New House not getting "Home" status

[Atma]

Just finished putting together a very large and very open "castle" style house but it only has the Home icon in 1 very small corner of the House. its a 30x8, 2 story building atop ceilings and pillars. Large and flat areas are difficult to find. Anyway, i put hours into building this house and im not getting the Home status. the walls are made of one windowframe under 1 solid wall. same on the second floor. so 4 levels of walls total. Do i need to replace some of the windowframes with regular walls or do i have to add the window into the frame to gain Home status?

[margalus]

Yup. I always have this issue with big buildings also. Never have been able to figure out what the problems is. I just finished building a big compound, the building is about 12x21x4 walls high. Built entirely on foundations, no window frames yet, 100% walls. I just get the house symbol on a few random spots. I don't worry about it too much. But it is bs just the same.

[Atma]

i was thinking of adding other walls inside the building as well, splitting it into 2 or 3 areas. but i dont want to navigate a maze when getting to my gear, the fabricator, or the like.

[Natjur]

The home buff works out by taking your current location and checking if there are walls, ceiling and roofs in all 6 directions from where your standing and if any direction does not have a wall, ceiling or roof within 5 'blocks', you will not get the buff.

So a room that is 5 by 5 by 5 will have the buff no matter where you stand, but if a room its 6 by 6 by 6, you will have the buff in all spots EXCEPT if your in the dead center

[Atma]

i scattered some walls throughout the house with some results, but the buff is spotty. still seems random even though i know theres math behnid it all. Thanks for the info

[Natjur]

Originally posted by Atma:

i scattered some walls throughout the house with some results, but the buff is spotty. still seems random even though i know theres math behnid it all. Thanks for the info

windows and doors do not count as 'walls' if open. If your on an angle, the walls checked are diagonal and it only takes one of the 6 directions (up down, front, back, left, right) not to have a 'wall' within 5 spaces to lose the buff.

So your windowframes, you put windows in them and they are closed? If not, they do not count

[Maireen]

In SE my workstation is in a 8x6x2 on foundations and there are many random spots with no buff. One of the very corner and about 2x1 from that corner and at 2x2, 3x2, and 4x3.

Also the 8x6x6 on foundation with one gate in the middle of the 6 side wall, there is no buff in any corner except the middle 2x4 inline with the gate.