Building house!

[DarkAkita]

Hello

i know that is possible to build basements (with mods) but i would like to know if is possible to build upper floors in a house that doesnt have. Or i have to build a house from zero to do that?

thanks in advance!

[WillieSea]

You 'can' renovate existing houses. But you will then be back with more complaints about how the 'room bounds', 'light bounds', and 'interior spaces' are now all wrong.

It is 'best' to make your own place from scratch.

For 'ceilings' you need to build stairs and go up them 'carefully' and build 'floors' on the second level.

[Armagenesis]

Aside from the issues mentioned above, most existing buildings don't have flat roof. So you also gotta do something about that.

It's been a while since I tried doing a house extension like this, so I'm not sure if sledgehammer can remove the roofs or not.

[Goose]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

You 'can' renovate existing houses. But you will then be back with more complaints about how the 'room bounds', 'light bounds', and 'interior spaces' are now all wrong.

It is 'best' to make your own place from scratch.

For 'ceilings' you need to build stairs and go up them 'carefully' and build 'floors' on the second level.

why are you using apostrophes on everything?

[GΔЯGØYLΞ'ร BITE]

Maybe they're quoting within a quote? 😄

But yeah I agree on the starting from scratch. Building onto other buildings will just cause issues and annoyances most likely.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by WillieSea:

You 'can' renovate existing houses. But you will then be back with more complaints about how the 'room bounds', 'light bounds', and 'interior spaces' are now all wrong.

It is 'best' to make your own place from scratch.

For 'ceilings' you need to build stairs and go up them 'carefully' and build 'floors' on the second level.

why are you using apostrophes on everything?

It is used for emphasis. I understand that is not taught in school anymore, along with cursive and many other things.

Mostly it is to make myself 'clear' on what I am saying and pointing out. If you don't like it you can ignore it, but I will not 'stop' doing it.

[DivineEvil]

Sure, you'd just need to use a sledgehammer to remove the existing roof and build in its place, not that different from a brand new house.

[Goose]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Originally posted by Goose:

why are you using apostrophes on everything?

It is used for emphasis. I understand that is not taught in school anymore, along with cursive and many other things.

Mostly it is to make myself 'clear' on what I am saying and pointing out. If you don't like it you can ignore it, but I will not 'stop' doing it.

i've always seen asterisks used instead, but ok.

it's just very confusing.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by WillieSea:

It is used for emphasis. I understand that is not taught in school anymore, along with cursive and many other things.

Mostly it is to make myself 'clear' on what I am saying and pointing out. If you don't like it you can ignore it, but I will not 'stop' doing it.

i've always seen asterisks used instead, but ok.

it's just very confusing.

Asterisks* are usually used for footnotes of words used in a sentence, not for emphasis.

*as·ter·isk
/ˈastəˌrisk,ˈastəˌriks/
noun
a symbol (*) used to mark printed or written text, typically as a reference to an annotation or to stand for omitted matter.

[Goose]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Originally posted by Goose:

i've always seen asterisks used instead, but ok.

it's just very confusing.

Asterisks* are usually used for footnotes of words used in a sentence, not for emphasis.

*as·ter·isk
/ˈastəˌrisk,ˈastəˌriks/
noun
a symbol (*) used to mark printed or written text, typically as a reference to an annotation or to stand for omitted matter.

using asterisks in place of apostrophes is how i've seen emphasis done here.

[Goose]

we are way off topic, sorry OP.

Originally posted by DarkAkita:

Hello

i know that is possible to build basements (with mods) but i would like to know if is possible to build upper floors in a house that doesnt have. Or i have to build a house from zero to do that?

thanks in advance!

yes, you can, but you'll find that the collisions of the "roof" are really strange. you would expect them to be solid objects, but they are not, you will fall through them.

all expansions i've done to existing structures have been laterally, not vertically.

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by Goose:

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Asterisks* are usually used for footnotes of words used in a sentence, not for emphasis.

*as·ter·isk
/ˈastəˌrisk,ˈastəˌriks/
noun
a symbol (*) used to mark printed or written text, typically as a reference to an annotation or to stand for omitted matter.

using asterisks in place of apostrophes is how i've seen emphasis done here.

And I see lost of people that can't spell out words (u instead of you for example) or that cannot capitalize the first word in a sentence, or don't put a space after the ending period, or don't use punctuation at all. But I don't get into a tizzy fit about it and call it out. So why do you care how I express myself?

[Goose]

Originally posted by WillieSea:

Originally posted by Goose:

using asterisks in place of apostrophes is how i've seen emphasis done here.

And I see lost of people that can't spell out words (u instead of you for example) or that cannot capitalize the first word in a sentence, or don't put a space after the ending period, or don't use punctuation at all. But I don't get into a tizzy fit about it and call it out. So why do you care how I express myself?

i'm not, i was just commenting on the fact that i had never seen it done before, calm down.

[Shady Allie]

Hi, its 'me'

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

It's been a while since I tried doing a house extension like this, so I'm not sure if sledgehammer can remove the roofs or not.

Yes a 'sledgie' will 'destroy' roof tiles.

[Goose]

getting highkey laughed at on this thread :(

not that i don't deserve it, though, i totally do.

[pzhda'tan]

Some roofs have fake tiles that end up throwing you a floor beneath. Apparently the 'walk to' command lets you see the fake tiles but I have not tested it.
It's easier to just put your own tiles on the roofs for safety. Otherwise you you can access upper floors. Access the roof from the outside of the building via stairs, when on the roof destroy the tiles that are required for a staircase, then go downstairs and set up a new staircase indoors.
If you're concerned about beating down a wall to build the first stairs to access the roof, windows facing a certain direction allow you to put a floor right underneath from inside. So put down a floor, jump out and extend the catwalk. From there you can build the stairs without ever having to destroy a wall or even requiring a sledgehammer. Likewise for deleting the roof tiles for an indoor staircase, you can put down a wooden floor and then disassemble it.