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This forum post is about how to build a well protective and effective farming base. On MCDrugs you have to have a farm, and this is most efficient when the farm is located in your base because you will not have to go back and fourth.
Step one
Step one in building a base is getting the outcrops. Most people start out with a big cobblestone box. In factions the goal isn't always to make a pretty base but one that works. So a cobblestone outline is normally pretty cheap and doesn't take very long.
Step two
You can't just have a cobblestone box as a base because then your base is very raidable. Anyone who owns a rocket launcher can easily get through with one shot. The cost of one rocket is only 25k! A very good and easy way to protect the outside of a base is to gen walls. This tactic makes layers of cobblestone walls outside so that your base is even less raidable. To gen walls from your original structure you have to place a one block wall of cobblestone one block outside the wall all the way around the base creating a sort of cap around the top of the base. On top of that you will place lava all the way around. Then you want to place another layer of cobblestone on top of the lava. Then you want to break the block under the lava all the way around the entire wall. This should create a three block thick lava wall. You have to wait until the middle wall gets to the bottom before you can start the next step of genning the wall. On top of the cobble wall at the top you will place water all the way around the entire wall. This will create cobblestone walls all the way around the entire base.
Reason for Genning
Even though genning walls takes a long time and there are chances of failure the first few times there are far more advantages to genning walls then disadvantages.
The first advantage
The number one reason for genning walls is to keep players out. Genning a wall makes the base look a lot bigger then they actually are on the inside. A bigger base does actually scare some smaller factions away like if a junky were to run up to a 20 by 20 chunk genned base they would probably not have the materials or time to get in.
The second advantage
The second great thing about a big genned base is the fact that you cannot mine into it. As long as you have enough power to claim your base there is no way for someone to mine into your base without your faction giving them permission to.
(Ex). If someone found your base in the wild, if the base is claimed they have no way to mine into the base.
Some disadvantages
Genning walls does take a long time, that being said there is a greater change of failure during the process. When placing the lava, you have to make sure that it doesn't go anywhere unneeded like if it goes over to far or you missed one cobblestone and it creates an extra wall. A good way to make sure that none of these problems happen is after each step run around it and make sure everything is easily placed.
Farms
On a drug server, farms are one of the biggest factors in making money. You are either really good at pvp or farm. Most bases consist of small farms but in a huge genned base you have the room and flexibility of building a huge farm or multiple farms along the inside of it. In large quantities chorus fruit sells for a great price. You can lay out end stone along one whole side of your base and plant the chorus evenly all the way across. Refer to http://mc-drugs.com/threads/the-growing-manual.2419/ for a great manual on how to grow all drugs on MCDrugs. A good way to really maximize the quantity of what you get out of your base farm is layering it. Like let's say you did a 100 by 100 block wheat farm. You could then go up 4 blocks then put another layer of dirt on top of that then plant the wheat. You can do this for as many floors as your base goes.
Storage
In a small under ground base you have a storage room. In a big genned base you have room to make a protected storage area! If you did the farm technique then you will most likely have more room in your base. The most simple way to organize your stuff is by having a chest room. The easiest way would be to just put a cobblestone cube in the corner of your base but that is extremely raidable. The best way to keep your precious items safe costs a little more but is deffinately worth it. This way consists of 4 obsidian walls against either the corner of he base or if you want to make it the center price of the base. Like I said earlier there is no way to mine into the claimed land of another faction without the permission of that faction. But once you have got your obsidian box with a good bit of room for chests inside of it you want to place water ouside of it as water covered obsidian is even harder to raid. Once you have put water all the way around it then you want to put another layer of obsidian.
I hope this post was helpful
-Tasty
This forum post is about how to build a well protective and effective farming base. On MCDrugs you have to have a farm, and this is most efficient when the farm is located in your base because you will not have to go back and fourth.
Step one
Step one in building a base is getting the outcrops. Most people start out with a big cobblestone box. In factions the goal isn't always to make a pretty base but one that works. So a cobblestone outline is normally pretty cheap and doesn't take very long.
Step two
You can't just have a cobblestone box as a base because then your base is very raidable. Anyone who owns a rocket launcher can easily get through with one shot. The cost of one rocket is only 25k! A very good and easy way to protect the outside of a base is to gen walls. This tactic makes layers of cobblestone walls outside so that your base is even less raidable. To gen walls from your original structure you have to place a one block wall of cobblestone one block outside the wall all the way around the base creating a sort of cap around the top of the base. On top of that you will place lava all the way around. Then you want to place another layer of cobblestone on top of the lava. Then you want to break the block under the lava all the way around the entire wall. This should create a three block thick lava wall. You have to wait until the middle wall gets to the bottom before you can start the next step of genning the wall. On top of the cobble wall at the top you will place water all the way around the entire wall. This will create cobblestone walls all the way around the entire base.
Reason for Genning
Even though genning walls takes a long time and there are chances of failure the first few times there are far more advantages to genning walls then disadvantages.
The first advantage
The number one reason for genning walls is to keep players out. Genning a wall makes the base look a lot bigger then they actually are on the inside. A bigger base does actually scare some smaller factions away like if a junky were to run up to a 20 by 20 chunk genned base they would probably not have the materials or time to get in.
The second advantage
The second great thing about a big genned base is the fact that you cannot mine into it. As long as you have enough power to claim your base there is no way for someone to mine into your base without your faction giving them permission to.
(Ex). If someone found your base in the wild, if the base is claimed they have no way to mine into the base.
Some disadvantages
Genning walls does take a long time, that being said there is a greater change of failure during the process. When placing the lava, you have to make sure that it doesn't go anywhere unneeded like if it goes over to far or you missed one cobblestone and it creates an extra wall. A good way to make sure that none of these problems happen is after each step run around it and make sure everything is easily placed.
Farms
On a drug server, farms are one of the biggest factors in making money. You are either really good at pvp or farm. Most bases consist of small farms but in a huge genned base you have the room and flexibility of building a huge farm or multiple farms along the inside of it. In large quantities chorus fruit sells for a great price. You can lay out end stone along one whole side of your base and plant the chorus evenly all the way across. Refer to http://mc-drugs.com/threads/the-growing-manual.2419/ for a great manual on how to grow all drugs on MCDrugs. A good way to really maximize the quantity of what you get out of your base farm is layering it. Like let's say you did a 100 by 100 block wheat farm. You could then go up 4 blocks then put another layer of dirt on top of that then plant the wheat. You can do this for as many floors as your base goes.
Storage
In a small under ground base you have a storage room. In a big genned base you have room to make a protected storage area! If you did the farm technique then you will most likely have more room in your base. The most simple way to organize your stuff is by having a chest room. The easiest way would be to just put a cobblestone cube in the corner of your base but that is extremely raidable. The best way to keep your precious items safe costs a little more but is deffinately worth it. This way consists of 4 obsidian walls against either the corner of he base or if you want to make it the center price of the base. Like I said earlier there is no way to mine into the claimed land of another faction without the permission of that faction. But once you have got your obsidian box with a good bit of room for chests inside of it you want to place water ouside of it as water covered obsidian is even harder to raid. Once you have put water all the way around it then you want to put another layer of obsidian.
I hope this post was helpful
-Tasty
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