Zen and the Art of Rust: Grym's Ladder Access Tree House (Tutorial) - Rust

I haven't done one of these for awhile anyway, I built this on my local server originally with Admin powers, but once i figured out how to make the Tree house, i switched to making them without Admin powers so i could find a way to make them in online servers. At a minimum You'll need about 250 cloth for ladders, and more depending on how high you make the tree house, so i designed it so it could be made by placing the ladders last, that way you don't make costly mistakes when placing ladders. One particular tree has a weird invisible item bug high up in the branches, which is why building the tree house first is important and ladders must be placed last. If i get get enough people i would love to make a large tree house village, as you can see in the last few pictures i expanded to add a house at the bottom. This is the Full Album and tutorial. [url]https://imgur.com/a/d8PfL[/url] here are some teaser pics [Treehouse Village Dawn] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UzobmwU.png[/IMG] [Treehouse Village] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/50vqwoV.png[/IMG] [Treehouse Village Night 2] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/S6Q80Vz.png[/IMG] [Morning View] [IMG] http://i.imgur.com/05CH7CY.png[/IMG] [An example of something you could build] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mEnTX1n.png[/IMG] [Nice View] [IMG] http://i.imgur.com/iv5ppVw.png[/IMG]

If I saw that I would chop that tree down.

[QUOTE=withnail;47995712]If I saw that I would chop that tree down.[/QUOTE] Which is why i built it offline in a local server, The Tree house still stays up though if the tree is gone, I could always build a protective base around the tree and upgrade it to armored, or in the case of a village, a huge wall the encloses the entire forest area off. [img]http://i.imgur.com/oJMiarK.png[/img]

[QUOTE=GrymThor;47995786]Which is why i built it offline in a local server, The Tree house still stays up though if the tree is gone, I could always build a protective base around the tree and upgrade it to armored, or in the case of a village, a huge wall the encloses the entire forest area off. [img]http://i.imgur.com/oJMiarK.png[/img][/QUOTE] Offline is all well and good, but you talked about putting it on online servers. I don't care how many walls you've got, how many ledges, I would sky tower and ladder my way into there and chop that tree. The only chance you would have would be would be if the entire tree was encased inside an armoured base. Any small bit of it peeking out and it would get chopped. Next on the agenda would be the pillar that supports it.

[QUOTE=withnail;47996381]Offline is all well and good, but you talked about putting it on online servers. I don't care how many walls you've got, how many ledges, I would sky tower and ladder my way into there and chop that tree. The only chance you would have would be would be if the entire tree was encased inside an armoured base. Any small bit of it peeking out and it would get chopped. Next on the agenda would be the pillar that supports it.[/QUOTE] Lol you'll never find my tree houses, and people like you are the reason why others cant have nice stuff :)

[QUOTE=GrymThor;47996581]Lol you'll never find my tree houses, and people like you are the reason why others cant have nice stuff :)[/QUOTE] Yeah, I'm sure they'll be well hidden. Up in the trees. :rolleyes: Seriously though, this just screams target. Every newman on the server would want to fuck with it.

[QUOTE=withnail;47996652]Yeah, I'm sure they'll be well hidden. Up in the trees. :rolleyes: Seriously though, this just screams target. Every newman on the server would want to fuck with it.[/QUOTE] Their not meant to be hidden, their meant to be lit up and enjoyed for their aesthetic look. The reason why you'll never find my tree houses is because you'll never be on the same server as me, and not every newman would destroy them either that's just assuming you know all these newman's. I've had newmans find me building something they like, and they randomly start helping me and giving me resources, so not every one is like you that gives in to their need to destroy the nice things others have simply out of spite. That's pretty childish behavior. But if you want to be a dick head that's obviously your choice but what goes around comes around they say.:wink:

Have you tried this on dev? Now that garry has fixed floating bases: [URL="https://twitter.com/RustUpdates/status/610712041947537408"]https://twitter.com/RustUpdates/status/610712041947537408[/URL] Imagine these with rope bridges. I think we need a "Great Tree" Monument for this to really be viable. Each branch small branch of the great tree could break off separately and give the wood count of a normal tree. The wood count could even regenerate.

They look nice, but wouldn't survive an hour in the wild -- if even that. Chop down tree, chop down pillar, collect loot. Wash, rinse, repeat.

well i think it looks amazing. and agreed, its about aesthetics not viability. the most beautiful things are often the most fragile. if i saw that in-game i wouldn't f**k with it. but alas, we all know that some (most?) people play rust to grief.

can always upgrade the pillar to armored,not allot of people would bother wasting 13/14 pickaxes just to break a pillar with a small house on top.Alternatively you can always just put spikes around it.

[QUOTE=DCWarHound;48047909]can always upgrade the pillar to armored,not allot of people would bother wasting 13/14 pickaxes just to break a pillar with a small house on top.Alternatively you can always just put spikes around it.[/QUOTE] In my test build of the first tree houses i upgraded the pillars and base to armored as well as the first floor support. Mainly to see how it looked, i might do some more and see how they look with each tier as i generally stayed with just wood. [editline]25th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=zer0zer0;48047477]well i think it looks amazing. and agreed, its about aesthetics not viability. the most beautiful things are often the most fragile. if i saw that in-game i wouldn't f**k with it. but alas, we all know that some (most?) people play rust to grief.[/QUOTE] Lol yeah that's true, some people just don't like it when others have nice things so they destroy what ever it is that sets em off, generally that's because of subconscious feelings of envy and jealousy.