Show me your town's 'layout'; infrastructure for the win!

Store Page

Dinkum

All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Dinkum > General Discussions > Topic Details

Eightball

Aug 15, 2022 @ 5:15pm

Show me your town's 'layout'; infrastructure for the win!

I tend to be very methodical in laying out my towns. Often my approach means efficiency over aesthetic.

That said I always enjoy seeing how other people have laid out their towns and their thought process in doing so.

So show me your town!

The layout, the street system, the different districts, etc.

Think satellite view versus street view.

< >

Showing 1-15 of 60 comments

Borgessa

Aug 15, 2022 @ 5:59pm

here's my little town, it ain't much and still a work in progress.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849325081

Eightball

Aug 15, 2022 @ 6:01pm

Building around a central square - very Old World style. Looks good so far.

em_t_hed

Aug 15, 2022 @ 6:13pm

Some residents have a small beach front view while others on the other side (behind the buildings in picture) will have a view of flower fields

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849158866

View at the other end of my town.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2850296880

Last edited by em_t_hed; Aug 17, 2022 @ 7:46am

Borgessa

Aug 15, 2022 @ 6:15pm

Originally posted by em_t_hed:
Some residents have a small beach front view while others on the other side (behind the buildings in picture) will have a view of flower fields

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849158866

That is pretty - i have no imagination what so ever lol.

em_t_hed

Aug 15, 2022 @ 6:22pm

Originally posted by Borgessa:
Originally posted by em_t_hed:
Some residents have a small beach front view while others on the other side (behind the buildings in picture) will have a view of flower fields

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849158866
That is pretty - i have no imagination what so ever lol.

The map had a lot to do with it... I explored before putting down Fletch's Tent. Inspired by the biomes of game and exploration before settling down. No money no tools to shape the land on a large scale... basically forced to build with the land and not against.

I settled at the meeting of 2 rivers on the map. ALOT of current cities in the world have their beginnings at rivers dating all the way back to Mesopotamia... Tigris n Euphrates... I also used to live in Sacramento with the Sacramento and American Rivers...

I figure why break away from human nature.

Last edited by em_t_hed; Aug 15, 2022 @ 6:28pm

spielerinchen has Dinkum

Aug 15, 2022 @ 8:09pm

though i appreciate the idea of the thread, isn't to ask for "different districts" a bit overboard ? there are only 10 buildings, plus the visitor tent, that's not really much, if you don't want to run whole day just to get from one to another, if you need it

what i've seen in videos & pictures, other players have the same attitude, usually there is sort of a center with all the buildings, & there might be somewhere the workspace, the farmspace, spaces for the animals & then the mine, so not that much to design with

but ok i will try to show what i've got, which is not finished, let's say, early access layout

here the first map i played

i didn't move far away from the landing pier & the first tower. the spot has 3 pretty lakes. i placed my own house with a view across it & beyond. it's not changed much, quite en nature. the main center with all the other buildings is arranged around the main big lake, which is straightened to form a circle. & there is on the side the third smaller lake, which is also straightened, it's still work in progress, it will get street lamps & benches. the museum is on a sandbank next to the main part. i'm still working on the road out into the wild, which will connect the main lake with the next bridge & where the visitor tent, a small mining site & the first tower are located. that character has no deep mine.

that's the map & the layout of the town
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849689651

here the view from my house over the lake, then the path toward town which leads through the small garden with 2 chooks. i am in a process to widen it to accomodate maybe up to 4 chooks. Rayne's shop is nearby so she can help watering the plants.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849689698

here the main lake. small working area between John's & Fletch's. below the farm with wheat, sugar cane, bottle brush & fruit trees. that's next to the small pond which still has to get some benches & lights.
between the garden & the farm is also a small cooking area. (not pictured)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849689754

the museum on the sandbank. & the road out of town.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849689934

the whole thing is still growing, though i don't think i will move the shops to a different place, i wish we'll get more shops, more NPCs.

Last edited by spielerinchen; Aug 15, 2022 @ 8:15pm

Linmarie

Aug 15, 2022 @ 8:21pm

I'm going for aesthetics first. I can be efficient later. :-) Anyway, still a work in progress.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849690962

HunterSilver has Dinkum

Aug 15, 2022 @ 9:14pm

The living part of my town is built along a strip with decorations, lighting, and seating along the center.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849708108

Farmlands and animals needed a lot of space, so they took up the southern stretch of the island, with a bridge connecting to the ranch plateau.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849708116

And then stairs leading down to a general gardening and crafting area, with a pathway to the docks.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849708118

Finally a pleasant little park area with a beach just below it. Tree walls are surprisingly effect and will actually keep all animals out, while allowing players to freely travel through them.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849708125

JU1173

Aug 15, 2022 @ 10:04pm

Mine so far.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849713208

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849713215

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849713225

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849713235

Eightball

Aug 15, 2022 @ 10:07pm

Originally posted by spielerinchen:
though i appreciate the idea of the thread, isn't to ask for "different districts" a bit overboard ?

My choice of word, district, could have been better. Lets say 'area' instead of district and with said you have showed us those very things, a 'farm' area, a 'workshop' area, etc.

And your comment about most other players having the same attitude about layouts, basically grouping all the buildings around a central square, is most likely correct.

That is the very reason I started this thread. To see whats different from the 'norm' out there. Different than building around the central square.

@em_t_hed town is a great example of 'something different'. Less boxy, stretched out along a geographic feature (the river), building with the landscape as opposed to building in spite of it (meaning the area was not beaten into a flat, featureless pancake before building was started).

@Imharris1157 some different building set-backs. A non squarish central plaza with some elevation changes. Some nice landscaping (nice mix of trees and plantings).

@HunterSilver was different as well in not placing the park in the center of the town (a common move), but building it away from the center so it becomes a destination in and of itself. And the use of the hedges in town actually creates different 'districts' even though they might be smallish.

Great examples so far. I hope to see more!

#10

Eightball

Aug 15, 2022 @ 10:13pm

@JU1173 I really like your 'sunken' seating area. Nicely done. And I like the fact you have the 'center' of town divided up; a seating area, a small park, cropland.

And I also like that you have not clumped all your buildings in tight to one another, but spread some of them out quite a ways. It gives the place some 'depth' so to speak.

#11

HunterSilver has Dinkum

Aug 15, 2022 @ 10:46pm

Originally posted by JU1173:
Mine so far.

I actually really like that park, can you share a view from inside of it? And have you thought about using the lawnmower on it to prevent wild grasses from growing there?

#12

JU1173

Aug 15, 2022 @ 11:32pm

Originally posted by HunterSilver:
Originally posted by JU1173:
Mine so far.
I actually really like that park, can you share a view from inside of it? And have you thought about using the lawnmower on it to prevent wild grasses from growing there?

Thanks. I grabbed a couple pictures of the inside. Still a little empty, I am hoping a fountain will fit nicely there. I just unlocked sprinklers, so haven't had a chance to check.

Yes I have considered that, I have just been lazy getting most of Franklin's things. Right now if I see one I just stab it with my spear.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849739348

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849739354

#13

Borgessa

Aug 16, 2022 @ 1:34am

Originally posted by JU1173:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2849713215

This inspired me so much thank you - I was really disliking and not knowing what to do with my down center - I sunk mine down a level put some grass and chairs in, looks so much better thank you, wish it was this pretty thou.

#14

Ⓞ︎Ⓝ︎Ⓚ

Aug 16, 2022 @ 1:35am

#15

< >

Showing 1-15 of 60 comments

Per page: 1530 50

Dinkum > General Discussions > Topic Details

Date Posted: Aug 15, 2022 @ 5:15pm

Posts: 60

Discussions Rules and Guidelines

Dinkum

Report this post