Best building to house my weapon and armor crafting stations?

[GrungeBro]

as title says /\ /\

[Vahagn323]

I use a watchtower: decorative bar/dining area in floor 0, chainmail/fabric/chainsheet stuff is on floor 1, heavy armour station with storage on floor 2, and currently empty for floor 3. I have weapons and armor stuff split between 2 buildings with some other stuff, so you could probably fit most things in an entire watchtower if you used all the space given.

Alternatively there's plenty of space in the Stationhouse and maybe the Swamp Dome.

[Peregrine]

I use Watch Tower, Stationhouse and Storm House together for my bases. The Roof is always ringed by crossbow turrets for mutal defense and fields of fire on all structures. Between the three buildings I have all the storage and research space I could want. Barracks tend to be in the Station and Storm, (More on the storm, since the Stationhouse is better for building inside)

Sometimes I will replace the Stormhouse with an L house, but I am bothered by the 1 power the building consumes (For no reason, it's not supposed to consume power, nor is the Long House) If I really want, I build an extra Stormhouse if terrain permits and I usually use it for more storage or generators / batteries.

Also factor in that you will eventually get hydrophonics, I will add a stucture for them if I don't have enough room for them, depending on terrain, what else I've built, and how many I want, I will usually make a Storm House but I did once build a Stationhouse for them and filled it.


A note for defense.


Make sure the Storm House door faces the Stationhouse Door and also have the Tower Door visible to both. (All three open to a courtyard, if you will) This allows unrestricted defense.

[Drakken]

I like the long house (i don't remember their name) but you can't miss them, you have a lot of room.

[johntarmac]

Build them in whatever building you want, the only advantage to cramming everything into a big building is less travel time between machines for your people if min/maxing is your thing.

[drh]

I use a snail house or the larger outpost.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=963112039

[yippeekiay]

Any building that has a long sides works best for me.

I have armour racks against the walls with armour chests just in front. Then beds in front of those. I like to keep things organised as I have a lot of crap. Afraid I'm a hoarder but at least I stopped hoarding grey ranked items for the most part.

Doing it this way means still plenty of space left for job stations or general furniture, other storage etc.

[Drakken]

Originally posted by doctah:

I use a snail house or the larger outpost.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=963112039

With 3 weapons crafting stations you must have an impressive amount of steel bars, iron plates, iron mines, hemp factories..
i would say, 5 to 6 iron plates and 3 steel bars factories. ;)
imho one is more than enough especially since you find better weapons in armories. ;)

[Rhandhom]

Here's mine..

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=963265757

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=963265633

The L house is for my first base then i created a second base and managed to do the same thing in a Y house..the Y house is currently my favorite.

[drh]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Originally posted by doctah:

I use a snail house or the larger outpost.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=963112039

With 3 weapons crafting stations you must have an impressive amount of steel bars, iron plates, iron mines, hemp factories..
i would say, 5 to 6 iron plates and 3 steel bars factories. ;)
imho one is more than enough especially since you find better weapons in armories. ;)

I have lots of people to train and equip :) I'm trying to reach the 256 character limit...and I want each of them to have 90's across the board.

[GrungeBro]

im still searching for the best area for building and growing wheat and cactus! Any one know where that is?

[drh]

Go out towards the waystation nearest squin. Lots of space out there to grow arid stuff.

[Zombie101]

Snail house can house I say is the best. I have build my armor shop on 1st floor. Leather Chain Plate 2 Fabics Heavy armor Leather fabic I could just put the my weapon shop on the Second floor if I really wanted to.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=873457559

[Drakken]

Originally posted by doctah:

Originally posted by Drakken:

With 3 weapons crafting stations you must have an impressive amount of steel bars, iron plates, iron mines, hemp factories..
i would say, 5 to 6 iron plates and 3 steel bars factories. ;)
imho one is more than enough especially since you find better weapons in armories. ;)

I have lots of people to train and equip :) I'm trying to reach the 256 character limit...and I want each of them to have 90's across the board.

Ouch lol, you will burn your video card ^^

[drh]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Ouch lol, you will burn your video card ^^

I've never really run into many slow downs that seem to be related to the number of characters on the screen. I don't have a crazy video card, but I do have a stupid amount of RAM in this computer. I'm currently at ~90 characters, but have been up to 130 or so without any framerate issues - all running around base.

A few updates ago, my base near squin was attacked by a bunch of scrawny cannibals. I'm not sure how many there were (it wasn't crazy), but watching my 50 newbies smack them around was awesome. I hope the upcoming diplomacy will send raids of 50+ enemies (though they'll just get slaughtered by my harpoons).

At times, some of my characters just refuse to do anything (currently dealing with 15 dead, large hemp farms). That seems to be related to the large squad...but it runs smoothly.

Meh. No complaints; I'm sure I'm not playing the way the game was intended. When 1.0 comes around, I'll start over and run all around the map for a while looking for AI cores...but after a while, I'll settle down and try to build a giant city again.

[Drakken]

Originally posted by doctah:

Originally posted by Drakken:

Ouch lol, you will burn your video card ^^

I've never really run into many slow downs that seem to be related to the number of characters on the screen. I don't have a crazy video card, but I do have a stupid amount of RAM in this computer. I'm currently at ~90 characters, but have been up to 130 or so without any framerate issues - all running around base.

A few updates ago, my base near squin was attacked by a bunch of scrawny cannibals. I'm not sure how many there were (it wasn't crazy), but watching my 50 newbies smack them around was awesome. I hope the upcoming diplomacy will send raids of 50+ enemies (though they'll just get slaughtered by my harpoons).

At times, some of my characters just refuse to do anything (currently dealing with 15 dead, large hemp farms). That seems to be related to the large squad...but it runs smoothly.

Meh. No complaints; I'm sure I'm not playing the way the game was intended. When 1.0 comes around, I'll start over and run all around the map for a while looking for AI cores...but after a while, I'll settle down and try to build a giant city again.

I think Hatsune has a mod to increase the number of enemies.