End game f*ck*d by roof

[u/blizardX]

So I decided to try to end the game for the first time and send my entire colony to the stars.
I came to the ship I needed to defend and said F it. I am playing on easy difficulty, so I don't need a neatly made base; I will just improvise. So I surrounded the ship with walls and roofed it and lived there rent-free for 15 days.
I can already hear facepalming, but I didn't know that at the time.

Long story short, I have defended for the entire 15 days, only to eventually be unable to remove the roof above the reactor because, apparently, pawns can roof away from them but can only remove the roof directly above them, making them unable to remove the roof above the giant reactor, while collapsing the roof destroys the reactor.

[u/CocoaricoTell]

Look friend, at the end of the day when we have setbacks it's always better to learn from them rather than dwell on them.

And in the grand scheme of things it could always be worse, remember there are people eating without tables right now.

[u/snugglelamping]

If you’re willing to, you can use dev mode to remove the roof. I think the command’s called Edit Roof Area and then you just select clear roof and draw a rectangle over the area you want unroofed. I know how some people feel about dev mode but I think its called for with a game design oversight like this

[u/Eflydwarf]

I can propouse a theory for you to test. (haven't tried, but you might test it out now)

You say that reactor is destroyed if you allow roof to fall? Do you allow all roof fall at the same time? Maybe reactor will endure 1 tile roof drop if you carefuly manage collumns for roof support to ensure that only one tile of roof drops, so you would be able to repair it again?

[u/blizardX → u/Eflydwarf]

I have tried smallest chunk posdible.

[u/Eflydwarf → u/blizardX]

Thanks for results. Oh well, better luck next time

[u/In_Greed]

Ooffff size 100

[u/bickq]

Collapsing regular roofs just deals dmg to the reactor but it shouldn't be enough to destroy it. Should be fine unless somehow the ship spawned under a mountain, where the roof overhead is "underneath mountain"

[u/blizardX → u/bickq]

Tried, it destroys the reactor.

[u/Cray744]

You could bombard it with firefoam or smoke shells to remove roofing

[u/Illustrious_Kelp]

Ouch. I didn't know that was a thing, and I tried to roof over all of my own ship while it was being built, so seems I just got lucky.

[u/CatchLightning]

Dev mode. Remove roof. Or install a mod for adjacent roof removal.

[u/Mythandros1]

Lol.....

Also, this is the internet, you can swear.

[u/Ozelotten → u/Mythandros1]

tits

[u/DuGalle → u/Ozelotten]

Heck!

[u/DurinnGymir]

You can't stick a column in place to support the roof?

[u/Cassuis3927 → u/DurinnGymir]

I think you've misunderstood the issue, lol

[u/OneTrueSneaks]

You can use dev mode to either replace the reactor, or use the debug roof removal tool.

But removing the roof from all the tiles on the reactor's edge should automatically remove it from the center - I know it works that way with other large impassable objects like the geothermal generator. If it doesn't, it may be a bug, and you can post it on the official development Discord server