

Remember, raiders will be able to get into any room they want, but they will not know where your gear is. By spamming them you are achieving the goal of keeping the raiders guessing. They have just as much space and are 3x as powerful at protecting your gear, putting it close in health to a tier 2 steel door. Equally as spammable too at a measly 8 forged iron. Once you start spamming it on each and every single wall, any would be raider will be driven off fast.ĭrawers are the premium version of the wood chest. What makes this particularly effective is wooden chests are only costs 10 wood and means that you can place bucketloads of these anywhere and waste any raiders’ time effectively and cheaply. This makes it almost as strong as concrete. Where I was doing 55 damage with a steel pick on concrete, a steel axe against a chest did 4 damage. Unlike wall safes, gun safes, or storage boxes, there is a damage reduction modifier on these two blocks. Put it in every room, hallways, and nook and cranny you can find.Ĭhests and drawers are not easy to break open. If you want a quick and dirty base that you can feel safe in as soon as possible, I would choose this one. To make your base theoretically safe against a singular person putting in 12 hours, you would need your walls to be 90 blocks thick! Building Smarter Even if you take on the monstrous task of making that 16 blocks thick, that’s only 2 hours. If you make a singular room in the center with 8 block thick walls, that is roughly an hour to raid for a single person. Steel is a mere four minutes to break open.

The times WILL change based on the server settings, but the times should be a healthy reference for how easy it is. These are the times it took to break blocks with all perks maxed and an auger with all of the mods. People can and will get into any room you build, keep that in mind when you are building. I’ve been in raids where 2-5 people spent 12-16 hours on a singular base. The basic problem with base building is it just does not take nearly as long to raid a base as it does to build it. Why not just go for sheer strength of walls? Now onto the rest of the guide for an in-depth guide to get you thinking like a top tier builder. Look around at what nooks and crannies are around to stash your boxes and you will be golden. I personally do not trust making my ceiling 7-9 blocks high as an exact measurement like that makes it exceedingly obvious what you are doing. Keep in mind that with the introduction of Alpha 17, there is the small 2% of the population who maxes out the perk parkour and can jump 9 blocks, so keep that in mind when building. (yes the image below uses boxes, not concrete). I for instance make ceilings that are 7 blocks off the ground so that I can place frames beneath me to access it.

The best thing you can do in this situation is make sure that at any point, a player is 7 blocks away from your box.
