building bug

[Lillith]

randomly will get a building bug where it says item cannot be placed, doesn't matter if you move from that area or try different pieces, still cannot build, or can place a foundation and it vanishes through the earth and uses the built foundation from stack.

[Prometheus]

The reason you get the 'piece cannot be placed' problem is because you had a block flash as placeable in that spot when something (usually yourself) blocked that placement. The games remembers this, so when you (or someone else) moves out of the way, the game thinks that location is still blocked, even though it is clear.

This is a resource conserving strategy. Alternatively the game should hit scan each time you move a building piece around.

The fix stupidly easy. Switch to a different type of building block. That makes the game refresh collision. Switch back to the block type you want and continue as normal.

If you know this in advance and have two block types in the hotbar the workaround takes less than a second.

[Lillith]

i have tried that simple fix and the only thing that help is a server reset, and then that is only temporary

[Futa Fanatic]

Sometimes when I get that I place blocks around it and then retry and it’ll usually place

[Prometheus]

It is a collision detection issue. Maybe if you switch too fast, the server doesn't register. But that really is the trick, to trigger a placement rescan.