Interior stairs

[Ploof Ploof]

how do i place them? it alway's sais "invalid position"
anyone mind telling me what the ♥♥♥♥ a valid position is for this thing?

[MonkeyGamesVR]

try rotating it ans position it, eventually it will fall into possition and or u have the green light to put it there...if not it possibly wont fit there

[Ploof Ploof]

Originally posted by MonkeyGamesVR:

try rotating it ans position it, eventually it will fall into possition and or u have the green light to put it there...if not it possibly wont fit there

i have tried rotating, i can see it fit physicaly, it has the space, it just is alway's an invalid position. It doesn't even try to snap to anything

[Oberst Klink]

I guess, the Devs screwed this part and we have to wait for a fix.

[mbax86]

It seems its impossible to fit interior stairs now i cant fit them at all in cuboid rooms.
And i really need my staircase.

[eram]

Place a floor panel above then try the stairs.

[Jyin]

Sure you can.
But it takes a bit more doing.

The cuboid room stairs can only be placed against the floor piece now.
So add extra room at either the foot or the top of your intended stairs. Place the floor piece at the top of that extra room. Add the stairs. After that you can remove the floor and extra room.

J

[ANONYMOOSE82]

I have found that if you take and place a wall then a floor on top of that wall it will let you place the stairs to the back of the floor panel, then you can just remove the floor that you used as a ceiling and wall and your stairs will stay in place. (You do have to stand just right for it to place)

[jrista]

I had some trouble with this today. However I think I finally figured out the real trick. The stairs require flooring to snap to. The odd thing about placement is, you need to place the little dot that represents the in-game cursor on the edge of the flooring you wish to attach the stairs to. The moment you do that, the stairs snap nicely, regardless of how you are standing.

[Slab Hardcheese]

Originally posted by Jyin:

Sure you can.
But it takes a bit more doing.

The cuboid room stairs can only be placed against the floor piece now.
So add extra room at either the foot or the top of your intended stairs. Place the floor piece at the top of that extra room. Add the stairs. After that you can remove the floor and extra room.

J

+1
This retardation in design of base building is one of the most frustrating things in the game for me, outside of a some remaining nasty bugs that will probably be fixed eventually. At least the stairs have a work around. Try making a 4 story cuboid glass room with storage containers around the outside of the second floor facing in, and with stairs from there up to a third floor just above the storage containers. There is an obscure way to get the storage containers there but I bet most won't figure it out. And you cannot at all finish the 3rd story flooring above them. All positions are unobstructed and the image "snaps", but returns "Invalid Position" for no apparant reason when next to the top of the containers. Maybe those glass cuboid rooms just shouldn't be used even though they look great. I'll try to rebuild using metal floors and walls or something. They seem to have more thought put into the snap functionality.

[Trook]

Ok, now i'm done with this again... I wanted to build a tower-isch base and figured out that ladders suck as hell.
Then i tried to combine these new 'platformisch' stairs but this whole new set doesn't snap to the others.... brilliant...
Well, let's spend more hours of grind to get the inner stairs unlocked just to end up here with more frustration?

Brilliant design! Seriously aren't we able to develop a simple and reliant piece of elevation in this universe?

[goldengoose7]

Originally posted by Slab Hardcheese:

+1
This retardation in design of base building is one of the most frustrating things in the game for me,

Could not agree more!

There is an option...

If you aren't afraid to edit your RAW JSON save file in the NMS Save File Editor, you can edit the XYZ coordinate data and force pieces together like this example of a landing pad merged with a pre-built surface of Concrete panels. (These normally can not be connected to each other)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1556107832

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1556107410

The results are so superior to the in-game options that I would love to have the time to do this with every single base I have in the game, but the process is just too tedious and time consuming.

Primarily because like the in-game building system... The code side of all this is just as clunky and stupid.

[perpetualprose]

Watch youtube base building videos. Some of them show workarounds for parts that won't connect by placing other parts first then deleting them.

[Fyrakin]

Originally posted by Comrade Fluffs:

Originally posted by MonkeyGamesVR:

try rotating it ans position it, eventually it will fall into possition and or u have the green light to put it there...if not it possibly wont fit there

i have tried rotating, i can see it fit physicaly, it has the space, it just is alway's an invalid position. It doesn't even try to snap to anything

Cube stairs can only be connected to the floor block between cubes. Wood/concrete/steel stairs connect easier no tricks needed.

[Furiant]

Greetings from the future. It never got fixed.

[abatoire]

Yeah this continues to be an issue for me as well. For love nor money I cannot convince an internal stair to place on the first floor (UK). However for some reason, I can place external metal stairs? So for some reason the stairs seem to think they are outside? Pass, but I got the metal stairs to place so good enough for now i guess? *shrug*