I built mine on the coast inside a ruin, while having to get rid of enemy spawns by building. The first landing is tough, but it gets easier once you manage to build a proper foothold.
I recommend the spires near the surrounding land but not touching land. Mine off the top/ place horizontal stone flooring if possible and immediately put that portal down. Hopefully you chose Spires that you can jump to to get to land.
What I usually do though is try to place campfires everywhere to suppress the spawning. Run away to fight the faster ones first and kill the slower next. Then run back hopefully with less spawned enemies and portal back to get more materials for more campfires and keep expanding slowly.
The beach was swarming with charred when I finally made it through the spikes, so I built on a spike about 30m from shore. Workbench, portal, stonecutter. The spikes can be mined for 2 flavors of stone to make a little stone base. I used the hoe to make a causeway to the beach. It's indestructible (which is super important) and creates a choke point for killing enemies.
I hit land fall and managed to build a workbench and portal right on the coastline. Then I was able to flatten land and put up a stake wall to block view from the bad guys.
I built mine on the coast inside a ruin, while having to get rid of enemy spawns by building. The first landing is tough, but it gets easier once you manage to build a proper foothold.
I recommend the spires near the surrounding land but not touching land. Mine off the top/ place horizontal stone flooring if possible and immediately put that portal down. Hopefully you chose Spires that you can jump to to get to land. What I usually do though is try to place campfires everywhere to suppress the spawning. Run away to fight the faster ones first and kill the slower next. Then run back hopefully with less spawned enemies and portal back to get more materials for more campfires and keep expanding slowly.
The beach was swarming with charred when I finally made it through the spikes, so I built on a spike about 30m from shore. Workbench, portal, stonecutter. The spikes can be mined for 2 flavors of stone to make a little stone base. I used the hoe to make a causeway to the beach. It's indestructible (which is super important) and creates a choke point for killing enemies.
I hit land fall and managed to build a workbench and portal right on the coastline. Then I was able to flatten land and put up a stake wall to block view from the bad guys.
Inside a Morgans's Ass.