Is tek tier even worth building with?

[StageNinjaX]

I'm playing on SP and got a decent base goin' , but I was thinkin about if tek is worth building with. It sounds like a waste of resources. After all, I'm not aggroing a titanosaur anytime, so the might as well just use metal structures. :/

[Zera_Fox]

In SP it's more of a "Look what I accomplished" sort of ordeal I feel.
Besides that though Tek Tier does have some nice/cool features to it, the gates and doors for example are lovely where there isn't some swinging hitbox everytime you open/close them :P

[🦊 Hermit]

Yeah, outside of PvP tek tier buildings are simply about immersion and accomplishment. They could be useful when repelling a raid from an enemy tribe, but if enemy tribes don't exist in your game then the most you need to repel is the odd wild dino, and metal will do that just fine. Hey with it, even stone tier will do it well enough, as the only things you need to worry about with that are titans, alphas, and a therizino.

[william_es]

The majority of the time I build with stone. I use metal only for a few things, like gates used in taming dinos that can break stone.

It's singleplayer. The only person that will see my base is myself.

[CrusherFabio]

I cannot even think using something else that tek tier. I will never go back to metal, stone and wood. I love the look and the functionality of tek tier stuff, especially with my beloved s+ mod and their tek tier stove, coocking pot, laboratory, furnace and the awesome autocrafter.

[StageNinjaX]

Originally posted by CallMeJackson:

I cannot even think using something else that tek tier. I will never go back to metal, stone and wood. I love the look and the functionality of tek tier stuff, especially with my beloved s+ mod and their tek tier stove, coocking pot, laboratory, furnace and the awesome autocrafter.

I ment tek structures, not tek tier things like tek generator or tek replicator.

[Konachibi]

No not really. Unless you're building in particularly hostile areas, tek building construction is pretty much a waste of resources, heck, if you abuse the way buildings prevent things from spawning around them, you can build your entire base out of thatch, stick a few fence foundations down in a wide circle around it and never have to worry about anything making a mess 'cos nothing will spawn nearby.
In my scorched earth playthrough I was living a thatch hut for most of it, with most of my electronic stuff (fabricator, generator, chemistry bench etc.) all dumped on the floor outside, with some large walls blocking off the valley I'd built my base inside of. Only reason I upgraded the walls of that hut to wood was 'cos I kept having trouble finding the door with the way it blends in on thatch walls.

[DreadCthulhu]

Tek doors & gates are really nice due to their auto open & shut functions, especially if you are playing without mods that add auto open to lower tier stuff. Other than that their is little reason to use tek buildings on PVE, other than aethetics.