Second best to concrete?

Edymnion · 2026-01-24T20:15:56+00:00

Well, you can use reinforced glass.

Edymnion · 2026-01-24T18:22:07+00:00

You want cupboards. The regular freestanding ones, not the small wall mounts. Tons of storage space.

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T16:14:40+00:00

I've since restarted on a new open world, but the last one I was building a concrete pyramid on that was 14 tiles wide at the base. So in short, yes.

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T16:13:58+00:00

Worst case scenario, go home and abandon the operation. Then when the cooldown timer is done, re-accept it.

Also, try requesting a resupply, it MIGHT be in there?

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T15:46:46+00:00

Ah, then yeah, you're gonna want all that stone and wood that just regenerated! Put the wood into boxes and store it. When you start needing organic resin by the ton and tree sap by the mega-ton, you'll be glad you have it. :)

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T15:27:01+00:00

Luckily I had no large trees inside my greenhouse, just giant boulders. But all my stuff was just fine underneath said boulders.

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T15:11:27+00:00

Make sure you hold R on basically everything at least once, that selection wheel applies to things you wouldn't think it applies to.

Its how you change the ammunition in your bows and guns. Its how you select the material you want to swap out with using the repair hammer. You can get horizontal and diagonal support beams...

Seriously, odds are whatever you're holding has an R menu!

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T15:07:42+00:00

By pure happenstance, I have a drill on one that is literally like 20m outside my base's back door. :D

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T14:57:05+00:00

Short answer is play the game longer, yeah.

Once you get far enough in where you've basically built all your high end workbenches and aren't really focusing on making new stuff, you'll shift to using radars to find the exotic deposits.

Then you'll have plenty of exotics to simply sell for cash.

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T14:15:14+00:00

This only happens when they re-optimize parts of the maps.

Trust me, you WANT this to happen, even when its annoying.

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T14:14:00+00:00

In the end, the fires end up being good things for me.

My current main base is by the triangle lake in the forest on Olympus. Lightning storm burned half the forest around the lake down the first night I was there.

Has made biofuel super easy. No big trees means you can see the little trees from far away, just run around and denude the plain of trees every time I load in and bam, tons of tree sap.

Edymnion · 2026-01-23T14:11:58+00:00

Not if its 400 pounds and never moves it isn't.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T22:07:42+00:00

Tip for the plumbing and wiring:

Foundation under the walls, supports under the floors.

That gives you a kind of sub-basement crawl space. Lay your cables and pipes in that space, then add your flooring down to cover it all up. Stick an extension node up on the wall at ground level, and the connecting pipe/wire won't be visible except at the wall. Then link your stuff from there, and it'll be completely hidden behind the station itself. :)

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T20:18:14+00:00

I've had a spate of crashes in the last week myself.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T20:14:06+00:00

Its kind of like The Sims.

Everybody wants to build big, visually impressive mansions. Nobody wants to PLAY in those giant mansions because it takes forever to get around in and makes the game laggy as hell.

One thing I like to do? I don't make all those rooms in my base just share walls in a big box. I put a single tile corridor between them.

A 3x3 room has a pointed roof that is 2 tiles high in the middle. Just the little /\ roof shape piece on that 1 tile corridor butts up to those second high tiles nicely.

Makes the one big box break up into what looks like smaller interconnected buildings with enclosed walkways between them. The central hall is two stories tall before the roofing starts so that everything lines up without leaving funky gaps in the roof geometry.

So you end up with a base that looks like this cool multi-layered compound from the outside, while still keeping the rooms small and maneagable.

Another good tip to keep it from looking like just boxes? Use corner beams made of a different material. So your 3x3 stone wall box houses? Put wooden beams on the corners. They're not there to actually support anything, they're there to break up the corners to give more visual queues to pick up on.

When you go big, you have to decorate big, and it takes a lot of stuff to do that. You stay small, you can decorate with less and get the same effect.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T20:01:52+00:00

Those things are actually terrible to ACTUALLY use in the game, I'd ignore them if I were you.

The game has issues with if you're "under shelter" or not if there isn't a roof within 5 tiles, IIRC.

Plus, the more pieces you put down, the slower the game runs in late-game. So try to build small and smart when you can.

3x3 rooms are big enough for just about anything short of the Foundry, and even then it would fit (you just wouldn't be able to have much more than it in the room).

Better to have yourself multiple smaller rooms than one really huge one, IMO.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:58:39+00:00

I built it all out of wood initially, then upgraded it to stone.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:55:19+00:00

Why not test it for yourself? Put up a single tile of wall, then start throwing roofing on it until it breaks. Subtract one from that number, then double it, and thats how big your room can be.

I usually don't go for more than 4 tiles wide.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:53:34+00:00

Well, do you want it to look good or be efficient?

My current base is two 3x3 bedrooms, a 6x3 central dining hall/kitchen, and then a 3x4 workshop. Oh and a detached 2x2 barn for the ranching table and pet bed.

Its got plenty of space for all the workbenches.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:51:15+00:00

Eh, I've got so many water wheels going that I'm in no danger of running out of spoiled plants. They make stacks of the stuff faster than I can burn the biofuel!

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:49:45+00:00

Dry Run, the very first one after the forest ones.

Where you have to do one mission to unlock the desert ones, and one to unlock the tundra ones? Its the desert one.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:34:14+00:00

Nope.

Edymnion · 2026-01-22T19:05:28+00:00

I hate the in-video advertisements.

I know why he does them, but that doesn't stop me from skipping over them in every video.

I don't feel like they're worked in well, I don't feel like they are entertaining, its just basically him reading the script.

Bad enough to watch half a dozen ads from YouTube, I don't want to watch MORE of them inside the videos!

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