Building 'into' rock

[Rook]

I'm not trying to build a base in a cave or anything, just I'd rather have things clipping into the rock to A) Make it more secure and B) make it look finished. See attatched

PS, I am likely going to be replacing them with more sturdy materials soon enough. Just using wood to outline it

[Klingenmeister]

Yeah, you could do that in the good old times, but then the devs removed it. Dont know why.

[Rook]

Dang. No mods out there? No idea why they'd remove it. Same story as building on the obelisks I imagine. Shame, that would have been magical. Wherever possible I still walk my birds off the edge and drop the first few feet before spreading wings. Still, the Eyrie I'm building is gonna be TALL. Lots of time to free fall

[Khova]

This would be a cool option in non-pvp servers!

[Rook]

As I'm playing by myself, I thought the only real issue would be my ocd. It looks incomplete however it seems that even slight gaps affect the thermal insulation bonus you get when indoors. The mess hall of my place, directly above the workshop, still has one wall incomplete. I was going to have the kitchen through said wall, against the cliff and under a overhang but even when mostly surrounded by other stuff the bonus still goes. Still, I'm gonna stick AC in there soon and there's no shortage of food and water (it's protuding a few foundations into an inlet) so it's not that much of an inpediment.

Though this is really gonna get on my tits

[WasntAFairFight]

People were abusing it and building bases underground that were almost impossible to raid so it got removed. Just another story of nice stuff being abused then removed :(.

[zeon19599]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=496936631

[Rook]

Be nice if the server admin could enable/disable it. On that note, I think I've about finished with my new HQ. Pics if anyone wants to see

[Wulfeh]

Would be nice to be able to clip a bit into rocks yeah +1

[Rook]

Perhaps if they reintroduced it but only allowing one foundations worth 'into' the stone. Also better work with the foundations proper. I've got an entire floor supported by pillars (Yet another complaint there with them poking up a little) when I'd much rather put foundations down against the rock. Looks roughly like:
........_______
........|~~~~~
........|
........|
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######
~=rock
#=Sand/water
.=air
Not used to drawing like this

Building on the lower level, the sand, is no issue. Only the last row of floor is ceiling supported by pillars but the rest is foundations. The crawl space between rock and floor(in addition to ticking off my OCD and being a strategic weakspot) is small enough that a foundation would fit easily, if I wern't trying to snap it to the same grid as the lower level. And trying to place it in by hand is impossible. Even if I can get it to occupy the correct lateral position, it's at the wrong height.

Edit: Zeon, just installed said mode. Merci you beautiful man. Just what I was looking for. (Gonna have to sort out folders for the duplicate engrams but it's more than enough for now.) Now if I can only figure out how to stop my Argent from eating my corpse everytime I misjudge my speed/weight/distance calculations when hopping from the roof to the bronto...

[EpicAdriann]

Yes! This would help out so much.. it's so frustrating seeing gaps when I'm trying to join up walls into the ground like the rest of the building for example. If it really did have issues though, why couldn't they have made it optional - I play on singelplayer so I could've just turne it on and carried on being happy. ^_^

[Rook]

Originally posted by TheRipperRyder:

Yes! This would help out so much

Check out the linked mod. Some particular engrams missing but it's mostly walls and ceilings that are causing me angst at the moment and it's got them covered

[EpicAdriann]

Originally posted by Leona:

Originally posted by TheRipperRyder:

Yes! This would help out so much

Check out the linked mod. Some particular engrams missing but it's mostly walls and ceilings that are causing me angst at the moment and it's got them covered

Yeah, I guess that's pretty good - I would prefer it to be in the main game but I guess it'll have to do :)

[Razor]

If you play solo or on your own server, it seems you can use the console to enter ghost mode (no clip) and place walls through the ground. Worked for me with some pillars anyway, but I didn't try walls.

Just type "cheat fly" in the console, then "cheat ghost". Type "cheat walk" to deactivate both commands (make sure you are above ground). Activating ghost before fly can cause your game to crash, at least in solo. If you are on a server, type "admincheat" instead of "cheat".

Note that you need to be below ground to place walls through the ground (or through rock), placing them from the surface doesn't work even with ghost on.


Aside from that, I think it's been deactivated because people could potentially hide 99% of a wall underground, making it difficult to destroy. With that said, perhaps the devs could avoid this issue by making walls break if they are clipping through the ground and if they are not snapped to a wall that is completely above ground.

In any case I agree, it would sure look nicer if our walls could clip through the ground!