Base Building

[ocistus]

Can Someone please help me by clearing up somethings?

How does this base building work? As a long time minecraft, Empyrion, creativerse ex.. player I know how most snap fit building works but I am really missing something here. I like to make a nice flat building surface to build my bases on and without any tools like that to fix the terrain I tried to use pillers and foundations and or ceailing to make my "Starting flat surface but I always get pillers too high or too low to snap to or one floor is lower then all the others. I was looking for base ideas on youtube and found some nice ones but nothing step by step to get me started or how to deal with my problems?

Also how does leveling a tame work other then the obivous? I hear max lvl is double what you tamed the thing at say I got a Trik at 15 then the max lvl I could get it will be 30 till I breed it and the hatchling will start at 30 till 60 and so on.

Any good noob friendly guides for this game, I know I have 98 hours into this game and around 1k deaths. I am lvl 51 in SP thats all I play, and cant tame a good carnovore to save my life my best tame was a lvl 27 Stego that just died fighting a lvl 21 Thera. I just get the feeling I'm doing things wrong and could use some help with diffrent playstiles.

Thank you for your time

[Hedgie]

Building is pretty bad in this game and people with OCD go crazy. Usually snap a pillar, then a ceiling ontop to get started. Then you snap ceilings together and then add pillars down as you go. The top of the pillar will stick through the floor, but thats a visual thing.

Pressing q will cycle through snap points...if youre lucky and the game finds them. Adjusting your angle will also help.

Did you find a youtuber called Fresonis? He does some handy building tuturials and usually shows the process

[Harbinger]

Find a gentle sloped area that's remotely "flat" and put your foundation in the middle of the slope. Foundation your need. If you can't foundation use a ceiling and wall down (just for defense or uniform design). The pillars mentioned by the post above are for support.

You can build 2 out and 1 diagonally from each support. so 3x3 square with 1 extra on each cardinal direction from the nearest support. Supports include: foundations and pillars with ceilings attached to them. Fence foundations also act as a support but they're very limited in base building except in.... well fences and strictly verticle walls... unless you use them for astetics. (Ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCh266HWOuA)

I like that the building in this game is semi-realistic compared to minecraft, things actually require supports and you can't dig landscapes. I like it a little more than something like 7 days to die where it has ultra realistic, and you can build anything it just may collapse on you without the right support.