Too many Pillars needed when building

[MackZ48T2]

I totally love this game, and cannot stop playing it, just the only thing that bugs me is so many pillars are needed, it looks like a forest of wood ... pillars. Is there some way we can spread the pillars out some more? Not every two blocks. I was going to build a really nice indoor living room/kitchen etc, but the pillars ruin everything with that. Im sorry but this is my only gripe.

[seven]

Start a creative game and play around with horizontal pillars. You can make 5x5 block clear areas easily enough. Maybe bigger, haven't tried. Sorry it's at night.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832097590

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

You only need 4 pillars in each corner for every 4 tiles

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Originally posted by seven:

Start a creative game and play around with horizontal pillars. You can make 5x5 block clear areas easily enough. Maybe bigger, haven't tried. Sorry it's at night.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832097590

ah yes horizontal beam from new update may increase the size per 4 pillars needed

[Siestalavista]

I made my designs like as you mentioned, one for every 2 blocks. However, there are new "horizontal pillars". I'm still trying to understand how it works but they give you more space then 2 blocks. I need a free time to try them in creative mod to understand its basics.

If someone figured out already, I want to listen or read the guide.

[seven]

Here is a better picture. And to span 5 blocks you can use two long horizontal pillars and one short one in the middle. I didn't get 3 longs to work. You'll need to span pillars across the middle area too.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832099521

[seven]

Hmm, that 5 block span seems a bit misleading. When I was testing before it seemed that was the limit, but just now I thought I'd try it in a real game in case physics were different than creative. I spanned 6 blocks with no problem, could have gone further, and then started building to the side. I could have gone further but didn't want to waste more materials. It looks like we can make huge open areas now. That doesn't seem right.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2832103444

[DanKara]

I believe, you only need 1 (vertical) pillar. From that you can expand with the support beams ('horizontal pillars' in every wich way). Placing the beams is tricky at times.
The 'floor tiles' still need to connect at one of their sides to either a wall or a beam. So placing the beams at an 2-row-interval might be best.

[MartyS]

The horizontal beams give you unlimited span, you could just put one vertical pillar in the middle and work out from there with horizontal beams and make a huge floating platform.

It can be tricky to get floors to attach to the beams, I haven't quite figured out why sometimes you have to add short horizontal beams between long ones in certain places just to get the floor filled in completely, but with a combination of long and short beams (or all short ones) you can do it.

Placing them can also be tricky if you are putting them under the floor you are standing on, you have to keep hitting R to rotate them around where you are pointing, if you have one floor block that won't go down getting short beams around the hole so you can fill it in can take some trial and error.

[Xas]

Horizontal Beams
the QoL that had made building effortless and limitless in the ' Float ' aspect.

[Quinafoi]

You don't actually need any pillars...

For example, I made Mario floating in the sky with 0 pillars (vertical or horizontal).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2831606968

[Quinafoi]

Pillars are useful in setting up the build, but they aren't necessary to be retained if you know how to build floating platforms which is something that can be done in the base game. You can search for how to build floating floors and there are several guides that showcase the technique.

[Grezko]

Originally posted by Quinafoi:

You don't actually need any pillars...

For example, I made Mario floating in the sky with 0 pillars (vertical or horizontal).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2831606968

My advice is not use this bug/exploit as one of those day they might fix it and your entire raft will collapse :D

[Quinafoi]

Originally posted by Grezko:

My advice is not use this bug/exploit as one of those day they might fix it and your entire raft will collapse :D

Considering the technique has existed from the early days of early access and they haven't fixed it, it's unlikely they intend to. Also things like this that allow for more creative freedom in a creative game aren't likely to be removed intentionally, unless the developer wants to make the game worse for some reason.

[mota]

I don't think there is any limit for the horizontal pillars. I currently have build a 16x6 area with only 4 vertical pillars at the corners. And i think it could be done with only one vertical pillar

[Quinafoi]

Originally posted by mota:

I don't think there is any limit for the horizontal pillars. I currently have build a 16x6 area with only 4 vertical pillars at the corners. And i think it could be done with only one vertical pillar

Assuming the pillars are all connected, you could remove all the vertical pillars.

There is no limit to horizontal pillars other than game limitation (i.e. building far enough away from raft center that the raft itself unloads).