomed out view. Sorry for the glass spikes in the middle. I was kinda lazy to clean them up haha, I usually do it right before the next fight. Every time I fight her I'm trying to get a few even though I already have lots of them and I barely use any. 

My fave thing about it is how the arena looks at night, I made those glowcaps orange:

Some details:

Here's the arena in Summer:

The fight is safe. She won't destroy any of the surrounding decor as long as I stay inside of the sand castle ring during the fight. The only things that get moved slightly are the closest corner desert rocks that I use as a trim. 

And now, another fun thing this place can do! It looks a lot cooler in the motion but you get the idea. It's like a small sandstorm on the edge of the arena haha. 

Malbatross dock

Malbatross "arena" is my next fave one. I got blessed with a Malbatross spawner very close to the shore of my Oasis, and I ended up building a dock to fight it there: 

[A keen eye might notice a second similar build in the bottom right corner, but it's still not finished. Same idea pretty much, but the spawner is a less convenient location and the dock is smaller.]

The zoomed out view of the build during the day:

And at night. I went out of my way to light up all those mast lights, usually they are off. I wish I could put CC crown shards in them, they look so pretty! 

The entrance bridge: 

Side view:

Boat entrance/parking spots that I left for using this as an actual dock where I might stop my boat and drop off some treasure chests:

In the right corner there's this one stubborn missing fence that Malbatross keeps dashing over and breaking. I was tired of fixing it for the 20th time and just covered it with treasure chests on the other side. Klei, it's a flying boss, why does it even break fences? It makes absolutely no sense!

This used to be my main fishing place for when I'm not playing Wicker or hiring Maxwell to help me with some heavy/seasonal fishing. Now it's just a fish storage pretty much, I rarely go here:

That crappy boat parked there used to be my main boat since when I started this world. That's the one I used to do Pearl's quests, fight Crab King for the first time and do other ocean shenanigans. Now it's forever parked here and I kept it just for the memories.

Ok, now to some dangerous stunts with Malbatross! This is my fighting boat, equipped with anchors and boat repair materials, as well as a cannon (in case a monkey raid shows up. Learned the hard way this place is in their raid radius haha). 

One downside of having a dock near a Malbatross spawner is that Malba despawns if you fight him while standing on docks or let it hang over the docks during the fight for too long. So my strategy (when I do wanna kill it) is to jump on the boat and aggro it onto me asap, preferably without it flying over those masts and fences (it breaks them).

From there it's simple: Wanda just tanks, swaps bone armors and kills it in a few seconds. I try to position it so he pushes the boat against the dock. Then the boat doesn't drift away too far from it (it can happen even with two anchors if he gets a hit on it from the other side).

I like luring Malba on the dock before dealing the last blow and kill him over it instead of water, for easier cleanup after the fight: 

I fought it so many times that I have way more beaks than I'd ever use. I dump them in this corner and their shadow is slowly turning into a black hole. There must be at least 50 in there, the rest are sitting on boats/docks and in my ocean storage. 

So now when I visit this place (for fishing or to grab a beak) I just take the advantage of the Malba despawn mechanic and deliberately lure it over the docks so it goes away and lets me do the thing I came here for. I had to do it a couple of times when placing finishing touches on the dock before taking these screenshots. 

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Thanks for reading!

I also have a couple of semi-finished arenas (Crab King dock, Klaus, Deerclops/Mutated Lunar bosses) and a few WIP ones (Dfly, Scrappy Werepig, Moose Goose spawners) but this post is already too long. I could show them in one of the next posts, tell me if you are interested. Oh and I also posted my BQ arena here earlier. It's pretty much unchanged except I added a couple of flingomatics and reskinned catapults and gemerators in it. Unfortunately I can't really solo cheese it with catapults as Wanda like I used to, so I only fight her now when friends join my world as Maxwell or Winona. I could switch to Winona myself or do the fight legit as Wanda (takes a bit longer and is more resource demanding) but I don't really need BQ drops for now, so I don't bother. 

 

That's so pretty ;;

[A4FE]

1 hour ago, Lovens said:

And at night. I went out of my way to light up all those mast lights, usually they are off. I wish I could put CC crown shards in them, they look so pretty! 

My gosh! That looks amazing! I've GOT to try decorating my docks more... Cheers!

[raniskog]

5 hours ago, Lovens said:

Hey, I've got a couple to show!

Antlion Arena

Antlion arena almost in the middle of my base so it's the most elaborate one and the one I prioritized decorating first things first:

Here's the zoomed out view. Sorry for the glass spikes in the middle. I was kinda lazy to clean them up haha, I usually do it right before the next fight. Every time I fight her I'm trying to get a few even though I already have lots of them and I barely use any. 

My fave thing about it is how the arena looks at night, I made those glowcaps orange:

Some details:

Here's the arena in Summer:

The fight is safe. She won't destroy any of the surrounding decor as long as I stay inside of the sand castle ring during the fight. The only things that get moved slightly are the closest corner desert rocks that I use as a trim. 

And now, another fun thing this place can do! It looks a lot cooler in the motion but you get the idea. It's like a small sandstorm on the edge of the arena haha. 

Malbatross dock

Malbatross "arena" is my next fave one. I got blessed with a Malbatross spawner very close to the shore of my Oasis, and I ended up building a dock to fight it there: 

[A keen eye might notice a second similar build in the bottom right corner, but it's still not finished. Same idea pretty much, but the spawner is a less convenient location and the dock is smaller.]

The zoomed out view of the build during the day:

And at night. I went out of my way to light up all those mast lights, usually they are off. I wish I could put CC crown shards in them, they look so pretty! 

The entrance bridge: 

Side view:

Boat entrance/parking spots that I left for using this as an actual dock where I might stop my boat and drop off some treasure chests:

In the right corner there's this one stubborn missing fence that Malbatross keeps dashing over and breaking. I was tired of fixing it for the 20th time and just covered it with treasure chests on the other side. Klei, it's a flying boss, why does it even break fences? It makes absolutely no sense!

This used to be my main fishing place for when I'm not playing Wicker or hiring Maxwell to help me with some heavy/seasonal fishing. Now it's just a fish storage pretty much, I rarely go here:

That crappy boat parked there used to be my main boat since when I started this world. That's the one I used to do Pearl's quests, fight Crab King for the first time and do other ocean shenanigans. Now it's forever parked here and I kept it just for the memories.

Ok, now to some dangerous stunts with Malbatross! This is my fighting boat, equipped with anchors and boat repair materials, as well as a cannon (in case a monkey raid shows up. Learned the hard way this place is in their raid radius haha). 

One downside of having a dock near a Malbatross spawner is that Malba despawns if you fight him while standing on docks or let it hang over the docks during the fight for too long. So my strategy (when I do wanna kill it) is to jump on the boat and aggro it onto me asap, preferably without it flying over those masts and fences (it breaks them).

From there it's simple: Wanda just tanks, swaps bone armors and kills it in a few seconds. I try to position it so he pushes the boat against the dock. Then the boat doesn't drift away too far from it (it can happen even with two anchors if he gets a hit on it from the other side).

I like luring Malba on the dock before dealing the last blow and kill him over it instead of water, for easier cleanup after the fight: 

I fought it so many times that I have way more beaks than I'd ever use. I dump them in this corner and their shadow is slowly turning into a black hole. There must be at least 50 in there, the rest are sitting on boats/docks and in my ocean storage. 

So now when I visit this place (for fishing or to grab a beak) I just take the advantage of the Malba despawn mechanic and deliberately lure it over the docks so it goes away and lets me do the thing I came here for. I had to do it a couple of times when placing finishing touches on the dock before taking these screenshots. 

________________________________________________________

Thanks for reading!

I also have a couple of semi-finished arenas (Crab King dock, Klaus, Deerclops/Mutated Lunar bosses) and a few WIP ones (Dfly, Scrappy Werepig, Moose Goose spawners) but this post is already too long. I could show them in one of the next posts, tell me if you are interested. Oh and I also posted my BQ arena here earlier. It's pretty much unchanged except I added a couple of flingomatics and reskinned catapults and gemerators in it. Unfortunately I can't really solo cheese it with catapults as Wanda like I used to, so I only fight her now when friends join my world as Maxwell or Winona. I could switch to Winona myself or do the fight legit as Wanda (takes a bit longer and is more resource demanding) but I don't really need BQ drops for now, so I don't bother. 

 

WOW, these are all gorgeous! (And yes, definitely interested in the others too if you feel like sharing!) I love the circle of glass castles in the Antlion arena, and having a dock to fight Malbatross is a great idea... haha, I hate fighting malba in the middle of the ocean. The sunken chests and anchor statues are such a great touch!

[mima_]

trying to mix the rose bush and new succulent skin ..
and finally i think i can use those broken wall skin for little rock pathway 

[This14Real]

On 10/18/2024 at 3:25 AM, raniskog said:

Does anyone have any cool boss arenas they want to show off? Looking for some inspiration for my new megabase world!

I have my antlion halfly done, still need to move lots of decorations around. Man I really need to finish all the builds I start, I tend to drop it once it’s working as intended and leave all arenas half baked. 
On the map it looks like a flower but I forgot to take a picture ofc.

[raniskog]

49 minutes ago, This14Real said:

I have my antlion halfly done, still need to move lots of decorations around. Man I really need to finish all the builds I start, I tend to drop it once it’s working as intended and leave all arenas half baked. 
On the map it looks like a flower but I forgot to take a picture ofc.

Oooh, love the glass spikes and houndiuses! Do they work pretty well against Antlion?

[This14Real]

3 hours ago, raniskog said:

Oooh, love the glass spikes and houndiuses! Do they work pretty well against Antlion?

Exceptionally well, I usually fight him on a beefalo and the fight lasts around a minute. As long as I don’t leave that circle nothing breaks, Antlion can still target you out of that range and the spikes break stuff instantly so just gotta be careful not to leave the arena mid fight.
I plan on placing Ice Crystaleyezers on both sides, the idea is maybe I won’t need a thermal stone during the fight, not sure if it will work lol.

This is what my Oasis looks like.

Edited October 21, 2024 by This14Real

[Lovens]

Crab King Dock

Here's my Crab King "Arena". I don't know if it really counts as an arena since it's technically far from the actual boss but it's boss-themed and the closest I can get to him. I actually tried to shape it like a crab but it's now hard to see on the minimap with all the decorations:

Zoomed out view:

At night:

Crab King shrine. Shiny...Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck!

I stole the idea of this crab pen from @Jimothywastaken. I had to turn on godmode for this screenshot lol. They are absolute savages!

The left "claw" is for fighting CK. Here I park my fighting boat equipped with everything necessary. 


The right claw is identical but serves as a regular dock, for boat parking purposes: 

The ocuvigil boat is close enough to keep track of Crab King respawns, but at the cost of being targeted by towers sometimes. I have to repair it after every fight.

Some more details:




Thanks for reading!

Edited October 22, 2024 by Lovens

[This14Real]

11 minutes ago, Lovens said:

Lovely stuff! Makes me wanna do the same for mine, I haven’t even fought the reworked crabking yet. I got a few questions if you don’t mind.

What gems do you use for Crabking?
For the ocuvigil boat, would a couple of houndiuses help against the towers/claws? (I have a war boat filled with houdius shootius that help me kill malbatross and frostjaw, I wonder if it would be a good idea to use it against crabking).
The kidnapped crablings are aggressive towards anything or just you? Do they destroy walls if you leave that area while still aggroed?

[Vasz_]

19 hours ago, This14Real said:

Exceptionally well, I usually fight him on a beefalo and the fight lasts around a minute. As long as I don’t leave that circle nothing breaks, Antlion can still target you out of that range and the spikes break stuff instantly so just gotta be careful not to leave the arena mid fight.
I plan on placing Ice Crystaleyezers on both sides, the idea is maybe I won’t need a thermal stone during the fight, not sure if it will work lol.

This is what my Oasis looks like.

I love how your oasis deser and bees biome looks on the map, do you have pictures of those? Have you decorated any other biomes with that natural kind of design? I love your Antlion arena as well, the turf placement looks very natural despite being symmetric.

[Lovens]

38 minutes ago, This14Real said:

Lovely stuff! Makes me wanna do the same for mine, I haven’t even fought the reworked crabking yet. I got a few questions if you don’t mind.

What gems do you use for Crabking?
For the ocuvigil boat, would a couple of houndiuses help against the towers/claws? (I have a war boat filled with houdius shootius that help me kill malbatross and frostjaw, I wonder if it would be a good idea to use it against crabking).
The kidnapped crablings are aggressive towards anything or just you? Do they destroy walls if you leave that area while still aggroed?

Thanks! For Crab King: I only fought the reworked version a few times, and most of them were when all greens were the meta. Then I think I did only one or two fights after the final rework and I used one of each colour and additional...blues I think? Tbh I don't remember. I usually use volt goat jelly and wetness to speed up the fight as well. Strident trident against towers to quickly destroy them, but sometimes they do some damage to my boats. 

I wouldn't bother with houndiuses on a boat since they have a low rate of fire and low damage. By the time they'll kill a tower the boats will receive too much damage already I think. Trident is more efficient. Also: houndiuses might not even aggro onto the towers. Towers target the boat and houndiuses would only atttack something that damages them directly. 

Crablings: they don't destroy walls even when they are aggroed on me. If I'm away they just wander in the pen. I don't know if they are aggressive towards anything else - the only encounter I had was with hounds that accidentally spawned nearby. One of the hounds spawned inside and murdered crablings but it might be the hound who aggroed on them first. I had my music playing too loud and didn't hear the hound warning. It's a casual world so I just rolled back for that. 

Edited October 22, 2024 by Lovens

[raniskog]

1 hour ago, Lovens said:

Crab King Dock

Here's my Crab King "Arena". I don't know if it really counts as an arena since it's technically far from the actual boss but it's boss-themed and the closest I can get to him. I actually tried to shape it like a crab but it's now hard to see on the minimap with all the decorations:

Zoomed out view:

At night:

Crab King shrine. Shiny...Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck!

I stole the idea of this crab pen from @Jimothywastaken. I had to turn on godmode for this screenshot lol. They are absolute savages!

The left "claw" is for fighting CK. Here I park my fighting boat equipped with everything necessary. 


The right claw is identical but serves as a regular dock, for boat parking purposes: 

The ocuvigil boat is close enough to keep track of Crab King respawns, but at the cost of being targeted by towers sometimes. I have to repair it after every fight.

Some more details:




Thanks for reading!

Oh wow, this is gorgeous!! I love the crab king treasury... such a great idea!

[This14Real]

55 minutes ago, Vasz_ said:

Unfortunately due to me thinking my builds aren’t that great I leave them unfinished, whenever I get to play I get too overwhelmed balancing building and fighting/surviving and I forget to stop and appreciate and finish my builds lol. I only have really old pictures but I can take new ones later and I’ll share it though.
I have a gigantic Cawnival area spreading through the whole Mosaic biome. Of course unfinished…

A Forest where I plan to turn it into a spooky witch forest for hallowed nights.

My Marsh biome is completely revamped with a vegetarian restaurant and a Merm city. This is really old, I believe day 5000 (I’m reaching day 10000 soon). A lot have changed.

Also an unfinished Beefalo farm through the entire Savannah and a Tallbird/Marble forest.
My next big plan is to build a big pig city in the Deciduous biome. My Deciduous sorta looks like Africa haha.
 

And just to not leave this post as a QA spam my latest build.
WIP Rose Garden.

[This14Real]

On 10/22/2024 at 2:41 PM, Vasz_ said:

I love how your oasis deser and bees biome looks on the map, do you have pictures of those? Have you decorated any other biomes with that natural kind of design? I love your Antlion arena as well, the turf placement looks very natural despite being symmetric.

Entrance to my really old Bee island generated with a turf bug, I used to call this area the rainbow bridge because it looked like a rainbow on the map, with some game updates sadly it lost that aspect and now looks like black void. It’s just invisible turf, never dared to dig it up because it looks neat.

Unfortunately I never took good care of it, destroyed plenty of Beehives only leaving a couple behind… tried to place some bee boxes to compensate but it’s not the same, I wish I had Killer Beehives. 

This is the central area (Base), forgotten due to being so old, over 5k days. I might go back to it and redecorate someday. I did the turf work and wanted it to look like a watermelon while a friend was decorating.

Oasis base, plenty of open space to decorate. Can’t wait to change some things around. Symmetry is a curse I tell you.

Saladmanders on the corners getting toasty by the furnace, 4 in total, they are really aggressive towards each other camping their spot and getting into fights if one even gets close to it haha, I love them.

[gaymime]

13 minutes ago, This14Real said:

Entrance to my really old Bee island generated with a turf bug, I used to call this area the rainbow bridge because it looked like a rainbow on the map, with some game updates sadly it lost that aspect and now looks like black void. It’s just invisible turf, never dared to dig it up because it looks neat.

 

This is the central area (Base), forgotten due to being so old, over 5k days. I might go back to it and redecorate someday. I did the turf work and wanted it to look like a watermelon while a friend was decorating.

 

 

oh! i need to steal this turf plan, it looks good<3<3<3

[This14Real]

Walls or no walls?
Tried moonrock walls and it looked way better than stone, then I tried no walls and now I’m super conflicted lol.

I’m barely done with it and already want to change things. 

[gaymime]

i like the no-walls but also i am silly so my opinion might not be helpful XD

[Lovens]

6 minutes ago, This14Real said:

Walls or no walls?
Tried moonrock walls and it looked way better than stone, then I tried no walls and now I’m super conflicted lol.

I’m barely done with it and already want to change things. 

I like the one with the walls better, the one without them looks...unfinished? I think the skins you chose also fit well with the build. Do you have a rose bouquet clean sweeper skin? It would complement this garden nicely as well. 

[raniskog]

17 minutes ago, This14Real said:

Walls or no walls?
Tried moonrock walls and it looked way better than stone, then I tried no walls and now I’m super conflicted lol.

I’m barely done with it and already want to change things. 

I also like walls!

[This14Real]

11 minutes ago, gaymime said:

i like the no-walls but also i am silly so my opinion might not be helpful XD

You’re not silly! All opinions matter! I also like without the walls but it looked so good with moonrock too. 

8 minutes ago, Lovens said:

I like the one with the walls better, the one without them looks...unfinished? I think the skins you chose also fit well with the build. Do you have a rose bouquet clean sweeper skin? It would complement this garden nicely as well. 

It is unfinished still, look how long it took for me to place a couple of things down, more than a 100 days. 
I get so sidetracked all the time urgh. I’ll try with just the walls and no fences as I felt it was super claustrophobic when everything was fenced.
Will post an update.

Ty all. 

[gaymime]

2 hours ago, This14Real said:

You’re not silly! All opinions matter! I also like without the walls but it looked so good with moonrock too. 

It is unfinished still, look how long it took for me to place a couple of things down, more than a 100 days. 
I get so sidetracked all the time urgh. I’ll try with just the walls and no fences as I felt it was super claustrophobic when everything was fenced.
Will post an update.

Ty all. 

well, have you tried with the broken-down bookcase? someone made that look really good XD either way though in the end it is whatever you feel the least amount of strain on, if your brain won't let you see it as "done" then wallless is still not the best choice, if the clutter of walls pulls against the grain then better "unfinished" than unpleasant!

Edited October 25, 2024 by gaymime

[glooomy]

Absolutely loving the new hay walls!

How are you guys feeling about Hallowed Nights so far?

This is my favorite time of year so I'm loving it, ofc.

The new skins are mega cute too!

Here is my pumpkin carving along with a WIP of a new hay maze build (mixed with some new stuff from my mod).

Can't wait to see some of your Hallowed Nights builds!

[gaymime]

ran out of time to get the plants down but at least i managed to get all the lights done right as night fell