Multi Story Building

[Veruca]

Has anyone been able to get multi story buildings with the roof attached?

[andreykl]

Originally posted by Veruca:

Has anyone been able to get multi story buildings with the roof attached?

Perhaps try tutorial, it has a stage where you build a multi story building with a roof.

Originally posted by Veruca:

I have a ceiling and walls for the second story already. It is giving a foundation error. I tried to change the level of the roof as well. How were you able to manage getting a roof on?

trying to connect two buildings on slightly different elevations via doorway gives me such an error(

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Veruca:

I am still able to only get 1 level. I have the DLC so I should be able to get at least 2 levels plus a roof. How are you building it more than 1 story. Are you adding a ceiling and than walls to be able to get the roof to work?

Nope, you don't need walls. To add another level all you need is the floor to be set for the level below (the floor being a ceiling for all levels above the 1st). You don't even have to have it built, just allocated for construction.

Once you have a ceiling/floor in place, go up one more level and you can construct the ceiling for the next level. To go up a level, you use the level tool on the UI in the upper right corner (or shift-mousewheel). you can set up the construction orders for all 6 levels at once, without having anything actually built at all.

This is very interesting. Just starting my first game with this update.

So when planning a multi-level building like this, it's enough to build the bottom level only first (with walls), pause construction on the other ones, but instead of building a roof/ceiling over it, you build the floor for the 2nd level, and that acts as a roof/ceiling for the bottom level? Room complete and fully counts as 'inside'? Then you can un-pause and continue building the other levels as you get more materials?

Or a bit simpler and less messy: You can build a room consisting of a floor, walls and a floor on top (acting as roof/ceiling), and the building is complete? Then build more levels on top later...

[Jaggid Edje]

All levels above the lowest levels do not get floors. The "ceiling" for the level below IS the floor for the higher level. So you build one floor, then stack up ceilings for however many stories you want.

And yes, you can queue it all up without doing any construction. And, to be clear, you do NOT need walls at all. Ceilings require only that there is a ceiling (or floor) below it. Just make sure you do build a floor for the first level.

The game will let you build just a ceiling and auto-allocate the floor, but that causes issues when you want to build more stories above it. So make sure you explicitly place the build order for the floor at the lowest level.

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Also, totally an unrelated aside, but I opened up the mod I had set to friends only to the public, with a warning that it should be considered as "testing" currently. Specifically, I'm not sure how well the game will handle pathfinding for larger buildings with 10 stories (which is the highest my mod lets you set).

[andreykl]

Originally posted by Bjørn:

So when planning a multi-level building like this, it's enough to build the bottom level only first (with walls), pause construction on the other ones, but instead of building a roof/ceiling over it, you build the floor for the 2nd level, and that acts as a roof/ceiling for the bottom level?

Roof and ceiling are two different things in this game. When you order to build a roof (slope thing) characters seem to first build ceiling (which counts as floor for the next level) then build the roof (slope thing) on top of that. You can build a 'ceiling' alone and it will work fine by itself.

There doesn't appear to be a benefit for building 'roof'.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by andreykl:

There doesn't appear to be a benefit for building 'roof'.

Other than the solar roof, you mean.

[Dirtweasle]

I've been experiencing a somewhat related issue where I can build the roof but only a small section at a time now. Used to be able to drag a roof over an entire max size building but now only like a 1/4 section or something like that.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

All levels above the lowest levels do not get floors. The "ceiling" for the level below IS the floor for the higher level. So you build one floor, then stack up ceilings for however many stories you want.

And yes, you can queue it all up without doing any construction. And, to be clear, you do NOT need walls at all. Ceilings require only that there is a ceiling (or floor) below it. Just make sure you do build a floor for the first level.

The game will let you build just a ceiling and auto-allocate the floor, but that causes issues when you want to build more stories above it. So make sure you explicitly place the build order for the floor at the lowest level.

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Also, totally an unrelated aside, but I opened up the mod I had set to friends only to the public, with a warning that it should be considered as "testing" currently. Specifically, I'm not sure how well the game will handle pathfinding for larger buildings with 10 stories (which is the highest my mod lets you set).

I make my outer defense setups and expand from the top. But thats before your mod. Going to test it out in few minutes.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

Do not see the mod in question in your workshop. Did see another I grabbed :-) But not one for floors.

I accepted your friend request, maybe it doesn't show up unless you specifically search for it?
Does this link work for you:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3081657146

So far only using your mod "I already miss my other mods lol" and no issues or warnings at all. About to start hitting normal max height. Going slow with just 4 people and low resources. But so far it is doing great.