New Base WIP: McChuffinsnout Inter-Realmic Industries Fabrication Facility Seven | Nightingale Official | Page 1

plain swan Oct 17, 2024, 9:04 PM

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Started working on this base about a week ago, starting with that entry hall. Felt like I have a little something to show off now with the center tower built.

My tentative plan for the whole complex is:

Entry Hall at the front
Central Portal Tower in the centre
Big workshop tower in the back.

My character is the proprietor of a rather large Texas-based company call McChuffinsnout Inter-Realmic Industries (MCI), formed by his NTTC-outcast parents. When he escaped Earth into the Faewilds, he began his search for one of the main MCI Faewilds-based industrial complex where he would have a vast collection of raw materials and machinery to forge tools, weapons, and clothing to aid other refugees from Earth finding their way to Nightingale.

Once I complete building the base, then I will have it RP'ed that my character finally 'found' the lost realm to his company's largest fabrication base in the Faewilds!

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Shots from behind the portal tower:

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Inside

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Nighttime Vibes!!!!!! ❤️

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Currently working out the details of the back workshop tower

plain swan Oct 18, 2024, 6:39 PM

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The entire back building area got torn down, and move over a few meters so I could line up the walkway better and cleaner.

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utilized the pepys box trick for aligning all foundations in that decahedron that @strange slate shared:
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And now the final product!

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Each quadrant of the decahedron building is dedicated to Wood, Textiles, Masonry/Mortar, and Tanning. Each section has their augments

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The forge area gets it's own separate building

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Nighttime Vibes 😄

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And some shots of the base in full up to this point.

plain swan Oct 24, 2024, 3:46 PM

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Another moody nightime photoshoot

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And a much happier looking daytime photo with Settler minor card up

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The big back rounded tower houses all my crafting stuff. I've started work on an adjoined tower which will be an octagon, and I will do my best to make it appear as if it's magickally floating in midair with a flying bridge (thanks to the new patch!) All the magick and mortar crafting will be in there. It will also be a short run across the bridge into the main crafting building, where the bridge will spit you back in the textiles crafting area if one needs to make more charm cords or whatever!

plain swan Oct 24, 2024, 5:31 PM

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Because I am looking to build an octagon, that means the initial foundation needs to be freehand placed using the Pepys Box method that DaVincii shared.

So I put down foundations that are snapped to the bridge's grid to find the point on the ground there where the intial foundation is to be built, then threw down 3 standing lamps to mark the center and left and right corners of the first centre foundation that needs to be aligned

I will be eyeballing pepys box/center foundation placement until the foundation's edge aligns perfectly with those 3 lamps. When that happens, I will know that the freehand placed foundation will be in alignment with the bridge snapping grid

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ain't perfect, but that is good enough for me 😄

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And just to double check the foundation's alignment to the bridge's grid, I extended the foundation piece on the bridge grid back down to check:

It's off by just a couple of feet, but this won't be a problem- the bridge will clip into the tower a tad and that should be ok.

plain swan Oct 24, 2024, 6:38 PM

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Foundation is getting built up. The next part is gonna be kind of a pain, but because I want it to look like it's suspended magickally, I want to add inverse shack or crude stairs on the bottom. To do that, I have to delete all the foundations below and replace the layer of foundations under those stone walls with stone upper floors, then a second round of upper floors on the outside so I can rotate the staircases inverse,

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A bit of another case here at McChuffinsnout Inter-Realmic that Puck seems to find amusing- Human copies of Fae magick 😄

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got some cosmetic building on the bottom platform

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oh yeah 😄

frozen wigeon Oct 24, 2024, 6:57 PM

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That looks amazing!

plain swan Oct 24, 2024, 7:00 PM

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thank you! and thanks for sharing all the rounded building tips!!! would not be possible without you and davinci's work!

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You guys certainly got me inspired to build again

plain swan Oct 24, 2024, 7:35 PM

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currently messing around with the tower: Any time I build things in gaming, they have to look legit. Which means there has to be some technological/magical/mechanical suggestion built into the base to handwave away the reason why the base is doing something unnatural like floating.

This will be the tower's "Magickal Core Room," four floating pillars tied together with a couple cairns stacked. I don't really like this, but this is the gist I want in the final product lol.

plain swan Oct 24, 2024, 9:26 PM

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Magickal floating bridge, connecting the tower to the main workshop building

frozen wigeon Oct 25, 2024, 2:02 AM

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This build absolutely blows your old one out of the water, gotta say.

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Also would be cool if we could spin those cairns upside-down. If we could do that, those two that are stacked on each other would be really cool looking.

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Though I really dig the vibe of them hanging out, with the implication of Fae magick at work. Really cool, man. Gives me inspiration.

plain swan Oct 25, 2024, 2:28 AM

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The "Magick Core" room redone with the desert pillars. Makes more sense to me, and the color sticks out. I still don't like the double stacked cairns though lol, going to have to figure something else out over t ime.

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Two photos of today's completed work. Loving this no foundations update, gotta say!!!

plain swan Oct 25, 2024, 4:07 PM

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Final Product: The Geasa Foundry Spire!

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Fully used and abused the new no foundations update for this. Looking forward to doing it more in the future 😄

plain swan Oct 27, 2024, 5:31 AM

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Some more streamlined interior shots of the Geasa Foundry Spire

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The main Entrance hall

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The main crafting room with magick, and light farming. I kinda wanted this to be an idle room where I can mindlessly plant and harvest fruit and vegetables

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One floor up: The kitchen and dining room for two

cunning stirrup Oct 27, 2024, 10:59 AM

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Dude. That looks so f*** awesome!! Even the details ... love it how you placed the cooking station in the smelter 👍

plain swan Oct 28, 2024, 5:17 AM

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All credit for that smelter/cook station goes to @strange scroll, I 100% copied that from him lol. It's a really cool combo though, especially too if you can find a way to hide the anvil. It looks like a big stove top/oven

cunning stirrup Oct 28, 2024, 12:55 PM

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The interior also looks very good in any case. But this tower... and the bridge... mega! I must have a look at the instructions for round buildings and "glitch" building. Was hoping there would be triangle tiles already, as they were announced back in May (albeit long term and not short term).

tender falcon Oct 29, 2024, 2:13 AM

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plain swan got some cosmetic building on the bottom platform

I did something similar to this with one of my towers.

plain swan Oct 29, 2024, 4:02 PM

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cunning stirrup The interior also looks very good in any case. But this tower... and the bridge....

Thanks! Check out the video from @frozen wigeon, Ceritus has the polygon building method I use featured in his video!

Glad you like the bridge and tower. It's honestly that bridge's fault that nothing in that tower is within crafting range of the main crafting tower lolol, but those are the lengths I'm willing to take to feel like I'm working in a cool Faewilds Human facility.

plain swan Oct 29, 2024, 4:02 PM

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tender falcon I did something similar to this with one of my towers.

Sounds good, I will take a look. Do you have a post here somewhere?

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Checking up on one of the beacon towers on the outskirts of the base....heard there were Samhain shenanegans going on at night time there lately....

tender falcon Oct 29, 2024, 4:05 PM

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plain swan Sounds good, I will take a look. Do you have a post here somewhere?

I actually need to take a picture of my "flux capacitor" lolol but there's some pics and vids here. It's nowhere near as grand as yours haha, but when I find the right spot I wanna do something on a scale like yours with all the stuff I've learned so far.

https://discord.com/channels/854679517997695016/1300188422161301536

plain swan Oct 29, 2024, 4:09 PM

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I think we both built two different styles, hard to compare the two! I just checked it out, it's a really cool build!

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I feel you on learning. This whole base was practice with building circular buildings using square foundations, and then a test to see what I can do with the no-foundations update. I have something else planned for Welkin's Reach, already got the land set aside but it's gonna be a major pain to build it lol, but I think it's possible.

tender falcon Oct 29, 2024, 4:33 PM

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plain swan I feel you on learning. This whole base was practice with building circular bui...

I definitely believe you can do it ❤️‍🔥

tender falcon Oct 29, 2024, 4:47 PM

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plain swan I think we both built two different styles, hard to compare the two! I just chec...

Oh haha I meant the little magic structure underneath the tower. I just didn't get a picture of mine. We clearly had the same idea there

devout fox Oct 30, 2024, 1:17 PM

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plain swan And a much happier looking daytime photo with Settler minor card up

Christ on a bike. how do ya'll come up with this?!

i wish you could share blueprints for houses with people. because good god i am not haha Build for this.

plain swan Oct 30, 2024, 9:57 PM

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devout fox Christ on a bike. how do ya'll come up with this?! i wish you could share bluep...

Well, I've been pulling from my experience building since the game came out. But basically when I arrived to this location, I found a place that I liked and imagined what could get built and where, with my current understanding and skills as a builder.

The flying tower was also kind of a planned/improvised build. The method of getting the first few foundations laid for the circlular pattern as well as getting it to appear suspended were all planned. the rest of it I sort of just improvised lol

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this was my first ever real build, second house I made beyond my 4 walls and a roof shack back in feb or whenever it was.

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was when i learned about split foundations because back then we were only allowed like 300 or so tiles in one snapped buildinng. Also developed one of my trademarked things of putting different doors up in front of my portals 😄

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Then my third serious build, I developed more skills on splitting foundations as well as learning a new trick- how to build flying bridges.

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Then this base here was basically a culimnation of all those skills, plus my newly learned methods of building circular buildings and floating foundations.

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I realize now you probably weren't asking for all this information, I sort of went on a tangent there. But yeah, you asked how I did it, that's how lol.

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and btw- building a lot of that stuff requires far less finesse now like the flying bridges, thanks massively to the recent update. can just build your flying bridges as you would (for the most part) without having to get creative with structural integrity.

#New Base WIP: McChuffinsnout Inter-Realmic Industries Fabrication Facility Seven