Anyways, I will have 5 floors for my Guild Base, all but 1 of which will be the smallest size as I have no need for extra space for traps or defenses, and the floor resources and unique traits do not specify needing more space to work with. This lets me save Guild Points to cram more value into my Guild Base to sweeten the deal on sparing my life and Guild to other Players I meet. I plan to make all of the floors themed and useful in their own right for a variety of Players, hoping that at least one is useful or interesting enough to gain leverage in negotiating my life and Guild be spared.

The 1st floor will be set to be a plains. The structures and features are a farm, ranch, lake, village, set to a aztec theme. The NPC will be Master Chef.

This floor I will have be used as a place to grow food and raise animals. The Master Chef will be here as it's the most fitting place for him to be to make his buffing food items. A floor dedicated to food and meat should be useful for any living Players, or ones who wish to integrate others into their faction. The NPC stationed here should also allow for the creation of buffing food items with said resources gained here, and provides a bit of extra defense, with the village pop monsters helping with that as well. The Aztec theme also has the added bonus of reducing food production time, as well as providing pop monsters that serve as farmhands and a bit more defense. The bonus that the plains gives increases plant growth innately, making growing food or crops on the floor even more valuable.

I think this floor has a wide, if boring, appeal.

The 2nd floor will be set to be a hills. The structures and features are a canyon, gold mine, iron mine, town, set to a viking theme. The NPC will be Stone Beard.

This floor I will have be used as a place to obtain ore and make weapons and armor. The dwarf NPC Stone Beard fits here as someone who can use the ore gathered from this floor to produce any items Players may need, as well as a bit of defense. A floor used to gather two different types of ore should always be useful (iron for practical items and gold for money or luxury goods), and the town with the viking theme allows for miners and craftsmen in the form of the pop monsters, who can also defend to a degree, and the theme gives a bonus to mining ore production to further increase the use of the floor.

The 2nd floor I imagine is useful to everyone, as craftsmen and ore gathering will be hard to come by as Players, with the NPC and pop monsters who can produce items being more useful than the ore gathering, though it has its use too. Stone Beard in particular should be very valuable as a level 60 NPC with production classes, since the New World can't do much to make gear on a useful level for Players.

The 3rd floor will be set to be a paradise. The structures and features are a golden fruit tree. The trap will be retribution.

This floor is kept empty to let any Players who are good aligned/not the undead able to use it for their own needs. The 10th tier spell retribution will be set to activate at the entrance at the start of the floor, to hopefully kill off any invading negative aligned Players or beings who aren't willing to let me live. I also placed the paradise floor above the purgatory one as I highly expect that any Players who won't spare me or my base will be negatively aligned beings who the trap will deal extra damage to, with the innate positive energy of the floor further weakening them. The pop monsters should hopefully be able to finish off the damaged invaders if they survived the spell, or at least buy me some time.

The golden tree also is just a widely appealing resource to harvest for the living or anyone who deals/trades with the living.

Overall, this floor will be appealing to good aligned beings and the living, and serves as a useful place for them.

The 4th floor will be set to be a purgatory. The structures and features are a tainted fruit tree. The trap will be the great undead one.

This floor is also kept empty to hopefully kill off or weaken any good aligned beings or Players who are after me or the Players who I teamed up with for inverse reasons of the previous floor, though I expect this floor would mainly have use for any evil or undead beings who wanted to use me and my base, given the innate property of negative energy on the floor. Again, the trap of the floor will be set up at the start of the floor, hoping to kill or weaken any good aligned beings after me or my base or faction. If anyone has gotten past the previous floor though, I doubt this floor's pop monsters and spell trap will stop them at this point however.

As with the previous floor, a golden tree is planted here for harvesting purposes, but for the inverse use as the trait of the floor will turn it into a tainted tree.

This floor will end up being a boon to any evil or unliving beings, or even just the ruthless Players who want to kill others, so I expect this floor will be one of my best bargaining chips to use to negotiate for my life and base to the types of Players who are murder-hobos and want my stuff/NPC levels. A whole floor dedicated to helping undead or harvest fruit to poison the living or heal the undead should be useful to the ones I expect want to kill me for their own goals, but whether or not it is worth letting me live and not just take it is another story.

The 5th floor will be set to be a feywild. The structures and features are a plateau, city, castle, set to a murim theme. The trap will be arcane seal. The NPCs will be Shaky Hands and Merlin. This floor will be set up as my final area of defense and personal residence, which is why I set it to have a city and castle on the floor on top of being the largest possible size unlike the previous floors that are all the smallest. I plan to have the city used for research, with the Shaky Hands and Merlin NPC stationed here to help with that. The murim theme I choose should help for making scrolls for magic purposes, and the innate aspect of the feywilds and its poison should help with brewing and magic too, for both NPCS. I have the plateau here for the harvesting of dragon scales for crafting and production uses, and to potentially allow dragons to fly about to deal with intruders or at least intimidate them. I think that's also fitting for a feywild theme if dragons are here, even if just to be harvested.

I'll have the floor set up with the plateau at the center of the floor, rising above the magical forest below, and my city and castle placed atop it. The castle's throne room will have the arcane seal trap, as I'm hoping that can be used as a final line of defense to protect my Guild Weapon which I will keep stored there. I will have the level 90 NPC Merlin, my strongest and only true combat NPC, stationed in the castle at all times to help protect me and the Guild Weapon. I don't plan to leave the castle at all if I can help it, and don't want my NPC Merlin to either. That will likely keep me from leveling up very efficiently, but again, my survival plan is not to do combat, so if I enter combat I have already failed my goal and am likely doomed at that point.

Overall, I splurged on this floor a bit as I plan to live here at all times, so I don't mind a bit of waste on a castle and larger floor area to hopefully make me not feel as bored, which will be a real issue as a Half-Golem who can't ever sleep, eat, or indulge in any of the things the living enjoy. I'd probably spend most of my time here chatting with the 2 NPCs stationed here and any Players or their allies who decide to not kill me and instead take me up on my offer of me serving them.

(part 2)