Black Marble Suggestion

[TrashPanda]

The Arch for black marble needs a few added counterparts for that inset, just doesnt look right when using it. Maybe two pieces can get added a vert and a horizontal with the same inset as those arches? Would really be nice to have.

[RequiemsRose]

+1 on this one

I tried so hard to use the marble arches in a creative build recently, creative, so i can use whatever the heck i want to try and make it work and it just...doesn't. It's bad enough the stone arch apparently has the structural integrity of wet toilet paper so i thought maybe I'd have a usable arch other than the darkwood one, but the marble arch just doesn't line up to freaking anything correctly. Best i could do was line them up side by side along the entire edge of two opposing sides of the building so they could at least line up with each other and that still kind of looked stupid, just better than basically every other option i tried. They are too thin for the 2x1 pieces, too fat for the small marble columns and too thin for the thick ones (and doubling them up on the thick ones makes them too fat instead), nothing lines up to their inset correctly either. I had to place two iron pillars side by side and then overlay darkwood on the iron to make it basically 1.5 thick darkwood (that looks weird with an overlapping pattern) to fit the inset because a regular darkwood is also too thin, 2 side by side is too thick, and the black marble options are basically all too thick.

[TrashPanda]

Exactly, its like its a great looking piece with no supporting pieces to go with it. A shame really...


Come on Coffee Stain, do us a solid on this!

Originally posted by RequiemsRose:

+1 on this one

I tried so hard to use the marble arches in a creative build recently, creative, so i can use whatever the heck i want to try and make it work and it just...doesn't. It's bad enough the stone arch apparently has the structural integrity of wet toilet paper so i thought maybe I'd have a usable arch other than the darkwood one, but the marble arch just doesn't line up to freaking anything correctly. Best i could do was line them up side by side along the entire edge of two opposing sides of the building so they could at least line up with each other and that still kind of looked stupid, just better than basically every other option i tried. They are too thin for the 2x1 pieces, too fat for the small marble columns and too thin for the thick ones (and doubling them up on the thick ones makes them too fat instead), nothing lines up to their inset correctly either. I had to place two iron pillars side by side and then overlay darkwood on the iron to make it basically 1.5 thick darkwood (that looks weird with an overlapping pattern) to fit the inset because a regular darkwood is also too thin, 2 side by side is too thick, and the black marble options are basically all too thick.

[Lil brekky]

in valheim plus free build mode I've been able to make a fairly smooth arch out of the coin-shaped pillar pieces... but it does not use the "official" arch pieces

[FissionChips]

+1. The whole marble set is awkward, and oddly poor structurally.

[Chiller]

+1. Overall, new building pieces are half-baked as is H&H, too.
Another example is that we got nice slopy marble blocks but don't have the corresponding beams and roofs to trim/decorate them.

[jonnin]

The arch exactly fits around a hot-tub so you can stick the smoker outside and keep the item inside a wall. That is its best use with no fitted door for it. Ive got one more arch in my kitchen and it exists to loft a chest up so I have more food storage near my fire. It could have been a wall or columns for that.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by jonnin:

The arch exactly fits around a hot-tub so you can stick the smoker outside and keep the item inside a wall. That is its best use with no fitted door for it. Ive got one more arch in my kitchen and it exists to loft a chest up so I have more food storage near my fire. It could have been a wall or columns for that.

You know, thinking about it that way, it might also fit the front of an oven...that could be neat, even if prefer my kitchen to be a bit brighter.

[bmcpeek]

I agree with all of this. Came here to say the same thing. It's ridiculous, really. I can't imagine why they would design the piece to look so out of place when trying to fit it in with the structure of a wall built from the black marble. And if they plan to have other build pieces with that silly ridge to match the arch, then why didn't they just release them at the same time??

[Lil Puppy]

Black marble has a lot of possibilities for design, but they gave us a huge assortment of pieces that ONLY make a pyramid. The arch piece that can't be used because it doesn't fit ANY other piece in the game... wtf? Why does it have the inset cut? Nothing else does...

I really don't understand designers...
"Here's all the stone pieces!"
"We made black marble pieces that look great and aren't just reskins of the stone pieces!"
-Can only make pyramids with it-
"Can we get reskins of the stone pieces please so we can complete our bases without looking wonky?"
"We made a lot of other decorative things!"
-Players can't build them.

Players like the game, we love base building, we NEED more pieces.
I keep finding that I need several more roof pieces for different combinations but they don't exist. I need the 2x2x1 black marble because that's how I built my base with the stone pieces but I can't replace them cause it would reduce the performance of my base due to needing way more black marble pieces. I don't need pyramids cause I literally can't build those lamp posts you find in the Mists...

Clipping. Texture CLIPPING! You can't attach anything to the stone pieces without stone clipping through the thing you attached... AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
You can't put a floor piece on stone, stone shows through solid wood... You can't add a sign to stone, stone obscures the text...

We need a Polish & Pieces update. And a BUILD CAM. Not being able to snap a piece just because the camera is bumping up against terrain 3m behind your character is super annoying. Adjust the snap points to be looser so we don't have to spend 10 minutes trying to get that one piece snapped in place so our build doesn't fall apart.

[jonnin]

you can build a lot more than a pyramid with marble.
the arch insets are a mess, but the other pieces -- needs a square wall just because alternating 2 pieces is a royal aggravation. You can free float the floor and sign so it still touches the stone but doesn't clip. I agree that you shouldn't have to do that. Marble is smooth and less prone to those issues.