Seeing other people's builds really discourages me

[Lilly Satou]

A basic hut is the best I can come up with, seeing all these castles and towers and stuff, man...

[Sintreme]

go into no a build cost map and try your best to make something, a tower, a storage room, a bedroom, a crafting room, a farm, whatever, just try and see what you can make, then come back and try to make it pretty

[luponix]

or dont look at other peoples builds

[M.Red]

everythings cool imho
nothing to worry about

[Exodite-Dragon]

just takes practice, learning what you can and can't get away with insofar as the structural support system is concerned.

recommend changing a map to hammer mode and enabling no-cost for building. just start playing around with the build pieces like they're Lego bricks and see what you can come up with - don't worry about what other people are doing, just worry about having fun with what you're doing.

[Sinclair]

You don't start by building a castle, but if you experiment and take your time, you'll improve little by little. You also don't need to try being fancy. I have a friend who loves decorating and making elaborate designs, while I mostly build longhouses and barns.

[knighttemplar1960]

Build squares and put the together. Look up home and building designs online to get ideas and add little bits here and there that you like for decor. You can make it as fancy or as utilitarian as you want depending on how much time you want o invest.

[Landorf]

Some of those people are professional architects and such...

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by Лилли Сато:

A basic hut is the best I can come up with, seeing all these castles and towers and stuff, man...

Just play it your way, get inspiration from content creators and realise thats their job, its work for them.

[Larco]

Honestly, I started just fixing up a hut I found in a meadow by the sea then, over the course of 60 odd hours, it's just sort of... grown naturally. I threw up a stockade around it first, then built a shed for the workbench, then the perimeter got expanded out so it wound up with an inner and outer courtyard, then added a keep, then a dock, then a moat, then a bigger moat, then two barns in the outer courtyard, then upper storeys for them for storage... Most recently, I've converted the keep to a stone foundation, added some balconies, and added a second storey to the original hut and knocked through from the keep so I can use its new upper storey as a dining room for feasts.... It's all pretty basic construction, but I think it looks pretty good. Indeed, I seem to have subsciously recreated a norman motte and bailey.

[de.lorca]

If you enjoy building and have the time for it just do it
there are a ton of resources online on how to make things and don't be affraid to copy you learn a lot from the process which you will be able to apply to your own builds later don't be affraid to fail finding new problems to solve is part of the fun

[saurce]

Then build somethong new I doont understand

[Knux Redbeard]

One of my favorite base designs is to just build a small hut on a much larger flatspace than I need, and keep adding expansions and additions as I unlock new things.

[Landorf]

Oh.. well. To build a castle, you need a plan. For each floor, for the roof, facades ect. On paper... or CAD program, or so. It makes things MUCH easier. And some experience. It helps, too. That's how we do this...

[Sintreme]

One of the best things I have done for "clean" builds, or to leave space for decorations, is to have my crafting hall, (minimum 10m x 10m), with a 4m high basement below it, and have all the upgrades there. If you don't want to go for the tower look, just dig it down, snap a 4m (or 2 x 2m), vertical, then build back up from that set point, level with hoe, stone or wood floor.

You can always have a service corridor behind the crafting stations and put them in there, but the extra 4m for this can cause some OCD issues, unless you like sloping roofs with 45 down to 26 degs

One build I made a long hall, with crafting to the left, storage and cooking to the right, and the bed room/comfort zone at the end, with the mezzanine level above being my Portal room, but you do need terrain to work with you a bit for that.

GL HF play your way.

[Bandy]

Look up viking longhouse, get inspired and lore correct...

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/a10twl/inside_a_viking_house/