Hey y'all! I'm a big fan of finding fun ways to build and decorate when I play games. So I love things like the Sims, or ARK and Minecraft with a bunch of mods for decor.

Does anyone else really love this? I'd love to see some of your favorite builds or hear about projects you've worked on or things you accomplished that were really hard, etc.

How much do you sacrifice design over efficiency? What's a challenge you're still working on? (Roofing an odd shape in the Sims and still having a natural looking roof is mine XD)

Woah that looks so cool! Im playing Valheim right now too, and my base is a hot mess of bad inventory management and portals just littered around ;_; I need to go back and make it look nice. Any tips? o:

I've gotten back into Fallout 76 lately, and have a love-hate relationship with working on my C.A.M.P.

It's a lot of work, especially when you've just started. You have to find plans for most things before you can build them, and also gather the materials to build anything. Certain resources and defence items require you to have the right Perks in order to be able to build them, so you have to work on your character too. And of course some of the nicest stuff is in the game's Atom Shop, costing real money.

Then there's the fighting with some of the game's ridiculous building rules. Can't put this floor down because it has to snap to an existing piece. A wall won't face the way you want it unless you take out another piece, put the wall down how you want, and then put the other piece back. Can't move a ladder because it makes the floor inaccessible, even though you're trying to attach it to the same damn floor, just on the other side.

Buuuuut... When you start getting more stuff to work with and figure out the peculiarities of camp building, it can be a lot of fun and satisfying to get things how you want them. :)

(And yes, I have put money into this.)

I also love base building! My favorite games are survival/crafting and base buildings is always a huge part of that (Minecraft, The Forest, 7 Days to Die, Don’t Starve, etc)

My favorite is 7 Days to Die, but the base building is a little different in that one in that you are mostly exploiting the AI of the zombie hoard to herd them into specific areas to kill them and avoid getting overwhelmed. I usually make one base for fighting and one base for living because I want to decorate my living base to feel homey (just because it is the apocalypse doesn’t mean I have to live like it!)

The other game I’ve played recently that I liked and have a lot of base building in it was Raft. I built a mega yacht and I liked that you were making a floating base in that one.

I giggled at your list of ridiculous game rules, because OH BOY I have been there too. haha

I have been going back and forth on whether or not I want to start playing Valheim. Do you like it? What is base building like in that game?

Building up my settlements in Fallout 4 is my absolute favorite thing. My latest project of sorts was finding a way to build a stairway up to the top of the Red Rocket station and building little houses up there. It looks so cool. I will literally spend hours going scavving for junk to build my settlements just the way I want. At least, I used to before my game went to shit and now I can't even play for five minutes without it freezing.

I love base builders, but I tend not to be great at them, because I value aesthetics too much over practicality, haha. Been really enjoying Grounded recently! Though even with arachnophobia mode on, the spiders scare me a lot...

I keep lowkey looking out for another game that'll get me basebuilding! I got into sims 4 again recently but that's kinda worn off. I really miss the MMO Wildstar -- it had the craziest housing system. I wish I could play it offline or something just for that. RIP ;_;

I watched a couple people online play Grounded and I knew I would never be able to play for that same reason. Those spiders are waaaay too much for me. haha

(which is such a shame because the game does look so cool...)

Did they have arachnophobia mode on? At the maximum level they're like, just a white orb, which, tbh, is creepy in an entirely different way :P I have mine at level 4, I think, so they have colour and eyes but that's all, which makes it manageable. Half of my panic is that they're always aggressive and kicked my ass until I got some armour...I think ladybugs are actually tougher opponents, but they're chill until you attack them