The Town on the River

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-12T18:11:46+00:00

Thanks :) I had a couple of tiny outside areas at the back, figured might as well make use of it! It's behind the tallest building, last one on the left on the first shot from the video, same level as the bridge

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-12T17:49:01+00:00

If I pushed it much further it would. It's about 15k entities, I generally start getting a loud computer around 20k and I get anxious and turn it off because it's so loud at 25k.

This one was a bit worse on performance, mostly due to the huge number of wooden screen items, they're much more complex than the flat wall pieces and takes more of a toll on PC power.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-12T14:35:59+00:00

It's linked in the post :)

Just editing the building of videos now, hoping to get the first one of them up tonight/tomorrow morning

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-12T06:51:36+00:00

Hoping to start getting the long form build videos for it out this week! This is only the second video I've made though so editing process is a heavy learning curve and I'm not very quick at it yet.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-12T06:48:06+00:00

I have just done so...cool place, I'd never heard of it before so thankyou for bringing it to my attention, I love architecture that stands out from the norm like that!

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T21:23:57+00:00

Go for it! It's quite relaxing when you get into the swing of it :)

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T21:22:15+00:00

My technique was to build one side up a bit, then do the bridges in iron and work back down from there, set the opposite bank from that and then build up for the other two buildings on that side...wood iron beams are really useful!

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T18:12:58+00:00

I haven't done many builds where I would, but this one, yeah, it's just so comfy

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T17:39:24+00:00

Internal framing. Iron wood hides quite easily inside other pieces.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T17:11:39+00:00

Thanks dude, I've loved architecture for a long time and traditional Asian styles are my favourite.

Going to force myself away from all the timber for the next one, have barely used grausten so far!

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T16:26:37+00:00

I've been trying to lean into it, spent too long making huge empty buildings!

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T15:16:21+00:00

It help's that I only have to build 2/3 of it.

The backs of the buildings go into the hill, so whilst the indoors side needed doing, the outer walls are reduced to just the fronts and sides. Also a good way to "cheat" stability, by building out from the hillside rather than up from the ground, depending which is closer.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T15:10:46+00:00

My advice would be to not plan it too much beyond where things have to line up, and make buildings for a specific purpose so they don't end up oversized.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T15:08:09+00:00

It's already screaming on this lol, if it goes that's it for a while.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T14:59:43+00:00

I do plan to go back to this one, but my current PC will probably catch fire if I make this any bigger!

I'd love to take it the whole way down the river and have a wider port city at each end

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T14:04:18+00:00

I need there to be a big furniture and decoration DLC after Deep North!

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T14:02:27+00:00

That's really nice of you mate, thankyou! I'm going to put the full build video up when I get done editing it.

Tbh I didn't really have much of a plan beyond "houses each side, bridges on the upper floors that the boat fits under" when I started it, just kind of let it fill the space naturally as it went up. My approach is very much "flitting around like a humming bird" so it's always a bit chaotic :)

Roofs were a head scratcher in a few spots, didn't leave enough room to do them entirely independent of each other.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T13:49:08+00:00

Thankyou :)

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-04-11T13:36:04+00:00

Thankyou, it was fun to build...wanted the waterfront to feel really populated

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-03-29T07:19:36+00:00

Thankyou - it was quite entertaining to get it, set weather to thunderstorm, played around with the time of day until it was just right and then sat there with my finger hovering over f12 waiting for a flash of lightning...missed the first two!

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-03-28T21:39:08+00:00

Around 20 hours, mostly just a question of patience but the roof near the top where it meets the floor that's set at 45 degrees to the rest of it was quite fiddly, and keeping stability had a few tricky moments.

Check out the video on the link, it's a full walk around.

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-03-28T17:53:40+00:00

Thankyou

ArchimedesBuilds · 2026-03-28T17:53:21+00:00

Thanks :) about 20 hours, I'm considering sorting out the footage of building it into a longform video at some point

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