How to deconstruct buildings?

[Torque Dawg]

i went to build a vehicle bay and the game bugged out and made a research station. how can i deconstruct it?

[Shork]

You can blow it up with dynamite.
You probably won't be able to rebuild it, though.

[grapplehoeker]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914953868
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914954029
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914954316

[Torque Dawg]

i just researched a new habitat and made the vehicle bay. an unintended extra hour.

[Derpykat5]

dynamite is currently the only way to remove buildings at this point.
WARNING: ensure the following before detonating dynamite:

• no canisters containing hydrazine are near the module (a radius of around 0.5 tether length) as hydrazine explodes. more hydrazine in a small area will make a lager explosion. this will also destroy your canisters
  
• no objects are mounted to the target module. if any are attached they will be flung high into the air, where their physics will deactivate and will require a lot of work to retreive

[/olist]
dyanamite or hydrazine explosions will not break anything exept the target module and surrounding terain, which can be filled afterwards. in order to detonate, pick up the dynamite and place it anywhere on the module. as long as it does not snap to a hardpoint, you can click to place it and then click on the button to make it explode after a few seconds.

[stecph]

i might be doing something wrong here,but i placed it twice right on top of the module i wanted destroyed and it only made a huge hole,the module was intact.
Any clue?

[Martin]

Indestructable Module? Did you put the tnt on the mod or connected to it?

[stecph]

Originally posted by Martin:

Indestructable Module? Did you put the tnt on the mod or connected to it?

I tried both, but when connected it wasn't giving me the "ignition" button...
I am super noob in Astroneer, I might well do something wrong, but it looked just like in the picture above.

[Martin]

Sounds like a buggy module tbh. Had a few of those myself. Can you supply a screenshot of what you're trying to destroy? The New Research stations might not be destructible yet. Haven't tried myself.

F12 ingame, then goto profile, game, screenshots, open screenshot, copy paste the link into your post.

[Bill Garthright]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914954316

How did you make the ground so smooth after filling in the hole? The game says to hold Ctrl while using the Deform Tool, but that does anything but make the ground smooth when I try it!

I can raise the ground using Alt, but not smoothly, of course. I started my first game having no idea what I was doing (I still don't), and I was dropped at the edge of a cliff. After I built three other platforms, my only option was to build the vehicle bay in that direction.

I added dirt, and I even made a ramp so I could drive the rover away after I built it. But it was a pain to get anything I could even drive over. It's certainly not smooth!

(Now, I don't seem to have the option of building in ANY direction. But that's a different problem. I just found some dynamite. I'm tempted to use it to commit suicide, although my character has died three times already, so that's no help. Heh, heh.)

[Derpykat5]

the flatten tool is a little finicky. it always levels the ground to whatever angle the target area was at when Ctrl was pressed. you will have to mess with the ground to get a good angle. you also have to move the cursor slowly for it to have a good effect. move it too fast and you will just get higher/lower ground. with some trial and error and a little practice, you can get something like this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1240112200

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Bill Garthright:

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914954316

How did you make the ground so smooth after filling in the hole? The game says to hold Ctrl while using the Deform Tool, but that does anything but make the ground smooth when I try it!

This was back in April 2017 in version 154. Dynamite had just been introduced in February.
I used the terrain tool to align the terrain.

[Lil Puppy]

Habitats are indestructible. They, and the Radiated Garbage Disposal creatures are the only things that cannot be destroyed by Dynamite.

Due to the selection radius of the small extension nodes, you can't remove them with dynamite as their selection priority is higher than the interaction of the dynamite ignition button. It's similar to how the zebra balls had an enourmously large selection radius and you couldn't interact with anything nearby.

Also, make sure you don't have any OXYGEN tanks in the explosion radius either, they are quite explosive, just like Hydrazine. It's why sometimes you die from an exlosion and after you retrieve your stuff you O2 tank is missing. ;)

[Bill Garthright]

Originally posted by derpykat5:

the flatten tool is a little finicky. ... you also have to move the cursor slowly for it to have a good effect. move it too fast and you will just get higher/lower ground.

I experimented with it and, oddly enough, the only way I could get it to work at all was to move it back and forth EXTREMELY quickly. I had been moving it slowly - and even more slowly and carefully when it didn't do what it was supposed to do (i.e. smooth the terrain).

But for me, at least, that didn't work at all. Anyway, I don't need it right now, because I started over.

After looking at those screenshots, I saw that I had missed something. In my first game, I've got four platforms leading off from the habitat, and now I'm stuck. Apparently, there are more platforms I COULD build, once I get them researched. But I no longer have a place to attach them.

I didn't realize that I could string nodes along without building a platform on them and that this would give me lots of places to build as many platforms as I want (apparently). So I just started a new game. (And so far, this is a lot better location. So that's nice.)

Thanks.

[stecph]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

Habitats are indestructible. They, and the Radiated Garbage Disposal creatures are the only things that cannot be destroyed by Dynamite.

Due to the selection radius of the small extension nodes, you can't remove them with dynamite as their selection priority is higher than the interaction of the dynamite ignition button. It's similar to how the zebra balls had an enourmously large selection radius and you couldn't interact with anything nearby.

Also, make sure you don't have any OXYGEN tanks in the explosion radius either, they are quite explosive, just like Hydrazine. It's why sometimes you die from an exlosion and after you retrieve your stuff you O2 tank is missing. ;)

It's indeed an extention node. Thanks a bunch for the answer:-)