went to add a couple of beds to finch farm just before bed as they were complaining, had already built a separate building next to their fixed homestead on the left so added a couple of levels to it to make room for more beds but then I noticed I was quite close to the overpass above. made a stairway up to a destroyed bit in the side wall (facing the front of the farm house it's above and just to the left. hopped up there and realised the whole thing is free from ground access and within the build limits (you can even scrap the old vehicles up there).
had a look and realised I could put a concrete block into the broken side of the overpass, added another to make it a slight runout, stuck a shack internal stairwell (the one next to the concrete foundations under wood > floors) on the side of the overhanging block to make a downwards stairwell running away from the overpass, continued going down until i was just off the ground, then stuck a concrete foundation on the front of the bottom set of stairs to make a long stairwell from ground level all the way up to the overpass, I then went up and built each floor gradually getting wider as I went up.
now have a 6 storey settlement which has a single entry point at ground level through a shack doorway and a single long staircase that runs up to the overpass where they exit through another shack door and I plan on building all my non food/water resources up there to keep them safe from attack.
in order to protect the farmers I went up to the 3rd floor, stuck a side entrance in, built a stairwell down to where my crops are once i hit ground level I built a large rectangle using foundation blocks. stuck a shack wall/roof around the entire perimiter and now the farmers can access the crops without being exposed to the many (MANY) threats that spawn in that area.
went to add a couple of beds to finch farm just before bed as they were complaining, had already built a separate building next to their fixed homestead on the left so added a couple of levels to it to make room for more beds but then I noticed I was quite close to the overpass above. made a stairway up to a destroyed bit in the side wall (facing the front of the farm house it's above and just to the left. hopped up there and realised the whole thing is free from ground access and within the build limits (you can even scrap the old vehicles up there).
had a look and realised I could put a concrete block into the broken side of the overpass, added another to make it a slight runout, stuck a shack internal stairwell (the one next to the concrete foundations under wood > floors) on the side of the overhanging block to make a downwards stairwell running away from the overpass, continued going down until i was just off the ground, then stuck a concrete foundation on the front of the bottom set of stairs to make a long stairwell from ground level all the way up to the overpass, I then went up and built each floor gradually getting wider as I went up.
now have a 6 storey settlement which has a single entry point at ground level through a shack doorway and a single long staircase that runs up to the overpass where they exit through another shack door and I plan on building all my non food/water resources up there to keep them safe from attack.
in order to protect the farmers I went up to the 3rd floor, stuck a side entrance in, built a stairwell down to where my crops are once i hit ground level I built a large rectangle using foundation blocks. stuck a shack wall/roof around the entire perimiter and now the farmers can access the crops without being exposed to the many (MANY) threats that spawn in that area.
then I realised it was 2.30am. fuck.