Cannot Build Here?

[Ivah]

I have a fully upgraded base that I have built all over, however..., I wanted to replace some of the rough wood with more upgraded pieces, but I am now getting a "Cannot Build Here" message in a place I literally had a building piece at before. What is causing the issue? How do I fix it? My Workshop is now missing walls and doors because I am unable to build now where I was once able to.

[emitfudd]

If you are still within the perimeter of your building area that doesn't make sense. Sometimes when I try to place things I get that message because my character is inside that building block area. That's all I can think of.

[Calimar_T]

Thank god someone else also has that Problem... driving me nuts. I literally just removed a piece there! I just went so far as to remove pieces around it and, guess what, can't build there now also. Meh, here's to hoping it gets fixed....

[Silent Warrior]

Hm, have you maybe removed your flame altar and put it on another place ? Because then you lose your altar level, I mean the range for building and need to level up the altar again.

[Sgt.JESUS]

Do you think they added a limit to the ammount of things you can have in your base? Like Fallout 4 had, maybe you reached that limit, do you started farming? Someone with enough patience should test that.

[Calimar_T]

@Silent Warrior: No. Haven't touched the Flame Altar.
@Sgt.Jesus: No, i can build fine in the rest of my area, just not on that specific spot where i just removed a block which was there before.

[oulala]

is there a bed on that tile?

I couldnt rebuild or even remove blocks below my bed, I had to dimantle it first

[Calimar_T]

Nope. There is nothing. Literally an EMPTY Spot, with NOTHING around it, because i removed everthing in the vicinity. And there is still this one spot, where i cannot build again, which was occupied before.

[Imhotep]

Originally posted by Ivah:

I have a fully upgraded base that I have built all over, however..., I wanted to replace some of the rough wood with more upgraded pieces, but I am now getting a "Cannot Build Here" message in a place I literally had a building piece at before. What is causing the issue? How do I fix it? My Workshop is now missing walls and doors because I am unable to build now where I was once able to.

I have a massive base and over 900k pieces invested so far. You don't have to worry about some sort of limitation.

What is happening is that you might have a decoration down that is not letting you build.

The Bed with the green on it has a huge radius that makes it so you can't build around it and that is one example.

Remove the decoration, adjust building and replace decoration.

Edited: i just saw where you said you removed everything. Try logging out wait like one minute and hop back in.

Also, double and triple check there isn't one tiny little item in the ground or something silly like that lol.

[emitfudd]

Post a picture so we can see what piece you are trying to replace. Is it floor, roof, wall, etc?

[rajirrah]

I had this problem and discovered a stupid sheep had fallen through the cracks between foundation blocks. I removed the blocks giving me access to the sheep so I could kill it. Now I can build.

[Cele]

I had this issue when it came to the perimeter of the homestead, and agree with the above answer. I had a sheep that was between the wall and the the perimeter line. I also found another work around. Try placing some sort of wall on top of the walls that you cannot remove. They will turn blue, then you can delete the unwanted walls.

[Blud]

Originally posted by Calimar_T:

@Silent Warrior: No. Haven't touched the Flame Altar.
@Sgt.Jesus: No, i can build fine in the rest of my area, just not on that specific spot where i just removed a block which was there before.

[Blud]

Had that happen to me when removed a stone floor block I placed on the ground by mistake. When I went to rebuild I couldn't. Looked down in the hole and a wolf had fallen in the hole. Had to kill it and loot it, then I could build there. LOL

[cawphee.black]

I'm having this happen in mid-air almost. There is no way there are any mobs or NPCs blocking the building. But i still get "cannot build here"
If I move the piece even a little I can build then but then it won't fit into the right place...
There is absolutely nothing blocking the piece yet I'm getting the "cannot build here" message.
I wish there was a way around this other than maybe using the builders cheat table from nexus mods.

This is not the first build dead zone I've found where there is no way some creature or NPC is blocking things.

It's kind of frustrating really

[Mojo]

Not sure if I will explain it correctly. I will try.

I just had the same thing happen, but I was finally able to replace it. Instead of having the build cursor point directly at the empty spot, I aimed the cursor to the block left the open space. (Probably if I would have aimed at right side block or block above or below would have worked as well.)
I was then able to place the block I took out back.