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[✨Bearnwyn✨]

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~ UPDATE 29 Dec 2017 ~
When the next update (0.54) comes out (any day now) I'll be revisiting this thread including materials from the building depot.
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WildDogsGaming - please use/edit as required.

Will edit as more info becomes available.
Information gathered from v0.50

Obtained from HDS truck at the vehicle store, SW on map
Currently unlimited amount for free but this may change with game updates.
Separate visits to vehicle store needed for each material type.


DEVS
Could we select the colours for materials, even if it’s from a limited palette?
To personalise would be more immersive.

Everything grey in the house looks so bland even though better than before the rebuild.
The mustard yellow of the plaster walls is too strong for me, prefer colour prior to rebuild.
The bricks are great and I like the plank flooring although spoilt by not aligning.

Currently unable to do anything with dog kennel or children's play area

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CERAMIC ROOF & METAL RED ROOF PLATE ~ CURRENTLY TESTING
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ROOF SHINGLE
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE
Can be used on all buildings.

ISSUES
Storage area roof (next to garage) – lays wrong direction. Needs 180 turn on sections.
Large gaps between sections. Can see through. Small gaps on garage roof. Graphics not aligning.

All buildings - roof capping’s are inconsistent and need to be reviewed.
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SHEET METAL - Supplied at start of gameplay.
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE - Replaces Rusty Metal
Greenhouse – structure, tables, shelves
External doors of all farm buildings

ISSUES
Cowshed doors can’t be changed. Devs looking at this.
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AIRBRICKS
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE
House – upper areas.
Gargage
Greenhouse - base already done at start of game.

ISSUES
Garage - A small area at the back of the garage can’t be rebuilt. Tried to fix it from inside and outside of the building, with & without using the scaffolding.
Looking at the back of the garage with greenhouse behind, the area is on the upper section to the left of both large doors.

Would like to have white wash option so mortar is not so obvious colour wise. This would create a stucco appearance.
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BRICKS (Nice colour and finish)
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE
House – outside lower areas, chimney, basement, attic.
Well – in front of house.
Grain storage – area at side of garage.
Barn – lower area. Inside walls.
Cowshed – lower area. Also flashing above wall section.

ISSUES
House Basement - unable to select walls behind shelves in furthest room, chimney, walls next to stairs.
Attic – unable to select chimney
Roof – unable to select chimney
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WOOD PLANKS
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE - Replaces Old Wood Planks
House – floors on all levels, stairs to first floor
Sunhouse – floor, walls
Cowshed
Barn
Henhouse – fence, building (walls, door, roof), nesting boxes, roosts

ISSUES
Floor sections everywhere– the planks do not line up
Hen house left gatepost (looking out towards road) won’t change when rebuild is completed.
Would like to paint/replace the benches.
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SCRATCH COAT (aka wall plaster)
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE - Replaces Old Concrete Plaster
House – interior walls, ceilings

ISSUES
Unable to select ceiling area at bottom of house basement stairs.
Would be good to have optional colour for walls and white for ceilings
How about patterned wallpaper as optional material?
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CONCRETE PLASTER
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE - Replaces Old Concrete Plaster.
House entrance exterior and strips on exterior walls on upper levels.

ISSUES
Unable to apply to strips on garage. Would like to look like white wash to match airbricks.
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WOOD GLAZE
Source: HDS Pickup & Building Material store

USE
House interior doors. Grey colour with new handle.
Garden fence – pickets replaced/mended

ISSUES
House doors – prefer white colour
Garden fence – would have thought using wood planks would be more suitable as the pickets are being replaced. Perhaps pickets could be another material item?
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[WildDogsGaming]

Looks like good info, and further than I have gotten on the house! Thank you! I am hoping for a paintbrush for the walls, have a different color we have to buy at the store.

[tom]

Bearnwyn, this is really nicely put. We will discuss it.

Adding other materials, or other colors of materials is possible, but pretty lengthy considering all the material cross-references and number of replacement meshes. We will think about color changes without multiplying materials and elements though.

We will look through the issues as well.

[✨Bearnwyn✨]

Thanks Tom, as I said to WildDogs, let me know if I can help with anything.
I see a great future if we all stick together.

[Fores]

Nice one Bearnwyn
floors we should be able replace the floor tile
And piant the rest off floors not just 2/3 rooms
And tidy up the kitchen units fridge cuborads
Also would like option to render the airbricks on house / garage/barn
Qption to piant the hen houe= cowshed =large barn= gazzbo =dog kennel =
Outside seating and child play aera would leave outside looking good
How about option to concrete tarmac the yard at some time

[✨Bearnwyn✨]

Thanks Fores, great ideas.
Can't wait to get that bath cleaned out and the kitchen scrubbed. I think Grandpa kept the animals in the house judging by the state of it when we moved in. The devs need to add a doctor so we can get treated for food poisoning - the state of that fridge! Dread to see inside it!

[Fores]

lol bearwyn
yes same here cant wait get that cooker up and running so can make the canned food
and get that furnace in the basement working cold at night with no heating working at moment
soon maybe

[✨Bearnwyn✨]

引用自 Fores：

lol bearwyn
yes same here cant wait get that cooker up and running so can make the canned food
and get that furnace in the basement working cold at night with no heating working at moment
soon maybe

I'm in need of air conditioning, so hot here ...
Looking forward to preserving the food, haven't seen any pumpkin soup yet - have you?

[Sebastian||the-bass-tian]

ok...this is an quite old thread but I can´t find an answer so I give it a try...

Is it by any chance possible to change the building material of an existing structure?
For example: the straw-shed consists of wood planks and bricks...
I want it to be completely made from bricks... Is that possible? I was not able to to, but maybe I´m too stupid... :D

Edith says: and if I´m not too stupid, why is it this way? It´s not a bug, it´s a feature?

[Merck]

No that is the way the building system in the game currently works. Wood stays wood, bricks stay bricks. Note: technically both the regular bricks & the Air bricks can be 'plastered' over (mustard yellow color). Note 2: Doors can be changed to metal or left with wood (plain or glazed).

Maybe a future update will add such possibilities, along with a wider range of color palette.

[Tryst49]

Would be nice to be able to build your own home on one of those large areas of open ground. Do it like a base building game such as Planet Nomads or Empyrion. Lay foundations, build walls, ceilings and so on and then a roof to finish it off. Even if you have a maximum size you can build, it would be better than staying in the house you start with.

The same goes for building new barns, workshops and silo's. Allow us to make them bigger and better which obviously costs but allow us to build them as we want with the layout we want on a piece of land that isn't otherwise used.

In addition, allow us to make new fields on waste land. There is so much wasted land on this map.

[White Lies]

Is there a better way to tell what surfaces accept which materials in the current/later version? I found out that the old wood planks separating the cows can be replaced with metal. Would be nice if there was an information panel somewhere or Engineer's sight highlighted surfaces while you were holding certain materials.

I didn't know I could change exterior doors from wood to metal until I was just running around with metal sheets and looking at things. Current plan is to buy wood and look around before replacing the obvious surfaces to see what else I can change.