This is happening in the middle of my main base on PvE official server and is not a land claim issue as I can place objects immediately below and around the affected pieces.
My roofs were aqualonian style and I’m swapping them out for yamtai. In some cases, after destroying the old pieces I’m not able to place new pieces of any type or tier in that location. I get an “unable to place” message with the sound effect you hear when you place building pieces.
Has anyone seen this before? I’ve logged out and back in and have waited for at least one server reset and the issue is not going away.
I’ve found that I cannot place roof corners over Door Frames, and that if I side-grade from a frame or a wall to a doorframe then these roof pieces will shatter if they don’t have additional support.
At least for the corner pieces, you have to put a ceiling on the other 2 pieces… Otherwise you cannot put it in there.
But that others arent working… Very strange. And as you cannot downgrade or replace T3 with another T3, you have to destroy it
Granted, I recorded that video for a bug report submitted several months ago, so I’m hoping it’s been fixed. Just trying to figure out if the OP’s problem is similar or not.
Check stability in all sandstone ceilings… if stability is ok to support the roof pieces u could try something that may sound curious , but for me works … Dismantle ceiling and then wall. Try placing again wall,then ceiling and ofc roof… not sure, but when a piece is stubborn and refuses to be placed, u destroy the one which receives the piece that refuses to be placed… Works more than 90% of those situations with me
I think I first tried with sandstone doorframe and Aqualonian roof corner (because I had no twigs for the cheapest roof).
But you have to place one ceiling piece. Even when you have the roof on both sides… that is very strange.
Also when you remove the ceiling, the corner gets destroyed.
I have found certain station affect placing as well above and below them. I have had spots a floor below not let me put a wall in because the station on the floor above is “sticking” thru the floor. I couldn’t visibly see it thru the floor, but when i picked up the stations, i was able to place. It may have been interfering with the sockets some how.
That’s curious because for me it’s always the other way around. I must place at least one side piece, and often both, directly adjacent to the corner for it to snap properly toward the inside. IIf I try to place the corner 1st, it always is oriented toward the outside and refuse to be turned toward the inside.
Those corner roofs are really a pain in the as$ to place right.
When that happens to me, I destroy the piece below it (like the wall/ceiling) and re-place it. Then it lets me put whatever piece on top again. It’s a pain, but most often the solution.
So from your picture, I’d try just deleting both the ceiling piece and the wall of one section. Re-place, then try adding the roof piece again.
Though one thing I did notice since a recent patch was an issue with stairs. I used to be able to start at the top of something and build stairs downward. But it doesn’t work, you must build foundations and then stairs, and then delete the foundations. So if my above tip doesn’t work, try deleting a roof piece above where you’re trying to place the new one. Who knows.
