Single Player PvE - Any Point Making Vaults?

[🦊 Hermit]

So I've been doing some base improvements on my single player game, and I'm due to upgrade and redesign my storage pretty soon. I was gonna upgrade everything to metal vaults to hold my stuff in...

...then it occured to me, what's the point? I'm on single player PvE, so there's no risk of anyone breaking in and destroying my chests to loot them. My base is well defended from wild dinos, so the floor beneath my storage room isn't gonna be destroyed. Vaults represent quite an investment of resources, particularly metal and polymer, which I could use for other things. And comparing the size of vaults to large chests, you could fit 3 or 4 chests into a smaller space than a vault, which would give equivelant if not better storage slots.

So am I missing any details here, or am I correct that it would actually be best for me to stick with wooden chests instead of using the vaults?

[primobrainlet]

They are bigger than normal storage things, and look better in metal rooms

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by lonemushroom:

They are bigger than normal storage things, and look better in metal rooms

True that they hold 150 items instead of 45, but if you can fit 4 large chests into the space of one vault, the chests would actually add up to more storage slots than the vault would. So are they really bigger when you compare storage space with volume they take up in your base?

[primobrainlet]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Originally posted by lonemushroom:

They are bigger than normal storage things, and look better in metal rooms

True that they hold 150 items instead of 45, but if you can fit 4 large chests into the space of one vault, the chests would actually add up to more storage slots than the vault would. So are they really bigger when you compare storage space with volume of the model?

true, its just a conveinance if you can afford it, no huge pros

[Spicklet]

Isnt PvE singleplayer really lonely and boring? No harassment just asking

[margalus]

No, absolutely not. You can squeeze more into large cabinets in half the amount of floorspace stacked side by side, without taking up 4 levels of vertical space...

[Ultra_FU]

It's KEWL.

[Jaite]

Originally posted by Los Premos:

Isnt PvE singleplayer really lonely and boring? No harassment just asking

Its about as boring as spending 100-500 hours on a base and having it destroyed while you're sleeping, then on PVE servers, its about as boring as someone griefing your base, dinos, pillaring everything around you to make sure you arent able to expand. Single player isnt as bad as people think.

[patonb]

Look at smithys! they hold 75 Items and you can put them on say a ceiling thus a 1 x 1 x 2 high spot can have 2 for 150 spots.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by Los Premos:

Isnt PvE singleplayer really lonely and boring? No harassment just asking

Depends on how much imagination you have to come up with new challenges for yourself, or play out whatever mission/story you want to play. For example, I'm currently in the process of building a large base in one of the Center canyons which is very open and stylised - I'd never be able to get away with building this design in PvP, because it'd be raided too easily. And just a few nights ago I set myself the challenge of taking my bronto and anky to the peaks of the snow mountains to get oil - could have gotten it much quicker by diving into the ocean, but the journey was an epic trek and kept me entertained for hours.

Besides, as someone above stated, in single player you don't have to put up with losing things every time you log in. I get attached to my dinos and hate losing my hard work on building/resource collection, so being raided regularly and having to start from scratch would irritate me no end and force me to quit playing very swiftly. On SP PvE I can go at my own pace, do my own thing, and have my own fun without being bothered by such issues.

I do also host a private server for me and a couple of my friends to play on from time to time, so I don't do this game entirely solo. But I do value my solitude in sandbox games such as this, and can spend many hours lost in worlds like these.

Originally posted by patonb:

Look at smithys! they hold 75 Items and you can put them on say a ceiling thus a 1 x 1 x 2 high spot can have 2 for 150 spots.

You make a good point, that may be something to look into :o Although some structures won't allow you to put everything in them - are there any restrictions on smithys, I can't remember...

[Nocternaldaze]

Originally posted by Los Premos:

Isnt PvE singleplayer really lonely and boring? No harassment just asking

not really because if you still want that pvp interaction there is a mod called npc bush people 4, which adds npc`s in different forms .i.e builders, farmers and escaped convics which will rob you if they capture you.

ontop of this there are queens for every npc tribe that you can try and kill, depending on the colour holo above the queen determines how hard they are to kill and will even set a bounty on you when you attack.

unfortunately at the moment i had to uninstall the mod has the last few updates from the creator has caused huge lag spikes. but will be using it again in the future once it`s more steady.

[Kisston]

if you are clever you an actually put 8 or more storage boxes in the same space as a vault, using catwalks and stacking the boxes as tight as you can. Vaults can be convenient as you have less searching if you placed an item in a box and forgot wich box it was in XD