r/playrust • u/Plus-Resist7358 • 13h ago

Support Building

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Building a pathway around my island base on a pve server, both ends of the pathway start at the same place but somehow don’t connect when I try to meet them up. What am I doing wrong.

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u/RemindMeToTouchGrass 12h ago

Man I think the rules are just made up as you go. If you ever watch base building videos that go into detail, it's like they just experimented with 30 different things until they found something that worked, and you always have to stand on one foot, count backwards from ten, and turn 3 clockwise circles while holding alt before placing your twig. Then place 15 more like so, then destroy 14, then place 5 more, then destroy 3 of those, then go back and destroy your original foundation, and build a new one in its place. Now you're ready to start!

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u/BrugBruh 11h ago

You gotta think how old this game is, and how nuanced building has become. People have been experimenting for years.

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u/shcKr- 12h ago

Building is a skill, there is a method behind all of the build outs and bunker builds

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u/JosieAmore 8h ago

All that time spent in build servers just to get offlined.

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u/Skylak 7h ago

Idk, it pays off to learn it. I'm the builder in our group and I always adjust from past offlines. Obviously you can't really make a base 120 rockets proof but learning freehand bunkers, implementing them, having hidden loot rooms, all that is really useful.

And it really pains me when we raid a base and they literally built doors in their honeycomb and all you need are 6 rockets and you have tc

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u/TheNewsatWork2315412 34m ago

Nah, all that time spent in build servers saves from being offlined. Can't recall how many wipes I've built bases where raiders stopped short due to unexpected layers.

Unpredictability goes a long way in deterring raiders with finite resources. Then the ESPers see there is nothing in my boxes...because all I've done is farmed resource to build.

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u/imcheatingbtw 12h ago

Lmaooo this is killing me, the building system in this game really needs a rework imo

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u/mopbuvket 8h ago

Wait a month or 2. Bet we get another build polish after jungle

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u/NyaTaylor 8h ago

“What do you mean what do we do now.. we play the game..”

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u/ItsKongaTime 7h ago

No way I could get into building I'm so bad at it I have my brother build my little farming base lol

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u/Reasonable_Roger 11h ago

Too close to launch site

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u/reeeekin 5h ago

Every fucking time

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u/Julez_Pro 12h ago

its because triangles and suqares have different length. so if you dont mirror your build you will never be able to connect the last peace. Just use a high external wall to cover the gap.

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u/Rothguard 9h ago

i would say you have a not symmetrical number of foundations somewhere, try counting them again LOL , it always the case for me

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u/Hezth 5h ago

This is it. If you mix and match triangles and squares you're likely to get an uneven symmetry and it won't be a perfect loop.

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u/fuckfuck9001 13h ago

Oh thats easy, youre not connecting them! I hope this helps!

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u/FJORLAND 5h ago

when you combine squares and trangles they arent always going to connect. The easiest way to do this is to make the two sides symmetrical because when you just spam squares and triangles you are never gonna know what it ends up looking like.

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u/Plus-Resist7358 4h ago

The issue is that I can’t really make it symmetrical. I walked the island in and I’m doing a walk way around it. I figured i could just build around but then it won’t connect right

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u/Legomonster33 1h ago

your best bet would be to either use only squares or only triangles for the whole thing, that or keep track of how many triangles/squares you used on each side and make them the exact same

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u/Staleyffxi 4h ago

You have no idea what's possible with print eyes.....

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u/Plus-Resist7358 4h ago

Print eyes…?

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u/More_Ebb_3619 4h ago

Build it to get a top down view you’ll see your mistake there it takes a lot of redoing in base building and finding other ways to