fanfiction [PVE39] Caverns Main Base Building Journal

[Zed38]

This is a story of our tribe's adventures on RagnarokPVE39 to claim and develop the caverns and castle. Our plan is ultimately to build a village under the castle in a walled off portion of the map, along with building a network of raised omnilights to make the caverns less inhospitable to travellers.

 

Day 1 - Arrived on the shoreline of this new land. Strange Octagonal rocks greeted us. We were too tired to care. We set out immediately to find a new home for ourselves as a base of operations for long term residency.

 

Day 3 - We should have brought a guide, none of us know what is in store. We press on and find a nice looking cave entrance, which has only 1 small front entrance and 1 large rear entrance. We lay claim and set up a forward operating base. It appears that the cave is located under a frozen lake. The amount of crsystal and metal that are present within the cave is impressive. Quite a valuable and convenient location to set up a base. We are amazed at how we managed to stumble on this location without a guide or map to reference - completely by chance! Now that we have the essentials set up for survival here, we consider our next move.

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Day 6 - Our base under the frozen lake is quite difficult to live in comfortably. Our best fur armor only delays the slow creeping death of the extreme cold. We look towards the west, to the verdant green lands past the charred black land near what we assume to be a volcano. In the distance we spot a castle. It calls to us like nothing else on the map. We go to it, as it instructed.

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Day 7 - We arrive at the castle to find it infested with spiders and bats. Many lives were lost to clear the area of hostiles. It appears that we are not the first to arrive here. Land claims have been laid out in the area. So be it. What is more interesting for us is the rumors of a vast cave system under the map which holds untold riches and adventure. Perhaps we can find access via the stairways leading down from the castle main room...

 

Day 9 - We worked our way down to the bottom of the castle to find a Wine Cellar.

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The rear wall was broken, and an ominous pool of water was found. We prepared scuba gear and grapples for the exploration that awaited us. It was fortuitus, as the swim was a long one.

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We reached the far end of the waterway and were greeted by..... darkness.

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It was at this point that I decided we should have brought flares. Unfortunately by that time they had already repelled down the cliffside into the depths below.

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We came upon some interesting locations in the caverns, many of which needed grapples to traverse. We did not know there were other entrances to bring our mounts in for easier exploration.

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Deep inside the caverns we found an Obsidian mine. This mine would be perfect for our growing Polymer needs. We quickly laid claim to it, realizing it's immense value.

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Several days were spent in the caverns, exploring and finding interesting locations. It was decided that since this area was so massive and so easily protected from wild dinos that we would make it our primary base of operations. We needed only to prepare the necessary things to claim the area. The size of the caverns was so massive it made actually claiming the land a difficult and costly process. Luckily, word had it that the other newcomers were busy elsewhere trying to tame the lands strange and new creatures. We had time, so we prepared.

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Day 15 - Bringing down several pillars, we secured a small area around the cliffside down from the castle cellar. We built a makeshift ladder system for easier access.

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It was still oppressively dark, so work was started on a generator room to power lighting.

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And in short order, the caverns received it's first real illumination. Perhaps for the first time ever.

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Day 20 - In just a few days, we had laid down a string of lights to allow us to more easily see the area for future development.

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We had since discovered other entrances to the caverns and could safely bring in our workhorse mounts to make the task easier. 

Plans were made for a metal structure to protect our refrigeration and hatching infrastructure....

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Day 22 - During our work in the caverns we noticed that the current owners of the castle seemed to be absent. They let their land control lapse, and we happily snapped up the entire area, setting down advanced teknology to help us accelerate our efforts to build out the caverns.

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Day 25 - An exciting discovery! A massive underwater cave system has been discovered right near where we built our generator room. This area provided a perfect location for our underwater mounts.

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Meanwhile, the castle received some lighting of it's own...

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And a transmitter was also placed near the generator room for direct transport of infrastructure directly into the caverns.

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Day 40 - While the area around where we had built our generator room and hatching room was free of hostiles, the area somewhat off in the distance was definitely not. It was decided to lay the groundwork for a great wall. A wall the likes of which the Caverns has never seen before.

We will call it the Great Ahazi Cavern Wall.

Unfortunately for us, the terrain was quite uneven. We had to build a system of foundations witch followed the contour of the land.

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There was no possibility of creating 1 straight contiguous wall unfortunately, so it was decided to split the wall into 3 separate parts.

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At this highest point we would place our entrance.

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But until the wall was completed, we needed to ensure aggressive critters did not wander into our "village".

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Day 45 - Our first major setback. We were unable to construct a gateway on the north entrance. Previously we had a stone behemoth gateway which worked nicely, however we wanted to upgrade. This is the costly and unfortunate result of our initial efforts.

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After some testing done elsewhere, we re-visited the issue, deciding to instead build the gateway outside the caverns main entrance to allow for unrestricted building. It was a smashing success!

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Now with the northern exit secured, we felt comfortable enough to leave our work dinos around the village area with minimal to no protection nearby.

 

We are now days away from completing the Great Ahazi Cavern Wall. Thus far it has taken nearly 2500 metal walls to complete the project and we suspect it will be another 200 till completion. Unfortunately the cavern ceiling is somewhat uncooperative - there are several gaps which will need to be filled to ensure it is fully secure.

[ciabattaroll]

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