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Postby JasonKenway » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:37 pm

What you think about this base layout? It will be ok and at least minimum safe?
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Re: Base layout

Postby MaxPlanck » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:41 pm

Find a place to settle with a mine node, use said mine node to store things. Get a brickwall, get a townbell so others can't declaim your Pclaim with their own townbell.

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Re: Base layout

Postby JasonKenway » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:48 pm

Now I have terrain which is surrounded by Stone Wall - 27x37 (inside: fields,mine,wooden boxes, [...]) and I think about build base like at image but need to be sure that it will be fine. Don't have that much money to build brick wall :P
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Re: Base layout

Postby MaxPlanck » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:50 pm

If you have time, you have money. Which you choose to use is up to you, start cracking the kilns for bricks and buy the 3 blistersteel for the gate with whatever else money you can scrounge up.
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Re: Base layout

Postby JasonKenway » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:56 pm

So these walls aren't good idea?
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Re: Base layout

Postby Kandarim » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:59 pm

here's a couple of tips, if you're settling in a spot that you plan on occupying for a long time.

1) as mentioned by Max, make sure there is a mine within your walls.
2) PLAN BIG. There is no point in having a stone hedge within your plank fence. Plan for a brick wall and an iron wall instead of the current inner stone hedge. Sure, right now this looks to be ridiculously expensive, but you REALLY don't want to have to tear down/rebuild half your base because yuo didn't take it into account at the beginning. The extra cost for claiming a couple of tiles of land extra is negligibly low at any point in the game.
3) Plan more gates: an additional set of gates heading out towards the north will allow for easier expansion afterwards, and is not that much more work.
4) you want your pots in a 3xN layout for easier repotting :)
5) more braziers/torchposts. You can easily put braziers next to the plank fence without suffering when doing your fields: as long as the middle of fields is accessible, you can use them. Plan for the maximum number of braziers your design allows. Again, you won't have the time/money to do it right now, but you want to expand on this base!
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Re: Base layout

Postby JasonKenway » Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:51 pm

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So I should go in this way? (Now I have only this stone wall)
Later I can change stone wall to brick wall.
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Re: Base layout

Postby MaxPlanck » Mon Aug 08, 2016 4:23 pm

JasonKenway wrote:Image

So I should go in this way? (Now I have only this stone wall)
Later I can change stone wall to brick wall.


Walls should be about 8 squares apart from each other to avoid any possible wall splashing if the wall is able to splash onto the other wall. (Doing plank right in front of brick is different since weaker walls don't splash onto stronger walls)
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Re: Base layout

Postby Kralith » Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:30 pm

Always plan space behind your strongest wall for a better wall.
Like it is still mentioned, you can build the plankwall outside of your planned Brickwall.
Plan enough space for defenses like brazier and torches.
And they should cover also your outerwalls.
Plan more Defensestructures than in your actual plan.
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Re: Base layout

Postby TotalyMeow » Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:21 pm

JasonKenway wrote:Image

So I should go in this way? (Now I have only this stone wall)
Later I can change stone wall to brick wall.


My recommendation:

First, you can't have too many braziers. Having enough to fully cover your walls is a good start, but get at least enough to cover every bit of wall with two or more.

Second, torchposts are a separate damage pool from braziers so it's good to have a least one covering every bit of wall.

Third, weakest wall on the outside, always. Do that and you don't even need to leave a space, so put the stone on the outside and the brick on the innermost one.

Fourth, best case, you have a least a few braziers with walls on both sides to make it hard to douse them with water.

Fifth, don't bother with using pots or anything for defense, it's an inconvenience to you if you want to garden and doesn't really slow a raider down. You need about 5 clear spaces between walls to avoid splash, but ONLY if the outside wall is higher tier than the inside. Otherwise, you can stack them cheek by jowl.

Last, build a couple baby braziers when you can. They can be moved.
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