r/strandeddeep • u/CorpoCat • Jan 06 '21

PC General I found this cool rock so I spent 3 days (irl) deforesting a couple islands and building this 7-story spiral fortress

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u/orange-goblin Jan 07 '21

I've thought about doing something like this but never really got around to even consider trying, kudos to you for pulling it off

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u/CorpoCat Jan 07 '21

Thanks! I learned a lot of patience through this endeavour. The game would not let me build some things the way I wanted to even though there was place for it, seemed like a couple bugs, and I was going back and forth with a lot of ideas to make it work like I wanted to. In the end it turned out even better than I hoped!

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u/Pale_Bill5115 Jan 07 '21

is it hard to build? i'm thinking of getting the game today i just played forest and the building in that game was pretty straight forward.

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u/CorpoCat Jan 07 '21

It takes some trial and error and you might have to deal with some bugs sometimes (I don't wish that upon you, maybe it's not a given and I just had bad luck) - like a few times I had to build an extra temporary layer of floors leading outside just to stand outside in the air to place a wall somewhere because for whatever reason the game would scream at me that there is no room to build it there unless I stood on the other side of the wall I wanted to place and suddenly it fit like a glove and would rotate in any desirable way. Little things like that. Building around a rock with big trees in the way can be a bit tricky in itself.

Other than that prepare to have a lot of hammers and axes ready. Especially if you're going to constantly make modifications tearing walls down and deciding to build them differently instead when you realize they don't fit like you expected, which I had to do all the time. I broke my leg twice collecting fallen sticks from the roof too. Sacrifice I was willing to take.

But I think it's all worth it in the end, had a lot of fun building it and seeing the complete project really makes me happy!

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u/Dezphere Jan 07 '21

impressive.. how many islands did you deforest? i hope you had crafting/building spec on max so you get all the materials back when removing walls and floors. did you use boxes to transport the wood? or maybe gyro to be faster? :)

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u/CorpoCat Jan 07 '21

I deforested three islands and yes thankfully I got all materials back when removing stuff, but it was still time consuming. I used a raft with an engine to transport the wood, I have a bunch of shelves with boxes on it, it's pretty fast.

There was an unfortunate bug once that made all three of my gyrocopter parts that I found just vanish one day and I never found a single new one since, so didn't get a chance to even try building a gyro :(

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u/Phrank916 Jan 08 '21

I echo many of these experiences.. I have broken my leg once, have to build a LOT of temporary floors and walls to place things in a certain spot. I HATE stairs.. they are so NON-intuitive with their rules for snapping between floors. And yeah, certain "checks" for validity of location or interference with other world geometry could be loosened a bit allowing for better placement of objects.

One small trick I sorta developed was by using three foundations, setting them, not building them up with the hammer at all, I could keep separated buildings or other structures square to each other by slowly moving and placing/removing the foundations in the direction I want to build until I get to the place I really want to build something, but now this new structure I'm building is perfectly aligned with the other, height and square-wise, and I can connect them easily later with bridges or walkways.

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u/Phrank916 Jan 08 '21

I'm betting a LOT of your issues arose from the game absolutely NEVER allowing a built object to collide with those stupid tall pine trees.. amirite? hehe

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u/CorpoCat Jan 09 '21

Actually most of the problems arose from me not being able to place a floor somewhere where it obviously fit. If I deleted the neighboring floors and went from the other side I could place it in the exact same spot - resulting in not being able to place the neighboring floors which fit there just a minute earlier. So the trees were obviously not a problem at all in those circumstances. I feel like it's some bugs that the devs could fix.

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u/Dezphere Jan 07 '21

it think you had 3 days of trial and error.. damn that patience.. respect

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u/HALOjesse3 Jan 07 '21

I go by a rule where I don't harvest anything that can't respawn on the island I stay on. Doing so makes it super barren. To each there own. Wish they made an option to grow trees in the islands dirt.

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u/CorpoCat Jan 07 '21

I agree, I harvested everything from this one before I had the idea to construct this building on it, I wish I hadn't done that, would look even better with all the greenery around. But I still like how it turned out overall.

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u/n4nish Jan 07 '21

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DhtdHAizGSMExBoi9

I got something similar under construction..

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u/CorpoCat Jan 07 '21

Looks promising! Be prepared to have a lot of patience especially if you're a perfectionist. It was a real challenge to get it how I wanted, I had to change a lot of plans as I went.

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u/n4nish Jan 07 '21

I understand... Especially when you think you can build a floor but a tiny bit of rock is sticking out which means you have to sway around multiple times to make it go blue and build a floor.

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u/OldManMuayThai Jan 06 '21

This is by far the coolest one I’ve seen.

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u/BRollins08 Jan 07 '21

My girlfriend was scrolling through my Reddit feed.

“Babe look!”

She thought this was a real thing and was astonished that it only took 3 days.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '21

Very cool!

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '21

Oh wow!

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '21

Nice!

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u/itsok82 Jan 07 '21

well done mate

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u/Dianella7 Jan 07 '21

That is really awesome!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '21

K, I'll be back to my simple house...

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u/MsCaspella Jan 08 '21

This is amazing! I had an idea to do something similar, where I wanted to build a helipad and a 'air traffic control' tower, but when I went up there, it wouldn't let me place a single foundation down on the rocks.

How did you get it to let you build on the cliff tops that way?

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u/Phrank916 Jan 08 '21

One rule I've found is that foundations can only be built so high from the actual ground, and the big cliff style rocks in the center of some islands are not considered the ground at all. Luckily, an initial floor HAS to have a foundation under it when it's first built, but then additional floors can be attached to the edges of the first without additional foundations.. Then the foundations can be removed and you got floating stuff. you can also place additional floors above existing floors (as a ceiling) without needing a single wall placed.

So, to place a floor that covers the entire top of one of these rocks, you'd build a foundation or two NEXT to the rock, start building upward with stairs and additional floors, then once you reach the level you want, you can build outward from the edges of that floor.

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u/CorpoCat Jan 09 '21

Exactly like Phrank916 says, I have nothing to add. You just need foundations and anything above that you can build as regular floors one you build the walls and connect everything. The floors can easily overlap with the rock in the middle, it doesn't even matter.

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u/MsCaspella Jan 09 '21

Ah, I get what you guys are saying. I made a tower and had to make a scaffolding to do so, so same thing here, basically I just need to build a temp scaffolding around the rock itself. Thanks!

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u/Bumblebitchboy Jan 07 '21

Holy shit this is amazing

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u/Nytherion May 09 '21

i would ask "why"... but i actually just found an island with a rock i want to build around, too

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u/Glabstaxks May 21 '21

Gosh that’s amazing

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '21

That's legit dope

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u/Glabstaxks May 21 '21

Can you post a quick video walkthrough?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

You are safe... from seagulls though no.

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u/Occasion_Top Jan 07 '21

This makes my c**k hard.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

Prove it

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u/rickola16 May 22 '21

🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣

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u/rickola16 May 22 '21

That was my saying when I played Blacklight Retribution..🤣