Can you build roads?

[Vlad-M]

Is there a way to construct roads? Seems like only flooring is available for houses.
Thanks.

[TargetLost]

Wow that is an idea.. so they could walk faster to the far places. Would love this.

[michbret123]

Build a low level foundation (wide 1), floor it as you want and you have a piece of road

[wade_gaskins]

Why would you need roads if you have no vehicles?

[Docsprock]

Make trails to increase walking speed?

[Vlad-M]

I was thinking about increasing walking speed and making your base more "appealing".
Sort of the way Rimworld lets you build roads for your base.

[vito74m]

maybe not roads just paths on which survivors have a premium to move :)

[Vlad-M]

Originally posted by vito74m:

maybe not roads just paths on which survivors have a premium to move :)

Exactly.
So I guess its not implemented yet..

[BellatorMonk]

I never noticed this as well in that your people have a negative speed modifier when walking in the Dark. So I have taken to putting lights in a "path" covering/overlapping areas with indoor/outdoor lights to make sure they are always at full speed.

[SonofSam]

I would like sidewalks. But there would need to be a way to ensure they take the path given to a general location.

[Ralesk]

Originally posted by SonofSam:

I would like sidewalks. But there would need to be a way to ensure they take the path given to a general location.

In one of my trading scenario maps I made some stone paths between the work building and the residential buildings, and it looks like they rarely walk in the dirt and even take a little of a detour to stay on the "road".

Floors that don't belong to a room don't seem to give the cave dweller penalty, but floor outside under a roof does; so you have to cover it which is kinda stupid/ugly.

(that said I really do find it ridiculous that a survivor would complain about cave dwelling while they're working on the building, or even the carpet in particular — I'm sure that could be tuned a bit)

[Flin Fredstone]

Example of sidewalks from an older playthrough.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2982467374

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2982467337

[Flin Fredstone]

Indeed no speed bonus. Makes it only look nice.
You can place platforms to make paths too and have them lined with small fences.

[Flin Fredstone]

To place fences on top of platforms you will need to make them wider than 1 tile though, so there's that. I placed my fences alongside the 1 tile platform paths.

[76561199056944839]

Originally posted by Vlad-M:

Is there a way to construct roads? Seems like only flooring is available for houses.
Thanks.

Hey Vlad-M! You can build floors, as you mentioned, and you could potentially use said floors as pseudo-roads. But there's no road building or terraforming in Stranded: Alien Dawn, and we don't have plans for this at the moment.

[Damokles]

Originally posted by JensErik_Frontier:

But there's no road building or terraforming in Stranded: Alien Dawn, and we don't have plans for this at the moment.

That is quite unfortunate. IMHO there needs to be a way to speed up survivors, so that they aren't so constrained by distance. The map is huge, but you can't get very far in a reasonable amount of time. The alternatives would be ATVs or other kind of vehicles, but having some roads sounds like a natural thing to have.