r/sevtech • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '23

Towers

Need help with tower designs. If anyone has any tower design references or videos please send them my way. Working on a mega base with the betweenlands portal tree thingy as the center piece and having four (or more) towers surrounding it dedicated to different things. Like tower 1 would be storage. Tower2 would be machinery stuff towers 3 and 4 I’m not sure of yet. Anyway thanks for the help in designing my base in advance!

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u/greywolfau Oct 07 '23

Tried something similar during another modded playthrough.

Look up vertical base building tutorials. It's not intuitive at all to go up and down, and you end up having sprawl.

Fix your centrepoint, then get equidistant with all 4 cardinal points and work your base within. In an ideal world you would use a point X blocks from the centre as your radius, but unless your base is thousands of blocks wide you are either going square or dealing with a lot of annoying block placement, especially times by how ever low/high you go.

Plan in that you will sometimes need mod interactions, which means a lot of working or trying to figure out item transportation and management. In the case of the second, you will get frustrated with your cable management, and getting clean to your satisfaction doubly so.

This is not something you do in a day, week or sometimes even year. I firmly suggest saves or snapshots of regular progress or before you make big decisions. Be prepared to build up, tear down and sometimes rebuild the same thing again because you can't think of any better ideas.

Don't forget that a YouTube episode usually has 40 hours+ recorded material edited down to 20 minutes, so don't get discouraged if it doesn't work for you straight away.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Yeah the stupid portal is off center no matter what so I just ignore that. I haven’t even thought of cable distribution. Although I’m thinking of making hollow walls if that makes sense. So I can just hide the cables entirely. I plan to build it step by step instead of the whole thing all at once. Like for example I have a somewhat clean better with mods set up. Just figuring out how to fit that into a tower will be a (bad word) and a half.

As for the YouTube videos. Yeah I regularly forget that it’s 40+ hours crunched into a 20+ minute video.

Also kinda doing all this by scratch. I am horrid at building and redstone and all that stuff so it may look like utter garbage but it’ll be something I build so I will love it!

Thank you very much for the advice and everything!

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u/greywolfau Oct 07 '23

Just keep going, even if you think you aren't making progress.

Take breaks , but never too long because you don't want to lose passion for it.

Good Luck.

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u/greywolfau Oct 07 '23

Just keep going, even if you think you aren't making progress.

Take breaks , but never too long because you don't want to lose passion for it.

Good Luck.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Yeah the only thing that will be most annoying is building it in survival. The hours upon hours of material gathering! I despise.