Using a system of manually-placed scaffolding not unsimilar to earlier in this thread, I was able to get my workers to work. It seems I may have overdone scaffolding - they seemed to need only one ladder for the whole thing and one on the posts.
The new erase function allows you to make a lot more structures than before in Alpha 5. I’m sad to say that the Grand Sina saves are getting too corrupted to load by this point, so this is probably the farthest it’ll get. On to the next!
Short vid. little over a minute. Just me playing with height. Started getting save errors at this point and they wouldn’t collect any more stone and quit working on the roof.
All hyped i decided to begin my underground fortress building. It is on the small side but it was more to try stuff out and not make the most impressive fortress (yet).
On the Image below i made a little farm outside with a stair upwards on the hill where i had a few farms. Down below i made a small entery with a thick wall with double door and lots of braziers and gargoyles. On the right side there is a little dorm, In the middle i got my dining room with lots of chair’s and tables and on the left of the dining room there is a stockpile room with workshops from the 3 crafters and a organized stockpile.
For the record : I tried to save the template of ONE stage of a multi-story tour, just to add it over the top of the last one … and this does not work even if you :
create it with an ODD size … because you wont be able to center it later otherwise, since its align on voxels
you have to put at least a single line of floor to be able to place it since the template must be centered …
So if you find a solution to build tower a little faster, i’m all ears
Another tip. Not sure if it’s been mentioned.
You don’t have to put ladders on every block the entire length of the wall. Putting ladders with a 2 block space between them works fine. The workers can build the block directly above the ladder and one block in either direction to the side.
I just find it easier to double up ladders, back to back to the height of the base ur building. they will build scaffolding on top of the ladders if you do