Hey while the keen builders are here, does anyone mind if I ask another question that’s been bugging me for ages?
Is it possible to build a round structure on top of a square one? Like a square base with a round tower on top? My brain can’t see a way to do it with the way pieces snap, but spatial reasoning is not my strong suit
I can’t speak for the advanced builders… my skills are okay, but not as advanced as many other content creators. I’ve tried building a round tower on top of a square foundation, but found the support pieces constant trying to interfere. What I ended up doing was building the tower and then, with the help of @Multigun mod Steam Workshop::Less Building Placement Restrictions - v7.4.2 I was able to build a square foundation “intersecting” the round tower to give the illusion that the tower was on the foundation first (the pieces would clip into the tower edges).
But I didn’t like how it turned out, so I don’t do that in my other builds. Maybe someone else has better advice, but that’s as much as I can offer.
Ah damn, I’m on PS. Thanks anyway.
@Marcospt thanks so much mate that looks like it works! I still have a lot to learn about the building system even after all these years, because I mostly build small camouflaged caches in rocks and stuff. I still don’t fully understand stability. Things seem to stay up with less than 100 stability, but not forever? The lower stability bits decay first is that right?
I just thought it would look cool to have a big flat block made of foundations and ramp pieces sloping up, and then a wheel of pain in a round tower on top of it. Maybe it’ll be hideous. I’ll have to try in single player some time coz I’m in a war at the moment and can’t be building frivolous things!
Not directly, it doesn’t change a piece’s HP when they have lower stability. But obviously if you use a hammer to work out which things are load bearing you can cause massive damage with fewer bombs…
Yeah I know 
I wish there were a few more ramp pieces, like inverted corners etc.
Edit: what I was talking about with decay is I’ve noticed I can sometimes get a piece to snap when it says there’s not enough stability by surrounding it, but often I come back in a day or two and that piece is just gone.
Technically yes but it functionally sucks… @Marcospt showed you how. I hate it because it’s very limited. If I know I want rounded sections in a build I use layers of wedge foundations in the base foundation floor plan to allow it to happen.
Another option you got in round on square foundations is if you build in a cave, you build the rounded part from the ceiling down. In essence, you build a round ceiling base down to your square base foundation. A bit more function.
I like the design of the castle that you are showing me and I’m trying and I see that things are looking good for me in learning. 
can I add more length on the front side, back side, left side and right side so I can add a gate and make it bigger too ?
It all depends how big the round (they are always 12-sided) towers are. The walls always need a mantle of triangles. You can make the rectangles in the middle as big as you like, you can make a grid or a building with tower in the middle.
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Done this trick I like it creativity.
Sadly a pillar not snapped in the middle of a foundation breaks eventually 
Its better to always snap a pillar to the ground, this can be done by using ceiling instead of foundations.
You can build round (without tricks) on top of a triangular base and also on top of a parallelogram. You can also make a platform that is square-ish where two sides are bit jagged. And finally you can use a partially unfilled perfectly square foundation by extending the four sides which form a square using fence foundations. Maybe easier to visualize by looking at the graphic:
Yeah I see and I’ve used it too a lot
But after some updated they break
It happened to me many times pillars breaking on foundations or ceilings.
If the pillar is connected to the ground you are 100% safe (pillars can go through ceilings, not foundations).
It might has to do with stability it shows 100 stability but for me it still breaks after a period of time (can still stay for months before it breaks).
I don’t understand if you’re agreeing or mounting an agreement so… umm…
Been there, don’t want anyone to have the same fate I had haha
My entire roof had to be rebuild back then, and some other supported structures…
Yes of course you can. I kept it small so I can screen capture it all. The perimeter pattern remains the same regardless of size
BTW, it’s also possible with some building sets to place fence foundations through counter-aligned blocks in order for form your square on top of a round. It’s perfectly stable but these latching rules may change in future making the expansion of a such a build difficult or troublesome.
3.0 is in TestLive now, we can go test various ideas like these. 
I’ve been downloading it for five minutes.
