A couple of friends and I have just finished an EPIC grausten cathedral build whichs proves beyond doubt that it's an amazing material. You barely even touched on the things you can do with the pilars and arches, we've made some awesome windows, vaulted ceilings, flying butresses and ornate cornices. When you combine it with the new decorative ashwood pieces it is truly gorgeous, anyone who thinks it's a boring or bad material to work with has literally no clue what they're talking about.
@@JPValheim it really has been, yeah. I'm finding it more and more satisfying to work on collaborative builds lately, it's great when you find a group of people who get excited about the whole process and work well together.
This was very educational, thank you! Grausten really makes you think differently than you were used to (I'm saying that as someone who is still stuck in building, well, on a Plains level).
Paso a paso! Have fun, dont worry about your building level, the tomato plant starts as a tiny seed, its size does not matter. In the same way, your building progression may start simple, but become complex over time. No rush, and no worries! Just focus on what you feel interested in doing
Nice showcase of the new material. I am really enjoying working with it. For supports I found that the walls and flooring center perfectly using the iron cage pieces. The iron doesn't show through like it does with wood or stone.
Big warning about building in ruins, from everything I've done in game, it seems like the ruins have a very very small amount of hp, so they crumble like paper
I can confirm after I spent days stabilizing and building multiple ocean ruins together. My buddy loaded a catapult facing my kitchen wall that was old and ruined and covered in grape vines.. soon after there was no more wall lol
I build myself a new forge with grausten and the roof pieces made for perfect ventilation instead of building ton of chimneys, I just added those little "corner" pieces and all the smokes goes out. I love them and the ashwoods ones... mixed with the existing ones you can build amazing things
It’s cut stone, it’s supposed to look blocky. lol. Sure, you gotta get a little extra creative to make it look better, but I enjoy it. Black marble is great for accent pieces, so is the ashwood, iron and Dverger pieces. I replaced all the wood in my Lox breeder with grausten, as 1 tiny bat raid would have my Lox’s smashing through the floors and beams, and since grausten is immune from rain, it doesn’t decay from not having a roof. It’s also great for Asksvin breeders, any starred Asksvin will easily smash through most other building material when a twitcher walks by or god forbid a lava blob comes plopping along if it’s in the Ashlands. If you bring some eggs home and make a breeder wherever your base is, even a lowly greydwarf tossing a rock at it is enough to make the asksvin go smashing through walls. Grausten holds up pretty well. I like it, kinda wish they’d add more roof pieces though, maybe some 26 degree pieces. A lot of my builds have those roofs, and the look would be totally different if I tried to switch em out for the 45 grausten roofs.
Back into the game since... well last time I was in. Haven't hit the new content yet but some of your tips were "oh really?" moments for me. Helpful even now (ie stone blocks act as roofs - I had no idea). TY
@@JPValheim I was redoing my main build but it turned into a monstrosity. the roof was just too big. I worked on it today after watching your video and it is sooooo much better.
The best way to trim a roof imo is with the grausten steep stairs, if you use a door to snap them slightly outward they give a very nice gabled facade look.
I havent learned about the Ashwood or the Flametal properly yet, just focused on Grausten to make the video :) Flametal is so shiny, I definitely like how it looks reminds me of krom !
My only problem with this building material is that you cant snap 2 arches to de same base, making it a little to finnicky to build some of the things i'm trying to build
Im under the impression that all metal works the same stability wise; so you could use flametal bars instead of iron beams; but there won't be that much of a difference. Flametal looks cooler but is much harder to get; so it depends how you are playing really
didnt talk about the flametal pillar or the flametal beam? are they better then iron pillar/beams? wiki just says "they are currently the only structures that can be built directly in the lava" which gives me a crazy idea for a cool lava base lol. edit: i do see its a grausten building video but you did cover the gate
I have mostly practiced with Grausten, still gotta get my feet wet with flametal and ashwood ! Ive heard people talk about making lava bases, havent tried it myself though. Something about the lava burst that the lava spits out, you have to build out of range of that, unless flametal is immune or something like you mention! Sounds cool
the issue with grausten profiles not matching or aligning really triggers me. It feels like the developers never much test building with the very limited blocks, and the 'gaps' even after snapping triggers me ever more.
It is apparent that they didnt intend people to use grausten without the pillar pieces. Definitely looks weird without pillars framing everything. It is irritating that the arches that don't snap when another arch is there already. Thats annoying and theres tons of times where 2 arches would snap into the same place ! So I feel you there
im much more annoyed over not having any 1x1 or 1x2 m wallpieces, which makes making windows or fixing gaps really annoying when u switch between 2 floors or from wall to roof distances. and not having any ridges for the roof or 26 roofpieces also really bothers me. would also have wanted some beams, once more for fixing gaps but also for decorations around windows.
Deep North probably :) Iron Gate in an interview recently said "We only gave you a few of the build pieces in Ashlands, all the rest are from Deep North"
I’m having an issue no matter where I build with this. It falls apart within a day and my whole build just is destroyed by the time I login the next morning. Everything’s green by the time I log out all is fixed and looking great log back in the next morning. It’s all falling apart and random locations not in the same place either. It’s very aggravating. Any assistance would be helpful. we’ve tried building in the Ashlands with it. We tried building anywhere else to make it look good. It just falls apart randomly.
I'm not sure exactly whats happening with yours, but there seems to be some kind of issue with the structural integrity system when its close to breaking. You can accidentally trick the system into placing a full structure piece, which then will make you think you are building onto an area that is stable, when it will actually fall apart once the calculations finish (which takes tens of minutes after the last piece was added) I've only noticed this with grausten, I saw it in a test I did earlier today. I placed metal and grausten together and it took forever for all of the stuff to break and settle. Then I logged out and back in and the structure was recalculated and the top pieces of the test stack all lost one unit
You can avoid that by making sure none of the structure is close to breaking (keep the whole thing orange). To do that, youd need to ground metal beams into terrain and put them up into the highest parts of the build from the ground. The cage pieces are sometimes better support wise than the beams I showed in the video
Anyone know how i can make my world look like that? is that a graphics setting or something? my ashlands sky is all red and sometimes full of ash but in this video its very clear
Yeah, it does have that look. I thought it was weird at first but I like it now, Grausten is like the base canvas, then other stuff adds colors and details to it
