Roofing Issue for L-Shaped Building

[mhuffmanlee]

I have an L-Shaped building and have all the pieces of the roof done except for one. In contruction terms, it's called a valley. It's the inside angle of the L-shape. I've tried rotating a Corner Roof all poosible ways but nothing works. Anyway to invert? that would take care of my problem. The Corner Roof as it is, would be called a Hip. I've searched the discussions and done searchs but I haven't come across any topic like this issue. I've already destroyed 5 or 6 attempts and now at a standstill. Any suggestion or fix would be appreciated.

[Charles]

I'm trying to deal with the same issue right now as well.......I agree that another valley wedge would be a great addition.
I've simply decided to make as much rectangular roof as I can and just cover the extra bit with wooden floor as a pergola type step up.
You could do a similar thing with two separate roofs with the small square in between as a pergola or do another storey and make a tower with a roof cap on it.

[mhuffmanlee]

I like the the idea of the pergola, and will give that a try. And if it doesn't turn out the way I like it, then a tower it is. Thanks for the suggestion. I was getting ready to demolish the whole thing out of frustrastion and start anew. Good to know I wasn't the only one having the isssue.

[frillen]

I've got a game where I have mined every clay pit that I could find and saved the bricks for experimental builds, I've got almost 300 bricks.
Sometimes I backup and replace my game with this experimental and test building ideas.
Your post gave me the idea to explore what's possible with roofing on L-shaped houses, so I made a little experimental build and this what I found possible :)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957066045
Instead of trying to make a roof valley which I think is impossible I made a balcony.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957066273
There's an opening up against the roof corner piece on the balcony, the game won't let me build anything up against it.

Building in Stranded Deep is very bugged, sometimes you get the message saying that there's something in the way which there isn't.
I many cases there are ways around this.
Roof pieces don't like walls up against them, so a good building rule is always finish one level at a time and always build roof corners as the first thing when you get to it, then walls/half walls and finally the rest of the roof.
You will still end up in situations where the game won't allow you to build something, but you'll improve your chance for success.

Like I said, the building feature in Stranded Deep is bugged, it would be so great if they decided to set it free and give us an option to hold down a key while trying to place a building piece that won't fit in and then it would turn blue and be placeable no matter if something is in the way or not - This would save builders from a lot of frustrations and using more building material than what's really needed because of all the redoing :)

Edit:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957115066
The middle roof sections are open, roof corner sections are closed with an invisible wall on two of the sides(See the spears hanging in mid air)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=957115663
While the roof middle sections are open you still cannot put a wall against it.