Platform: Xbox Series X
Issue Type: Gameplay
Game Mode: Online Private
Server Type: PvE-Conflict
Map: Exiled Lands
Server Name: Magna Terris
Bug Description:
“Invalid Building Location” in B7 north of Sepermeru
Bug Reproduction:
I built a base on a private server north of Sepermeru over the past couple of weeks. At some point yesterday, I was unable to put down any placeable, thralls or build. The server has been restarted since. (There are no mods obviously as this is Xbox).
It also seems this was called out previously with no resolution @Community.
It’s not clear why this area was buildable before (as you can see), but then suddenly stopped. Land claim on this server is 0.26, and even enabling build anywhere didn’t allow me to place thralls.
Don’t know how you managed to build there to begin with, that whole area is supposed to be a forbidden location.
Not being able to build there isn’t the bug, it’s the other way around.
As mentioned in one of the threads you linked: Sepermeru was redesigned late in EA, but it’s borders have never been redrawn accordingly, that’s why there’s a whole slab of land there where you can’t build.
Which honestly is a good thing, because the other side of the city is often a sandshack slaving slum…
Same issue on my private server. extensive base established around that mesa for months until suddenly unable to build or place thralls. Issue began on the release of chapter 3.
Ended up abandoning the site and built elsewhere. i was guessing that the area was being reserved for future content and events not that it was an old no-longer claimed but now claimed again part of Sepermaru.
That is bizarre.
As it’s on a private server, the first question is going to be (and it’s fairly obvious but just to be certain) are you the admin of that server?
Then we need to go into the server settings and make sure than nothing got changed, that ignore build and placement restrictions is still activated, ect.
Sometimes settings get reset or hiccup for any number of reasons or no discernable reason at all. Pays to double check.
As for the longer term issue of this…
This one recalls until somewhat recently we could build inside some parts of Sepermeru itself. The exclusion zone not marching the city walls was hilarious. Leaving the northern annex verboten is not good in this one’s opinion. PvE servers shack clutter is a feature, not a bug. An actively moderated and administered server can easily avoid these problems otherwise… Gotta let decay run it’s course. Do purges opportunisticly and indiscriminately slay everything in the area?
Purges tend to spawn to the ne and nw of the mesa… then leisurely stroll around the base of the mesa to the ramp, then up to whatever player structure it decided to target. my ale house was a frequent target, ignoring the stables, smithy, temple, map room, and ‘palace’
Yes, i’m admin. yes, I checked the free build setting. while I can build in dungeons (!!) and north of the mesa I cannot build on top of that mesa any more. fun.
could be a mod interaction, but i’d expect LBPR to have fewer restrictions vs more.
From reading those other threads (and I will test when I get home) that build anywhere doesn’t allow you to place thralls anyway? If that’s the case, something definitely changed here because as you can see in my original screenshots I have some thralls already placed here.
Build anywhere was never on our server. I don’t play as admin. Creative mode is on/off at times, but even when put back on I couldn’t build or place.
