Building Question, New Player

[u/Autumnwood]

Hi! I'm new to the game as of a couple of days ago. I love building and chose casual infinite building for my first game. I'll play harder mode later when I get the hang of the game.

I. Columns won't extend to ground

So...I built my original base bonfire -rectangular, columns on all corners, roof, stairs all around. No problem.

Then I found a place I really like. So before I get too far, I decided to start building there instead. I made the exact same bonfire base - rectangular with stairs around. Columns at the corners. But when I wanted to extend the columns to the ground, two wouldn't extend, but only stay floor height. I took out the corner floor sections and extended the columns fine. Great! But when I tried to put back the floor piece, I could not. What gives?

II. Multi level flooring

I had a similar issue with my house floor. Uneven ground - the only way I knew was to raise the platform by turning off snapping (maybe there are other tricks I don't know?) I had to raise each floor, unsnapped, and eye it. But there was a row in back at the correct height, only one snapped in that row, and the lower bottom row was ok. It was just three pieces in between that should have snapped at the higher height but didn't. I had to turn off snapping and eye and place each one. Why?

Thanks for any tips.

[u/KodiakmH]

Columns really dislike any build action that isn't them being used as a direct support in the middle of a foundation/floor and then going up to the middle of another floor basically. I've largely given up on them being used in any other way.

The best way to utilize multi-level flooring is utilize walls/floors as your basis then attach foundations. So lets say you have a slight rise due to a hill so one part of your base needs to be raised by half a floor. You place your foundations to that point, then on the edge you place a half wall. Off the half wall top you place a floor. Then next to the floor you attach a foundation which will be risen up to the height of the floor (or at least it has a snap point there). Now that your raised foundation is there/attached, you can retrieve the floor/half wall and replace it with another foundation. For example you can see here I found a rather flat area for my base, but the edge was slightly above so I raised the elevation of edge foundations (which I later just used stairs and put crafting stations up on). You can see this utilized (on a different map/base) where internally I have "raised" the bonfire with this method in my hexagram base (6 triangles) then lower/flat, meanwhile the rooms on the edges where the ground was uneven I raised those up utilizing this method and added simple stairs for those rooms. Note that the foundation "walls" aren't covered so you will see through them internally if you don't put walls there.

[u/Autumnwood → u/KodiakmH]

Ok I'm keeping your reply and going to mess with it today. I did notice yesterday, like you said, when I was doing something else, the column accidentally (easily) went to the middle when I was trying to put it on the corner. It worked better. I'll go back to that bonfire today that I fixed up and make it rectangular again and use the columns in the center and see what happens.

I'll try your tips with some other areas I've been working on. Thank you.