Newbie trying to create a stamp for use

[r33s2]

All I get from google is how to use them

[Chaosium]

Easiest way is to go in Creative mode so you have everything unlocked, then place your buildings, hit O to toggle the Stamp mode, and drag the mouse to select all the buildings you want to stamp together

[Whispdragoon62]

I don't see how stamps can be that useful. The terrain is always a challenge in this game. You're always going to have to manually fill in odd areas on any island ultimately.

The only stamp I would use is an early game soap layout.

[Chaosium]

Keyword is ultimately, you don't fill 100% of an island until very late in the game, at which point you need to redo layouts with TCs anyway, but stamps are useful every time before that point

[POWER WITHIN USER]

You're obviously not going to use a stamp to perfectly fill up an island with houses and factories.
Stamps are for quickly placing down predesigned city and production blocks, which can be designed so that they're small enough to fit in most islands - if they still don't then you can manually place whatever was blocked by terrain.

When you're near the end and trying to get the absolute most out of an island, you're not going to use templates.