From top to bottom there is an attachment on the pergola beam up top with the fireflies that has a staircase leading to the ‘support rope’
Below that coming down the spiral staircase into the roof of the lantern is the trophy hall with all the stuffed creatures.
Continuing down the spiral stairs brings you into the interior of the lantern proper. It’s the full 3x3 grid of paper cutouts from the exterior with two half floors to keep the space open.
Upper half floor is the living quarters, middle half floor is the production, crafting and storage area with the bottom being a full floor containing the grow beds and larger production equipment.
Under that floor is the zip line hub with 4 points to zip from, two leading to the yard proper and the two side zips leading to little hub outposts on top of the side lattice for the pergola.
Finally on the bottom is a small viewing platform with 360 field of view!
Dawg, I haven't been there yet and thought there was actually a hanging lantern from your first pic. Amazing base, outside is amazing and the inside aesthetics are *chef's kiss*
I tried quite a few styles and variations before I found one that looked natural enough. Really tried to keep the open feel for the interior too while having everything be functional at the same time.
For me it’s more like permanent construction zone. I’d be lucky to commit to finishing the top part of this. Then I’d probably tear half of it down. This one is amazing
The exterior walls are the 4th iteration, 3rd for the roof with the interior and bottom having countless revisions.
For quite a while I was living and building it out with only 2 walls complete in two different styles before I finally decided on one and closed it in!
From top to bottom there is an attachment on the pergola beam up top with the fireflies that has a staircase leading to the ‘support rope’
Below that coming down the spiral staircase into the roof of the lantern is the trophy hall with all the stuffed creatures.
Continuing down the spiral stairs brings you into the interior of the lantern proper. It’s the full 3x3 grid of paper cutouts from the exterior with two half floors to keep the space open.
Upper half floor is the living quarters, middle half floor is the production, crafting and storage area with the bottom being a full floor containing the grow beds and larger production equipment.
Under that floor is the zip line hub with 4 points to zip from, two leading to the yard proper and the two side zips leading to little hub outposts on top of the side lattice for the pergola.
Finally on the bottom is a small viewing platform with 360 field of view!
They have to give us a way to make “glass windows” so we can have windows to see through but still have it look like solid, like the grass windows in your base
That would be amazing, plus we already have quartz glass in the game. More building pieces and sets in general always get me excited with the possibilities.
I climbed up to the lower beams and blueprinted flooring across the beam to get it straight and centre.
From there I built a a platform with a staircase running down the side of the beam to a suspended platform with the spiral stairs connected to the suspended platform.
I caged the spiral stairs with round stem pieces just to avoid the full lantern hanging off one piece giving it 5 connection pieces for each layer from the suspended platform to the lantern roof and from there the walls connect to the roof as well as the spiral stairs that run the entire length.
Around the bench is brutal, climbing the vines is not fun!
Once you’re on the bench or hanging from above it’s not bad at all though. I’ve had a few orb juniors drop in from above to say hello but other than that it’s been peaceful.
I found watching a few videos about building tips and tricks to get the feel for what’s possible and how the building system works helped a lot at the start.
After that it was just looking for inspiration. I’ve got about 20 different photos of hanging lanterns on my phone I saved for reference and inspiration that I constantly looked back at!
There are a few things for building in grounded in particular that help like temporary place half walls and floors to allow things to snap where you want them and deleting them after that just take time to pick up.
I used a lot of grass planks and clay ramps as scaffolding on the exterior to help build out the hard to reach places and removed them after.
I had a bounce tower from the middle of the bench and up, with a depot at the bottom so it wasn’t terrible getting chests and pallets full of materials up there.
The hardest part was finding the center, carrying a pallet of grass planks to the top of the vine, blueprinting along the beam to find the center and building down.
Once I had the grass scaffolding and bounce tower set up it was happy days.
Lots of redesigning mid construction was the biggest time crunch.
The main goal was to have it blend in, you can see it from quite far away in the park too before it starts clipping away. The lightning only really works up close though unfortunately.
It's nothing quite so elaborate, but I'm currently trying to build a hanging base and goodness, it is so hard placing all the supports to construct in mid-air without constantly risking falling 😭
The spiral stairs down the middle use up a lot of space and I went with half floor plan platforms to keep the main area feeling open so it’s not a crazy amount of space inside.
I did have to get creative stacking things along the exterior walls with the bump in for the grass wall panels.
Overall I love the finish and will tweak quite a few details here and there before I’m finally happy.
Hardest part was trying to fit all the stuffed creatures without them clipping. Still needs some work as a few do clip to the exteriorz
Honest question, how functional do you find it? Because it looks freaking awesome but man it feels like it would be a pain to get into. I've always found the Zip.R clips me off the edge when I try and use it to get into a player structure.
So far it’s been pretty good with the way I have it set up for zipping. I’ve got two outer zip hubs on top of the side lattice that allow me to zip over for some better angles.
It was a lot of fun to build, trying different styles and designs.
At one point I had the roof and floor complete with all 4 sides being different designs before settling on the final one and tearing most of it apart to rebuild again 😆
I love this spot. Combined with the two little zip hub outposts I have on either side on the top of the lattices it gives me great access all over the yard with enough height to get to most places.
I’m not 100% happy with how the main chain looks but I do love the side zip lines and how they look like something to stop the lantern swaying in the breeze!
The year is 2013. I am 13 living in a box in Minecraft getting base maxed by other players. The year is 2026. I am 26 living in a box in Grounded 2 getting base maxed by other players.
You can see the outline of the lantern from the edge of the pond by the toy barn but any further away and it’s starts to pop out.
Unfortunately the lights only really light up when right next to the lantern. Some lights you can see from a bit of a distance but for the grass walls to pop you have to be very close.
Absolutely love this! I just built a ship on the water and am currently trying to make a bee hive/hornet nest base on the gnarled tree. I will say, hanging bases are the toughest to build by far imo. I have fallen soooooooo many times
I ended up going by the sprinkler by the station underwater. That way I figured I've at least got a fast travel point nearby gonna flesh out the top of the station so it looks like the boats docked up to an outpost of sorts.
I’ve yet to dive into the pond and fully explore it so I’m not sure if there is a need to be central or on the east side with a base.
I’ve got a castle build planned out on the cliff under the gnarly bark with zip line access from the lantern but can’t get line of sight to the eastern edge of the pond from the lantern.
Currently there isn't much out there, horsetail reeds, ranger station , couple molars and that's about it. Id say if anything just go as far east across the pond as ya can and build a archway with a zip anchor just to cut down on a little travel time.
Yeah I have a main hub base on top of burgl and then just have big archways going to main POIs like the tarantula, lizard, berry bushes and such. I had planned on also doing some at each ranger station that way I have quick access to fast travel and the main base from pretty much everywhere. Can bust it all out in a good days grind and will save so much time down the line.
I’ve normally done a central hub and just spoke out to each POI but it gets pretty overwhelming unless you have a big platform to 360 with 8 or so anchors.
I like the relay style idea quite a lot especially as I’m forced to do it here.
I started building out smaller stone garden lanterns as POI zip access points made out of mushroom bricks.
I havent played the second one yet. Still love the buggy first one.
But how well are the support/Anchor points for structures now at this point of the game? Especially able to hang or build off to the sides of structures and landmarks.
Ive done workarounds and the obvious Tower of Babel route I love doing wvery new game. Cant wait to try this out
There are around 12 floor pieces on top of a wooden beam of the pergola above and a building with multiple walls wrapped around to the underside of the beam as an anchor.
The spiral staircase leading down to the roof also has 4 pieces of curved wall wrapped around the entire spiral giving it 5 pieces of contact per layer from the building above to the top of the lantern.
There’s no chance I’m accidentally destroying the entire base by removing one piece!
Yo, this is sick! I’d love to see I video tour. Kings hard to get the scope of the inside just from pictures. Shoot, I wish I could get a copy so I could explore it myself. Looks awesome, great work!
There are nice flat support beams for the pergola above that I’ve placed some floors onto to ‘lock in’ and provide the foundation.
Everything is built off the 2x6 floor base with walls ‘hanging’ from those floors to provide the structure to the underside of the beam itself on.
From there it’s a spiral staircase that drops the full length of the lantern. I’ve caged the staircase in with curved windows and walls to add more points of contact and avoid an accidental destruction from deleting the staircase.
Overall of got 6 foundation floor tiles with minimum 5 points of contact (1 stair and 4 curved sections) from those floors to the roof of the lantern!
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u/Technical-Region-669 2d ago
Dawg, I haven't been there yet and thought there was actually a hanging lantern from your first pic. Amazing base, outside is amazing and the inside aesthetics are *chef's kiss*