Decorations, Shrines and Base Designs

[cherrybeats]

hi  a little bit of my lights out world 

ps: does anyone know how to post without losing quality? 

Edited December 19, 2024 by cherrybeats

[linabagel]

19小时前，gaymime 说：

请指教？我想知道幽暗荆棘是否适合我的维多利亚花园/未来的墓地？

The gloomthorn looks nice.I think you can start with other decorative items,such as changing the skin of the stonetable and woodfence、planting evilflower、placing totallynormal tree and so on.Some crops（especially asparagusfern、pumpkinplant、pomegranatebranch、duriavine）are also suitable for decorating as "flowers" after being spritz.I may personally prefer yellow or red (I can't find the right orange in dst) to balance the green ground and the purple trees.

[gaymime]

30 minutes ago, linabagel said:

The gloomthorn looks nice.I think you can start with other decorative items,such as changing the skin of the stonetable and woodfence、planting evilflower、placing totallynormal tree and so on.Some crops（especially asparagusfern、pumpkinplant、pomegranatebranch、duriavine）are also suitable for decorating as "flowers" after being spritz.I may personally prefer yellow or red (I can't find the right orange in dst) to balance the green ground and the purple trees.

well the table and the fence are where i want them to be(i just need to weave the chair) but i was thinking about changing the bells to purple ones. you are right about the asparagus though! the old version of the garden had a couple at one point. i can try your advice with the yellow flowers and the totally normal tree though that will take a little bit since i still need to wait for the beta to end so i can do grave relocation. thankyou for so much advice<3<3<3 i am excited to finish this one ^^

[hyoton123]

19 hours ago, gaymime said:

unfortunately i the spritz is currently out of my hands. i am not skilful enough for the rift stuff x''D i would have to invite someone with talent into my world, hahaha

ive never tried it but can you make the shadowcraft plinth without rifts open? it needs dreadstone and pure horror which you can get from the werepig, albeit slowly and painfully…

[gaymime]

4 minutes ago, hyoton123 said:

ive never tried it but can you make the shadowcraft plinth without rifts open? it needs dreadstone and pure horror which you can get from the werepig, albeit slowly and painfully…

no idea, i had to get someone else to do the celestial champion in my longterm because i simply could not manage it(he did it twice, lol) so not really thinking i could fight the pig that totalled the same guy multiple times

Edited December 19, 2024 by gaymime

[raniskog]

41 minutes ago, hyoton123 said:

ive never tried it but can you make the shadowcraft plinth without rifts open? it needs dreadstone and pure horror which you can get from the werepig, albeit slowly and painfully…

You can. Just have to get the dreadstone from Daywalker to craft it, and the pure horror from Daywalker to craft the spritz, since it doesn't require tatters.

[glooomy]

cute

[glooomy]

something i've been working on

[Valase]

8 hours ago, glooomy said:

something i've been working on

Grumblebeehive!?!

[This14Real]

15 hours ago, glooomy said:

something i've been working on

Lovely stuff!
Those sunflowers are so taalll. 
Adding grumble fur to the beehives is a nice touch.
Is this mod available?

[glooomy]

2 hours ago, This14Real said:

Lovely stuff!
Those sunflowers are so taalll. 
Adding grumble fur to the beehives is a nice touch.
Is this mod available?

Thank you! These sunflowers came a long way but I can say I love their current design. I was a bit uncertain whether or not they felt out of place but I think I was… overthinking~ 

I might be making it available soon! 

For now here is the evolution of my sunflowers: 

Edited December 31, 2024 by glooomy

[This14Real]

3 hours ago, glooomy said:

Thank you! These sunflowers came a long way but I can say I love their current design. I was a bit uncertain whether or not they felt out of place but I think I was… overthinking~ 
I might be making it available soon! 

For now here is the evolution of my sunflowers: 

I know how overthinking get in the way all too well…
If it services you in any way I think they look great and fits the game perfectly!
Love to see the process along the way. I keep all my sketches too lol.

[linabagel]

5 hours ago, glooomy said:

I was a bit uncertain whether or not they felt out of place but I think I was… overthinking~ 

I think it's good.There are some mods that have good ideas,but their art style is far from dst,which is why I don't like using them very much.I like the fact that your content art style is closer to dst than other mods,I love these sunflowers and grumblebee'nests.But to be honest,I think the beehives need some tweaking to get closer to dst.

[glooomy]

10 hours ago, linabagel said:

I think it's good.There are some mods that have good ideas,but their art style is far from dst,which is why I don't like using them very much.I like the fact that your content art style is closer to dst than other mods,I love these sunflowers and grumblebee'nests.But to be honest,I think the beehives need some tweaking to get closer to dst.

I deff agree about the art-style of mods!

The main reason I am making this mod is because I have a certain vision for content for my worlds that I really want to see come to life. Though I do take opinions into considering (especially when it comes to needing potential tweaks to my animations or art), ultimately my main priority is ~*~me~*~ because I am making this mod for me and my close friends.

I have hesitancy to make it public because I've seen and have had people steal things from my mods before and I really don't want that to happen with this.

I try to always draw inspiration from something in game as my references, whether it be from DST or the DLC. For example:

My grumble bee hives are just a mash up of hives, grumbles and one of my favorite light items from the cawnival event~

Anyway have you guys ever heard the children's song, "Down by the Bay?"

Down by the bay ♪
where the watermelons grow. ♪
Back to my home ♪
I dare not go. ♪
For if I do ♪
my mother will say, ♪
“Did you ever see a bear combing his hair?”
Down by the bay. ♪

The name of this island is Bumblebear Bay and I decided to give it some planted watermelon, hat tipping to one of my fav children's songs as a kid u,,u

 

[linabagel]

9 hours ago, glooomy said:

because I am making this mod for me and my close friends.

You have dst's best mod-Friends.

9 hours ago, glooomy said:

I deff agree about the art-style of mods

9 hours ago, glooomy said:

Though I do take opinions into considering (especially when it comes to needing potential tweaks to my animations or art), ultimately my main priority is ~*~me~*~

Maybe I didn't notice the language difference or the choice of words was inaccurate,but I don't mean to criticize your mod and decision maliciously.

[lowercase skye]

10 hours ago, glooomy said:

I have hesitancy to make it public because I've seen and have had people steal things from my mods before and I really don't want that to happen with this.

Some people don't quite hold the same etiquette when it comes to who owns what in a mod, either due to being from different cultures or just having different personal standards, but please don't let this discourage you from making it public. In my experience, it is the most satisfying thing in the world to see people playing around and building with stuff that you made yourself. I'd love to be able to decorate my base with those fallen logs.

[Castiliano]

I'm playing Island Adventures and I realized that I have very little inspiration to make a reasonably aesthetic base for Shipwrecked, so I had the idea of coming here to look for references and I realized that there is a lack in this theme, so I decided to bring the theme suggestion for the basebuilders (whether inside or outside the volcano/islands, SW DLC, Island Adventures, The Architect Pack or whatever).

[linabagel]

The Year of the Snake is just a month away,so I'm gonna post some decorations and get ready to rest.Happy Year of the Snake in advance,everyone

[lowercase skye]

4 hours ago, Castiliano said:

I'm playing Island Adventures and I realized that I have very little inspiration to make a reasonably aesthetic base for Shipwrecked, so I had the idea of coming here to look for references and I realized that there is a lack in this theme, so I decided to bring the theme suggestion for the basebuilders (whether inside or outside the volcano/islands, SW DLC, Island Adventures, The Architect Pack or whatever).

Went and took some screenshots of my old SW/Ham base from near half a decade ago. Apologies for the mess, I was NOT good with storage back then. Lack of skins/outside furniture also makes things feel a little empty, but that's the limitations of the time really. I'd love to try something like this again in Island Adventures, maybe I will... anyway here's the screenshots lol

[gaymime]

soooooo the closer we get to the walter update the less i find myself playing dst compared to ds. as an appeasement here is my hamlet garden;

 

i am going to be going out shortly with my bacon brigade to get some more resources to expand it out some wish me luck!

[Lovens]

I took a little break from DST recently so I didn't do much in my world but I would like to share something that I've been working on before the break. It's finally coming together! 

Lunar Island Part I: Farms and crafting area

I got blessed with Lunar Island close to my base, and I connected it with a bridge to my main base in Oasis Desert. I already showed pictures of my Lunar bridge in one of my older posts so I won't post them again. But I do think of decorating it a bit more with some new ideas I got from working on my CC arena.

Here's a close-up map of my Lunar Island (rotated 90 degrees as I do when I approach it from the bridge). This post is gonna show just the bottom part you can see right after entering Lunar Island:

The entrance to my Lunar Island:

I like lunar theme but I don't like the monotony of blue/cyan colors, so I tried to compliment it with some white and green stuff. I love this combination and have a few similar themed builds around my Celestial Portal and in Moon Stone Forest, which I can show later. 

On the left side by the entrance I have a spare Celestial Tribute installed into a single lunar fissure closest to the bridge. I use this as my main lunar crafting station because it's close to my base and I don't need to run further into the island to CC arena. It's also convenient to store some materials for crafts in the chests without worrying that CC meteors destroy them when I activate the fight. And of course I could use the Celestial Orb as a crafting station instead, but I like keeping it by CC arena so I don't forget it each time I kill him. 

On the right side across the altar I have a little Hallowed Nights crafting area for farming lunar essence. It's nice to have it here on Lunar where I can get materials for them and not worry about the sanity drain from crafting them. 

The sanity drain from crafting lunar essence is solved with a little cozy sanity station nearby which works the best on full moons when all three fissures are open:

And here's a little area nearby where I mass farm lune moth wings and lune flowers as Winona: 

Work in progress before I decorated this area. A friend playing Maxwell/Wicker is very helpful for making all of these densely packed trees grow at once, but it works fine without books as well:

This part of lunar used to be a lune tree forest infested with spider nests but I cleared them all and turned the space into Maxwell farms. Some shattered spider nests are still untouched in my Lunar Beach Preserve, if I ever decide to play Webber in this world (probably never, lol). Anyway, here's the stone fruit farm:

The reed farm: 

The fish farm:

A little beefalo parking lot:
 

I'm trying to brighten up the surroundings a bit by turning them into a lunar garden, but it's still WIP: 

In this abandoned corner there's my old feather pensil/krampus sack farm which is currently not in use and is not decorated either. With the amount of Krampus sacks I already have in this world I don't think I need it anymore and probably will dismantle it and turn the rest into a Lunar Island port combined with Malbatross dock.

Stay tuned for part II where I show my CC arena!

Thanks to @raniskogfor posing on some of these pictures with me and helping to set up the sanity station! 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2025 by Lovens

[raniskog]

@Lovens Ahhh, I love your Lunar builds so much!! For some more lunar-themed builds, here's my moonstone set up, inspired by yours and the great idea of using relic chairs to get in and out:

The Moonstone:

The statues keep the werepigs/hounds away from the moonstone, and I've been using it to farm moonrock with Wickerbottom by reading the Lunar Grimoire and turning all the long winter nights into full moons. Each time you put a star caller staff into the moonstone, 6 werepigs/hounds will spawn, and if you don't want to convert your star staff, you can take it out again roughly right after the 6th spawn (or 5th to be safe, but you can usually get 6). The werepigs/hounds will turn to moonrock and I hop over the relic chairs to mine them all and then repeat. In the long winter nights, I could usually do the event 4 times before day, and that got me close to a stack of moonrock a night.

Full moon night decor, fireflies and event active and all:

And, with the moonrock pigs/hounds:

If I were to build it again, I might put the decor a little further away from the statues, because sometimes I get stuck trying to mine stuff quickly or pick up moonrock, but it works fairly well. Once I remember to bring a lazy forager over the moonrock gathering part at least will be simpler.

The back of the build (I hid the Wicker bookcase because it didn't really fit with the colour-theme, but here's the books):

Thanks so much for reading; the builds on this thread are so beautiful and inspiring!!

[linabagel]

2 hours ago, raniskog said:

I realize I've been keeping my moonstone for a long time,and I wouldn't even have thought about it if I hadn't seen your decorations.I still have a library decoration to finish;I also want to build a painting studio (just got some ideas).Suddenly I don't know what to do first.Σ( ° △ °|||)︴

[gaymime]

2 hours ago, linabagel said:

I realize I've been keeping my moonstone for a long time,and I wouldn't even have thought about it if I hadn't seen your decorations.I still have a library decoration to finish;I also want to build a painting studio (just got some ideas).Suddenly I don't know what to do first.Σ( ° △ °|||)︴

 

finish your moonstone instead of either of those other ideas so i can be inspired to finally get around to finishing mine instead of continuing to grind for surprising seeds?

 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2025 by gaymime

[Lovens]

7 hours ago, raniskog said:

@Lovens Ahhh, I love your Lunar builds so much!! For some more lunar-themed builds, here's my moonstone set up, inspired by yours and the great idea of using relic chairs to get in and out:

The Moonstone:

The statues keep the werepigs/hounds away from the moonstone, and I've been using it to farm moonrock with Wickerbottom by reading the Lunar Grimoire and turning all the long winter nights into full moons. Each time you put a star caller staff into the moonstone, 6 werepigs/hounds will spawn, and if you don't want to convert your star staff, you can take it out again roughly right after the 6th spawn (or 5th to be safe, but you can usually get 6). The werepigs/hounds will turn to moonrock and I hop over the relic chairs to mine them all and then repeat. In the long winter nights, I could usually do the event 4 times before day, and that got me close to a stack of moonrock a night.

Full moon night decor, fireflies and event active and all:

And, with the moonrock pigs/hounds:

If I were to build it again, I might put the decor a little further away from the statues, because sometimes I get stuck trying to mine stuff quickly or pick up moonrock, but it works fairly well. Once I remember to bring a lazy forager over the moonrock gathering part at least will be simpler.

The back of the build (I hid the Wicker bookcase because it didn't really fit with the colour-theme, but here's the books):

Thanks so much for reading; the builds on this thread are so beautiful and inspiring!!

I love how your build turned out! Since you referenced mine, I'll show it as well. I built it long time ago but never got to post it - of course because I forgot to finish it (it still needs fireflies). 

I don't even bother mining statues there because I don't use it for farming moonrock, only to turn in starcaller staves or get moonrock statues for decor. Once I activate the event, old statues around it come to life and drop their loot on the ground. 

And here it is in daylight: 

I opted to put wicker cabinet and other essentials in a separate little nook above it. This place is also one of my Wanda teleport "pit-stops" for Moonstone: 

Here's the second one I have by Moonstone walrus camp, also lunar-themed. I'm setting them up in every biome for convenience, and theming them after surrounding builds usually: 

Finally, here's my Moonstone Winona's telepad as well. I use mini-signs to mark destination points where I have other telepads, and I placed them in the direction I need to step in. Those were tricky to set up (I used a mod for it) and it's still WIP, I'll make a separate post about her teleport network when I finish it. I've been playing her a lot and even opted to main her instead of Wanda after her skill tree came out (ironically, my world is still called Wanda's megabase).