How To Build An Impenetrable and Historically "Accurate" Fort Sons Of The Forest

I must admit I'm absolutely loving building in Sons of the forest at the moment I just find there's so much to explore with the building system no matter how restrictive it might be and I've left thinking what do I want to build next I had considered building a mountain lodge and still want to do one but given that recently we built this lake house I think it's better to leave that for later on and just a note before we continue if you are interested in seeing these builds they're all in the same creative build playlist which you can check out if you want to check them out so far we've really been pushing out the boat out with different styles of building but one thing that I haven't really thought about is defensive building so today we're going to be building a Roman inspired wooden fort and just so you are aware I'm basing off this image here so we do have the Palisade walls it's Square so it should be pretty easy to build and then we've got the powers in the all of the the corners and then we also have the sharp sticks pointing out at the bottom as well as a little bridge now I don't think we can do the little moat that it has but we can certainly play around with the style of building itself and I'll be honest what better spot than this little Camp here which is on a flat piece of ground next to the southern GPS locator for the bunker along with giving us plenty of resources every time that we jump in we also have a little Pond nearby as well so this might work out pretty well as a creative build and obviously these little tents are just going to um fit in relatively with the the Roman style build I'm not suggesting the ancient Romans were cannibals by any means but I think it'll work and we're now ready to start building we're going to start with the outer walls and we're also going to try and do what I did in a recent defense video do check that out I'll put a link to that now so the first thing that I'm going to do knowing that I want the wall to go along here is just a place a log to give me an idea as to which direction we're going and then I'm going to start placing our wall in this direction and then we need to build it in a square at this point I've added probably half of one wall and I'm starting to build this out we want to make sure that this doesn't go it looks like it's in line I'm hoping it's in line but I'm just building along here so that we can build this inside so that we can create a walkway for towers and how we'll do that is by building inside this I've been building this and we've managed to get it so that it's pretty much exactly in line on on the side so providing we follow this system it the wall will both be with 90 degree angles and so will the outer section as well which is going to be really important for us when it comes to doing the spikes and I'm trying to make this as historically accurate I'm gonna say with inverted commas as a Roman four obviously it's not going to be hundred percent accurate but we will do the outer wall we'll do the gate we may even do a gate house and then the towers and we'll go from there at this point I'm about halfway around the build it's coming along but there is a problem and that is the entrance here so the the problem it comes from this tent I don't really want to take out the tents I think they add to the aesthetic of the the Roman kind of thought that we're going for but if we grab one of these you'll notice that I can't place this because it's going to clip through and apparently it doesn't like us doing that so what I've had to do is push this back another uh beams worth however if we do the beam uh sorry if we do the wall along here it means that when we have the doorway here it's going to open up into this and I quite like to have this on display so I think what I'm going to do is have the wall along this section here as it was originally intended but then have a little um I don't know if they use them in Roman forts but like a Barbican and so we have an entrance area with walls enclosing it and then we have the Gatehouse just behind and so that is what I'm trying to work on now as you can see we've done the the gate and I think the issue was that we'd started building from one side across and then we did the opposite on the other side and so they may have been slightly off by a tiny portion and because of that we weren't able to place the gate but this is as far as we've been able to to build it I'm thinking about pushing this one wall closer so that it doesn't look so off balance so we're ready to work on the Barbican and I'm thinking about extending this out just a touch so that we have space for this uh little I guess Gate House um if we quickly look at a a Roman Gatehouse or gate you have the gate here followed by some Walling on the inner section as well as the um the Upper Floor to that it's not around the outside but I think we can use poetic license here and we'll probably do the stairs up to that on one of the sides as well bearing that in mind we'll put the columns either side of the gate and then we're going to also place in the Center the horizontal beams above these are going to need to be supported with these horizontal or sorry diagonal struts and then from there we'll be able to remove this and continue extending the walkway out looking at some more of these it does look like they have ramparts along some of them not all um so I think we will do some like some ramparts around the side so that you can walk along it should you need to I think that would work for our build and the great thing about that is it will work really well with the system that we've got here so we're building up to this level I'm really struggling to build across I can't figure out what it is that I need to do to build a cross into a rant section but until I work through that you'll also notice that I have placed like squares along the edge of here we will Spike the edges of these eventually but I've given myself a two by two square in each section to create a tower for this and while we're here I should say if you are enjoying the video please do hit the thumbs up it really does help my channel a lot and if you want to see more don't forget to subscribe the build is coming along if we look up here we have the whole Vault walled off with plenty of space for those towers and I think there's a second pathway in so we're going to add a little gate to that as well whilst I'm here sorting out this I'm removing all of these currently um I am adding ramps along the outside and that's just so that we can grab our sticks and then place them onto here then if we go upstairs we're going to be able to knock them across with an ax to create a defensive Pike he says there not the easiest way to do it but it's going to be done all the way around there's so much work in this good news I've worked it out so you can't have a beam um across from it if you're going to connect them up so for example if we were to do one from this location to here we couldn't have another Beam on this side horizontally I've tried my best to do it here it just won't allow us to do that but I have worked out how to do that so we can run these across the whole of the build and the plan is to have these nestled in this section and go down to the floor so that we can play spikes the other thing I don't think I'm going to have a solution to this is we can't really add a um like a wall across the top can't add any more height to this which means that the walkways are just going to be defenseless that people could fall over there's no kind of barrier um and there's not much I can well there's nothing really I can do with that my only suggestion would be if I grab foreign we cut this in half and then run this up what we can do [Music] is place that oh this will take so much time to do place that and then from there oh I'm stuck and I need to get that will do Place one of these maybe just on the upper section here ah I'll play around with this but I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along we can certainly do the barriers on the gate which I'll do now at point we have finished the basic look of the front Gatehouse I still need to do the middle floor to bring it out so that we have a walkway all along but you can see it's just a very simple one with a staircase behind rather than on the side because it looks more compact so that they can see what's going on and we'll probably add some cross beams and struts just to make it look a little bit cleaner my next Port of Call is sorting out the walls and as you can see here we've done the the Slants where we're going to be placing these sticks and now I'm adding all of the the um pillars across so that we can add the walkways the only thing is that the corners are uh well I'm not sure how we're going to do the corners because we can't add diagonal um beams across to the other side so we might just have to build without that not sure at this stage so I went ahead and filled out the rest of the outer walls so you can see we now have a grid all the way around this will allow us to put the Power pet is that the right word along the top and I've also done the ramps along the bottom the other thing that I've done is for the Gatehouse I've added some peaked roofs just to make it look more like a little Barbican and from here we're going to have to go in and start chopping the spikes on top of those walls and at this point we're going to have to add the little logs on top and then add the top section of the Battlement it's going to take a long time but hopefully we can get this all done relatively quickly and as you can see here we've done it and although there is a slight issue um during the proceeds of building all of this we seem to have had a bug that has affected us I don't know how it happened I just placed something down and suddenly the the whole world has this empty space around me and so if I run towards trees they just disappear that actually works well because you can see much better what we're building here but I don't know how to undo it so I might have to restart the game in a little bit anyway the next thing start working on the towers in each of the corners support I want to have going straight up we'll try to do a stairwell up to the first floor and to make it so that you can walk onto the battlements from there but I think because we we don't have ladders available we're going to have to use the rope ladders I guess to get to the top floor or the the penultimate florist this is going to be three stories high I'm pretty happy with how the tower turned out I must admit it's because coming less and less historically accurate but it's cool nonetheless if you are if you are enjoying it guys do let me know in the comments below but you can see we've got the the top section done there and we've filled in the walls more importantly we have the ladders that are taking us to the top I hope they add proper ladders hopefully we can see that in an update soon and the next thing that I need to do is work on the rest of the towers we've got three more to do I'm just going to repeat these so we'll skip ahead and then from there I'll give you a look at the surroundings and there we are it's only taken me about five hours to do them all and no maybe not that long but you can see the Thief is complete Elite I'm really happy with how this turned out we definitely renovated the cannibals camp and if you look outside um thanks to this bug happening you can just see how commanding this sport is over the terrain if we were to get rid of all the other trees around here you would be able to see anyone trying to come towards you and attack you so really happy with how this has turned out I was considering adding a little uh Hut maybe like a chieftain's Hut in the center but regardless I'm happy with how this has turned out let me know what you think about it in the comments below would you live here if you had the opportunity to but we are going to leave it there make sure to hit the thumbs up and make sure to subscribe if you haven't already we've got plenty more planned and I'm very much looking forward to sharing it all with you but before we do finish if you're wondering what to watch next why not check out my video guide on defenses in Sons of the forest which we released the other day I'll put a link to that now special thanks just go to all of our amazing supporters most notably our solo Eclipse patrons James Irwin fireflies and treble as well as our Lunas the Calamity Ben Shoku the Yemen wolf and that dude a w and Star as well as our blood moon of the day which today is the Salton husky until next time as always ciao for now [Music]

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Length: 15min 24sec (924 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 29 2023