Placement issue with stone portals

[Alimar]

In my game it seems stone portals can only be placed on ground. When I try to place it on stone flooring or any player built foundation it tells me it's not a valid location.

Does anyone know the placement rules? Seems odd to restrict portals to only be placeable on ground.

[Darren Daulton]

Not sure if it applies to the new stone portal or not, but wood-iron beams used to extend the blue (grounded). Try reinforcing whatever you want to build on with hidden wood-iron.

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Darren Daulton:

Not sure if it applies to the new stone portal or not, but wood-iron beams used to extend the blue (grounded). Try reinforcing whatever you want to build on with hidden wood-iron.

that isnt the problem he is talking about. its not a problem with support values.

tc this is a known issue. was reported to the devs already.

the stone portals hitbox is so large that it has trouble detecting the 2x2 floor pieces as ground. no matter what material.

currently there is 2 workarounds : place it on normal ground or place it on the new grausten 4x4 floors. these are big enough and it works on them halfway decently.

one example is that the stone portal will refuse to place on 4x 2x2 marble floors. but you can place it on marble STAIRS that are stacked. the reason is that the hitbox of the stairs is bigger than the 2x2 floor pieces. the portal is unable to detect MULTIPLE smaller floor pieces below it currently. it always only sees 1 even if there is like 10 below it from the feel of it and it doesnt deem that 1 floor as enough space. and thus "invalid placement"

i tested this with all heavy build floor pieces. it applys to them all. includeing the grausten 2x2 pieces. the 4x4 works because 1 of them is big enough that the portal will register it as big enough to place.

will get patched soon hopefully.

also make sure there is enough space ABOVE the portal. its higher than 3 regular wall pieces stacked on each other.

[Cakner]

I had a similar issue with mine while trying to place it on black marble. I used a piece that was raised slightly more than the rest and kept trying different angles and positions until i found one that worked.

Its not in the exact spot i wanted but its close enough.

[Alimar]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

tc this is a known issue. was reported to the devs already.

the stone portals hitbox is so large that it has trouble detecting the 2x2 floor pieces as ground. no matter what material.

Okay good to know. I was unable to find any information on whether or not this was a bug or intentional. Thanks for the info!

[Nerevar]

safe to assume bug as its not behaveing like any other player structure currently for no real gameplay reason.

[Mr Oger]

I managed to place it where i need by placing a wooden floor on the wall slightly above the actual floor, placing the portal on it and removing the wooden floor afterwards.