House Ideas

[BaltimoreRavens]

okay so i'm kinda new to FTB and usually my bases in nice terms look absolutly terrible as i usually end up making a box house trying to cater for all the stuff i need. when in vanilla i'm able to make a nice looking house
so any ideas you guys could share or post a pic of one of your bases

 

[Jess887cp]

Ignore those pesky future people telling you about their cobble 9x9s. Just buil lie in vanilla. If your stuff doesn't all fit, just build another house for the rest. Have a modular style, so you can always expand.

The trick isn't to cater all your needs in one place, but to have a nice base that's pleasant to travel between all the places where your needs are catered. Which is why I have 6 full size bases planned, all around a central hub.

There is also a base thread in there somewhere, I'll edit this with the link in a bit.

Edit! Liink! http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/lets-see-some-bases-give-us-a-tour.5793/

 

[slay_mithos]

My current house was wrecked to pieces, so showing would not be of any help, but I found a concept that makes my bases feel a lot better than the default boxes we all do sometimes.

I try to find mountains, and carve a stairway from the bottom to the top, but taking turns for every floors, so that it's not a strait line.
From that, I dig tunnels to various outside areas, also trying to avoid the strait path.

When needed, I can put rooms on the floor I want, because mountains have a lot of space, and even the ones that are rectangular usually feel better than the standard cobble squares.

Add in some wooden (or other materials) supports, and ty to put out cobble/dirt/gravel from the walls, putting smooth stone and various bricks instead.

I am by no mean a great builder, so that's how I found to make some decent bases that still fit my machines.

If you make your tunnelswide/high enough, you can also put visible piping for fluids or items, if that fits what you want your base to look like.

 

[BaltimoreRavens]

My current house was wrecked to pieces, so showing would not be of any help, but I found a concept that makes my bases feel a lot better than the default boxes we all do sometimes.

I try to find mountains, and carve a stairway from the bottom to the top, but taking turns for every floors, so that it's not a strait line.
From that, I dig tunnels to various outside areas, also trying to avoid the strait path.

When needed, I can put rooms on the floor I want, because mountains have a lot of space, and even the ones that are rectangular usually feel better than the standard cobble squares.

Add in some wooden (or other materials) supports, and ty to put out cobble/dirt/gravel from the walls, putting smooth stone and various bricks instead.

I am by no mean a great builder, so that's how I found to make some decent bases that still fit my machines.

If you make your tunnelswide/high enough, you can also put visible piping for fluids or items, if that fits what you want your base to look like.

thanks! i really like that idea!

 

[Bomb Bloke]

It's nice to have a nice house (or castle or whatever), and I always take care to build something on the surface where ever I go. But at my core I'm a caver. Digging down means I can expand out as much as I like with total disregard as to how it might look from the outside, because all you can see from the outside is my little house on top. And the house will inevitably be regarded as "little", as the caves grow ever larger.

Upon starting with FTB I roamed around until I found a large cave system that opened up to the surface, and built a very small house on top of that (7x7 including walls) - by the time it became too cramped, I'd dug out enough underneath it that I could move in there. It's still my current primary storage area for non-barrel stuff (ten gold chests take very little room and hold an awful lot) and is a nice doorway to the surface world.

Most of the cave system directly underneath got eaten by my mining turtle and is now a patchwork of smooth stone and cobble. It's a massive hole that goes all the way down to bedrock (which I covered in dirt and torches at some stage because I wanted to plant a few hundred trees at once), and so I can add in very large floors as desired. The rest of the cave system has mostly been explored and all the easily accessible ores stolen. I was even lucky enough to have a small lava lake not ten blocks below surface, not to mention the spawned mine not too far above bedrock.

My intended "final" is a giant round tower a hundred blocks in diameter in height, the top half of which is a dome. Starts at sea level and clearing the space for its base gave me enough cobble to build the entirety of the walls. I'll put a giant telescope in and call it an observatory. No mining or experimentation goes on there, it's all automated systems (... and mostly empty, but it'll get there, it'll get there...).

 

[BaltimoreRavens]

It's nice to have a nice house (or castle or whatever), and I always take care to build something on the surface where ever I go. But at my core I'm a caver. Digging down means I can expand out as much as I like with total disregard as to how it might look from the outside, because all you can see from the outside is my little house on top. And the house will inevitably be regarded as "little", as the caves grow ever larger.

Upon starting with FTB I roamed around until I found a large cave system that opened up to the surface, and built a very small house on top of that (7x7 including walls) - by the time it became too cramped, I'd dug out enough underneath it that I could move in there. It's still my current primary storage area for non-barrel stuff (ten gold chests take very little room and hold an awful lot) and is a nice doorway to the surface world.

Most of the cave system directly underneath got eaten by my mining turtle and is now a patchwork of smooth stone and cobble. It's a massive hole that goes all the way down to bedrock (which I covered in dirt and torches at some stage because I wanted to plant a few hundred trees at once), and so I can add in very large floors as desired. The rest of the cave system has mostly been explored and all the easily accessible ores stolen. I was even lucky enough to have a small lava lake not ten blocks below surface, not to mention the spawned mine not too far above bedrock.

My intended "final" is a giant round tower a hundred blocks in diameter in height, the top half of which is a dome. Starts at sea level and clearing the space for its base gave me enough cobble to build the entirety of the walls. I'll put a giant telescope in and call it an observatory. No mining or experimentation goes on there, it's all automated systems (... and mostly empty, but it'll get there, it'll get there...).

Thanks for taking the time to post so many good ideas i really like this one as well for the infinite expanding capacity.