The Best Base Vanilla

[MikeTheKiller]

https://youtu.be/vke1JCzczKA

[grapplehoeker]

Best? It could be better ;)
Here are a few of suggestions.
You could optimise your hydroponics a little better ;)
You have only 12 per chamber and you could have at least 16. There's no need to space them out individually on both sides. You can have 4x blocks of 4 for example.
You don't appear to be using any tool cupboard in your workshop.
Your turrets appear to be made of steel. Make them from plasteel instead. They'll be 3x tougher ;)

[Emmote]

You're using sandstone doors?
Stone doors are terrible, even as autodoors. They have a door opening speed of 45%. At least use Steel which has 100%.

[JoeDaTomato]

Publicado originalmente por Emmote:

You're using sandstone doors?
Stone doors are terrible, even as autodoors. They have a door opening speed of 45%. At least use Steel which has 100%.

Building on this, uranium autodoors are the best (in my opinion). If that's not an option, I recommend granite autodoors for the exterior doors and steel/plasteel autodoors for the interior

[Zander117]

Your base is also super weak to infestations

[Emelio Lizardo]

I use granite for exterior because of the cost/strenght ratio, and ironwood for interiors. I can't see wasting a non renewable on doors. I keep a nice forest of ironwood trees going just for that and all furniture.

Hadn't realized you could build turrets from plasteel, good idea. Do they do more damage too?

[Zander117]

Plus you use rocks to slow down raiders? Those rocks provide raiders and mechs with 50% cover

[Emelio Lizardo]

You need the curuit breaker mod too. Zzzzzt is too annoying without it.

[JoeDaTomato]

Publicado originalmente por Emelio Lizardo:

Hadn't realized you could build turrets from plasteel, good idea. Do they do more damage too?

No, they just have more health and less flammability.

[Emelio Lizardo]

Use IEDs to slow down raiders, along with mortors to bomb their staging ground.

[JoeDaTomato]

Publicado originalmente por Emelio Lizardo:

You need the curuit breaker mod too. Zzzzzt is too annoying without it.

I recommend against using this mod, as it's fairly cheaty. Zzzzts can be dealt with in Vanilla by having multiple grids or using generators that produce constant output (wood, chemfuel, geothermal).

[Zander117]

I straight up disable zzzt lol only thing I would disable

[Emmote]

Publicado originalmente por JoeDaTomato:

Publicado originalmente por Emmote:

You're using sandstone doors?
Stone doors are terrible, even as autodoors. They have a door opening speed of 45%. At least use Steel which has 100%.

Building on this, uranium autodoors are the best (in my opinion). If that's not an option, I recommend granite autodoors for the exterior doors and steel/plasteel autodoors for the interior

But Uranium has a 75% door opening speed so it's nearly as bad.

[JoeDaTomato]

Publicado originalmente por Emmote:

Publicado originalmente por JoeDaTomato:

Building on this, uranium autodoors are the best (in my opinion). If that's not an option, I recommend granite autodoors for the exterior doors and steel/plasteel autodoors for the interior

But Uranium has a 75% door opening speed so it's nearly as bad.

Uranium autodoors have 300% (75%*4). Steel autodoors are 400%, and so much weaker that it really isn't worth it.

[Emmote]

Publicado originalmente por JoeDaTomato:

Publicado originalmente por Emmote:

But Uranium has a 75% door opening speed so it's nearly as bad.

Autodoors have 300%.

Sure, compared with normal doors, but Uranium is offset by 75%, Stone by 45% and Wood by 120%. Everything else iirc is 100%.

[JoeDaTomato]

Publicado originalmente por Emmote:

Publicado originalmente por JoeDaTomato:

Autodoors have 300%.

Sure, compared with normal doors, but Uranium is offset by 75%, Stone by 45% and Wood by 120%. Everything else iirc is 100%.

And everything faster is much weaker. 300% is nearly normal moving speed, so the slight offset in speed is really worth the super-high durability.