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Platform Buildings

Add platforms to your game, such as the swamper platforms, and the one found at flats lagoon. Old buildings are incompatible with the platforms, so copies of all of them that can be placed on platforms are found under a new construction tab "Platform Buildings".

Outpost type buildings are somewhat strange and do not work correctly with platforms, so even if you research them you cannot build one on a platform.

Swamp platforms research can be unlocked at a level 2 research bench, and you need a level 5 bench to get the "Huge Platforms" research that grants the ability to make the flats lagoon platforms.

Placement of the flats lagoon platform is somewhat finnicky, so you may want to place it FIRST, and build the rest of your town around/on it.


Additional info:

The hard part of this was not allowing the player to place the platforms, but rather making copies of items that you can place on the platforms. In kenshi, any building or placeable item is made out of "parts" in the game files, you can see these in the editor. Collisions are actually handled in these parts, NOT in the item itself. This is represented by two values, "above ground" and "affects footprint". "footprint vertical" also matters, along with "ground type". This mod just makes copies of each of the parts of a building that affect the footprint, with the value "affects footprint" set to false. I made sure to make copies of each building, since this actually has a number of other side effects. One such side effect is that doing this allows buildings to be placed on pretty much any surface, at any angle. Because of this, the buildings in my mod can be stacked (you could, say, place a guard tower on top of another guard tower). I know for a fact that you could make lights placeable on the platform by just taking the same approach of making a copy of the light item itself, and a copy of any part that affects the footprint, and then swapping out the values, I just never thought to do it. I didn't really have the patience to do this for any more than just the basic buildings in the game, though there is no reason that you couldn't do it with everything else. I tried to do this with walls, however I ran into problems with connecting them. I wouldn't say for certain that this approach would not work for walls, the problems I ran into might just be due to my inexperience with modding this game. For more info, you should look at the mod "Artificial Island Project Poseidon", the guy who made that had a lot more useful tips on this sort of thing outlined in the comments.