How do you build wood or stone walls for buildings?

[thelebk]

I see online posts from 2020 that you can build wooden and stone walls from the beginning of the game by approaching a wall to be constructed and hitting the "E" key with an equipped hammer. This gives me the standard radial menu to add or remove insulation etc but NO option to change from stick walls. I don't see anything in the tech tree to unlock. How do I actually build more advanced walls for my buildings?

[Goldi_Toplitz]

You can only change the material with the pure ghost wall, not with one already built.

[thelebk]

What is a pure ghost wall? If you mean the blue area where the a wall will be built before I start building the wall (but foundation and frame up) I see no way at all to change wall type. What hidden key or undocumented feature am I missing?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Equip the carpenter hammer place on build> select the wooden wall> go close to wall and select edit to stone you need stones in your inventory a few hundred is good :)
My image shows to stone wall with door you just select just stone wall.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2862769819

[thelebk]

Thanks Juanita but the current build does not work the way you describe and the documentation of how to do this is missing and there are no relevant threads discussing this early game. First I am not trying to build stone building walls, I am trying to build wooden building walls instead of stick. You cannot select the wall whether its a ghost or not to upgrade in any way. In your SS above you appear to already have a wooden wall in place and are somehow trying to upgrade to stone. Not my use case. I just want wood. I just dropped my first level II blueprint (workshop) and when I am on the ghost wall preparing to build with the hammer it says "wooden wall". Note I did not select this in anyway or take any action with the hammer. It defaulted to wood. Every single building I have made in the past (all level 1 save for the simple house which is a level II on the tech tree) always defaulted to Waddle wall with no way to change or modify in any manner. There appears to be an undocumented limitation in the game which is utterly baffling to new players that only "certain" buildings can have walls other than waddle. Nowhere is this listed as a requirement. Can someone please point me to the list of buildings which can have wooden walls? I assume once they are built as wood it may be possible to later upgrade them to stone. The buildings which can only be built with waddle walls appear to be stuck that way and can only accept daub insulation as an upgrade.

[thelebk]

FYSA now that I have built the level II workshop with wooden (log) walls, there is no way to "select" these walls or to upgrade them to stone even though I have stone in my inventory. This wall business is a hot mess.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by thelebk:

FYSA now that I have built the level II workshop with wooden (log) walls, there is no way to "select" these walls or to upgrade them to stone even though I have stone in my inventory. This wall business is a hot mess.

Lay down your blueprint. Build the foundation and framing. Approach a wall. Hit E, a menu will show up. Choose stone wall, window, or doorway.

[Kaffeefreund]

You can only change houses. Production and farming buildings will change their walls at higher teir levels.

[thelebk]

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by thelebk:

FYSA now that I have built the level II workshop with wooden (log) walls, there is no way to "select" these walls or to upgrade them to stone even though I have stone in my inventory. This wall business is a hot mess.

Lay down your blueprint. Build the foundation and framing. Approach a wall. Hit E, a menu will show up. Choose stone wall, window, or doorway.

No it does not. Kaffee may have the answer that as I stated earlier only certain buildings are capable of wall upgrades but this fact is not disclosed in game. I don't think I can upgrade simple houses either but I will try once again.

[Morri]

Originally posted by thelebk:

No it does not. Kaffee may have the answer that as I stated earlier only certain buildings are capable of wall upgrades but this fact is not disclosed in game. I don't think I can upgrade simple houses either but I will try once again.

You can change the material for all houses that way, so the simple ones as well. But no other buildings.
Choices are waddle, wood or stone. If you later want to insulate them, the waddle and wood will need daub and the stone will need lime. You can also change where you want the windows, the walls and the doorways (with the requirement of having exactly 1 doorway).

If you wanna try it out, save your game first, set your hammer to destroy and simply destroy one of your walls, then you'll see. :-)

[R3wolucjonista]

can be nice if we can build in ONE TIME full STONE or other building, not like we need to keep changing every wall a option... coz this take to much time and im getting angry..

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by thelebk:

FYSA now that I have built the level II workshop with wooden (log) walls, there is no way to "select" these walls or to upgrade them to stone even though I have stone in my inventory. This wall business is a hot mess.

You can't change wall types for working buildings (also you never could in any version of this game).
Only type of buildings which offer to select 3 different materials for walls and roof are residential buildings (and have been like this since the earliest days when the game started in early access).

If you want to have other wall types for any commercial building you'll need to build another level of the building.
For all working buildings the different sorts of wall (also roof) materials are bound to the tier of said building.
General rule which sort of materials are used for wall and roof:

tier 1 buildings: wattle walls, straw roof
tier 2 buildings: wood walls, wooden roof
tier 3 buildings: stone walls, wooden tile roof

The above listed can't be changed.
However, you can add "insulation" to industrial and commercial buildings but this is for decoration purposes only (as the working buildings don't need firewood at all).

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by R3wolucjonista:

can be nice if we can build in ONE TIME full STONE or other building, not like we need to keep changing every wall a option... coz this take to much time and im getting angry..

Try to watch some cute kitten videos on YouTube then.

It is very unlikely that the existing mechanics will be changed the way you want.
The reason for this is that all types of walls can be changed during the construction of any residential building, not only in terms of material, but in addition you can also choose for each individual wall whether it should have a window, for example, or not. You can also change the default position of the entrance door at your own discretion.
This freedom with regard to the basic layout of all residential buildings necessarily presupposes that you can change each individual wall individually - the same therefore also applies to the selection of the building material.
If such a minor detail makes you angry, I recommend a walk in the fresh air or another game. Maybe this one just isn't your cup of tea.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by R3wolucjonista:

can be nice if we can build in ONE TIME full STONE or other building, not like we need to keep changing every wall a option... coz this take to much time and im getting angry..

What's your hurry? Also it takes me less than 2 seconds to switch each wall. It isn't difficult.

[Lucius Corvus]

When i converted 65 house's to stone and best roofs they jumped to 90% like then there was a run on wheat beer blowing though 200 just few days. Man they where party down

[thelebk]

Thanks all. Seems like I must have done something wrong when I created the last houses as I saw no way to change the walls. I'll try again.