Roofs over stairs?

[NAMIV]

I'm having issues getting the game to let me build a roof over stairs, is anyone else having this bug where you can't build a roof over a set of stairs? Or is this somehow a feature?

[spacedog]

You can't. Roofs can only be built over floors.

[NAMIV]

Originally posted by spacedog:

You can't. Roofs can only be built over floors.

ok, thanks for the info, any idea if this is something devs are looking to fix in the future?

[spacedog]

They haven't announced any kind of roadmap or list of features on their radar.

It would be worth creating a thread in the suggestions subforum if this is something you'd like to see. They monitor that pretty closely.

[Cotaks]

if you prebuild floor+walls and put doors in walls then roofs can't be placed, So build doors as last.

[Martin]

Mhrmm.. you can.. but you have to build the stairs under the roof.. not before. It's a very fiddly system, floors also have to be specific heights for the stairs to work.. although your guys will step up a half floor height..

The easy way right now is just put the stairs on the outside.. not inside. But it can be done.

[spacedog]

Originally posted by Martin:

Mhrmm.. you can.. but you have to build the stairs under the roof.. not before.

This is true... there are a few ways you can trick the game into building something it normally tries to prevent you from building.

If you do that with stairs it really only works reliably with small elevation changes, and then after doing it the game will tell you that you have a hole in your room (and it won't heat/cool properly).

You can do it just for aesthetics, but I'm not aware of any practical uses.

I tried building a base once that had lighted and covered walkways everywhere, so survivors wouldn't get wet in the rain (as much anyway). They tend to just pick direct/diagonal paths to their destination and wouldn't stick to the pathways. So it was kind of a waste.

[Aryam]

What the heck!? No this is not true! You can build stairs easily by building the ceiling, then lowering your visible level by 1 to where you place your stair base and then place the stairs. The stairs make a hole in the ceiling (or floor of the next level) like doors or windows do in walls, but in the game logic the ceiling is there and you can build another ceiling on top of it (on top of your stairs effectively). You can even add stairs to an already built building and ceiling where there are none. They poke holes in floors like window and door designs.

[Battlestar]

Originally posted by Aryam:

What the heck!? No this is not true! You can build stairs easily by building the ceiling, then lowering your visible level by 1 to where you place your stair base and then place the stairs. The stairs make a hole in the ceiling (or floor of the next level) like doors or windows do in walls, but in the game logic the ceiling is there and you can build another ceiling on top of it (on top of your stairs effectively). You can even add stairs to an already built building and ceiling where there are none. They poke holes in floors like window and door designs.

As others remarked before, this does not work under all circumstances. The most notable case where it does not work is when you want to build stairs down from your elevated ground floor (not from a ceiling) to the actual ground.

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by Battlestar:

As others remarked before, this does not work under all circumstances. The most notable case where it does not work is when you want to build stairs down from your elevated ground floor (not from a ceiling) to the actual ground.

Are you referring to something similar to this ?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171075207

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171075154