unable to attach any 'building' to crane? :?

[Krieger]

I was under the impression you coudl run say a tree bridge from the crane to another building, but seems i can't.
Can any object attach now? :)

[phoenix_death12]

Rock Walls; then you can run custom floor on top of those

[nobbers]

I put a platform next to the crane and attached a tree bridge. Just have to be careful (as you may already know), if anything collides with the crane it will be destroyed.

[Just Chill]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1547449943

I only used a crane at
5:00
and
13:05

Always built the crane first and then the rest around it.
However, I either used the "Better blueprints" mod to get less building restrictions.
If you remove the mod afterwards the buildings still stay in your savegame (yet).

However, I haven't seen any snapping behavior with and without any mods regarding the crane.

The one at 13:05 was tricky.
I build the walls around it and then added a floor on top (which was luckily fitting the height of the floor).
Then I had to cut out the floor precisely to allow the crane go through it.
Luckily the crane cannot be destroyed by the cutter for that purpose probably.


If I remember correctly I once moaned about the indestructable crane. Yet you can destroy it with your weapons so fair enough.




However, fine tuning is difficult especially if you are not in Creation Mode.
If you place something wrong... Hundreds of logs coule be lost. oO

[Krieger]

I built my base on the south south/east cliff , south of the cannibal camp, the next opening to the right of the yatch, as i am sure many do, ya know, along side the walk way down, :D

Made a crane on the beach thinking i could just run a tree bridge from the crane 'log' no go, in everyway, no stone wall, nothin.
Ttrying to make a platform from the cliff face and then possibly a custom stair that i lay flat to reach it.
nothing working so far,
thanks for the comments :)

[nobbers]

If you feel like taking the trouble and adding a screenshot of the crane in your map, I'd be more than happy to take a look.

I'm no self professed master builder, but I've done quite a bit of different things in the game building wise. Pretty much all I do these days after finishing the story.

EDIT: I've added a couple of pics of how I've used the platform with the crane so I can have a tree bridge to it. Hope it helps with some ideas....

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1549680711
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1549680760

[phoenix_death12]

Originally posted by nobbers:

I've done quite a bit of different things in the game building wise. Pretty much all I do these days after finishing the story.

hell yeah <3

[Krieger]

Cheers, i managed to do it but i used fly mode in cheats to place the stairs in the direction of the crane, you could call it cheating but if you ask me the task to be able to position them toward the crane is impossible, possible with multiplayer as one can lower or raise the crane allowing the other to line the stairs up, i'll post a screenshot later :)
Thanks for all the help :)
(i used ultimate cheatmenu just to line up the stairs, the rest was normal play)

[eclipse]

Fly mode is must for easy building with near perfection and no hitches along the way. Even so its still trial and error alot just not nearly as much.

Should be added to the in game console commands.

Are you able to mouse wheel blueprints in/out yet?

[phoenix_death12]

Originally posted by Bobisme:

Cheers, i managed to do it but i used fly mode in cheats to place the stairs in the direction of the crane, you could call it cheating but if you ask me the task to be able to position them toward the crane is impossible

scaffolding :D

but w.e u already have cheats, no need

[nobbers]

^^ I found it strange that 'fly' mode was not part of the dev console commands - agree with eclipse it should be added.

Did find 'invisible on' very helpful once after Cowman got all excited and knocked my log cart in to 8 feet of water B) The fact that you can only interact with certain items under the water is a bit weird. Pushing a log cart out or picking up a shark head (or dead cannibal) seems reasonable enough..... but as you know, anything more than a perceived foot or so of water and it's a no go

[phoenix_death12]

Originally posted by nobbers:

^^ I found it strange that 'fly' mode was not part of the dev console commands - agree with eclipse it should be added.

Did find 'invisible on' very helpful once after Cowman got all excited and knocked my log cart in to 8 feet of water B) The fact that you can only interact with certain items under the water is a bit weird. Pushing a log cart out or picking up a shark head (or dead cannibal) seems reasonable enough..... but as you know, anything more than a perceived foot or so of water and it's a no go

try building a custom floor to stand on (just make a couple of rock walls to sling between) and try looking down through the floor and grabbing them, might give you a bit of extra reach

[Krieger]

I found nothing would attach to the crane at all and i had a bit of a distance, nothing a tree bridge woulfd not have sorted ( if anything attached ) custom stairs from the coast was alright, (it now almost looks like it is attached) but never could get the angle, scaffold is rather costly, if i scafolded i wouldn't have needed to do any else, but at an extra 40 logs, ouch

i see no reason you can't attach anything to the crane, other vids show you clearly can, but any attempt, nothing. Figured an update rather than jamming the crane

I just attached the stairs to the cliff side, flew out so it was straight n vwala, lovin it

[Krieger]

Worked in the end, all be it by flying to allow the stretch.
Also the best place for a base..
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1554607145

[nobbers]

Nice!! Looks really cool

[Krieger]

Thanks :)