Building on Top of Pillars of Creation

[Foofoo McPhee]

So, I climbed my way up to the top of pillars of creation. I had a plan to build my base up there and to include the tower-structures into my base.
Well this plan failed, because buiding close to the structure is not allowed.
What a shame.
Now my question is, does anyone know, why I can not build there on the structure? Are there plans for this place that anyone knows about?

[saice]

Most of the story/quest related buildings have build locks. I assume to stop players from building in a way to grief others on servers.

I do hope they add a toggle or server setting for because I would love to build around/near/over some of these places.

[Danyel]

There some spots you are ot allowed to build on, some of these places are unfinished areas on the border of the map that give a red warning to turn around.

I assume these are places the devs will hand craft the area in the future so they dont want peeps building there.

[Storm Reaver]

The Pillars of Creation has two mountains. Go to the other mountain and build near the volcano, as you can build a base there no problem. I would recommend taking two shrines and building up into the sky and making a floating island in the middle of the map.

[TheGrey]

It seems they block you from building around story structures across the board. Both current areas as well as big structures that they probably have future plans for. Imagine building a base on/around one only for them to update that location in a patch and you lose your base or lose the content.

As mentioned above though, build on the northern pillar above Inner Sanctum/Volcano looking spot.

[chaos915]

You could try building a floating structure in the sky above it.

[RED]

Originally posted by Storm Reaver:

I would recommend taking two shrines and building up into the sky and making a floating island in the middle of the map.

Okay, casually the coolest sentence I've ever read, go on.

[*Schalalai*]

Build a modern, kinda UFO-Type Building directly above it. Looks great and is the perfect Spot to reach every Point on the Map.

[Nerevar]

you can make a base floating so high in the sky you can build kamis lookout from dragon ball pretty much. its so high up it takes 2 minutes to glide to ground with the fastest glider. when divebombing straight downwards. from up there you can see the entire world is voxels like pikemeads reach becomes pure blocky things in the distance.

the ancient spires tough retain thier non blocky shape and so do these black castle structures. so these arent made out of voxels unlike most of the world.

yes there is a map height build limit where the entire sky turns red and wont allow you to build any further up.

[Reqhart]

Originally posted by chaos915:

You could try building a floating structure in the sky above it.

Dude you have just given me an excuse to try an build a sky city like in Bioshock Infinite. Thank you.

[Storm Reaver]

Originally posted by RED:

Originally posted by Storm Reaver:

I would recommend taking two shrines and building up into the sky and making a floating island in the middle of the map.

Okay, casually the coolest sentence I've ever read, go on.

Have two Flame Alters ready for building. Build the first Flame Alter and build upwards until you reach the highest point you can build inside your Flame Alters domain. Then build the next Flame Alter at the top of your domain and proceed to stack them higher. You can reach a good height and then build a tower on your floating island that looks out across the world.

I would recommend keeping the two Flame Alters above/below each other until you're done sculpting the bottom of your floating island. Use the scaffold with your lower Flame Alter to sculpt the under-belly of your island when you want it to look a specific way.