Any suggestions for building pillar-suspended stone based fortifications in the mountains?

[Zechariah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAvhoFg4ZhI&ab_channel=Zechariah

This is how I'm currently going about building. Are there any better (faster) or more efficient ways to go about it? Atm its very unintuitive, time consuming, and finicky.

ALSO I guess I'm going to need a mod to make either the foundational rock that I built upon, or my base, indestructible because if the rock comes down my entire base does (you can already see the damage done to it by golems)

[knighttemplar1960]

Mine out all the destructible boulders/stones first and then use the hoe to raise earthen pillars (indestructible) and build on top of the earthen pillars.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007558384
Your first stone pillar will be in direct contact with ground this way and will start out blue instead of green.

You might also need to use wood iron beams (depending on how high you want to build) as supports for your stone constructions.

[Zechariah]

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Mine out all the destructible boulders/stones first and then use the hoe to raise earthen pillars (indestructible) and build on top of the earthen pillars.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007558384
Your first stone pillar will be in direct contact with ground this way and will start out blue instead of green.

You might also need to use wood iron beams (depending on how high you want to build) as supports for your stone constructions.

This changes the aesthetic however. I don't want to build on earth (hence the building on rock and stone pillars). The hoe gives me an idea though which may make it easier to place the pillars. Definitely need to experiment with wood iron.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Zechariah:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Mine out all the destructible boulders/stones first and then use the hoe to raise earthen pillars (indestructible) and build on top of the earthen pillars.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007558384
Your first stone pillar will be in direct contact with ground this way and will start out blue instead of green.

You might also need to use wood iron beams (depending on how high you want to build) as supports for your stone constructions.

This changes the aesthetic however. I don't want to build on earth (hence the building on rock and stone pillars). The hoe gives me an idea though which may make it easier to place the pillars. Definitely need to experiment with wood iron.

You can raise the earthen pillar as a plinth and then hide it with stone blocks for aesthetic purposes (this also lets you build higher since you can raise the earthen pillar up by 8 meters from the starting level of the terrain and build farther up from there).

If you want to make sure that your bases are completely raid proof you have to use combinations of dry/wet moats and earthen walls to stop ground based raids and eliminate windows and chimneys (you can dissipate smoke by building one story higher then any living quarters are located) or substitute iron grates and crystal from golems to prevent aerial raids.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3044123384
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2923006662
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2923006749

Edit: you can also keep your builds safe from raid damage by turning off raids in the world settings section.

[Foxglovez]

I encourage your enthusiasm but that base is in a terrible location. You have built it on a rock that is obviously soon to be destroyed and all your hard work will be ruined. You need to find at least somewhere NOT on the golem highway. You are truly unsafe there.

Every good sized mountain I have been on has multiple buildings that are hanging off the side but at least safe from instant destruction. Go find one of those, draugr ones are good if you can find them, or maybe one by a nice frost cave. Incorporating your base into a frost cave entrance is good fun. I am not sure why you are putting layers of the same piece over itself, it wont help anything when, not if, your rock base is destroyed.

There are so many cool things you could do up there, even taking over an old skele ruin, which usually sits in a place with a great view, but building a base with no foundation on the golem freeway in this game is problematic...

[Zechariah]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

I encourage your enthusiasm but that base is in a terrible location. You have built it on a rock that is obviously soon to be destroyed and all your hard work will be ruined. You need to find at least somewhere NOT on the golem highway. You are truly unsafe there.

Every good sized mountain I have been on has multiple buildings that are hanging off the side but at least safe from instant destruction. Go find one of those, draugr ones are good if you can find them, or maybe one by a nice frost cave. Incorporating your base into a frost cave entrance is good fun. I am not sure why you are putting layers of the same piece over itself, it wont help anything when, not if, your rock base is destroyed.

There are so many cool things you could do up there, even taking over an old skele ruin, which usually sits in a place with a great view, but building a base with no foundation on the golem freeway in this game is problematic...

yeah i didnt realize there were so many golems up here LOL. last time i played i actually ended up quitting at the mountains for one reason or another before i did much up there. as a matter of fact a golem got horrifyingly close to my gate and hit the front of my base once or twice. luckily only some part of the rock got destroyed but the base itself was miraculously left intact XD

still I like the thrill of being attacked by golems who want revenge on my using their kin as scaffolding. i'll probably just end up getting a mod to reduce golem damage to my structures rather than relocating. but i do love being up there and it has a great view.

[Asi_the_Red]

I have not engaged in large building, but in one of my multiplayer games a friend of mine would lay out a skeleton of wood iron beams for his large builds then build his stone over them from the ground up. At one point he was able to build a tower in the Meadows that had snow on the top because it'd had gotten high enough. So that's my limited advice, for what it's worth.