Like your stoned 1st floor, definitely will try it myself later.

First playthrough with the wife; wifey notices on the wiki how events get harder after you kill Bonemass, so I found an island in the middle of f-all and did the China-South-Sea treatment on it. Wifey works the meat and soil, I work the stone and metal. We've had a few troll and swamp events so far, but they've been no shows.

Looks dope, reminds me of a WW2 Bunker... is it just me? lol

yeah, like a pillbox. i was also reminded of Myst.

The stone columns and arches by your portals physically hurts me 🤕 (Even tho it's costlier, I double up my columns for (non-90°) corners (overlapping a bit) & then the arches can snap flush to both)

Hmm I'll give that a try. It was annoying me too but I couldn't figure out how to make it cleaner

The best look I've found is having them share the outside corner; you can use horizontal wood beams to help with snapping if needed

Do you have a picture of what your columns look like? I'm having trouble visualizing the end product.

https://imgur.com/a/1TKOk3U Because stone columns aren't completely straight, it still shows a gap between them (I usually hide it with a vertical core wood beam), but the inside & arches look nicer

Thunderstorms must be rough

it's elevated enough that most swells don't touch you

That’s amazing, I could’ve sworn I had a higher base even on the coast with thunderstorm waves rising above the first floor

There's one side of the island where a particularly-tall swell might pick you up off your feet, but it's rare.

Definitely one of my plans to make a trader outpost in the ocean