User:Cofefe/Basic Base

Simple Base: The simple base is a cheap kind of shelter you can go in for limited protection. It can also be used to keep your windmills safe if you want. The first step in building any base is finding a strategic location. This is basically anywhere where it would be easy to build or otherwise easy to live. We recommend that you find a place where you can easily obtain all the necessary resources and where there is natural protection (ie, the edge of the world, the the River, large concentrations of trees , bushes stone etc.) The simple base can be built out of anything that you have. We recommend the highest level of walls and/or spikes that you have, but this demo will just use the wood walls.

 1. Find a good place. This place has natural sources of Wood and Stone.























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<p style="margin:0px0px0px168px;text-indent:-0.25in;"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"FranklinGothicMedium",sans-serif;font-size:14pt;"> 3. <span style="margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"FranklinGothicMedium",sans-serif;font-size:14pt;">Build the wall, this wall uses a natural structure as a cornerstone. Natural structures are indestructible, so they make good walls. Build it in whatever shape you want. Squares give the best ratio of area to materials, and circles are the cheapest. This design is a square. Leave an opening so you can get in and out.

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<p style="margin:0px0px11px96px;text-indent:0.5in;"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:107%;font-family:"FranklinGothicMedium",sans-serif;font-size:14pt;">This simple base is, as the name implies, quite simple. It is adequate for protection against less powerful foes but has many weaknesses. Obviously the wooden walls are not quite as strong as is preferable. There is also no way for you to defend this base without going outside of it, defeating the purpose of a base. This base is also vulnerable to all kinds of specialized attacks; for instance, players with boost pads can boost through these simple walls easily, and ruin the whole point of a wall! And players with platforms and a range weapon can place their platforms outside your wall and shoot inside your base! You will become trapped inside your own fortress! The next tutorial will seek to improve this concept by introducing methods for better base construction.