I played around on the server tonight. Longer than I planned, but screw it, I had a bad day at work and wanted to relax in the "backyard."
Sooooo...you know that warning we got while raiding the haze lab about pissing off the infected bugs? Yeah, guess who got raided? Died several times fighting them off, only to respawn every time back at red base because I forgot to change my respawn location. Fortunately, I lucked out and a wolf spider strolled into the area and fought the infected ladybug, doing most of the work for me.
UNfortunately, the raid wrecked the front of our base:
So, I spent most of my evening rebuilding it. But I did it with some new style: mushroom bricks! Gas and Tin (or anyone else who joins the server) are welcome to break this down and move it around. I've said before that I'm not great at building aesthetically pleasing things. I made basically a front deck, with just enough space that we can hop onto but an ant can't crawl up onto.
Also built a wall along the raid-heavy side of the base. Not sure what else to do with it, so we'll call it a work in progress.
Oh, and I stumbled across the
ant head totem while over by the bird bath near the hedge. Which means I added a little extra to my deck:
You'll see on the roof, there's now a pebblet turret with a basket of pebblets beside it for ammo. Purposely placed on the roof like that so it's pointed to the ground to kite wandering spiders or ladybugs.
After that, I went nuts cutting down mushrooms and baking mushroom bricks.
@PatrThom joined me on Discord to chat and I live streamed the game for him to watch along. I definitely went overboard with collecting and baking mushroom bricks. There's now a chest with well over 300 bricks in it. Which is more than enough to make a base with elsewhere (as with planks, only 4 bricks are needed to build one wall piece). Or we could turn our base into a castle.
Next time (probably tomorrow night), I'll see about setting a small outpost inside the sandbox. There's a safe area by the scanner.
