Building is a nightmare in this game...

[BriarRosethorn]

I am about to pull my hair out. This game is becoming less and less fun every day I log in and have to spend 6 and a half hours fighting with some silly small mechanic instead of actually taking care of my animals.

I just wanted to build a shell around my staff buildings so they don't look so ugly. Nothing fancy whatsoever. Just a nice little plain facade surrounding all my buildings so it looks like one big building. No bells and whistles or extra decor. Just walls and a roof.

None of the pieces fit around the buildings properly. I've watched building tutorials and they all just snap in place around all the windows and doors perfectly with no issues. Nobody ever explains what to do when the pieces don't snap perfectly around everything.

I placed all my buildings using grid snap so I don't understand why I would be having issues, especially with my large staff building because the pieces do snap perfectly around the front window and door but not the back windows???

I'm so frustrated. Every single little thing in this game is unnecessarily clunky, overcomplicated, and difficult to work with. Someone please enlighten me about why my construction pieces pick and choose when they want to fit around a window or door and when they don't.

[Varick]

For those double windows use the wall shop front.

[GunRunner89X]

Sounds to me like you need to familiarise yourself with the controls better. Worth watching a building tutorial to get a hand of things.

[xBlackVelvetGrizzly]

you can download blue prints here at the workshop. That saved a lot of time!

[grampers62]

When adding to a facility double click on it first and you should be taken to build mode where added pieces become part of the total structure. Also when you first place a building you should already be in build mode. If none of that seems to be working you can always just click the pencil icon in the facilities info panel to enter build mode. While in build mode you can add other facilities to that building group.

[BriarRosethorn]

Messaggio originale di GunRunner89X:

Sounds to me like you need to familiarise yourself with the controls better. Worth watching a building tutorial to get a hand of things.

Do you have any specific ones to recommend? I've been watching a few and I get the idea but my problem arises when my pieces don't fit perfectly over doors and windows when they snap to the building like they do in the tutorials I've been watching.

Messaggio originale di Varick:

For those double windows use the wall shop front.

Thanks. I have been using the shop front pieces for windows but for whatever reason, they don't fit snugly 100% of the time. They sometimes snap slightly to the left or right of the window, probably like one small grid tile over.

Messaggio originale di xBlackVelvetGrizzly:

you can download blue prints here at the workshop. That saved a lot of time!

Thanks! I definitely plan to take a look and use some of them but I'd really love to be able to bring my own ideas to life myself as well.

Messaggio originale di grampers62:

When adding to a facility double click on it first and you should be taken to build mode where added pieces become part of the total structure. Also when you first place a building you should already be in build mode. If none of that seems to be working you can always just click the pencil icon in the facilities info panel to enter build mode. While in build mode you can add other facilities to that building group.

I think I understand you. After fighting with it for several more hours, I clued in to the fact that some of my buildings were not in the same group and that I didn't have the right group selected when placing the construction pieces. Once I figured that out, it somewhat solved my issue of pieces not aligning properly over doors and windows but I have some buildings that don't want to snap to the right group no matter what I do. For example, my large staff room just won't snap next to my quarantine building in the same group no matter what I do. I find navigating the groups a bit confusing still; how do I merge buildings from one group with another so that they all snap together properly? My construction pieces will snap to the right group if I click on a building from that group but the buildings themselves still give me trouble when I want to move them into a different group.

[Varick]

BriarRosethorn-

"Thanks. I have been using the shop front pieces for windows but for whatever reason, they don't fit snugly 100% of the time. They sometimes snap slightly to the left or right of the window, probably like one small grid tile over."

I mean no offense but I think the problem you are having with the building pieces is the way they fit with each other. The building walls need to be flush with basic facility wall so they
join together seamlessly. It sounds like (and I could be wrong) that you are placing the building piece on the outside of the grid and not the inside where the facility wall is.
Here are screen shots to show what I mean. Again, this may not be what you mean.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2567000845

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2567000884

As to your buildings not snapping next to each other, do mean the basic large staff room will not snap flush with the basic quarantine building? The basics will never snap flush with each other as the game leaves the width of one construction piece wall between them.

Paulsley did a building youtube that might be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP8_dNz9aaM

[BriarRosethorn]

Messaggio originale di Varick:

BriarRosethorn-

"Thanks. I have been using the shop front pieces for windows but for whatever reason, they don't fit snugly 100% of the time. They sometimes snap slightly to the left or right of the window, probably like one small grid tile over."

I mean no offense but I think the problem you are having with the building pieces is the way they fit with each other. The building walls need to be flush with basic facility wall so they
join together seamlessly. It sounds like (and I could be wrong) that you are placing the building piece on the outside of the grid and not the inside where the facility wall is.
Here are screen shots to show what I mean. Again, this may not be what you mean.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2567000845

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2567000884

As to your buildings not snapping next to each other, do mean the basic large staff room will not snap flush with the basic quarantine building? The basics will never snap flush with each other as the game leaves the width of one construction piece wall between them.

Paulsley did a building youtube that might be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP8_dNz9aaM

No offence taken. :) Thanks so much! I do find PaulsLey's videos really helpful so I'll give that a watch.

[grampers62]

Some tips.. go to settings/game and turn off global snapping. Look at the slider for grid height and adjust properly. When placing new parts press and release the shift key to put the item at the starting grid height. If you have used one of the thin flat roofs they almost always throw off the height grid by 1/16 meter to a point where it is impossible to make anything after that line up in the vertical.