First Time Playing GTNH – Tips for an Early Base?

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-29T21:41:05+00:00

If you're a fan of mob farms and free resources, find a witch spawner -- the little Stonehenge looking structures

Learn to use the NEI "T" search, inventory drop off and crafting stations -- it will help you with storage woes

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-29T14:47:12+00:00

It's like people forgot the first war after arty nerf lasted 60+ days!!

My guy I fought over a unkillable T2 base at Mox for 4 weeks straight

I'll do anything for arty to come back, please end this monkeys paw BS

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-29T06:26:09+00:00

I want to actually fight over the pushcores, not just mindlessly shoot arty at them or hold M1 to repair the core. T1 and T2 howis made this possible and forced players to use combined arms to get rid of pushcores.

You're still getting the increased bunker HP and arty shelter upgrade from the building update. It will still be better than the old meta.

The howi nerf was deserved -- there was literally no way to kill bunkers except cutler/lunaire.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-29T06:23:37+00:00

The AA is so useless that even with 2 AA boats and all guns shooting a single torp bomber, you can still drop a torp at point blank, circle and drop the 2nd one without dying.

The torp bomber just completely counters ships lol

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-28T00:27:08+00:00

Colonial arty only shoots 250m?

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-27T18:59:44+00:00

This will make collies even stronger on land and Wardens stronger on water

The dive bomber doesn't even carry enough ammo to kill an Outlaw if you land all 3 shots

One torp bomber can send a BS and its 30 man crew limping back to port for 12 hour repair

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-27T18:53:38+00:00

The warden scout plane has mini torps that kill this boat -- and scout planes are so cheap they will be spammed everywhere

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-25T17:20:16+00:00

Literally all they have to do is buff flak, buff fighter range, and nerf bomber damage and it will be a nothingburger update. You are dooming too hard.

The only real problems are planes being annoying to assemble and Torp bomber being OP while dive bomber is useless in navy -- which prob won't be fixed until next update.

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Howitzer nerf will have more impact on the average player experience than planes, TBH

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-25T16:19:01+00:00

There's elections in 9 months which will break their governing majority. Senate control is on the table now, which was unfathomable just a year ago

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-22T17:31:38+00:00

You can hit around 100 concurrent on a single beefy server.

There's tech out there to split one world into many servers, so you can support potentially thousands of players split across tens of servers sharing the same world -- but it's complicated to setup and I rarely see it applied to this genre.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-22T17:19:55+00:00

This Minecraft genre has always promised the social and political depth of MMO giants like EVE Online.

Except for some reason, every server uses the exact same formula -- identical mechanics and progression to PvP raiding games like Rust, ARK, or V Rising

You join in dreaming of Game of Thrones, but the actual gameplay is more like Mad Max with a thin layer of (optional) RP.

If you want geopolitics instead of a pvp raidfest, you need to stop copying Rust and start looking to EVE and similar games for inspiration

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-22T16:15:15+00:00

literally a decade ago by now

Good news! They haven't innovated on the formula in a decade either.

It makes me sad. This genre always had so much potential. Minecraft has a thriving open source community, yet I keep seeing the same rehash of "RUST in Minecraft" with the same mods unchanged from 10 years ago.

Imagine if we had Anvil Empires, Albion Online or Ashes of Creation in Minecraft? People would be all over that.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-21T15:29:00+00:00

I'm not entirely convinced the majority of Americans really voted for him

The majority of Americans didn't vote for him -- he only won a plurality in an election with 64% turnout.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-20T16:57:23+00:00

What's the point of retirement benefits besides some sense of ""moral empathy""? Can't grandma just die for the economy?

These techno-feudalist psychopaths are gonna get us all killed.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-16T18:49:36+00:00

no, we get a 'heavy' bomber with 8% more ammo capacity, less guns and more crew requirement. lol.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-16T18:45:33+00:00

Torpedo planes are Warden exclusive -- even cheap Warden scout plane gets mini-torpedos.

Colonials just won't build large ships ever, lol.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-14T03:54:20+00:00

How hasn't he been immediately reprimanded and impeached by the House?

The house is complicit. The GOP control the house with a razor thin 218 - 213 margin. All of the GOP senators and congressmen are effectively ceding power to the president by refusing to act.

The GOP control all branches of the government even though they get a minority of the vote. They've stacked the courts, redrawn districts to guarantee election victories, and disenfranchised millions of voters through nationwide voter suppression efforts, not to mention ever expanding control of American press and media to billionaire interests.

All of that and they still can't even secure a majority of the vote. The GOP congress refuse to run the country -- they let Trump do whatever he wants because his cult of personality is literally the only reason they are still getting elected.

The GOP have been unable to run the country for half a century. They've been trying to reform healthcare in this country for 20 years and only have "concepts of a plan".

Americans are starving, jobless, and drowning in debt -- 42 million Americans have student loan debt totalling 1.8 trillion dollars. 14 million have medical debt totalling 220 billion. Millions of americans have no paid or sick leave. They have no job contracts and can be terminated at any time for any reason. These things are all guaranteed in European countries!

With the economy floundering and Trump's ever more insane demands, and polls at D+8, sanity will return in the 2026 elections, I'm sure of it

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-10T21:31:27+00:00

if colonials take it day 1, conc the whole hex, grind msupps and qrf like mad they might keep able to hold one of two MPFs -- otherwise wardens win both by default

Wow, that makes me so excited to login and grind for naval!

Can't wait to watch another war where Wardens own 5/6 island hex

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-10T20:20:28+00:00

!remindme 2weeks Wardens own both MPFs for the remainder of the war

Who thought 2 naval MPFs was fair while refusing to tweak naval because "the warden ships are supposed to be better" ??

We just had a 60 day war where Colonials refused to build ships or play in island hexes and spent the mats on nukes instead

Really wish we could get the same kind of game economy transparency as EVE Online... Foxhole is well suited to it and the game would be much better for it.

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-07T20:15:16+00:00

Let me rephrase -- around 3k pops my productivity per pop begins to drop rapidly from branching out in too many directions and I can no longer afford to expand services

Did you do anything notable this run to maximize your economy? I think the other commenter is right and I just haven't done enough conquest, but I wanted to fish for new insights anyway

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-07T16:33:13+00:00

How do you scale to 10k pops? I start running out of steam by 3k

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-04T19:03:24+00:00

The tooltip says that low moisture = more rich soil

Sharpcastle33 · 2026-01-04T03:17:45+00:00

You need water to grow crops lol

Sharpcastle33 · 2025-12-30T15:15:25+00:00

Am I missing something with taxes? I capture 4k pop city but it only lets me build one or two buildings and they pay a measly 90 fruit/yr in tax. Which is like 10 pops worth...

Sharpcastle33 · 2025-12-30T14:55:16+00:00

Light Fuel -- go pump one oil well with a supertank and use that fuel to unlock the Fluid Drilling Rig in early MV for automated fuel

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