Useful Structures - a community effort.

Noted.

 

So the other day I tried to inform a builder that their multi-layer spike and trapdoor trap wouldn't work. He cursed me out, finished his trap, and it killed every enemy that tried to pass it. It wasn't consistent though. Knights would fall, generally, past the first few trapdoors, but inevitably hit one that didn't withdraw in time and then die at the bottom of the pit. Likewise, while I thought that this

trap was absolutely brilliant, it too often failed to withdraw it's spikes in time.

It wasn't teammate-damaging-proof. It's something about coming at them from a diangonal or at a high speed? Here's my addition to that design:


I tested it by replacing the team doors with trapdoors, and the trapdoors with air. The trapdoors will drop enemies and force them to jump, thereby killing themselves on the spiked ceiling. Teammates can walk over freely. They won't be slowed by the ladders if they stay on the ground. If they attempt to jump, the ladders will slow them down and let the wall withdraw its spikes.

I'm worried though that ingame it'll be bombed out too easily, so maybe some spikes under the trapdoors could work better, do a little bit more damage, and off enemies before they can take out the spikes. That would mean, too, a small pit under the trapdoors, so enemies would have to jump higher. Probably a good thing? Trap should still work... The corridor ought to be longer too, I think.

 

Yay.

It worked to my pride the first time I used it in a game, it's success in part because knights weren't accustomed to disabling it. Then some learned how to do light jumps to reach the ceiling spike and rip them out. Others assumed they couldn't, and dug under. And so on.

It's a great addition to generic spike traps. Though far from invincible.


"I wonder what happens if I do this."

This is my go-to base:

Two team doors over two ladders is nice for overhangs and is my preferred archer hole, short distance. Something like 250 stone and 200 wood, minimum, depending on how the terrain favors your build.

 

I like the crusher idea , but sometimes the ladders wont break?

 

heres the archer nest i've been building lately



heres a stupid castle to go with it http://i.imgur.com/fw1Li.png

remember: add quarters to your front wall, not behind your base.

no one wants to run all the way back to start just for a quick heal

 

Yeah no shit. People keep placing the bomb and arrow stations and quarters WAY back in the rear.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCENTMENT:

PLACE BOMB AND ARROW STATIONS AND QUARTERS ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT LINES.

Otherwise you are screwing your team by slowing down how fast they can get back to reinforce the front lines.

Also wish people would stop placing more than two sets of team doors together. It just slows your team down too much beyond that.

 

yea adjacent doors are also pretty fucking annoying. leave a gap between them and you dont get that slowdown

 

The worst is when someoen surrounds THE WHOLE GD FLAG WITH LAYERS AND LAYERS of them during setup time. It literally takes FOREVER to even get out.

 

Wonderful design Jackard! I'll make sure to start putting workshops closer to the field :p

Also, I'd like to point out that spike traps are much more useful now, if you line them with stone.

 

Yay. My trap is godly. The gods themselves shall become trapped in my trap!
I have some new ideas that I'll post when I have the time. I hate playing games where the builders just build randomly without any plan and it ends up being a mess. That's why I name my projects, so I can say "I'm building a pyramid trap" instead of just "I'm building a trap here" and have a bunch of newb builders jump in and make a square ¬_¬

 

Yeah, the only downside is that if the do have bombs they might have a chance to tunnel, and spike traps are still susceptible to knights removing spikes.

That's why most of my spike traps are very basic: a 2 deep (any length, but not too long) pit, with spikes on the bottom, drawbridge right above that. This way there's not much to make and it's easy to maintain (e.g. respiking or replacing drawbridges), in addition to being less prone to despiking, BUT it still serves as a good partial hazard, especially at walls.

 

Knights cant remove spikes now unless you count bombs.

 

Definitely. Winning requires more team work now instead of one knight relentlessly tunneling. I am noticing less minecrafters and defensive builders now which I like. People just needed a few days to adjust to the changes.

 

i am a living siege weapon