u/MetalSIime

when i first played the DQB1 demo, I did 2 blocks but eventually moved to 3, as 2 felt a bit too claustrophobic.

DQB2, I used 4 blocks for the longest time. 1 block for the base, windows 2 block high, another block on top, then the roof/ceiling.

These days I do 6 blocks as it helps with the camera and I'm experimenting with interior decoration and ceiling design.

how about you all?

For those of you who spent time building up the buildertopia islands, which island did you spend the most time building on?

Right now I have medium size soggy skerry, rimey reef and a small coral cay.
I thought I'd build in blossom bay or laguna parfuma, but I started missing the weather effects.

Ultimately ended up building mostly on Rimey Reef, but its a town of experimental builds, and blueprinted designs that i didn't want on my IoA, but wanted to keep somewhere.

how about you?

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After last week's post, I decided to try building a tall structure, about 4 floors, 5 blocks high.
I made sure room doors on each floor didn't overlap, and that the stairs were in different areas.

The results was that the residents could access all rooms on all 4 floors.
But as others have said, they tend to congregate in one area. For my build, 90% of them were just hanging out in the 2nd floor hallway. Occasionally a few would move to the 1st, 3rd or 4th floor, but most were just chilling on the 2nd floor enjoying the view of falling snow.

i guess at the end of the day, NPCs prefer one or two floor designs, max. (even with two floors, i noticed some inefficiencies start happening, such as them cooking less)

In almost all of my builds, I've only done two floors. In some cases two very tall floors that make it look like multi-storied floors.

So far I haven't had too many issues with NPC pathing for two floors going upwards.
Although I've had issues with NPC pathing going underground in the story islands..

But how about three floors or more? any issues with NPCs finding their way to third floor rooms or higher?

Any of you tried building your rooms underground in any of the story towns in DQB2?

Moonbrooke: This one seemed the most logical since there's already an underground prison room. Just extend the back. I tried adding bedrooms there, as I always felt bad that the NPCs were sleeping out in the snowfall, as well as the constant monster attacks. So the plan was to put them below the ground until the base expanded. But i ran into issues with NPC pathing and they'd get stuck in the corridors.

Furrowfield: Currently doing another replay. I'm putting the fields down here so the don't get damaged by the spores. So far seems to be okay.

Khrumbul-Dun: Haven't had the urge yet as this seems to be the best protected town in the story, but I feel there's a lot of potential for an underground build due to how deep the island is.

Do you prefer or have monsters roaming around your ioa or none? (Or more generally elsewhere such as building in the story towns that have monsters vs buildertopias that have none).

I’ve always been split between the two. Some element of tower defense makes the game feel alive. But ghosts killing livestock is a no go for me

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Furrowfield is the first town you can build up in DQB2.

Just curious how did you approach building it during the story and post game?

The builder bell is several blocks (3 or 4?) higher the surrounding terrain. The base area itself is of varying elevation as well. Did you try to flatten it all out by raising the town up?

Unlike the other islands where monsters are funneled into one direction, Furrowfield monsters can go all around the town, although the ones in the battle tend to come from the north.

There's lots of material available as well. From the wood material you learn, the stone that can be harvested from the windmill or church. Which ones did you end up using?

did you keep that small hill in the corner (I dont think it could be destroyed during the story).

For me personally, I've built it differently several times in my play throughs. I did one big building with everyone inside, and angled roofs in order to prevent the spores from spawning there. Then i did a normal town with many smaller buildings which looked better. At one point I thought of just building everything underground and avoid the spores entirely.

I havent done a post game build yet for my story towns.

I've been thinking of doing a floating build (either a flying airship/spaceship/sky town) or an underwater city.

But I was wondering how NPCs would behave. Would they wander off and just jump off something floating? or open the door in an underwater city and float up to the surface?
already on my land builds, I find NPCs in weird areas.

Every time I sail somewhere and come back to IoA, I automatically receive a key.

what is it for?