"Wood Pillar" doesn't work properly

[SweatyMcRib]

The wood pillar isn't working correctly. Currently for it to work, you have to place the pillars down and snap them together horizontally, on the ground. This prevents you from using pillars at all if you are building on an unlevel surface. I don't think that is how this is intented to work. I want to be able to make a base on a hill, but this causes that to be impossible. As soon as the pillars go through a solid surface, they should count as a support.

Can anyone confirm if this is intended or not? If not when will it be fixed?

[Cyberjock]

Same issue here... trying to use them to build a bridge a cross a steep ravine... if you start at the bottom and build up you can't ever get them to line up correctly.. if you build from your bridge platform down they have problems connected to steep surfaces which will force you to try and start the complete project over again.

[SweatyMcRib]

Yeah this needs to be fixed asap. Where do we tell the devs about bugs like this?

[󠀡󠀡]

Use fence foundations

[Ribs]

Unlevel surfaces make a LOT of building derp out... I hope this gets improved eventually, because as of now even the slightest difference in terrain level can make building a real headache.

[Scothic]

I've been using pillars snaping downward with ceilings for my floors on hills, the problem is if you are mounted on a raptor and ride up underneath the floors right by the pillars and dismount, it puts you inside the base. I'd hate for ppl to be able to instantly dismount in my base like that :(

[Zarkis]

+1

[Simes]

I guess if you were building for real you would have to figure it out :) no snapping or guiding there.

[Dirk Carpler]

yea but you can cut the pillar in real life...

[7]

Any fix? This is blowing my mind. My dream base is stuck -.-

[[40-1]King_Kosher]

not yet,buddy asked about this issue on twitter but got professionaly ignored

[Meebs]

Not sure if it's a fix or not, but here is what I know so far from pillars:

(edited this part)You don't have to completely start your building with pillars. Instead, place what foundations you can. Once you are unable to build any further with foundations, you can start placing ceilings instead. Place a ceiling that snaps to the foundation. Next you can place a pillar under that ceiling to provide support. Make sure the pillar is centered, and keep building pillars down to the ground.

So now with that pillar, you can build 2 pieces in each direction. On the second piece you are going to need another pillar. You can place pillars UNDER already placed ceilings. Get the pillar under the ceiling, centered. You may have to look down a little to make sure the entire pillar gets under the ceiling (a little will still poke over the top).

You should be able to keep placing pillars under that pillar. Each pillar allows you to building 2 ceilings in each (Straight) direction. It will end up being a pillar every other ceiling.

Hope this helps.

[GeekyGek]

two stacked pillars - place a thatch ceiling on top pillar, extend out one, place pillar extended ceiling, build down with pillar from there. generally works to line up on steep surfaces

[Calthaza]

One slight problem i encountered, is that if you have a pillar that ALMOST hits the ground, but not enough to make it connect, you can NOT put the last little part under it. THAT need to be fixed, please.

[zingo2]

Maybe i can help:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198020658064/screenshots/#scrollTop=0

As you see the big building is half built over a hill. What i did was build a ceiling and then build a pillar from top to down- jumping a section at a time. Its tedious but it works. Also pillars snap everywhere- even if there is a small gap you handle your camera until it shows greena nd you snap it.

[Tak]

same issue here. what a massive waste of wood here ;(. built tons of pillars on a wooden foundation to connect my base up top but failed because it cannot build right into my building so they are not attached. what a joke