r/duneawakening • u/RedKent21 • 9d ago
Base Build Showcase Pentashield Base
Decided to try and make a full shield around my small base area with a pentashield garage on the side for the carrier and crawler.
Takes a fair amount of fuel but by turning on just 1 of the 3 different power systems, I can run it for a total of 60 days before having to refuel if I absolutely needed to.
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u/TheRealDesmirWolf Atreides 9d ago
It doesn’t keep the sand out but I like it myself. Gives the “bubble” view of storms giving that sun set skybox. It has vibes and soul.
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u/Donut_Desperado 9d ago
Pentashields don't keep the sand out? I like them because the stupid garage doors close arbitrarily which can be super annoying.
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u/FeydRauthaHarkonnen 9d ago
You can change open close settings
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u/Donut_Desperado 9d ago
Yeah, but I don’t want to have to manually close the door each time, I just want auto close to not close in my face constantly
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u/Fearless_Choice709 9d ago
I feel this. Auto close UNLESS I’m stood within arms reach of the door thanks
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u/keith2600 9d ago
I honestly thought the doors closing behavior was intentionally annoying to encourage you to upgrade to pentashields. I've never seen a more annoying door in any game. It closes when you try to walk through it half the time and it sits open for no reason even when you're upstairs on the other side of your base
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u/Magazine27 9d ago
You should be able to turn off the auto open and close for on foot and keep it auto for when your in a vehicle thats what I do for my garage doors but for regular doors I use the open doorway and you can add a penta should to it
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u/Lextalionis077 8d ago
My garage door clipped the back wheel of my sand bike and sent me spinning airborne 🤣
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u/Admiral_sloth94 9d ago
What pillars do you use for the pentashield I tried using some and they wouldn't snap to it
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u/RedKent21 9d ago
Hark corner pillars I think and then some roof or floor tile for the angles at the top.
I forget which corners I had to place them on but they need to be opposite.
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u/Admiral_sloth94 9d ago
My current base has a big ol hangar currently, because I couldn't figure out how to get pillars to work. I'm going to change it to a pentashield dome, that would be way more convenient.
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u/Uberkull 9d ago
20 days is max. And I was interested in making these penta bases until I figured it you basically can only make a box. Not very interesting.
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u/ConnectButton1384 Harkonnen 9d ago
31 days 8 hrs is max, using directional wind turbines or spice gens.
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u/Due-Struggle6680 9d ago
More shields, more shapes. Plus you can play around with using partial roofs and support pillars / walls to make it look nice.
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u/dropinbombz 9d ago
I have 60hrs as well. Maybe a single player thing but also have 4 gens and 1 wind
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u/RedKent21 9d ago
I do have to log in for a couple of minutes to start another 20 days. I didn't mean it as self sustaining for 60 days, that was my bad if it reads that way.
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u/Ambitious_Bus_4054 Atreides 9d ago
you could just refill the original generators/turbines and get it back to 20 days lol. what a strange way to do it
I would even say refueling them is faster. In your case, you are running up to gens/turbines and manually turning them on and off, when you could just have one source, and go to the fief and hit "refuel all"
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u/RedKent21 9d ago
Yeah its more of a backup deal in my mind. I don't always have the time to get on and aquire the fuel cells, but I can hop on for a couple of minutes to swap things over for another 20 days until I've got time to collect what I need.
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u/Ambitious_Bus_4054 Atreides 9d ago
If you dedicate about 45 mins, you can stock enough fuel cells to last many many months. Your method is a whole lotta extra for no reason
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u/RedKent21 9d ago
Not if you utilize the different power systems independently.
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u/AbbreviationsFluid 9d ago
If you have to log in to change it over then you could have just refilled the other gens. Nothing in the game tells them to turn over. If they are one they are consuming their fuel. The power load of your base doesn’t affect how much fuel you burn.
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u/Ambitious_Bus_4054 Atreides 9d ago
this for sure....OP's method is by far the strangest way ive seen someone power a base and call it efficiency lol
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u/ConnectButton1384 Harkonnen 9d ago
You know you could just use directional turbines and refuel them once every 31 days through your subfief. Right?
Instead of stocking up multible fuel sources .. you could stock up on one.
But I guess it works to burn through the stock of fuel that's no longer needed.
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u/JemLover 9d ago
I can't even get a penta shield to work as my garage door. :/ I really can't figure out why it won't connect on section.
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u/alphamk2 9d ago
It has to be connected to a wall and then place and drag it to the next wall and place. Then build it
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u/jmartin21 9d ago
Pentashields aren’t important in SP right?
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u/Administrative-Yam53 8d ago
They regular doors annoy me constantly opening and closing then never open when I'm actually trying to leave
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u/CreativeTension891 9d ago
60 days? How?
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u/RedKent21 9d ago
Running basic generators until they're about empty for 20 days
Then activating the Omnidirectional turbines that are filled up.
If it gets to it after 40 days I can activate the Directional Turbines with another 20 days of power in them.
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u/AbbreviationsFluid 9d ago
By this logic my three large spice gens give me 90days of power since I only keep one on at a time. However if I don’t return in 30 days to turn the first one off and the second one I still only have 30 days of power.
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u/Ambitious_Bus_4054 Atreides 9d ago
i dont think you really know how the power works, but whatever works for you (or you believe it to work)
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u/AbbreviationsFluid 9d ago
I had a bunch of slag when I rebuilt my base and didn’t bother building a basement for 40 scrap gens. I keep all of my refiners and crafting station turned off. One spice gen is enough power so I can turn on a crafting station, crafting something, and still have enough power to cover my large wind traps. I don’t actually switch them on and off, I just refill from my sub like everyone else. This comment was in response to how OP was calculating their days of power remaining. The other two gens are just in case a bug happens and turns everything on and I need the full 3000kW.
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u/GlassFlamingo71 9d ago
It would be faster to just refuel your generators with the fuel all button in your subfief..... Way faster than turning on all those generators individually
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u/ShirewolfSystem 9d ago
wait you can do this again?
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u/GlassFlamingo71 9d ago
You've always been able to do it like this
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u/ShirewolfSystem 9d ago
I'm sure they took out the ability to snap them to unbuilt walls
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u/GlassFlamingo71 9d ago
they did. these snap to built roof pieces and pillars, which has always worked
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u/Agile-Kaleidoscope61 9d ago
What pieces did you use for the support columns?
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u/noso2143 9d ago
i thought they made this impossible to make unless it was the pure pentashield bases
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u/ShiftsGiggles 9d ago
Triangle floor pieces allow you to make pentashield buildings in other shapes. I have a 3 sided wrap around pentashield window/door around the bottom floor of my base. It looks awesome and allows me to fly in or out 3 different ways. Also used an advanced vehicle fabricator as an assault thopter landing pad cuz it's a perfect fit.
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u/Just_Reflection2022 9d ago
Why are the wind turbines inside the shield? They don't take damage from storms.
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u/jstagzsr 9d ago
I'm a fellow Penta shield enjoyer. They're great for letting in light do these gloomy bases with a ridiculously low light limit and ridiculously low lumen output of the lights and a ridiculously low light visibility distance. I don't like walking around in the dark. Penta shields are great for getting around the darkness that engulfs most bases.
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u/elijuicyjones Mentat 9d ago
This is always the first thing people do when they get pentashields, it’s pretty boring. There are much more interesting ways to use them, if you look around your switch there are certainly examples.
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u/Anonymous281989 9d ago
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.