Discovered an easy way to get Mage’s Hermitage able to be added to your tower without much hassle. Also sharing couple useful tips I found.
Easy Guide to Mage’s Hermitage
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Mage’s Hermitage
While this game is about designing efficient rooms to allow you to explore and build, I was planning a natural development plan for researching. Accidentally discovered a way to allow a natural transition from Mage’s Study to Mage’s Hermitage.
Trick is to build off a wall and have the access from stairs from another diagnal from bottom left/right.
It will come with Elevated, Towered, Lofted, Skewed and Private.
You naturally start as a workshop with +25%
Once you put in bookshelf, it turns into Mage’s Study as 100% (Dont forget to put a dummy door leading off the tower).
Once you unlock Scrivener’s Desk, it turns into Mage’s Tower as 200%. (In my first playthrough, I always like to put Skewed room on side and found it hard to change to Towered and this solves the problem.)
Lastly, once Roof Decoration and Large bookshelves are introduced, you have yourself sweet 400% boost without the need to relocate entire room to another spot of the tower or building off a new plot of land.
Note that without arch support, wall supports length of 4 as floor, enough to put in Research station + bookshelves.
With introduction of Arch support, you can add 1 more block for more space and more after a subsequent research.
My connecting room turned out to be a Kitchen with easy roof for Chimney and not to worry about having multiple entry points.
Croa Management
As progress into mid-game. Croas are coming to eat my plants and spectral croas are destroying everything.
I used to scroll across maps to find them, double click to select all and destroy or hunt, until I found I can mange this more efficiently via the resource tab.
I would recommend only expand a few categories that you would like to Monitor.
You can click on Croa Nest and it will circulate through all nests around the map and pressing “del” on keyboard to get rid of them whenever these numbers pop up.
Now I can just sit back and watch the minions to do whatever they need to do and not to worry about these birds.
By the way, Scarecroa doesn’t seem to be an effective solution. It sends Croa back to nest, and they just turn into Spectral Croa and destroy your Scarecroa. Killing is the utmost solution.
At this point, I have a designated “staff” high in Fire and Nature who sleeps during the day and be on duty to hunt, destroy, tend and harvest during time other staff members are sleeping, eating, having fun or teaching.
Your hermitage solution doesn’t work, mate. It doesn’t matter what you use to get in there, there is no “Isolated” as soon as you connect to anything that has a foundation under it. Your picture also doesn’t show the Isolated-requirement for the Mages Hermitage.
For Croas, even simpler, I create a foundation between their nest and my school. I build a wall that is 5 blocks high, then I attach a column that is 4 blocks high to this wall. I add another wall on top. I place a door on the wall and above it, a roof (to protect the door from rain), and there you have it, Croas no longer enter my gardens.
And of course, I can go hunting when it’s most relevant.
I build up a wall with a door in front of my garden, so the croas cant enter to eat my crop
Scarecroas don’t cause Spectral Croas. Spectral Croas are spawned from Croa corpses. Just be sure you have an active order to craft eyeballs or brains at your Midden Jelly to use up any Croa corpses you have, and you won’t need to worry about Spectral Croas.
That being said, I agree that Scarecroas are not very useful in their current form.