Epic All-in-One Castle Base | Building Tutorial | ARK: Survival Ascended

[Music] prepare yourselves to build an architectural Wonder a Triumph and all-in-one Castle design three Majestic Towers merging into a fortress that houses everything an Intrepid Survivor needs to survive the Wilds of art this Castle houses a tribe Hub a bustling crafting Zone warm inviting bedrooms secure Dino lodgings and even a Charming restaurant for you and your tribe to enjoy today I'll be guiding you through this intricate Castle design step by step so if you do find yourself enjoying today's video do lend your support by hitting that like button sharing your thoughts in the comments below what you want me to build next and consider hitting subscribe it's completely free and you'll be helping me out a ton hello fellow Ark survivors and welcome to today's building Adventure before we plunge into today's build I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone supporting my videos we're on the brink of hitting 3,000 subscribers and I'm incredibly grateful for all of your support on this journey so many of you have been joining my Discord and sharing your own adaptations of my designs in your art worlds and it's so incredible to see so if you built one of my designs and want to share do pop onto my Discord server and showcase your handiwork today we're going to be building an original Castle design I've chosen a picturesque location near the Hidden Lake on the map it's latitude 14.7 longitude 69 this area offers a delightful grassy expanse complemented by an amazing clifftop providing the perfect canvas for our Castle build just a heads up it's near an Explorer node so I'm not 100% sure how close you can build next to this unofficial but this build can be built anywhere so do not worry so without further Ado let's get on with the video for my starting block I'm just going to do a wooden pillar and a triangle Stone ceiling here and from there we're going to go so one two normal ceilings followed by one triangle ceiling now if you can use Foundation use Foundation because it does get rid of the grass underneath it which is good so any grass blades coming through will get removed as you can see here perfect we're now just going to follow this same pattern all the way around so one triangle then two normal Foundation ations and so on so [Music] forth and this is going to be our main tower I think it's not too big and it's not too small it's just a nice little size here so I'm going to fill this in [Music] now and you should have something that looks like this from here I think I'm planning to go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 High that's how high I want to go right now we're going to go 13 high so I'm going to use Stone WS for [Music] this [Music] and just like that we've gone as high as I personally want to go here so I'm going to try and make sort of a Rapunzel's tower type thing here so from the top here I think I want to go out by one so I'm going to use wood for this section so probably want to use one wooden ceiling toll here one here and then we want to go try Les so one two uh Foundation support okay so if you run across this issue luckily I've already got pillars here actually um you just need pillars going all the way down so this pillar clearly isn't touching the ground no it is not so if we just get a pillar in here and here if I go all the way back up it should let me snap now let's see uh yes it does Okay so yeah if you run into that issue just make sure you got the foundation support down and we're going to go all the way around the top of the rim here now you should have this beautiful looking chimney which I am going to start building up with wooden walls so today I'm going to be using the reverse side of the wooden wall which is this side um just personal preference for me you don't have to do this and I think I'm going to go three up and may go higher I think three will be enough we'll [Music] see now you should have the top section of your giant Tower put in and honestly it makes it look more like a giant chimney doesn't it now next I'm actually going to go underneath the top section here and just put in stairs all around the [Music] rim now that the stairs are all in I'm going to go back to the top and I'm going to add in the roof so for the wooden roof we're just going to use the standard wooden roof tiles followed by the triangles followed by the standard again and you just want to do that all the way [Music] around and we're going to do an overhang here as well so I'm going to do whatever the was a standard before is going to be a standard again below and wherever there's a triangle here we're going to use triangles coming down like this and again you just want to do this all the way [Music] around and just like that the first Tower is in so a couple of things I'm thinking right now I think it'd be cool to have a little tiny tower coming off this Tower and maybe even a tower connected to it here I'll see about that a bit later cuz honestly that isn't what I planned but this is what I'm thinking now but the bits I have planned I'm going to do now so I'm thinking of doing two more Towers either side of this one so now I want to get a second tower in here so the way I'm going to do that is from the front here which I'm going to call this the front this one single line of walls going up I'm going to go to the left of this to the next single line of walls which is this one here so this is a double wool here and this is a single I'm going to start here I'm going to go 1 2 3 walls High I'm going to start from here so from here I'm going to make some triangles until I can't go out any further which that has evidently happened I put down a pillar here now do I want wooden pillars for now I am going to use wooden pillars here but I may swap them out to Stone a bit later we'll see uh one more I think think that's 1 2 3 4 five so you want to make sure that you're able to put five walls across here basically there's five tiles here that's what you want and I want that on the other side as well that is perfect and we're going to put in some pillars to make sure everything stays up and has support from here we're going to go one in from the side and one in from this side and then we're going to go all the way till we get to a nice point at the end here okay I need more [Music] pillars so when you're here before you add this point on we're actually going to add a ceiling tile because this is going to be the start of our next Tower so for this Tower I want it to be smaller than this Tower so all we're going to do is one normal ceiling tole one triangle one normal one triangle and continue this all the way [Music] around so this is going to be our next Tower here so I'm going to fill in the inside and then we're going to go all the way up with walls okay so I need to work out the height here of this Tower I know I don't want it as tall as this one so I'm thinking maybe six high from here let's try six I 1 2 3 4 5 [Music] 6 yeah yeah okay we'll do six High let's see how this looks okay I think this height is actually pretty good so everything that we did on this Tower we're basically going to do the same here so we're going to go out by one on these walls [Music] here if you run into the same issue I just did with the no Foundation support all you got to do is make sure you've got some pillars placed in here so I'm going to put some pillars going all the way down to the floor perfect and then like this one we're going to put stairs underneath the section we just [Applause] made then three wooden wolves going up [Music] and then you just want to add the roof on top of this as [Music] well [Music] looking pretty nice looking pretty nice I like that I think oh my God it's a Golden Goose guys I'm going to trust you on this because everything I've just done on this side you're going to literally replicate on the other side here so everything you did with the tiles here the triangle tiles to get to this Tower you're going to do the exact same thing on this side here so from the front here this is the front you miss the double walls and you start here you're going to do everything that you did there over here including the tower so I believe in you guys I don't think you need to see me do this just rewatch The last part and you'll be fine so hope hopefully if you've done everything right you should have perfectly replicated this Tower over here on this side it's literally exactly the same so you just need to copy it over so to get the next Tower in that I want over here behind these two towers I think I need to put in a bit of a platform coming around so I'm going to start to add a nice round platform going around the main tower here I think that would be the best next thing to do [Music] a [Music] [Music] okay so that main platform is all in looking fabulous I am going to do a platform around this one and this one but first of all let's work out where this Tower is going I'm thinking probably so we've got this uh ceiling Towes coming out here but on the triangle section here maybe if I go out one 2 3 uh and again maybe here maybe right there yes yes that is exactly where I want it okay so we're going to do it right here uh and we're going to do a small one so if I get my pillars so we got a bit of support one two let's just do an itsy bitsy Tower over here uh do I Want It That itsy bitsy that is very small I mean it looks like it's going to be very small uh let's build it up let's see this may be teared down and then I may just edit it completely out of the video or it will be successful and uh I'll be happy and it will [Music] stay so I'm just going to go 1 2 3 four walls High here that's the height I want then I'm going to add a outer ring around the rim here like we did with the other Towers then I'm going to do two wooden walls [Music] High okay so I've gone two wooden walls High there there and now I'm just going to add in the [Music] roof and then the stairs [Music] underneath perfection so now I want to add in a little tiny tower coming off the big one I think uh just making this up on the spot right now so let's hope I get it right the first time so from the front here which I've marked with this pillar so this is the front with the single wall you come around one two walls and there's this other wall here the single wall let me get my pillar out so it's obvious so you got two walls next to each other here that are in line and then you got this angle wall that's one and then we're going to come over to the two wall again so this is the two two wall here that's next to this Tower uh and it's got the straight row of ceiling tiles here I think I'm going to build it here I think I'm going to do it right here so we're going to have a little Tower here I hope I like what I'm doing so that I don't redo this cuz then I'll have to just edit this whole thing out and start again which I don't want to do so it might be good to break this wall [Music] here I think that's what I want to do and then I want to go up let's just go up [Music] now [Music] okay I think this is the height I want I won't know for sure until I get the roof on but it's currently 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 High and I'm going to put the roof straight on top so we're not going to have a rim on this one we're just going to go straight roof yeah yeah that's a good size I'm quite happy with that I think that's pretty cool and I definitely want to add some stairs here now I could be crazy and do a double stairs if it lets me so one two will it let me yes it will so like that maybe once there are also some railings in it will look better one two buckle my shoe three four open the door [Music] five 6 7 [Music] 8 so I'm really happy with the little Tower how that's turned out I just need to work out where I want to put another Tower another one I know I'm going a bit Tower crazy here but I'm thinking a little short fat one at the back here somewhere I'm thinking so the this little one's here go one two maybe start around here somewhere so I guess this is right at the back yeah that's perfectly at the back on this wall so let me Mark this this is the straight line from the front to the back but if we do this one here yeah let's start it here so right now I'm thinking what if this Tower is kind of built into this Tower so I've taken out a wool here one up from the floor and let let me just show you so you know for reference so there's the little Tower there's the single line of walls going down here and there's a double wool here so I've taken one out of the double wall so on the left I'll put in one ceiling tole going out then I'm going to do one triangle let's get rid of this wall then I'm going to do one ceiling tole coming out then one triangle and so on so forth to you meet back where you [Music] started perfect and I think I'm just going to go a couple of walls High and then I'm going to do the [Music] [Applause] rim and then the walls just like we've done on the other [Music] builds [Music] and then the roof as [Music] well [Music] [Applause] [Music] so obviously the way I've done this is I've built it from some ceiling TOS over here so if they're destroyed I think the whole thing goes down so do be careful of that but for now let's just bring the walls down so yep I realized I haven't got any entrance doorways in here yet let's just add one in uh from here yeah there we go we got a way to go in and out I haven't done that I've done that on that one you just need to make sure you got entrances and all of these I kind of leave that till last minute I'm the kind of guy who puts them all in as walls and then goes around replacing everything afterwards that's just my style and yeah we probably will add some pillars going all the way down to the floor just to make sure that that thing stays up and doesn't go down so next up I think I want to start adding a platform around these two smaller Towers here so let's start working on that [Music] now [Music] so that's one done and now I'm just going to do the other side the exact same and with the p of editing that side is also complete now I think I also need to do it over here actually think about it I definitely need to put something around this Tower at the moment it's just floating it's a magic [Music] trick okay we're getting quite a nice shape going here for the base I'm thinking of maybe some like wool around this some Castle wool and actually we got all this area down here that's not being used as well this could definitely be utilized so let me think here we have one wool going high here by one and then we go down from that wall one two three starting from down here you kind of have a whole another area under here if you do it right so let's see oh my God my cat next to me every time I record guys my cat comes and he wants to press I swear he just comes wants to press my keyboard he's trying to lick himself on the keyboard what are you doing get out the way I love you but [Music] n [Music] [Applause] okay I think from here so I've added in three walls down from the top so four walls in total coming all the way down top to bottom here's the thing I'm thinking of adding in a decking out here so there would be a decking coming out across the wall here and then another level coming down I think that could work quite well so to do that I think well we also need an entrance so that's an issue let me add in some pillar support here so there's the front there what if we have an entrance here [Music] nice so this will probably end up being an entrance and then we'll have a nice decking come out from here these walls here Unfortunately they go in like they they do fit perfectly like this is perfect but it's such a point that I'm actually considering just putting a wo right across it like this or maybe like that maybe like this all the way across it just so it softens it a little bit I don't really let's see how that looks over here uh yeah possibly that is what I'm going to do on that side as well I'll leave it for now but yeah it's only a tiny d I'm already going into small details that don't really matter right now let's focus on the [Music] decking [Music] okay I've kind of scuffed the decking a little bit but the main thing you need to know is I've gone three out so one two three out from this wall and I've tried to do that everywhere uh I scuffed it because over here I've clipped through myself quite a lot and I probably could have avoided that if I was good at math and my angles and trigonometry maybe I I I don't know but uh I do want to know actually if anyone's building an official can you clip through yourself with ceiling tiles do let me know in the comments because I'm really curious if that's a thing or if they've got rid of it but you definitely can on single player mode that's for sure so I think I want to add another layer of walls just underneath the decking we've just made so from [Music] here lovely so I do like what I've done I think now I just need to do it all the way around don't I and make sure I'm happy with the floor space so this is the current floor space for the whole castle not a lot but not too bad am I happy with that much floor space is the big question let's see maybe we could do it with just a tiny bit more this side because this side doesn't have a tower here so maybe we can expand it just a little bit [Music] here [Music] okay that's a lot better I think this bit here is a bit weird though maybe I go out a little bit more [Music] here I realized guys that my building style is a bit chaotic cuz one minute I'm doing a tower the next minute I'm doing a wall but then I say I don't want to finish this wall I'm going to go back to the decking then I go from the decking to a tower or something I'm just that this is how I build I can't help it this is how my brain works so I'm not actually going to finish the wool here ooh how about this section here do I like that do I like that or can I expand that here let's try expanding by one and adding yeah that works a little bit better uh come out by one more maybe yeah okay I prefer that no I don't I want to get this a bit nicer here I think I like that do I I hate it I hate it guys why do I keep coming back to this okay we'll go out by one more and one in there okay that will do that will do that will have to do I'm not going to go back to that so I'm thinking this is where our main entrance is right here we're going to come to the castle through a big gate here so if I take this out of the way one two 3 4 5 so we got a nice big door here I could put a dinosaur gate in here uh and we'll come into the inside which is pillar City at the moment pillars everywhere but I think what I've got to do which is going to be a bit tricky yeah I've got to replicate what I've done for the ceiling here down here so we've got a floor to stand on so what have I done triangles here then normal ceiling tiles here that's easy enough so just following the same pattern I've done up here I'm starting with a triangle I'm going to place it down here I'm going to bring it all the way [Music] across yeah perfect and then we just got to follow this pattern all the way around now if I get too close to the floor here I'll probably try and use a foundation block instead of a ceiling tile and that will just help get rid of the grass blades so they don't clip through so yeah let me do that all the way around now so yeah follow the same pattern as up here so now it's ceiling [Music] tiles [Music] lovely so we got all this space under here now look at all this space so much room for activities and I haven't even done this section yet so I want to do this section as well which means we'll have all this area here and if we wanted to we could do this area as well so you'd have all this area as well which is nuts so in typical chaos style I'm going to park this for a minute because this isn't completely necessary this is up to you if you want to fill this in I think I probably will uh but I'll leave that to a bit later so you know where I'm going with this now this is going to be an inside area and then we need some way to get up to the top area which is here which is your main area and then of course we got all these buildings as well God this is a big base I'm doing a giant Base today I've just realized this is actually a very big base okay so I need to stop going back and forth to things I think I need to commit to something now so I think now we're going to do the walls going all the way around I think that's the best thing to do next so yeah let's put that in [Music] now [Music] okay that wall is going around the entire perimeter now so that is great that that is finally in now I'm just going to work out the outside decking here I think I'm going to bring it around a bit further and on this side I'm thinking of having another level of decking so two levels of decking there and then this side I'll probably bring around a little bit and then just stop around here so yeah let's do this now [Music] Perfecto and I'm thinking the second level I'm just going to bring one wall down from the top here so starting around here [Applause] [Music] a [Music] a [Applause] okay I feel like we've got the basic shape here now that I've got all the walls in the deckings in uh the only thing I'm thinking is this side hasn't had much love I've left this tree here whether or not I'm going to keep the tree here I think I am I think I am going to keep the tree here but I also need to find a way down there probably should be a decking over here thinking about it okay I'm thinking we put a decking in here probably coming down here and then this is how you access this area I think that would work so let's add in a decking here so starting two stone walls down we're going to start adding triangle ceilings [Music] in and we need to add the stairs in so there'll be stairs coming down here and here so if we start here put it in and some ceiling tiles I'm going to use the normal ceiling tiles for this so 1 2 3 4 5 6 I think that's as far as I want to go and then more stairs nice I put that there yeah I think that's going to work nicely let's get rid of this wall yeah it's a bit off it's a bit off but if we take this one out perfect we got a little walkway coming down here now to the tree and the Explorer node which is right here fantastic this is awesome so I'm thinking what would be quite cool for the entrance here is to have a gate that sticks out from the wall so rather than have the dinosaur gate in the wall here we'll have it out here somewhere maybe around [Music] here yeah yeah that looks cool right now let's talk detail because you've noticed probably that I've been using the wooden pillars across the walls in places mainly for support but you probably thinking why isn't he using the stone pillars well I'm thinking that actually I don't want it to be quite like a medieval castle I want it to be more like it's been put together it's kind of been held together by wooden places like Woods an integral part of the castle it's keeping the walls up straight it's Foundation support I think this is going to look cool better it's also nice to have a nice contrast between the stone and another material so I think wood and stone is the way to go here but before we add in any of the pillars that I definitely am going to do I want to start adding in the crenellations across the wall which is the technical term for the nubby bits that stick out across a castle wall uh you see this on a lot of medieval castle designs they were used as a defense tactic for keeping Intruders out they were also used to show your allies your strength so yeah those are [Music] culations [Music] ah okay I've just worked out I you think you just saw that I just put quter walls all the way down there I think that's actually going to be a better way right here and then you don't have to have the crisscross I'm just an idiot why didn't I realize this sooner look at that it have to have the crisscross you just have quarter walls so over here as well that can be fixed get rid of that get rid of this and this and instead have Coter walls oh yeah that's better isn't it perfect okay the crenelations are all in looking fabulous and I've just realized well this kind of starting to look more like a castle which is good so I have made a castle today which I'm happy about but I realized that the main tower I've made here kind of reminds me of Rapunzel's tower I kind of did a Rapunzel's tower almost here that could have been a cool build it would have definitely been quicker than doing a whole castle I should have just done that one Tower in the middle but hey ho so next up we're going to go pillar crazy so I'm going to put pillars across these towers and I am going to use the wooden pillars and I'm going to kind of go a bit random with it really now if you're watching this and trying to replicate exactly what I do I'd say don't worry just have go a bit random like I am there's no right and wrong here just put in those pillars wherever you [Music] want [Music] [Applause] [Music] the pillars are in on the towers I've just realized something right here on this Tower here connected to the big one I forgot to put all the stairs around the bottom here which I'm just going to do [Music] now okay pillars are in on the towers and now for the pillars on the walls I am going to use wood pillars again for the walls the only differences I'm just not going to do it as much as I did it on the towers [Music] a [Music] okay I've done the pillars a lot more sparingly on the walls but on the towers I've done it a lot more frequently it just draws your eyes into the towers that way so that the outside's not too overpowering although I have done it quite a lot actually I have done them quite a lot but not too much not too much so next I'm going to be doing the windows and for this I'm going to use the stone doorways to make the window because they quite got quite a nice height on them and yeah we're going to do this sporadically around the entire [Music] Castle [Applause] [Music] so we're going to do the same for the towers here now I'm not going to show this on camera but do not worry because honestly the windows really depend on what you're going to do on the inside of the build cuz you obviously want the windows uh to be in places that you can actually see out of them so I'll probably come back at the end and change where they actually are so yeah I won't show everything on camera for the [Music] windows so the next detail I would like to add is railings I think railings is a nice next step so I'm going to add railings across the entire bottom part of this Tower I think that's going to look really nice so starting from here put them [Music] [Applause] in [Music] so everything I've just done with the railings on this one I'm going to do to this Tower and this Tower and possibly even this Tower as [Music] well okay everyone I've got the railings in on all the towers I've literally done exactly what I did here I've done on this building and this building apart from the top bit so I haven't done the top of the roof on this Tower and this Tower I've only done the bottom part but I was also thinking on this Tower here I'm thinking this could be a greenhouse so I'm actually tempted to change out the wood for Greenhouse glass and it's kind of like a greenhouse kind of looks like a watchtower as well I think this will be a much better use for this building and with that I honestly think the outside is pretty much done so we can move on to the inside now coming on up the bottom area of the castle here going inside we've got the dino storage area that's what this is going to be and I'm thinking this area that I haven't filled in here um I'm going to leave it open and exposed and we're going to have a nice ramp going down there and it will be like a nice area for some dinosaurs to be so let's do that now okay the ramp is in and I'm thinking of putting a dinosaur gate down here so that from the outside you'll be able to access this area a lot quicker so we could have a dinosaur gate on that wall there so I think the best way to do this is actually going going to be on the [Music] [Music] inside [Music] okay this is really pretty and I can definitely make something out of this later but for now I know that I'm keeping this side completely clear and this side over here I think I'm going to fill in and remember just follow the same pattern that's on the ceiling for the flooring and you shouldn't run in into any clipping issues okay so this lower level floor is more or less all in I've done all over here on this side I am keeping the tree here because I really like how it looks on the outside so I must protect the tree at all costs over here I've kind of just stopped where I can't go any further and I'll probably just have this as a nice little Garden area and the same over here just incorporate in into the build itself I think that's a good idea and then of course we got this lovely area down here so I think we should make a start on the main tower here and work out what we're going to do with it um I have no idea right now I have no idea but it is the main part of the base so quite integral I think we'll start by putting in a flooring from here and I'm thinking a wooden flooring probably so let's start off where where's the floor go it should be a triangle here cuz it's triangles here so triangles no yes triangles right yeah and then one triangle and then ceiling ceiling triangle and just the same all the way around whoops that is the wrong [Music] one [Music] okay this will definitely be one of the floors and it can lead up to this section [Music] perhaps [Music] okay nice this works really well we got a nice platform here now and the stairs going up to it uh and then we've got this big area to play with up here which is going to be exciting so I need to fill that in first though this is what I was saying about the Windows like I've put them in but honestly they're probably going to move uh depending on where the floors are so right here I want some windows here so if I put those in now what kind of windows do I want I think like door windows one there maybe one there one here can I see out yes I can and one here lovely so we got a nice view out here Perfecto what's that look like from the outside that looks fine absolutely fine perfect obviously this I don't know maybe it's like a shed little outside shed area I don't know what that will be or if we're going to be including some stairs to get up here I'm thinking we leave this as it is so now I just want to fill in the whole of the floor up here um and extend it over [Music] there [Music] so for our next floor I definitely want to do one up here uh I think this is going to be the only other floor I don't know if you could definitely fit more floors in here if you wanted but no I'm just going to do the top floor and have a Stairway coming up [Music] here [Music] okay this is the very top floor and we' got this little Tower in here that I might put a ladder in to take you up to the top so you can have a little look out the windows here we also need a way to get up to this top Tower I have no idea yet is it going to be stairs is it going to be an elevator oops that is not what I wanted to do that's the outside let's go here so I think what would be best is if I start decorating the room below this one and then get some stairs going up here and also decorate this room which I think I'm going to do everything now in super fast build mode obviously it's completely up to you how you do your Interiors so this is just to give you an idea of what I'm doing and I'll show you bits and bobs [Music] w [Music] okay super fast build mode is is complete and this is what we've ended up with and you would have seen glimpses of me making it really fast so this is what it is it's a tribe area on the first floor here um if we go up here we got like a tribe meeting room I've added in which works really nicely um and then I added in the stairs going up so I did the stairs on a wooden ceiling rather than a wooden triangle ceiling um so it starts there and it goes up up up up to the next floor which is sort of your crafting and you know your main area for doing all the things that you normally need to do got some pests in the middle Mor and pests and a little book and reading area out here and now I started the the next stairway I started sort of going above that stairway so it starts here and it's quite simple it just goes around eat quite easily very easy to put in and I was experimenting with some doors on the Windows as well because I think they look like shutters from the outside but with that in mind I'm actually a bit more curious if the double door will work better for this so if I get rid of this and this put in a double doorway with double doors and then I open them out this way this should look like shutter yes they do that actually looks quite good I might use those instead and maybe we can put a little quarter seiling below the door like that in a few places oh yeah I like that okay so I might replace a lot of the windows obviously completely up to you whatever style you prefer but that's what I think I'm going to go for so we do need a way to get down to the bottom floor which I'm going to call the basement so I'm thinking underneath these stairs here is actually a really good spot if I get rid of this floor we have access to the basement which is the dyo storage area now I have done this area off camera a little bit I just added in some uh vaults for storage and put in some quarter walls with some storage boxes on top and I opened up the walls here so we can can actually get in and out of there and I put in some pillars here as well uh just to line the doorway uh and you can should be able to get your dinosaurs in and out of here so if we get our stairs out we should be able to do quite an easy walkway coming down from that floor if I get the right snap there's one then another then I think a ceiling tole a triangle one and then another stairs bam and just like that we have a way up from the basement to the top here so the top floor of the main tower here is actually something I'm going to do off camera all I'm going to do is put in some bedrooms so I'm going to segment up the area and yeah put in some rooms so with that the main tower is pretty much done so I think what I'll do now is do the left tower for you guys on camera and the right Tower I'll do off camera but don't worry because at the end I'll give us a really good tour of every single part and aspect of the base so with this Tower I've already put in the flooring which is very simple to do you guys know how to do this and I'm thinking of putting in a restaurant up here that's my thoughts so I want an elevator coming up here and I want the elevator to face this way with the tracks coming down so I think the way I'm going to do this and now sorry if you're playing on official cuz you're not able to I've only found out today that you're not able to clip through ceilings but you could definitely work out a way around this it's just I can't think of one up the top of my head but I'm going to clip through the ceiling here and just put it in there so there's a ceiling inside there which means I'm able to snap the elevator to that block if I get it right where am I there to here so I need it to be this way around like so so that's how I'm snapping it in fact you could probably just go to the top and snap it from the top here I didn't even think of that and bring it down that'll probably be the way around it um so yeah that's how I'm going to have my elevator track and then I'm probably going to put a bar in here or something like a waiting room for the restaurant I think that'll be quite [Music] cool [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] la [Applause] just really quickly guys I'm going to pause the super fast build mode here because in the midst of making this I realized that the windows are too high we can't really see out of them so I'm wondering if we bring the window down by one if I get the right door that will one and bring it down so it's one Long window um and then put maybe a railing here like a so then we can enjoy the view I wonder what it looks like from the outside that's the main concern yeah so I'm thinking of doing that but I'll do it across the whole thing which means I'm probably going to do it on all of these to be honest let me do it and if I don't like like it I'll revert if I do like it then I'll just keep it and you won't hear from me again for a [Music] minute okay this restaurant is more or less done we got a nice upstairs area with seating we got the cooking area and we have even got nice boobes in here look at these boobs I'm quite happy with those so right I think now is the good time for me to just start finessing all the details I'm going to go away I'm going to do the interior of that Tower I'm going to do some exterior design around the castle just a heads up before I do that these windows are going to be utilized on this Tower and this Tower and this window design is also going to be utilized quite a lot so just bear that in mind these are really personal preferences you don't have to do that but this is what I'm deciding to do now so yeah when you see the final product that will probably be changed but I'll walk you through everything and I'll see you after the [Music] cinematics [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] welcome back survivors to the castle build is complete I have got my turkey gear on I can't see a thing though is this a wool oh God those are my boxes my turkey boxes uh that is a wool I can't see with this mask on I must take it off there we go oh that is better what a lovely lovely view of course it's the turkey event right now in Ark so I couldn't resist putting on the turkey jumper and hat and boxer shorts as well as well as a few additional extras I'll show you inside the castle so I have been finessing the exterior and interior details of this castle and I am ready to show you a around so coming on up the stairs here we are met by our first decking of course that we put in together uh all I've added up here is some croop pots for some plants and Greenery and of course no Castle would be a castle without some artillery so I got some cannons facing out across the wall as well as some catapults on this side so yeah looking pretty nice going further around the wall here I've just added a little additional detail of a crane the way I made this was just with some pillars and some railings and some ladders look at that and it kind of looks like a crane of some sort coming on inside the main gateway here we come into the dino storage zone so this is kind of your main entrance that you'll use to come in and as you can see I haven't stored a lot of dinos in here but I have put some down here just to give you an idea of scale so yeah you can fit loads of dinosaurs in here honestly I've put aego trike two trikes not a lot but you can fit a lot more um you've got all this area up here as well for Dino storage that I haven't utilized I put in a little over pen over here because I had all this grass and I thought well maybe put some over what on Earth are they doing they're all just crammed in a corner oh my goodness me that is insane okay well two of them are out of the pen for some reason that's fine just to quickly show you guys the items you get with the turkey troll event so this is a feeding trout and this is a cooking pot um this one's beautiful I'd say definitely utilize this in your own builds considering you can have this an official as well what an awesome way to decorate the base so from from the doorway if you were to turn left at the doorway we come this way to an area I've completely blocked off all I've done here is add a line of walls literally and a dinosaur gate that's all I've done um just to block this off and create a breeding Zone slh Hatchery as you can see we've got our Birds breeding and hatching their eggs and we can collect them put them in the fridges you could honestly utilize this room for anything there's so much you could do with this base it has so much potential I love it and the last thing I've added in down here is the stairs going up to the main area which I realiz is an important part that I didn't do on camera so let me quickly show you how I've done it all I've done is where you put the floor in from earlier we've gone to the main ceiling TOS here not the triangles but the ceilings I've gone 1 2 3 four ceiling tiles out and removed two four tiles in total not two four tiles so 1 2 3 4 and yeah and then you just put your stairs in it's that simple it's actually really easy honestly just put your stairs in and then you got a way to go up and down with your dinosaurs if you need to get them up there for whatever reason let us continue our adventure with the main tower here so this here is the basement of the tower um I've used it for storage as you can see I believe you saw this earlier you could honestly use this for anything I could put a lot more vaults in here but I didn't I probably put some in the middle make it look a lot nicer um coming on up the stairs here we enter the main tribe Hub area where the tribe can all hang out and have a good time there's a grill there's some beer barrels there's some Ward drums here which is good fun and yeah so I've also put some portraits up on flags and a mount up there going on up here you can see I've utilized the feeding trail with some pumpkins in the corner and also the new cooking bot is there this is kind of like a tribe meeting room here so quite a nice little room so from here we can go up the stairs to the main crafting Zone um which you saw me do on camera so this is nothing new really uh it's looking pretty fabulous we got our chemistry benches our Fabricators everything you might need need while you're crafting we also got a nice table in the middle as a centerpiece of course we've got our trophies going all the way up the stairs here looking great um obviously very hard to get boss boss head mounts so just use Alpha T-Rex trophies they work just as well so if we go on up the stairs here it's quite a Long Way to the Top so honestly if you're doing this yourself you could either have this all exposed or you put multiple floors in and have multiple levels at the very top here we have our tribe bedrooms all decorated and in this is kind of like a big open area here um if you want to put in I don't remember I don't think I did this on camera the walls I can't recall but honestly to do this guys all you need to do is start placing down walls start trying to work out where you want to separate some bedrooms so coming on around here I'll show you the bedroom I'm most proud of is this one in here so I've got done a few new things in here that I've been experimenting with uh we got our plant here we' got our boss mounts and the wool for some decoration we' got this lovely uh bed here that I've done a double bed put some pillars up on either side and some quarter walls going into the wall I think this looks really cool and for a mat I've done a canvas there two canvases on the floor really nice little bed situation there this is another thing that I'm really proud of is this oh my God is that a c couch and Ark vanilla Arc there's a couch no no it's not it's just canvases it canvases in a bench if you look at from this side it looks awful but from this side a couch from this side very uncomfortable couch so all I did was put a bench down and start putting canvases around it that's all I did to make the the couch here um for the TV screen here I just did canvases and painted it all black very simple uh and then we got our Ward robes and our bookshelf there so really nice room here quite a big one coming on out of this bedroom we can take our left into the next bedroom here which is just a small one I haven't done a lot in this one I got two beds uh T-Rex trophy Mount there that's what it looks like and oh yeah I did like a little upstairs area with a bed um which just quite cute so there's like a twers bedroom and it's got this little bottom area here with a wardrobe and some Adventures look at this view what a lovely view you have from the castle coming on out of here and into the left here I can't even remember what I did in this room ah nothing much nothing I did a uh bunk bed and a wardrobe this isn't even decorated and I think I was going to put a toilet in there but I didn't what is the view like in here oh what a lovely view you could you could have a number two in peace up here I tell you so the last thing that I tried out at the top of this Tower is to have another floor but I don't know if it was very successful I haven't decorated up here all I did was put some spiral staircase down in the middle and it takes you up to the top floor here that's more like an attic to be honest there's not a lot of floor space unfortunately but you could probably make good use of this could be another bedroom the only thing is is you don't have any Windows which is very dark and gloomy and sad and depressing and I would never want to live up there so there you go that's like Cinder 's room that one so the most important detail I've done with the main tower here is the windows I decided to change all the windows to the one we designed together which was like this one and I decided to do them quite uniform I put them in the same place kind of equal distances apart around the tower I think this looks a lot better I don't know what I was thinking before just randomly placing them in this is a lot better and and I've added a railing there it it just works really well I love them I still have the single Windows just on one side and then going around here I've got the double so this is what it looks like on this side and this is what it looks like on this side very simple so when you do come out of the main tower here you're met by this lovely open space up here oh my God there is so much room up here so I have done my best to try and fill in the gaps as much as I can I mean it's up to you what you do up here you can put all your dinos up here you got plenty of space I've just been trying to fill in some space by decorating so I've got some benches here I've got a little garden here that's railed off quite cute oh I like this bit so this is like a food store that I've added all I did was add some C walls on the side storage boxes down the middle here to have like the counter and those are quarter walls at the top top that I've just painted red so it looks like a bit of cloth like a veranda I don't know what it's actually called not a veranda not sure but yeah looks really nice and I've done the same here again just with railings going up to be a bit different and of course we've got our nice turkey items in here and our storage very nice I also did these dog pens in places that are just the worst because they're not functional at all I'll show you why they're not functional so you can take the dog out when you come to bring the dog back in and you try to get out you are eternally stuck look at this I am eternally stuck here now so yeah not functional these aren't functional at all I mean you could probably put something else in there maybe or make it taller that's probably the way to do it you make those a bit taller by actually why didn't I do that I should have just made it slightly taller I am a fool does not matter it does not matter so coming on over here we got another little dog pen we got this cute little target practice area here we have another closed off Garden area next to the stairs and we have this big old crafting area up here I thought this was a good place to put it because if you're bringing your dinos up from down here you can just quickly bring them up drop off all your stuff into the refining Forge you got your grinder here and a V and a fabricator I did put some uh argentavis up there oh all I did was make a little platform here just nothing special just a quick little platform to give this some cover and fill in some more space and yeah I put the birds up there so if I turn around here we have our little stairway we made earlier that comes down to the cliff side here got some cannons facing out nothing too special and that leads to our Explorer node down here there it is already open from earlier so out here all I've done for bit of decoration is put some cranes down uh that I made with some pillars very simple and easy to do guys I just the pillars going up pillars going out some railings and some ladders look at that very simple if we go back let's enter the first of Two Towers either side of the main tower so this Tower is a restaurant and not just any restaurant it is the Fort Lance restaurant restaurant that is what I've decided to name this the fort Lance so coming on inside here we have a bar area with some penguins to serve us looking fabulous and if we go around this corner we are met by the elevator which takes us up to the restaurant welcome to the Fort Lance restaurant look at this so we got some tables down I love the boobs that we did earlier they look great all I've done in here's add some portraits to the walls to give it a bit more flare also added in a feeding TR here and a cooking pot because I'm obsessed with these the skins look so cool of course we got our Penguins here ready to serve us our food and if we go around here we got the upstairs area that I didn't do a lot with I just tried to add a Dodo to a chair and failed why are you pooing in the restaurant Mister that is not allowed so obviously I've decided to only do the top part of the Tower and the Very bottom part of the tower whereas you could honestly add multiple levels to the tower um but me personally I think I quite like having's Tower is just a tower with a top part and a bottom part I think it's quite cool and all the way across to this Tower we have the guest bedrooms so if we come on in here all I've done is add a staircase going all the way up to the top which is nuts look at that and I've got some vaults in here one for imagine if there's three people stay here there's a vault for each person you definitely add more in if you'd like so if we come on up the long and windy stairs that g on for quite a while we end up in a very nice open space bedroom look at this so we got two beds down two double beds which is nice so four people I got a little cooking pot in the middle and some bookshelves and wardrobes nothing too crazy here just quite a nice open plan area to be honest I quite like like it rather than splitting it all up into different zones I quite like having it all open cuz you get all the light coming in as well which is lovely and you get to look out on The View and the view is spectacular the other little additional detail that I completely forgot about was I just added some ladders and random places on the tower I literally just did it to add a little bit more detail to the towers I think I've done it over here as well yes I did I just added honestly random look B bam bam there there the other additional thing I did was add some Flags going all the way around this build I just used a single flag panel and I placed it on the pillars here so that I could have them going around like so so the last Tower is this lovely little one here a little dinky tower all I've done in this Tower honestly is added some ladders going up to the top so if we go up up up and I put in some crock pots here because this is going to be our Greenhouse zone so we got some crop pots with some plants in can't fit a lot out here you could honestly do a really nice Greenhouse you got some muchat space down there you can put a greenhouse anywhere honestly guys this base has so much potential so much potential I think I've done a pretty good job this my first ever Castle build and it does feel like a castle honestly it does feel like a castle so that's all I could ask for it feels like a castle it looks like a castle and therefore it is a castle and well guys I think that is today's video so if you have enjoyed today's build do smash the like button hit subscribe it's completely free and you'll be helping me out a ton and comment below what you want me to build next because this build today was actually a suggestion by a commenter in one of the last videos and just really quickly guys last week I couldn't get this video out on time because it was such a big build so instead I decided to live stream for the first time on YouTube and it went down really well a lot of you came in watched me and we built together it was really fun so I might do that again at some point so do keep your eyes peeled for that and well guys that is all from me love you all to death and I'll see you in the next [Music] [Applause] video [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] a

Channel: LolsAtLance

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Length: 88min 0sec (5280 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 18 2023