Walls on ceilings, the snapping doesn't work very well? Fix?

[Crimson]

When I do a two story house for example, and have a foundation>Wall>Ceiling>Wall this has two options. It either places on top of the wall, or on top of the ceiling, which is fine. But I find it has a mind of its own when it comes to snapping. Is there a work around this? Or even a mod that fixes this?

It drives me insane. because I will try to put a wall on top of the ceiling, but it will decide to place on the wall below the ceiling.

Hopefully this makes sense.

[Ragnorok]

Nope you didn't see it right... It's a bit hard to make everthing snap perfectly but you can with practice that's why if you're playing unofficial or solo make sure they add in the the s+ mod. It seems though on offical now you can have 30 seconds to pick up items

[Orvman]

Definately try S+ mod (Structures Plus), but you can also use the Q button to help place things correctly. When I found this out I was floored. Helps soooo much with placing correctly. Doesn't work well on rafts though because rafts are in constant motion with the foating. The devs are well aware that their building mechanics for the game are all wacky and hopefully the new update proves that someday it will be fixed in officials so we don't need to always download S+.

Also, some tricks to snapping include building another dummy ceiling off the one you want to snap to to get the wall to go to the correct side or orientation. Watch some YouTube videos for some tips of building in Ark. They really help.

[British Geezer]

Unfortunately its always been this way, I have learnt to build the walls first ceiling/floors last. If at some stage I need to add an extra floor I delete the ceilings the walls want to snap to, then add them back once finished. this is frustrating at first .... but becomes the norm after a while.

[Vyvyvn]

Tap 'e' when placing. Sometimes it will unfark the placement. Assuming you did the last update, The new system lets you pick up stuff you placed 30 seconds or less ago anyways.

[Trigger Zero]

Makes perfect sense lol. Ark building in a nutshell. It'll make you want to punch your screen. You can kind of "pull" the snapping looking slightly left or right, sometimes backing up, or using c to crouch, just getting different angles. Like vyvyn said also, tapping e, but sometimes it just really likes a certain snap point. Really you kind of learn how to manipulate the snap points with experience. S+ also helps a lot, but really it's still a thing. Just keep at it and you'll get the feel of how to manipulate the snaps.

[Cobretti]

S+ doesn't fix this and I disagree that “you didn't see it right”. Sometimes just as you place the wall it will snap to the wrong structure at the last second or simply snap to the one that wasn't even highlighted.

I have tried keeping my finger on “Q” with limited success but these days on big builds I will always place the wall of subsequent levels first and then the floor as British Geezer posted earlier.

As someone that builds a lot I find it very annoying without a solid work around.

[Fanne]

Q = change place , E = flip sides
s+ (triangels + more qalso a lot automatated stuff)
Builders Helmet ( let you pick up strucktures + some building related buttons)
Selffliping parts in the last second, not avoidable in my few.
Walls first give the problem, it mostly cuts the door hight, so I'd prefer to build on the celling.