Great build man! Surprised you could fit that much stuff in a 2x1 and the thing with dropping the vault on top of the fabricator is really clever. I'll probably be using this! :)
I love this design and I've built 3 bases with it so far. I have a few comments though: First, you can also fit a preserving bin in front of the smithy over half of your bed. If you use a single-wide door, you won't be able to get in and out, though, so you either need to move the door to the side, or use a double door. Second, the bed is close enough to the door that someone can hold E and "lay on bed" to get inside. They won't be able to get out without dying or destroying a wall but they could dump everything in your smithy/fab/forge onto the ground. Make sure to keep everything locked in the vault. Finally, the fabricator can and will get hit by wild dinos on the top. I've had 2 destroyed this way, first by a crab and at another base by a baryonyx. When this happens, you have to destroy your vault, built a new fab and drop a new vault! Its a huge pain and resource intensive. One easy solution is to build a foundation nearby, raise it by 2 (using the raising/lower tricks involving pillars) and then build a wall up and ceilings across. You'll have a second ceiling slightly above the old ceiling (its about 2 edge widths higher). This is sufficient to protect the fabricator without making the whole structure much bigger.
A few people have commented that you are able to pike the fabricator through the roof of this (pretty terrific) design. I was able to circumvent the problem in two ways, one considerably simpler than the other: First, you can simply stick two sloped ceilings (along with two sloped and two regular walls) on top of the whole thing. After they're in place, I was no longer able to reach the fab with the pike. Also, you're no longer able to see the fab at all from the outside. Disadvantage is, of couse, that you add another half of a story to your profile, possibly decreasing concealment. A second, more elegant (but more complicated) method is to lower the level of the ceiling on which the fabricator sits by two snap points. To do so, use the usual foundation lwering method: After you lay your two foundations, stick a pillar in the middle of the one opposite from where your doorframe will be. Use that pillar to snap a third foundation adjacent to it, but lowered by one snap point. Now stick another pillar into that new foundation (making sure that it is at the lower snap point) and use it to snap a fourth foundation, another snap point lower and adjacent to your doorframe foundation. You can now snap a temporary wall and ceiling over that fourth foundation, two snap points lower than the main foundation level. If you snap the hatchframe on which you're going to place the fab to that ceiling, it will still be supported by the walls which you build at the normal level after you've demolished the temporary foundations, wall, and ceiling. It will also lower the fabricator by enough that you will no longer be able to pike it through tthe ceilings placed at the main snap height on top (although, alas, the very highest part of iit will still be slightly visible from outside, letting people know it's there.) Complications are: You'll absolutely have to place your beds before placing the (lowered) hatchframe; it's not possible to place beds under a ceiling lowered in this manner. Same goes for the door(s): The lowered ceiling won't block the doorframe, itself, but it will block the doors from placing, so you have to put it in afterward. Finally, you'll always have to crouch inside and when entering the base. This may complicate respawning, and you might have to wait a bit and spam the crouch button before you fall to the ground when waking up on the beds. Hope all that might help somebody, and many thanks again for a great design.
Yo guys, new vault changes are live! its amazing for solo players, allows us to still remain hidden in small bases, but now we have the added protection of a vault! :) do you guys think I should disable shadows in game? The lighting in a little dark in the video.
I really liked how you listed the build requirements. So many youtubers just start building, but many just want to make sure they have everything without having to stop midway through to farm.
This is a really solid vid man! Very good little build, only problem being if it does get found you only have 1 door to most of your stuff, other than that it's an awesome build and I can see alot of subs coming your way 😉
Voxesto - Plays Games haha yeah I'd probably double door it and throw all my valuables in the vault before I log off, should have mentioned it in the video. thanks man ! :)
Great job on the video. Your details about the builds are what make the difference, like the list of resources needed and even the thumbnail picture to the video, as it shows what exactly this certain starter base build has in it. Keep it up
Nice. Love those small builds. I think you'd be able to have a generator under the vault, then a single vertical cable and an outlet. If it works, you've got a very protected genny, and turret defense. Can you try it?
OMG_ITZ_AP3X I believe a gen with full gas lasts over a month. That way, you won’t have to worry about it for quite a long time. The base would probably get destroyed before the gen needs refueling. If not, you’ve got some editing to do haha
this is Pure Gold! I'm thinking of jumping back on to PvP when the flyer nerf hits consoles gonna build this straight away! perfect for solo players. :)
hell yeah! i'm pretty happy with the flyer nerfs as a solo player. Metal runs are a little more tedious, but it seems like we can fight back a little now :)
Very nice I'll definitely be using this. Just took a break for a few months, but I'd like to see the changes/additions to the game so I'll try another stealthy approach.
hey six! i just wanted to add, you can put a generator in the back before you drop the vault but its a pain in the neck because it took me 4 vaults! aha. atleast then you can put up a few turrets
If u make it 1x3 u could fit a genie in there and then u could also make a airlock against door campers with the forge in that airlock. Edit: U could also fit aircondition or a fridge above the airlock.
Really cool video in going to build one. I see you don't have a fire or food bin does that ever become an issuse? All so is it safe to use the forge at night in that build can players see the flames?
Thank you bro I've been a fan for a long time I built this in official and my vault is full of ascendant riot and weapons because I can stay hidden while having a base that takes 20 c4 to raid
Good and small only problem I see is if u wanna place turrents there where would u place the gen? Also where would a gem bench go? Other then that it's pretty decent
Could you do a midgame solo pvp base with a generator, preserving bin/refrigerator and some turrets as well as what is in this build. By the way great video really good base design.
Only thing about having a generator in a hidden base is that the light from the gen will often render before the surroundings (not to mention the noise), and then people will know that a base is there to look for, and that it's active and probably contains something worth raiding for
Is this base viable as a spawn point? I'm not even finished with construction, and all my tests have me stuck in the hatchframe and needing to demolish it.
I found out that even more can be placed in this build, I managed to fit all this and a preserving bin to my build it on my channel (-shameless self plug😂)
![COMPACT 2x2 BASE DESIGN w/ NEW SMALL VAULT [PvP Tips & Tricks] - ARK Survival Evolved](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BeEa5RTZ8Cw/mqdefault.jpg)
Great build man! Surprised you could fit that much stuff in a 2x1 and the thing with dropping the vault on top of the fabricator is really clever. I'll probably be using this! :)
damn thanks man! glad you found it helpful. Look forward to seeing it in one of your future videos :)
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I love this design and I've built 3 bases with it so far. I have a few comments though:
First, you can also fit a preserving bin in front of the smithy over half of your bed. If you use a single-wide door, you won't be able to get in and out, though, so you either need to move the door to the side, or use a double door.
Second, the bed is close enough to the door that someone can hold E and "lay on bed" to get inside. They won't be able to get out without dying or destroying a wall but they could dump everything in your smithy/fab/forge onto the ground. Make sure to keep everything locked in the vault.
Finally, the fabricator can and will get hit by wild dinos on the top. I've had 2 destroyed this way, first by a crab and at another base by a baryonyx. When this happens, you have to destroy your vault, built a new fab and drop a new vault! Its a huge pain and resource intensive. One easy solution is to build a foundation nearby, raise it by 2 (using the raising/lower tricks involving pillars) and then build a wall up and ceilings across. You'll have a second ceiling slightly above the old ceiling (its about 2 edge widths higher). This is sufficient to protect the fabricator without making the whole structure much bigger.
A few people have commented that you are able to pike the fabricator through the roof of this (pretty terrific) design. I was able to circumvent the problem in two ways, one considerably simpler than the other:
First, you can simply stick two sloped ceilings (along with two sloped and two regular walls) on top of the whole thing. After they're in place, I was no longer able to reach the fab with the pike. Also, you're no longer able to see the fab at all from the outside. Disadvantage is, of couse, that you add another half of a story to your profile, possibly decreasing concealment.
A second, more elegant (but more complicated) method is to lower the level of the ceiling on which the fabricator sits by two snap points. To do so, use the usual foundation lwering method: After you lay your two foundations, stick a pillar in the middle of the one opposite from where your doorframe will be. Use that pillar to snap a third foundation adjacent to it, but lowered by one snap point. Now stick another pillar into that new foundation (making sure that it is at the lower snap point) and use it to snap a fourth foundation, another snap point lower and adjacent to your doorframe foundation.
You can now snap a temporary wall and ceiling over that fourth foundation, two snap points lower than the main foundation level. If you snap the hatchframe on which you're going to place the fab to that ceiling, it will still be supported by the walls which you build at the normal level after you've demolished the temporary foundations, wall, and ceiling. It will also lower the fabricator by enough that you will no longer be able to pike it through tthe ceilings placed at the main snap height on top (although, alas, the very highest part of iit will still be slightly visible from outside, letting people know it's there.)
Complications are: You'll absolutely have to place your beds before placing the (lowered) hatchframe; it's not possible to place beds under a ceiling lowered in this manner. Same goes for the door(s): The lowered ceiling won't block the doorframe, itself, but it will block the doors from placing, so you have to put it in afterward. Finally, you'll always have to crouch inside and when entering the base. This may complicate respawning, and you might have to wait a bit and spam the crouch button before you fall to the ground when waking up on the beds.
Hope all that might help somebody, and many thanks again for a great design.
Yo guys, new vault changes are live! its amazing for solo players, allows us to still remain hidden in small bases, but now we have the added protection of a vault! :)
do you guys think I should disable shadows in game? The lighting in a little dark in the video.
Nono, leave the shadows on!
I really liked how you listed the build requirements. So many youtubers just start building, but many just want to make sure they have everything without having to stop midway through to farm.
glad you liked it :)
This is a really solid vid man! Very good little build, only problem being if it does get found you only have 1 door to most of your stuff, other than that it's an awesome build and I can see alot of subs coming your way 😉
Voxesto - Plays Games haha yeah I'd probably double door it and throw all my valuables in the vault before I log off, should have mentioned it in the video.
thanks man ! :)
Yep, few tribes will waste c4 on a 2x1 vault base.
I definitely recommend painting your base black to stay even more hidden.
Great job on the video. Your details about the builds are what make the difference, like the list of resources needed and even the thumbnail picture to the video, as it shows what exactly this certain starter base build has in it. Keep it up
Adam S thanks for the kind words
Nice. Love those small builds. I think you'd be able to have a generator under the vault, then a single vertical cable and an outlet. If it works, you've got a very protected genny, and turret defense. Can you try it?
U wont be able to access the generator after u drop the vault
OMG_ITZ_AP3X I believe a gen with full gas lasts over a month. That way, you won’t have to worry about it for quite a long time. The base would probably get destroyed before the gen needs refueling. If not, you’ve got some editing to do haha
@@thewhopper256ify yh lmao
Little late to the party, but excellent video man! I enjoy playing solo and i haven't found a compact base design I liked until i found this. 😃
this is Pure Gold! I'm thinking of jumping back on to PvP when the flyer nerf hits consoles gonna build this straight away! perfect for solo players. :)
hell yeah! i'm pretty happy with the flyer nerfs as a solo player. Metal runs are a little more tedious, but it seems like we can fight back a little now :)
Ahhhh, the inspiration for my own 2x1 builds.
Good to get back to the OG 😁
Looking forward to be building this later! Great build!
did this build today its absolutely fantastic!! thank you so much!
Very good build bro I'm totally going to use this in pvp servers, you have good potential hope to see u at 1k soon.
thanks man, glad you liked it :)
Just made this under a waterfall, great layout ;)
Which map?
Was on the island, where the twin pillars are.
captain fatdog - ARK: Building Tips Nice! Thanks :)
Awesome video six, I subbed to you :) hope your channel grows a bunch!
Very nice I'll definitely be using this. Just took a break for a few months, but I'd like to see the changes/additions to the game so I'll try another stealthy approach.
FINALLY a nice Base small and useable on officials. I'm sick of the "best base showcases" with 50k Metal and so on.
Made this base, but i dont have the fab or vault yet. Double walled and double door but didnt do the foundation or ceiling
hey six! i just wanted to add, you can put a generator in the back before you drop the vault but its a pain in the neck because it took me 4 vaults! aha. atleast then you can put up a few turrets
If u make it 1x3 u could fit a genie in there and then u could also make a airlock against door campers with the forge in that airlock.
Edit: U could also fit aircondition or a fridge above the airlock.
note to self try this it looks great
Hi I hope you get big I Think your awesome keep up the good work
Really cool video in going to build one. I see you don't have a fire or food bin does that ever become an issuse? All so is it safe to use the forge at night in that build can players see the flames?
Thank you bro I've been a fan for a long time I built this in official and my vault is full of ascendant riot and weapons because I can stay hidden while having a base that takes 20 c4 to raid
could be helpful but if u cant reach the fabricator when u have a trapdoor just open it and spamm F on frabicator when it opens
Come on six, you are solo player's personal jesus, thx!
ive built it and just a tips, put the forges on the outside for more space
Bike4Life then people will see the fire from the forges and your base is no longer hidden
I made a 3x1 base design with a fridge generator and aircondition and the rest that this base design does have.
Maybe instead of a metal hatch frame and trap door you could put a metal cat walk so you don't have to deal with the hatch door problem.
Gen waffle The point in the trapdoor is so people don't have access to it by blowing the door, they'd have to get the trapdoor aswell
Six I Love Your Videos So Mutch The Are Full Of Good Content!Love Ya
thank you, thank you :)
Very nice bro
GReat video, thanks for the resource list
Good and small only problem I see is if u wanna place turrents there where would u place the gen? Also where would a gem bench go? Other then that it's pretty decent
Is it possible to setup this base with everything but the vault and make the vault later ? Sorry for stupid question
“This is a great starter base”
Makes full metal base with vault and fabricator
it will take around 2 hours or less to get all the mats to make that base if u dont add the vault which he says to add later in the video
best build ever
To access fab put a ladder and when you climb up look up ex’s access
Could you do a midgame solo pvp base with a generator, preserving bin/refrigerator and some turrets as well as what is in this build. By the way great video really good base design.
i would love to do this but ond problem how am i gonna get metal stuff on official without being raided by the alpha
Tomas Armendariz hide it good as possible
This guy is genius
haha I don't know about that, but thanks for the kind words :)
Great vid m8
KXLY Gaming cheers m8!
Are the recources incl interiour?
Hey man I managed to place a generator and I ended up bringing the base out one foundations in all directions and put vaults round it
very cool idea ill probably try this lol
Awesome build. How do you hide your dinos as a solo player or a small 3 player tribe? I just have an argy and a frog
Joshua Nieves if your still playing, put them on a raft in the middle of the ocean
And where do you store your pteranodon and argy?
Amazing couldn’t of done it on my own
someon please help me. last time i tried to make one of your designs i die everytime i spawn at the bed? is it the same on this design?
Will everything still fit if you double up the walls?
I love u and ur videos bro
Couldn't u vault drop a generator so u can have turrets aswell
yeah sure, you could probs fit a generator in the back.
Only thing about having a generator in a hidden base is that the light from the gen will often render before the surroundings (not to mention the noise), and then people will know that a base is there to look for, and that it's active and probably contains something worth raiding for
Mad Gamer that was gonna be my question lol
Is this base viable as a spawn point? I'm not even finished with construction, and all my tests have me stuck in the hatchframe and needing to demolish it.
can you do double walls and doors?
really smart , but the problem is the vault is bigger on console or something like that
thanks :) yep the vault size was changed in one of the recent patches, I'm not sure if its changed on console yet.
No not yet. We console players are always a few weeks behind you PC players. My Ptera is still fast ;)
What part of Australia are you from?
I built it and cant put a roof over the fab and its impossible to acess
jonathan fallmann R.I.P.
Great build but i think the only problem is people can destroy your fabricator
yeah happened to me xD I used sloped roofs afterwards to fix that problem.
Rowbance happened to me aswell
Why can’t I access fabricators inventory
I found out that even more can be placed in this build, I managed to fit all this and a preserving bin to my build it on my channel (-shameless self plug😂)
The other only problem is anyone can see that you have a fabricator from outside
Nice
But where do you keep your tames?
in a cryo pod
you're 5 months too late, all my tames died
And can i still build this now?
Jordi Braun this base still workd
fabricator comes out of the ceiling
AAKE FAKY had the same problem with the layout, fuckboys will pike it through the roof
AAKE FAKY Put a crop plot on it
I made this layout and the first night some fuckboy piked my fabricator through the roof and broke it
Who would win?
One advanced crafting machine
or one spiky boi
Do you play on pc?
thanks for the sub, yeah I play on pc :)
+SixShadows oh ok sweet, I play on Xbox :)
You got a sub from me :)
cool
I heard they're patching vault dropping will this still work?
I tried last night and it didn't work
The drop worked but I couldn't access smithy and forge
fabricator can be destroyed from the roof lol
Yoran Rabelink yep massive flaw
lmaoop I can barely get 5 metal
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You Aremison you are actually the first person to ever comment "first" on one of my vids :)
Six Shadows you are actually the first person to ever answer one of my comments :) from Argentina(South America).New Sub.
You Aremison thanks for the sub, welcome to the channel! I'm from Australia.
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console users make vaults now while they are cheap