base building needs work

[Titanium Jesus]

From constant "not connected to structure"errors for roofs that would clearly be connected to building something in a way that the game won't allow you to build a second time, this game's building mechanics are horrifically inconsistent. It's an exercise in patience and hair pulling trying to build anything past a platform.

[King of Amazons]

Pathing needs work, too. It's the reason my bases are shoddily-made outdoor areas, with the houses used for beds not even having all four walls.

[HareMoose]

Yes, the snap point for placing roofs and stairs is awful. I am hoping that building will really get some love in the future, having a cool base is my favorite part of survival games.

We should be able to (especially in singleplayer):
1) Enable at least some mild clipping or overlapping.
2) Disable the building restrictions in certain areas (like boss areas).

[Titanium Jesus]

uuuuuugh... not to mention what just started happening...
Can't place anything because the game keeps putting the ghost construct on entirely different floors...

[Titanium Jesus]

and destroying construction that isn't finished yet when i try queuing another...

What is even going on anymore?

[Acey Drgn]

It's definitely a lot better than what it was two updates ago. They would sit in a tree and starve to death previously.

[Gorem]

Yeah, the pals in the base work soooo well compared to release. The game is in such a good state now. Not played for a long time and picking it back up all the bugs I found are fixed and Pals are not being stuck at all anymore. Its great.

As for base building, that will most likely take awhile, best you can do is try the base building mods we do have, some of them can remove the "something is already here" thing.

[Titanium Jesus]

Actually, Gorem, Pals are getting stuck periodically on... nothing? And starving to death from time to time. We are on a server so that might be the reason for most of these issues; though I wouldn't know why. At least my initial reason for posting is ubiquitous. Building is janky even on single.

[Tachyon]

If you climb up a building's wall to place roof sections they'll snap in place where you want them to every time.

[Garble]

It's significantly better than it used to be, not that it couldn't still use improvements, just that they have pushed a lot of it in the right direction, they just need to a couple more times. I've been having next to no issues since I started playing again though. I've had to manually reset pals like 4 times across my now 6 bases each with 50 pals where as in the past 3 bases with 20 pals each would have me frequently resetting all 20.

[Ardail]

ya the building in this game feels like it was lifted from fortnite and is INCREDIBLY restrictive
and that's me coming from play ARK, which isn't great but at least you could be creative in it
Why can't I put a roof next to an existing wall? why aren't there upside down triangles to fill in the gaps of some roof patterns??
Why is there no corner pieces, or pillars? Trimming? steeper peak roofs? double doors?
the game just feels like you're only allowed to build a box with a single peak roof on it and it's burnt me out of wanting to play the game ngl

[Atert]

I use a mod to remove that annoying "overlapping structures" warning and it made building soooo much better, but still the base building as with many other mechanics still needs a lot of work.