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Platform32's avatar

Wood you believe it? A construction challenge? From me? Stone the crows!

Alex Sinclair's avatar

These treemendous puns are rocking my world

Dave's avatar

Bounties like this are going to make this game so much more interesting. Playing in creative new ways at the same time as others.

Adds a new layer of fun and motivation to make cool videos and do crazy or unique challenges and then share the results.

Rupert's avatar

Here's a link to Ian's stream (if you rewind to the start, you can watch his intro to Just About and this bounty!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKX6SgAFOk0

Demonsmustdie's avatar

Chopping wood, breaking rocks, insert bad joke here...

Dave's avatar

Just a work in progress update, as still 1 week before the deadline...

Platform32's avatar

Holy erections, Batman! That'll be one to beat!

Demonsmustdie's avatar

Hay! Can u see my house from there? I can't...lol

Georgina_Herdman's avatar

Rocking the Structure Building there Ian

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Here's the link to the second stream if anyone wants to catch up! Long live Emmett!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdkahn6e3E&ab_channel=Platform32

Dave's avatar

Build limit of 300 pieces reached. I had to remove walls all over the place to gain back more pieces for more height. There might be a better design that lets you go higher and use less pieces per floor someone might find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1tSZ5A9X2s

Dave's avatar

Through trying to gain height with the least amount of pieces, I did discover a bug/exploit that lets you use just one unsupported staircase piece per floor (the game thinks it does have support) but I decided not to use it as it goes against the spirit of the challenge.

It's kind of an irrelevant bug outside of this competition.

Platform32's avatar

Oh my word, what a whopper! :D My creation still stands at only three floors so even if I wasn't barred from entering, my building wouldn't be a patch on that!

Sturmer's avatar

Ok, it was a wonderful challenge and a learning curve, thanks to JA! I've built not one, not two, but three towers! So let's begin, Dear diary...

Day 1

After finishing the tutorial, I jumped right into a construction project as soon as I got an axe and a pick (in hindsight, this was a big mistake, but oh well). Once I got the hang of the placement mechanics, I decided my tower would be a 3x3 structure made from beautiful stone walls.

Update: Later that Day...

I've hit a snag - not all rocks are mineable, and the material seems limited. After building three floors, I switched to using wood walls due to resource constraints.

Second Update: Still Day 1...

Building the 5th floor was exhausting, especially with a carrying capacity limit of 50kg. I also broke my leg twice due to falls. Running around in underwear to carry 3 extra planks - now that's efficiency with style!

Day 2

Big news - I discovered I can craft a backpack that doubles my carrying capacity!

Update: Later on Day 2...

I found a companion named Nell, who helps chop trees and seems to have unlimited carrying capacity! This will definitely speed up my project.

Another Update: Evening of Day 2...

We've run out of trees within a 400-meter radius. Chopping trunks is hard work, and Nell isn't much help with this task.

Day 3

Today I encountered a creature named Carnut who can regenerate forests. I lured him to my site, and voilà - more trees!

Update: Day 3...

I'm on the 33rd floor and just hit the game's limit of 300 objects per foundation. Time for some rest.

Day 4

With the object limit in mind, I redesigned the tower to use 78% fewer materials per floor. This means I can aim for 75-80 floors. I've started a new tower and kept the original as a monument to my efforts.

Another Update: Day 4...

My companion refuses to follow me up the tower or help with materials, leaving me to handle the construction alone.

Final Update: Day 4...

I hit an invisible wall at the 42nd floor. On the bright side, I'm only at 145 out of 300 construction limits, so I decided to build a penthouse at the top.

Day 5

I discovered the Estate Cairn - a teleporter! I placed one in my penthouse, making the climb up much easier. I've also moved my workshop up there.

Night of Day 5...

A realization hit me - my towers, built on a hill, aren't the tallest structures in the world. Tomorrow, I start building the third tower at sea level.

My two towers are visible from any part of the island.

Day 6

After a bit of exploration, I discovered the lowest point in the realm is at sea level. Without hesitation, I set a foundation there and began my ascent.

A few moments later I accidentally discovered a method to move absurdly large volumes of materials, even upward (and yes, I'm still miffed at you, Nell!). To demonstrate, I've included a small video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmPh9RshSX4

Upon reaching the 'sky cap', I tallied a staggering 52.5 floors - the 53rd is so tight I can only crouch. Proudly, I can now claim to have built the tallest structure in the Nightingale realms! Not stopping there, I connected all three towers with a sky bridge and laid the foundation for what I envision as a future sky castle.

A sea tower and connection to the base

It's been quite a journey, but it's time to shift gears and explore more of what this realm has to offer.

Oh, here is a video of my Tower of Insolence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAKFczs5WM0&t Ta-ta!

Dave's avatar

Nice, that double jump and a more efficient removal of walls, not using any staircase pieces while it still keeps the support there has pushed it way over!

Sturmer's avatar

I just ran out of mats on my 3rd tower, seems like a bug, but upon deconstructing large objects I'm losing about 60% of the materials. Fear not, the original base lies on fair towers with stairs and walls.

Dave's avatar

I kind of had a feeling when putting mine together there was going to be a much more efficient piece usage method. On mine when I hit the limit I just removed what I could for a bit more height. Wasn't going to start again with a new design. Already spent forever on it! lol

Dave's avatar

The bug I was talking about was a method I found where you could make all your support structure out of stone, then your staircase piece out of wood. Then never fill in any stone mats, only wood. It lets you place the staircase piece onto the snap points of the stone blueprints, but then you fill the wood pieces up only. So it builds even though you don't actually have anything that supports it.

Obviously it wasn't in the spirit of the challenge though as a tower built 90% of blueprints isn't really a built tower. However even that wouldn't have gone higher than the method you've come up with for the support and using that card, plus starting in the sea!

Congrats! that is one hell of an effort and research to get there!

Lanah Tyra's avatar

This is amazing.... I don't even dare to post my sorry excuse of a tower after this 😂

Platform32's avatar

You should do! There's not been many entries yet, so you're still in with a chance 💪

Lanah Tyra's avatar

I'll try to add some more to it when I get home and send it in before the deadline tonight. Only got to around 10 floors, made some design mistakes at the beginning and then didn't have time to start it from scratch again so just tried to expand on what I already had.

Was having fun with it none the less so thanks for this bounty, it definitely kept a noob survival game player entertained :D

Dave's avatar

It took me a Horrendous amount of time to build and get to the material limit on mine. Even if I started again and found a more efficient design I wouldn't have had the time to build it (and then I never would have found this perfect solution Sturmer has that means you are 100% optimised).

I can play the actual game now!

This was where we all went wrong and didn't fix, that Sturmer mentioned on day 1.

After finishing the tutorial, I jumped right into a construction project as soon as I got an axe and a pick (in hindsight, this was a big mistake, but oh well)

Dave's avatar

Don't forget to link up your YouTube channel so those videos go green and come up as original.

Platform32's avatar

Incredible submission! Excellent work!

Alex Sinclair's avatar

This is such a great submission. I love this efficiency: "With the object limit in mind, I redesigned the tower to use 78% fewer materials per floor. "

It's also hilarious that your companion refused to go up with you once your tower became too tall for them.

Don't forget to verify your videos 😁

Sturmer's avatar

Thanks! fixed, it seems the preview (compact mode) is not showing 'original label' I'm not sure if it is a bug or intended.

Lanah Tyra's avatar

Well, not the tallest but at least I can go up to the top and look down at my neighbour :D

https://x.com/LanahTyra/status/1762990436073775389?s=20

Originally I tried to build a stone tower just from the stone foundation blocks and build wooden stairs around it... without underpinning them, so had no idea why I couldn't place the stairs where I wanted to XD

Then my partner came home and explained the basic of construction... I didn't want to demolish the whole thing so just started to make use of what I already had while still having an actual house, so built the living and crafting space at the bottom and started to build the wooden structure around my stone tower.

Not very high, but this is all I had time for.

Some pictures from the early stages when I had no idea what I was doing XD

https://x.com/LanahTyra/status/1762991997327950068?s=20

Platform32's avatar

Awesome work! Much, much higher than the building I made tbf!

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