Using the metal walkway for a railing.

[Jjiago]

I'm trying to make a railing around my landing pad but I can't figure out how to make a corner with them. Is there a way to do that?

[Trucker Bob]

I know what you're talking about but I'm not sure it has multiple sizes/shapes like regular blocks. If you right click you'll know cuz it'll pop up with other options like regular blocks do.

[ArnMan]

1. Could use a diagonal for the corner
2. If placing a row of railings using the inside block, then the perpendicular row to that needs to use the outside block. If you don't have an outside floor block to attach them to, then you can create an outside floor block using the thinner interior wall block.

[Jjiago]

Apparently when you reach the end of the platform with a row of rails that the last rail compromises the block next to it so you can't turn the corner. It may be that I'll have to use a solid "corner" block for each corner...that actually won't look bad! Thanks!

[Itharus]

The only other option is rotate the things every which way and get the "interior" empty space on the outside so it doesn't interfere.

[Tryst49]

It's quite the annoyance in Voxel games that blocks won't overlay to give us complex shapes. Two ramps placed at 90 degrees to each other to create a corner groove and such. Instead, devs have to create an entirely new block to do it. The player collision can find a wall and not pass through it while at the same time, standing in the square occupied by the invisible portion of the cube. So, if it possible to ignore the invisible part of the cube for the player, why can't overlaid blocks be possible? To avoid accidental collision when trying to place one block next to the other, have a modifier key you must hold while positioning the block to allow it to overlay.

I find it most annoying with walls in particular, once they are up, you can't place anything else near that block which often means you can't put anything like furniture or even machinery against the wall. Ornamental plant pots could easily take up a corner where a wall has been placed around it, the fridge for example, does not take up an entire block so move it slightly forward so it can stand against a wall without clipping through it but it can still be put on the same square you used to place the wall section.

Simple things like this would allow us to utilise all of the space we have in a building rather than have huge swathes of it empty around the walls with the furniture and machinery mashed up in the middle.

In a utilitarian base in PVP, this is most apparent, a window takes an entire block but is wafer thin, that means nothing else can go there so we have large spaces empty on one side or the other of that window wall. I can't put a wall, be it a window or physical wall around the hydroponics without creating a walkway inside to allow it. To do so means nothing can be put on the outside of the wall. This will be especially annoying when the LCD screens hit and players want to put signs up, those signs will take up an entire block.

How about an offset? If you select an axis and move the mouse wheel (or have a +/- key combo), you can increase or decrease the offset along that axis if it does not occupy the entire block in the direction of movement, up to the edge of the block. You can't move any part of it beyond the block boundary. Couple this with block overlay, we can place a LCD screen on a wall for example, by moving the screen toward us until it emerges from the wall. Similarly, a fridge can be moved slightly so it doesn't clip through the wall behind it. It might take a little on-the-fly calculation of the unused space within the block so it can be done but the end result will be well worth it.

[ArcticWolf]

IF .. someone could figure out how they made it so that 2 blocks (thin walls or what ever) can occupy the same space like they did in Medieval Engineers (same people who made Space Engineers) and then get the Dev's to do it here, this would be a great help..........

[Jjiago]

A simple solution would be to make a corner rail block...I KNOW they know how to do that!