Expand my current house or build a new?

[Mestev]

So my main base is of fair size 5 X 8 floor panel and 3 floor in height. I'm in the iron age but yet to kill bonemass, just working on smelting all that iron now.

So my issue is that all the upgrades for the forge, the bellow and the other anvil just taking too much space and currently in the middle of the floor as there's no where else it would fit.

So can't decide I just take down a wall and expand so I can fit all the upgrades stuff into a better configuration or just break it all down build base 2.0 out of stone? I took a small peek at the wiki and saw that I will still have to make further craft stations and there's just not enough room in the current base.

My land plot wise is big enough for all this and I'm located in a meadow next to two black forest and a mountain bio and a decent walk to a swamp bio, with sailing to a plains bio as well. Just looking at the time and work to build it all up from scratch is a bit if I do it from stone.

So any suggestions or recommendations?

[Netaris]

You can destroy your roof and make another floor or dig under your house to hide them under your actual floor. You can also extend your roof to the ground and hide them between the roof and the wall. That's the three ways that came to my mind to do it.

Some inspiration : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7w9B-8t4to

[Nesahat]

I'm all for expanding :) I love my original home too much.

[Shurenai]

When in doubt, Try expanding; If it doesn't work, just tear it down and build anew. There's no resource loss from building so you can always dismantle and build with the resources again. (except torches, sorta, I think? but resin is everywhere anyway)

[Weaver]

I've personally built additions then relocated stuff as I go. Started as a simple two story house with a fireplace at one end, then I doubled the length, added a wooden tower, then next to it added a round stone tower and a stone workshop.

[Mestev]

Ah thanks wasn't sure if I could have a wall between the upgrades and the main craft stations and still get the effects.

[jonnin]

Add ons feel like add ons ... if it bothers you, rebuild.
IMHO you need at least 150 floorspace area where units are a 2x2 floor tile. Preferably this with 2 floors to double it, so you can spread out a bit more.

Alternately, if you have visions (or delusions) of grandeur, you can just put floor tiles up the walls and stuff forge and workbench addons up the walls instead of across the floor (bellows is picky, but the rest much less so) ... its ugly, but it works while you consider your big building project options and locations.

[Scott Dowell]

As others have said, add-on/expand (both outwards and upwards). Eventually you may tear down those wooden walls and replace them with stone or build an entire chest wall for storage. But for now, if your base suits your needs, expand.

My main forge (with all the upgrades) is outside my house next to my smelter and other metal producing stations. This made it easy to have 1 section to easily store ore, produce plates and make stuff. But I hated popping in from a portal, running outside the house to the forge for repair work. I added a second forge on the inside of the house right against the wall with the main forge. If you position everything correctly, your second forge can gain all the upgrades as the original forge.

[jonnin]

the bellows can't be made to work for 2 forges, or I could not find a way. You don't need 7 star to repair anyway., just 2 or 3 star for that.
Having 2 forges serves double duty... you can rip break down and move the extra one to set up a mining operation or repair station somewhere and bring it back when done.

[Heimdall]

I usually first try to redistribute, and if things dont fit, or it ends in an unrealistic/nonpractical arrangement, I expand the area if the surroundings allow it. Otherwise I will destroy and rebuild with a new arrangement, which might include expanding the borders of my base.
You can add a floor above too. Check my screenshots if you want and watch how the main base evolved. Bergaretxe aka my main base has gone through quite a lot of Feng Shui to be able to fit everything that I wanted inside. Many things that I dont really need occupying a lot of space, but it feels realistic to me, like the little gardeners shack between the farm and the beehives, or the massive meadhall/jars home to the left, and the other big building to the right which holds the guest room and a storage room, with the portal hub on top of it.
Gain Txiki/the Plains base workshop has been built from scratch as it is shown, with a dedicated little area for each table and its upgrades. The Adze and chopping block are outside the building(which makes sense too). Im in the process of finishing my Inca-style terrace farm for hops and flax, still lots to do before this base is where I want it hahah.

Sorry for the wall of text, I hope you can extract something useful at least :D

TLDR: Dont be afraid to scrap and rebuild, sometimes its faster than trying to fit everything and it will be more aesthetically pleasing(plus it can look more natural, if thats what youre after). Dont be afraid to grab more land, theres a lot of it in this game!

[BGratz]

Originally posted by Mestev:

So my main base is of fair size 5 X 8 floor panel and 3 floor in height. I'm in the iron age but yet to kill bonemass, just working on smelting all that iron now.

So my issue is that all the upgrades for the forge, the bellow and the other anvil just taking too much space and currently in the middle of the floor as there's no where else it would fit.

So can't decide I just take down a wall and expand so I can fit all the upgrades stuff into a better configuration or just break it all down build base 2.0 out of stone? I took a small peek at the wiki and saw that I will still have to make further craft stations and there's just not enough room in the current base.

My land plot wise is big enough for all this and I'm located in a meadow next to two black forest and a mountain bio and a decent walk to a swamp bio, with sailing to a plains bio as well. Just looking at the time and work to build it all up from scratch is a bit if I do it from stone.

So any suggestions or recommendations?

make a new one, and add a screenshot to such requests

[Cooperal]

My vote is expand. Less time and risk.

Whenever I start anew I want to make something a bit more ambitious. I overdo it. May not finish it. Even if I do I might not make that sentimental connection that I had with the original base, and ultimately don't make much use of it. Might even be glad to see the back of it.

You might not be like me though.

[AgingJedi78]

Expand. My base takes up a huge swath of my area map. It is amazing how quickly you run out of room, or get bored and build something cool.

[Merle]

I created a new main base 3 times:
- After defeating 1st boss
- After defeating 2nd boss
- After defeating 4th boss

I also just really like building new bases. I think you will need a new base for sure after the 4th boss because of plains farming

[ska.one]

I ended up doing both in multiple locations. My first base in meadows was in a nice location, so I just kept it there (it's not like wood is hard to gather) and turned it into a beach house/fishing resort. My second base was a quarter day north of that on a hill, a bit bigger, with a nice outdoor crafting set up. I found a new location closer to the water, southeast of my previous locations, and made that my 3rd base. That's the base I expanded - the first structure was wood, and then I added a large hall and wings. When I had plenty of iron and stone I added a nice big stone tower to the T-shaped wooden one, replacing some wood walls with stone, replacing some wood floors with stone, until I found the aesthetic I liked. Moved crafting to a different open air lean-to with cobblestone floors. Fenced off the land between the front gate and the harbor. Built out the harbor. Added windmills. Put livestock and farms on different islands and biomes.

It's kind of cool seeing your footprint expand, and building more structures and crafting areas. Not to mention the amount of refurbished homesteads with fires and deerskin rugs all over the place.

Once you get up to plains you can facetank all lower biomes, gather whatever materials you want to focus on, farm, and maintain livestock easily. Find some locations you like and build new there, while expanding your "main base" as your preference (and if they add more crafting in H&H update). I have various levels of construction quality in different biomes on a lot of different islands. Until there's more to do, I'm content with harvesting resources and building bases in new lands. I'm focused on having accessibility to resources, knowing the water routes, and want to have a good location for access to the Mistlands when those get populated. Otherwise, I'd just start a new seed and end up building new anyway.