Flying islands

How to find places where you can create islands with no element reaching the ocean.

Understand the grid points

The grid is made up of points where lines intersect.
There are four type of points, or intersections:

• intersections where 3 lines meet
  
• intersections where 4 lines meet
  
• intersections where 5 lines meet
  
• intersections where 6 lines meet

When you are above the water, these points can be connected such that no beam are built under your building. There are three ways that prevent beams to be built:

• Connecting two points around opposite lines of a 4-lines intersection.
  Whereas connecting two points around adjacent lines creates a beam.
  
  
  
• Connecting two points around a 3-lines intersection.
  
  
  
  
• Connecting 3 points around a 4-lines intersection.
  
  

Connecting 3 points around a 5-lines intersection and 4 points around a 6-lines intersection seems to prevent the beam construction as well, but this guide avoid to use 5-lines and 6-lines intersections.

Connect 3-lines intersections

If you find a mesh of 3-lines intersections connected to one another through the opposite lines of 4-lines intersections, you just found a flying island.















Here is the island. You can fill the empty space in the middle without creating beams.



This kind of mesh where exists a close path that connects 3-lines intersection seems to be rare, I only found 2 in hours. But there is another way to create flying islands.

Partially connect 3-lines intersections

By using the 3-points connection around 4-lines intersection feature described above, you can combine partial 3-lines intersections mesh to obtain a flying island.

Conclusion

Have fun hunting flying islands!

Here is a small flying island contained within a bigger one.

Miscellaneous

• The smallest flying island should be a mesh of four connected 3-lines intersections. I never found one.
  
• Two flying islands can be connected with a flying road by following the rules described above.

[FBG]

This is a very large floating island. In-fact you can actually make it bigger by adding two further loops (one off the slim loop and one of the dent on the large loop.

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[ceo of gay furry sex]

All i can find is 3-lines surrounded by 5-lines and ones that go forever outside of the grid. Even partial pattern is problematic to find, since I can't seem to find two that connect to make flying island. Quite frustrated by that :) Will keep searching though

[Youpi]

I have just tried it now and it's still working. If it can be of any help, here is the the last example of the guide above https://pastebin.com/raw/GAkQjM13 .

[marciosouzas]

It still works? I'm looking for the right grid pattern, 3 days passed and nothing

[neoleptic]

Bug or not, supporting this feature by underleveling floating segments by sort of a real floating island made of soil or rock as seen in games like gravity rush or some ghibli-movies would be so amazing!!!

[Youpi]

Well, "partial" patterns are quite common actually.

[admiraltimbo]

this is insane! I think you have to be quite lucky to find the right grid pattern.

[Devanear]

If this is a bug, please don't let it get fixed xD

[Evigmae]

haha, think this is probably a bug xD

[Skull4786]

Sorcery!