Big Living Compartment Placement Is HARD

[junglejake]

I decided to build a second, more intentional base now that I've unlocked a lot more. Instead of the tiny rooms, I'm using the Big Living Compartments to build it, but the placement snapping is confusing the heck out of me.

When trying to place them next to or on top of other Big Living Compartments, pretty much the only thing I can rely on is the green build outline to appear ANYWHERE but where the cross hair is unless I'm not looking at another build structure (it floats right in front of me when it's not trying to snap to a structure). Sometimes I can just see a small corner of the green outline off to my left or right and the chain icon in the center of my screen.

I tried adding them from the inside, and things got even more bizarre - no visible indication of where it might appear, and when I do place it, a lot of the time it's behind where I was facing when I go outside to check.

Is there some secret to placing these I'm unaware of, or is it just an exercise (feature?) in finding the right pixel to focus the cross hair on to place them where you want them?

[Pesky]

Big Living Compartments don't stack properly. They don't seem to detect anything directly above or below them. However they do click to small living compartments. So the trick is to stack a small living compartment to the right level in the right place, then click a big living compartment to the small one.

[Dallas]

As pesky said, they're just fiddly to connect to the other small pods or even the biodome, biolab or butterfly habitat, It's a case of standing in the right place and having multiple positioning attempts until it connects the way you want it to.

[madsgrandad]

First thing I do when trying to erect a big unit (lol) is rotate it 90 degrees.
The ghost will rotate and move further away from you and it becomes a bit easier to position.
Not sure if this is the solution you are looking for but maybe it will help.