So I see a bunch of talk about ore and the portal door. This was kinda designed with all the people playing with mods that let you portal ore in mind. If you wanna build in vanilla and use it as more than an outpost you can easily put in a door on the wall where I tell you that you can put extra storage next to the brazier. Then just use a bit of stairs but don't take them all the way to the ground so you have to jump to get in. This keeps the baddies out. As for things attacking the portal, I killed everything before I started the build and nothing spawned around it the whole time I was building, about 40 min. The benches prevent things from spawning. If you are worried about that just sink a bit of the spiked wall into the ground right in front of it. It should be fine.
Awesome build!!! Yeah, it seems once you place a portal and workbench on or near the crypt nothing spawns around it. I always place a portal / workbench and a storage box on top so I can do inventory management until I am done with the crypt, then move everything to the next one.
@@hmac4076 Very true. I don't mind using QOL mods on my first play through, I did the seed hop thing one time, then after that I felt like I had cheated myself from the challenge of getting the copper back to my base the legit way. That being said everyone is entitled to play the game the way they want.
I disagree, they aren't even playing the game. Mods for a an early access game is cheating. It's almost as bad as changing servers to move ore between bases. An active community perpetually exploiting flawed gameplay mechanics is not healthy in the long run.
You should post your videos on bitchute. Mostly so I can watch them at work. But spreads your influence. Supports alt Tech and all the good stuff. Not alot of gaming on it uet
Waiting for the hearth and home update before making any new buildings now. Thought the old “1 fire, chests, portal, moat” outposts will still be the go to after the update haha Not using the mod for portal ore transport (used it a bit and it took away from the experience). There’s just something with filling up your Longboat with ore and travelling back to your main base, confronted by storms, demanding winds and “dangerous” sea serpents.
I put 4 wagon boxes in my karve packed them full of iron, rubies and amber. Making it home through 3 storms with over 200 iron and 1000 gold was 10/10. Wouldn't have serpent stew with a portal mod :)
Teleport ores is just lame imo, i haven't tried and never will, half the fun in this game is mining and sailing, such an amazing progression, really well paced. im glad you realized that too lol even tho it doesn't make any difference in my life
For swamp bases, i prefer making tree houses, setting up somewhere with multiple trees nearby so i can use them as foundation blocks. Even better if there are surtling spawner nearby so it can double as a surtling farm.
yeah, i've also done this. got 2 dug-out surtling spawners close by. First one wasn't high enough though, had a troll raid and one of the b@*&^ds had a tree branch which just managed to reach the floor of the tree house. Spread my gear all over the swamp below, lol. next build was higher!
10:25 You can place the large chests 2 wide onto a floor tile, but you have to have the walls in place first and let the chests clip into the walls. It's a bit fidgety, but possible.
One small idea: Since you tend to do a half wall on top of a full wall for the sides, you COULD do the half wall on the bottom and then the full wall on top. That was some spots you could do half on bottom, half on top, and a half wall sized gap in the middle for a window. This may mess with snap points, but maybe doing 3 half walls on all sides would fix that? Just a thought! Love the content, man!
So far I haven't found a crypt worth more than putting down a workbench and a chest or two on the top. However, should I ever encounter a big one, I will consider your build :) Awesome build as always!!!
Being new to the game I really appreciate the daily vids. My friend has played through twice and I've shown him stuff (wolf pit being an easy example), I'm already breeding them when I haven't found the merchant/still not to swamp/mtn yet. Thanks again.
I will try: add a square worth off the end to build a ladder down to the porch with a jump height I can make.Can make a shooting platform balcony to the other corner to facilitate the mob grinding we are doing this for...
Btw, placing a workbench or portal disables mob spawning in the area. So only if one afar notices you (because you shot it?) will they come close enough to attack your portal.
That is soo cool! I really like that! and all that confort in one spot ready to go! and still looks kinda RP astheticky. Really cool video thanks for sharing!!!
Amazeballs. Getting ready to go swampin. This is so handy! I like the efficiency of crafting accessories underneath. I'm going to look at doing that at my main mountaintop base among the black forest.
I feel like building where enemies can’t get to is NEEDED in the swamp, seriously it is chaos, coming from the meadows to the dark forest is a lot calmer and then you go from dark forest to the swamp and it spits in your face
put a chest on the lower level out back, next to your crafting upgrades. You can toss ores up in there from the ground. Then open the floor to grab ore to toss into your smelter. But we will have to make room in this build to add at least the smelter to process our crypt-ores into bars to craft iron items right here. Otherwise you're filling those chests for your run to your ship to take your stacks of iron back home... I suppose making roads thru the swamp to your ship would be a step, to help use the cart and not waddle through every leech pool while you're dragging cart?
I really like your small, compact buildings! I mean, the large ones are fancy and all, but let's face it, I can't be arsed to run from my crafting area to my cooking area to my bedroom if I can have it all within reach :D
This is my next goal. Need to find Bonemass location and 1 or 2 surtling fire spouts nearby, then This is going on the nearest crypt as my respawn & mining base. I love your efficient builds!
Personally I'd hang the brazier off the center beam on the chimney high enough so I might have to press X and sit down to target it. great build anyway.
Yep. My braziers always go into the chimney. That probably means you have to use something else for light. But I just want to have the comfort and don't wanna put up with the additional smoke somewhere else.
Awesome build as always, FS. A very minor grizzle, is that I probably would have used short core wood beams to support the overhang, instead of just the normal ones; and another would be the lack of defense for the portal out the front, although others have already addressed that.
@@abbeynormala2291 well, my secret is to have the staircase not touch the floor, i.e. start at the top of the crypt (side). You just jump onto it. Note: if it's a blob stay away from the edge, unless you're baiting it to jump for a better bow shot.
@@leonrobinson2053 Thanks. DO Wraith's bother your house? Try to get you when your in it? I rarely see them, but when I do it's usually when I'm fighting or running for my life.
@@abbeynormala2291 I pretty much do what fires park does and put a portal on each crypt, call them C1, C2 etc and then have one portal at my base and change the name of that. Because you get loads of cores, I have like connection points back to my boat, which is in an old draugr village outside of the Swamp.
@@abbeynormala2291 if you just leave out the bottom stair and jump up to the stairs only the blob can jump in the swamp. Luckily once you place a workbench nothing really spawns in the area.
the first swamp base i build was on top of a crypt, i used more core wood to make it bigger thou. here's an idea, try making a base with all the stuff not spread over the walls for space in the center, but crammed into 1 compact blob in the center, for doughnut-like space and easy expansion. can be taller or multi-store.
Where do you come up with these? Do you just make bases like these in your worlds and just recreate them for a video or is there some magic subreddit I’m missing?
I have been building on top of crypts for a while. As I said in the video people seemed to be interested in it when I did it in the let's play so I thought lets do a build video. As for the other build guides I have done. Yes test world where I just build crap until I get something I like then I make a video.
I like the compactness of the build however it would be nice to be able to look out and see the swamp. Maybe put some windows into the walls? Or you stairs for the roof?
I'd think you could easily max out comfort there using the hearth instead of the camp fire and placing the dragon bed. The additional space you could gain by creating more overhang. I'd extend it one 2x2 floor tile to each side and maybe two at the front.
i like this but i will say the only prob i see is getting into the base with iron the portal does not allow your transfer. Its still a cool build but, i would ask, for an underground swamp or a crypt keeper build with access via ground door. like a ground door you use only a hoe for? something like that so you can get in with scraps. love the build firespark.
@@Firespark81 hey watched your Subnautica vid. And I thought about your tip you wanted to do. Yeh the bubble air sucker sucks.. but I wonder, if your could build a moon pool above the hole and still use the floating device in it then run your tubes. Worst case
Wouldn't it be better to dig under the crypt then elevate ground in all places that enemies could use to fall in and then just use the portal to get in alongside pressing E on the entrance to leave
It doesn't matter that you can put the two regular chests side by side since the reinforced chests hold more than twice as much. Two regular chests side by side gives you 20 inventory spots. One reinforced chest gives you 24.
it's not a cutting stone Firespark it's a sharpening stone for cleaning and sharpening weapons/tools. But still a great idea for a base in a dreadful place.
nice idea and execution - but I will stick with my treehouse. It just looks way cooler. I may be wrong, but I think a treehouse is more safe as well (because higher up, most likely).
I approve, but can't portal ore so make sure you have all your mats to build things before you close it off... Gave me the idea to just use a portal if I don't like stairs lmao
@@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32 If you're in unmodded survival mode yeah he said you need to build stairs down low enough to jump to. And to handle ores from crypts you can put chests on the back lower step next to the crafting upgrades... so you can fill them from below as you return from this and other crypts... Then either build a smelter here to process into gear, or fill chests until your inevitable run to your ship...
Im thinkin I want to go build walls to hide my crafting upgrades… Build a hoe-stone wall to keep out raids And dig a trench so leeches can help me farm those raids…
Nah I don't care for the portal Idea I'd just as well use the walls + doors + stair / maze entrance , combo? BUT I'm going to be making my Ewok village there, anyway. So spots like these Crypts I will be utilizing those Stone landings a bit differently I'd imagine.
Not safe. orange oozes AOE can hit you inside. As i said on the other video, you need to raise everything by 2M with poles and make a stilt on it or you can get poisoned.
That's just it, once you place a workbench and portal nothing spawns near the crypt. I mean you get couple Drauger / skeletons and the occasional blob walking in from distance, but by this level you should be strong enough to deal with them. This is really not meant to be a permanent base just a temporary outpost until you are done within an area of multiple crypts.
So I see a bunch of talk about ore and the portal door. This was kinda designed with all the people playing with mods that let you portal ore in mind. If you wanna build in vanilla and use it as more than an outpost you can easily put in a door on the wall where I tell you that you can put extra storage next to the brazier. Then just use a bit of stairs but don't take them all the way to the ground so you have to jump to get in. This keeps the baddies out.
As for things attacking the portal, I killed everything before I started the build and nothing spawned around it the whole time I was building, about 40 min. The benches prevent things from spawning. If you are worried about that just sink a bit of the spiked wall into the ground right in front of it. It should be fine.
Awesome build!!! Yeah, it seems once you place a portal and workbench on or near the crypt nothing spawns around it. I always place a portal / workbench and a storage box on top so I can do inventory management until I am done with the crypt, then move everything to the next one.
@@hmac4076 Very true. I don't mind using QOL mods on my first play through, I did the seed hop thing one time, then after that I felt like I had cheated myself from the challenge of getting the copper back to my base the legit way. That being said everyone is entitled to play the game the way they want.
I disagree, they aren't even playing the game. Mods for a an early access game is cheating. It's almost as bad as changing servers to move ore between bases. An active community perpetually exploiting flawed gameplay mechanics is not healthy in the long run.
A chest for the ingots below the floor that could be acessible both from ground level and when inside the house would solve that problem too..
You should post your videos on bitchute. Mostly so I can watch them at work. But spreads your influence. Supports alt Tech and all the good stuff. Not alot of gaming on it uet
best valheim content maker
Won't the mobs destroy your portal outside?
Waiting for the hearth and home update before making any new buildings now. Thought the old “1 fire, chests, portal, moat” outposts will still be the go to after the update haha
Not using the mod for portal ore transport (used it a bit and it took away from the experience). There’s just something with filling up your Longboat with ore and travelling back to your main base, confronted by storms, demanding winds and “dangerous” sea serpents.
I put 4 wagon boxes in my karve packed them full of iron, rubies and amber. Making it home through 3 storms with over 200 iron and 1000 gold was 10/10. Wouldn't have serpent stew with a portal mod :)
Teleport ores is just lame imo, i haven't tried and never will, half the fun in this game is mining and sailing, such an amazing progression, really well paced. im glad you realized that too lol even tho it doesn't make any difference in my life
For swamp bases, i prefer making tree houses, setting up somewhere with multiple trees nearby so i can use them as foundation blocks. Even better if there are surtling spawner nearby so it can double as a surtling farm.
yeah, i've also done this. got 2 dug-out surtling spawners close by. First one wasn't high enough though, had a troll raid and one of the b@*&^ds had a tree branch which just managed to reach the floor of the tree house. Spread my gear all over the swamp below, lol. next build was higher!
Your content is incredible. thank you so much!
Love these little builds. Especially how you are using the different biomes.
10:25 You can place the large chests 2 wide onto a floor tile, but you have to have the walls in place first and let the chests clip into the walls. It's a bit fidgety, but possible.
One small idea: Since you tend to do a half wall on top of a full wall for the sides, you COULD do the half wall on the bottom and then the full wall on top. That was some spots you could do half on bottom, half on top, and a half wall sized gap in the middle for a window. This may mess with snap points, but maybe doing 3 half walls on all sides would fix that? Just a thought! Love the content, man!
So far I haven't found a crypt worth more than putting down a workbench and a chest or two on the top. However, should I ever encounter a big one, I will consider your build :) Awesome build as always!!!
Such a creative build idea!
Being new to the game I really appreciate the daily vids. My friend has played through twice and I've shown him stuff (wolf pit being an easy example), I'm already breeding them when I haven't found the merchant/still not to swamp/mtn yet. Thanks again.
This really deserves more views and likes, another solid video 👌
but fire spark how do you keep the portal on the ground from getting destroyed by mobs lol
Yea. I absolutely hate videos where the first thing they do is tell you to mod or cheat, or sometimes they don't even bother telling you. Click bait.
I will try: add a square worth off the end to build a ladder down to the porch with a jump height I can make.Can make a shooting platform balcony to the other corner to facilitate the mob grinding we are doing this for...
Btw, placing a workbench or portal disables mob spawning in the area. So only if one afar notices you (because you shot it?) will they come close enough to attack your portal.
@@michealnelsonauthor Nice thought, thou i'm a squishy scaredy-cat to go to swamp :/
I always build on the Sunken Crypts. Nice safe spot from enemies! 😁
That is soo cool! I really like that! and all that confort in one spot ready to go! and still looks kinda RP astheticky. Really cool video thanks for sharing!!!
Amazeballs. Getting ready to go swampin. This is so handy!
I like the efficiency of crafting accessories underneath.
I'm going to look at doing that at my main mountaintop base among the black forest.
Love it. Totally building this. 👍👍👍
I feel like building where enemies can’t get to is NEEDED in the swamp, seriously it is chaos, coming from the meadows to the dark forest is a lot calmer and then you go from dark forest to the swamp and it spits in your face
The swamp is the devil. I hate it!
How do you bring in ingots for crafting into the house?
He lives in dev mode.
put a chest on the lower level out back, next to your crafting upgrades. You can toss ores up in there from the ground. Then open the floor to grab ore to toss into your smelter.
But we will have to make room in this build to add at least the smelter to process our crypt-ores into bars to craft iron items right here.
Otherwise you're filling those chests for your run to your ship to take your stacks of iron back home...
I suppose making roads thru the swamp to your ship would be a step, to help use the cart and not waddle through every leech pool while you're dragging cart?
I really like your small, compact buildings! I mean, the large ones are fancy and all, but let's face it, I can't be arsed to run from my crafting area to my cooking area to my bedroom if I can have it all within reach :D
This is my next goal.
Need to find Bonemass location and 1 or 2 surtling fire spouts nearby,
then This is going on the nearest crypt as my respawn & mining base.
I love your efficient builds!
I did the basic version of this when I fought bonemass. Fun to make and helpful!
Personally I'd hang the brazier off the center beam on the chimney high enough so I might have to press X and sit down to target it. great build anyway.
Not a bad idea.
Yep. My braziers always go into the chimney. That probably means you have to use something else for light. But I just want to have the comfort and don't wanna put up with the additional smoke somewhere else.
I laid the groundwork and then I changed the design a bit - that looks very cool
Awesome build as always, FS. A very minor grizzle, is that I probably would have used short core wood beams to support the overhang, instead of just the normal ones; and another would be the lack of defense for the portal out the front, although others have already addressed that.
Hey man, love your content! But I did notice that you sound tired. Take it easy! Your content grind is amazing but take care of yourself, buddy.
almost all your design build in my seed...among all i love the round hut. XD now this for sure i will build one. hehehehee
I just happen to reach the swamp biome. Great timing on the video lol.
Cool, I used stairs at the back of the crypt and a heath as the only difference. It was modelled on one of your tiny houses
Can mobs climb the stairs and punch your house in the nose? I heard they can/do.
@@abbeynormala2291 well, my secret is to have the staircase not touch the floor, i.e. start at the top of the crypt (side). You just jump onto it. Note: if it's a blob stay away from the edge, unless you're baiting it to jump for a better bow shot.
@@leonrobinson2053 Thanks. DO Wraith's bother your house? Try to get you when your in it? I rarely see them, but when I do it's usually when I'm fighting or running for my life.
@@abbeynormala2291 I pretty much do what fires park does and put a portal on each crypt, call them C1, C2 etc and then have one portal at my base and change the name of that. Because you get loads of cores, I have like connection points back to my boat, which is in an old draugr village outside of the Swamp.
@@abbeynormala2291 if you just leave out the bottom stair and jump up to the stairs only the blob can jump in the swamp. Luckily once you place a workbench nothing really spawns in the area.
Interesting, I think I can adapt this to good use in my no base challenge run up on my channel..
the first swamp base i build was on top of a crypt, i used more core wood to make it bigger thou.
here's an idea, try making a base with all the stuff not spread over the walls for space in the center, but crammed into 1 compact blob in the center, for doughnut-like space and easy expansion. can be taller or multi-store.
Nice two trees close enough for a outside deck for smelting and coal
Where do you come up with these? Do you just make bases like these in your worlds and just recreate them for a video or is there some magic subreddit I’m missing?
I have been building on top of crypts for a while. As I said in the video people seemed to be interested in it when I did it in the let's play so I thought lets do a build video. As for the other build guides I have done. Yes test world where I just build crap until I get something I like then I make a video.
@@Firespark81 Same here, mine are just not as elaborate as yours but this is an awesome build!
I like the compactness of the build however it would be nice to be able to look out and see the swamp. Maybe put some windows into the walls? Or you stairs for the roof?
Are you smelting on site too??
Just a build to help you get them creative juices flowing do take it super literal 😊. Its also very modifiable.
I'd think you could easily max out comfort there using the hearth instead of the camp fire and placing the dragon bed. The additional space you could gain by creating more overhang. I'd extend it one 2x2 floor tile to each side and maybe two at the front.
the man the mith the LEGEND sparky
i like this but i will say the only prob i see is getting into the base with iron the portal does not allow your transfer. Its still a cool build but, i would ask, for an underground swamp or a crypt keeper build with access via ground door. like a ground door you use only a hoe for? something like that so you can get in with scraps. love the build firespark.
Check out the comment I just pinned. Fills if a bit of info I failed to mention in the video.
@@Firespark81 hey watched your Subnautica vid. And I thought about your tip you wanted to do. Yeh the bubble air sucker sucks.. but I wonder, if your could build a moon pool above the hole and still use the floating device in it then run your tubes. Worst case
AMAZING!
Wouldn't it be better to dig under the crypt then elevate ground in all places that enemies could use to fall in and then just use the portal to get in alongside pressing E on the entrance to leave
Nice. Note to self, keep track of my portal names as I go around renaming portals for multi use.
put a marker on the map where the portal is and name it same as the portal.
Nice video
It doesn't matter that you can put the two regular chests side by side since the reinforced chests hold more than twice as much. Two regular chests side by side gives you 20 inventory spots. One reinforced chest gives you 24.
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Aren’t the mobs going to be attacking the portal?
mine on top as well bro we looking into making full auto farm that repeatedly do its jod in the swomp
it's not a cutting stone Firespark it's a sharpening stone for cleaning and sharpening weapons/tools. But still a great idea for a base in a dreadful place.
Incredibly OCD in a nice way. How did you build that? Is it in range of a work bench?
He's using debug mode. In debug you don't need any materials or workbenches for building
@@doubledaca thank you
Yea I do all my tutorial builds in creative. It's just makes sense. Just hit F5 type devcommands then debugmode then hit B key.
nice idea and execution - but I will stick with my treehouse. It just looks way cooler. I may be wrong, but I think a treehouse is more safe as well (because higher up, most likely).
I approve, but can't portal ore so make sure you have all your mats to build things before you close it off...
Gave me the idea to just use a portal if I don't like stairs lmao
You can fit 3 chests across in that storage corner with this design.
Man, I cant believe you still play around in this game. Crazy dedication. Good job
would be annoying if some cheeky draugr smashed the portal outside, while you're inside the house
Honestly just a door and some stairs you jump onto would be better for entrance, cheaper too and still resilient to attacks.
@@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32 If you're in unmodded survival mode yeah he said you need to build stairs down low enough to jump to.
And to handle ores from crypts you can put chests on the back lower step next to the crafting upgrades... so you can fill them from below as you return from this and other crypts...
Then either build a smelter here to process into gear, or fill chests until your inevitable run to your ship...
Now if only the enemies respawned, then it would actually make sense to live there.
Im thinkin I want to go build walls to hide my crafting upgrades…
Build a hoe-stone wall to keep out raids
And dig a trench so leeches can help me farm those raids…
Next time on MTV Crypts...
I wish my brain was creative and original as yours. I cri
Nah I don't care for the portal Idea I'd just as well use the walls + doors + stair / maze entrance , combo? BUT I'm going to be making my Ewok village there, anyway. So spots like these Crypts I will be utilizing those Stone landings a bit differently I'd imagine.
Not safe.
orange oozes AOE can hit you inside.
As i said on the other video, you need to raise everything by 2M with poles and make a stilt on it or you can get poisoned.
Awful build. Too smoky, too cramped and vulnerable to mobs.
That's just it, once you place a workbench and portal nothing spawns near the crypt. I mean you get couple Drauger / skeletons and the occasional blob walking in from distance, but by this level you should be strong enough to deal with them. This is really not meant to be a permanent base just a temporary outpost until you are done within an area of multiple crypts.