How to Build Walls Properly | Cataclismo

Let me know in the comments what you think of my walls!

The Cataclismo left us broken. Construct fortresses and defend against waves of Horrors in this mix of tower defense and real-time strategy. Lead an expedition beyond the gates of the last city, and reclaim mist-shrouded ruins as you rebuild humanity—stone by stone.

[Arkenai]

Some thoughts.

Your wall base is OK and you make some good points about attack surface, HP per block, etc - but your wall design lacks collapse tolerance.
If anything breaks on the front of this wall, a lot will break with it. You'll lose the windows and even the firing platform, endangering your troops.
If you use longer pieces (but side on) on the base, you can support the upper wall structure with blocks from a layer back while still upgrading the toughness on the outer layer.

Think of 3x1s as an example. You correctly identify that we don't want to use these with 3 blocks exposed - however, consider a base of these sideways on, two thick (for six blocks length total).
You can then put another layer of 3x1s across both of these, 2 back from the front, such that they are over the front layer but are supported by the back layer. From there you can build your wall up with windows etc just as you've done here, but based on the overlap section. If you do this, you'll get an upgraded and disposable front layer that doesn't support anything.

For firing platforms, you don't want stone arches to come from your window wall. You want them to come from your further back layers. You can stack two stone arches going across and then put a wooden platform on top of that. Done correctly, your firing platform is actually supported by your third layer, meaning that you need to lose at minimum three upgraded 3x1s, all with an attack surface of 1 block, before your troops are endangered.

I think your walls go a bit high. Your walls are cheaper than the design I'm suggesting so you can probably get away with it, but you only want them to be that high for hunters, which are broadly not a very important troop type. With a shorter wall you can use wall banners to buff troops on both floors with one banner as well as it costing less stone. Merlons will upgrade the wall without having to go as high, remember.

I do like your staircases. I always make a mess of those, and I hadn't cottoned onto using arches in stone stairways.

[CostelloDamian]

Finally someone made a video about the surface area. It was really triggering me other channels were promoting the "stacking" over single 1x3 front blocks for the front to the point I wanted to make a video about it myself. You literally triple the amount of effective HP just by doing that. That being said there are also additional things to take into consideration regarding stacking the upper layers so your entire segment does not collapse. Ideally you want to use 3x1 flat pieces only exposing one side for max HP and max height left in order to stack on top. I think someone has already mentioned that in the comment below. IMO this is the best/simplest way to build walls. I also use the the space between my 1x3 block and arch for 1x1 pieces to level the surface. I like the stairs with the stone arch. I was doing similar staircase by spinning arches but this one is better. "borrowing" it 😂

[chaleowin]

This game is fantastically fun as it combines a few play styles i love. Good tips here.

[UberDubberTeddy]

Picked this game up yesterday and am glad to see it have support on here! Helpful video thank you!

[stevenmitchell]

Been loving this game so far. I caught onto the spiral staircase method pretty quickly but seeing the doorway as support trick for stone stairways and scaffolding short arch for support on wood stairways is going to be a game changer for me! Thanks!

[thebartertownconglomerate]

Great vid and tips i didnt even know about blueprints

[Pouncer_Fox]

That was really helpful! Thank you for sharing.

Edit: I think there should also be a way to have the stairs double as support for the back platforms, even if it's only partially.

[Grim]

Thanks for the guide. Was getting into the game and needed this.

Thanks for making it's content

[Adloquiem]

Please upload a playthrough of your extreme run! I’d just love to listen to your thought process and commentary over it. Subbed ✨

[HungryCats]

Thanks for posting these tips. I just started playing the game last night and had the second tier monsters (w/horns?) tear down a wall in no time flat. Didn't realize surface area was so important! Anyway, need to get some of the other basics down, like using the camera so that I can quckly see what I need to, vs being blocked by the environment.

[melovebeef]

Being lovin The game, cleared The game on médium, gonna eventually scaled difficulty, awesome vídeo.

[Meow-woof]

making the attack surface small is a great idea

[othej]

Great game and great set of tips. As others have stated there is collapse risk though so I'll add what I have been doing. I start by rushing lots of stone (when the map allows) then I aim for 3-4 wall thickness (depending on resources in the bank). For the bottom horizonal & 3-4 deep columns, I follow your three high stone stacks, if the ground doesn't allow for flat rows, then I fill in the columns above the 3 heighs with whatever vertical pieces fit until I have a flat surface, 3-4 rows deep. This next part is crucial, the next rows above need to be either the 3 or 4 long stone pieces running along the deep row axis, this adds support from the deeper columns if the front column fails. To make the height needed for full strength walls, I repeat this process vertically and allow for windows at different heights. I haven’t had a single wall breach since using this method. Thanks again for the tips, those spiral staircases are perfect!

[p_r_]

SUPER helpful, and a really good video! Thanks for your time spent on this, that's great.

[MatthewKelley-mqce]

The game has been great. That said, thanks for the advice.

[Kuyajericho]

Thank you so much for this video bro !

[theV]

Your walls lack a critical feature for them to be good. If a single piece of 1x3 stone on the base of the walls break, the entire section wall comes down with it, killing your units on top. Instead of the stone arches, add horizontal 3x1 stone pieces that will support your windows even if one section of the base wall breaks. For wooden staircases, it’s much simpler to stack 2x1 wooden arches each rotated clockwise from one another, then adding the 2x1 wooden steps to it.

[Oohcnap]

really good wall tutorial for max hp! lots of space for the flags etc on the platform too. kinda funny you're averse to blueprints, I used them for the individual sections of my walls just to make it a bit quicker then build manually to adapt to the terrain.

[dyllenmarks]

This is great. Very informative thankyou

[AlexSchwarzholz]

Thanks! That was super helpful. Should use more blueprints xD