Who's done an Mountain Base?

[Xalderin]

Anyone here ever do a Mountain base? Kind of like the Dwarfs, where you dig into a mountain and just go at it? o.o"

[Vanyel]

Haven't tried that...thinking it might be better than starting out in the middle of the valley where oyu are limited to I think one level - which causes your complex to be widely spread out. In another threat however, someone mentioned some of the enemies have bombs or something that can demolish whole floors even though you're deep inside the mountain.

[Argile]

I prefer playing on mountain because you have enough limestone to build structures out of early game and you save a lot of the headache on other maps of cutting trees and constantly running out of wood.

Digging into the earth for your base is the ideal base on any map because you need to make cold stores anyway and having all your villagers working and living underground means they don't have to worry about temperature change and weather conditions.

Also during raids trebuchets can't hit your base through ground tiles so you basically become immune to them.

[Fragnarok]

I've now done this three times on different mountain maps.

First was a settlement that was more in a canyon, but to get to grassland they had to keep trekking up a mountain. Eventually, I hollowed out the mountain so that there was a both a safer path and bedrooms inside for the farmers. Still most of the villagers lived in the open canyon.

Second time was a pretty standard flatland village, but almost all the iron was right in a nearby mountain. Once the mine was cleared out, it made sense to just build living quarters inside. Now it's about 60% of the population in the mountain, and the other 40% working the plains.

Now in my current game, I've built a two walled castle straight out of a larger mountain face that makes up the other two walls. Outside of farmland and stations that get penalties indoors, most everyone is either inside the mountain or otherwise underground.

[Lich Lord]

It works well but you need to start it at the lowest point on the map so you can go both down and up inside. I made the outside a pit of spikes and with two Palisade sections at the entrance for archers

[Xalderin]

Originally posted by CMDR Kel'Draga:

It works well but you need to start it at the lowest point on the map so you can go both down and up inside. I made the outside a pit of spikes and with two Palisade sections at the entrance for archers

Oh, I didn't even think of this. Might be why I feel like I'm running out of space. XD

And thanks all! I'm coming from Stonehearth, and my favorite thing to do is to make everything inside the mountain. Not sure why, but it's kind of fun that why. And I think my biggest concern now, is the enemy with bombs. .__.

[Pwent]

Originally posted by Xalderin:

[...] And I think my biggest concern now, is the enemy with bombs. .__.

Currently there are no "bombs" ingame, there are trebuchets, yes, they do have splashdamage, damaging multiple floors at once, but they don't magically destroy an entire mountain base, unless you didn't think ahead when building it (when in doubt: more beams).

Additionally, trebs were nerfed some time ago, so one treb may be able to destroy stoneblock flooring (200HP, iirc), but thats where you either adapt or, as I have done, basically disable trebs in the game files, as, to me, they add nothing but frustration at this point.

[LiquidDisease]

Don't bother, if the enemy attacks you with trebuchet, they can hit you even if you're all the way down under.

[Spector]

I have done one, but I haven't posted it publicly yet.

But I have showcased a few from fellow players:
6:14 Mountain settlement by SirHundemann
He just contacted me and will send me his save file, so I will show it off even more soon.
https://youtu.be/QsvKmDrLaMA