# Building Fences

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [July 13, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910 "2018-07-13T00:48:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![TheDarthDuncan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/thedarthduncan/32/63726_2.png) [@TheDarthDuncan](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/TheDarthDuncan)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/1 "2018-07-13T00:48:57Z")

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**Summary:**  
So, making fences manually and placing them in the world works perfectly fin  
Yet, going into the builder mode to design a building, and then placing the fences in there, doesn’t quite work. The game will tell you that the Hearthlings can’t figure out how to build it, yet doesn’t give any red blocks.

I figured this out by building a building with fences. Trying it to get the error, and then removing only the fences, where it then worked.

**Steps to reproduce:**

1. Design a building
2. Add Fences
3. Profit

**Expected Results:**  
The expected result would be either red blocks telling me what can’t be build, or simply the building being build as it should have.

**Actual Results:**  
A message showing that the Hearthling can’t figure out how to build the building, without any red blocks showing which blocks they can’t reach

**Version Number and Mods in use:**  
release-874(x64)[m]

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**Author:** ![sdee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/sdee/32/65441_2.png) [@sdee](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/sdee)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/2 "2018-07-13T01:29:45Z")

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Thanks for the report! This is very annoying 😛 If anyone has any tips on how to reliably repro this, that would really help

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**Author:** ![Karma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Karma](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Karma)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/3 "2018-07-13T01:46:57Z")

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Can confirm that I am also getting this issue, I can’t make fences with the Design Building tool, it says that my Hearthlings do not know how to build them, but none of the pieces are in red. Hopefully this gets fixed soon so I can make properly looking pastures and parks!

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Rogers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/joshua_rogers/32/51416_2.png) [@Joshua\_Rogers](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Joshua_Rogers)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/4 "2018-07-13T01:47:11Z")

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I don’t know if this is of any help, but I’m currently running A24 in the stable branch without any mods, and I’ve built a two buildings (a hospital and a stoneworks) that incorporated fencing without any problems. In both cases the fences are external to the buildings themselves, if that makes a difference.

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**Author:** ![sdee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/sdee/32/65441_2.png) [@sdee](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/sdee)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/5 "2018-07-13T01:52:42Z")

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So… if you start a brand new game, cheat a carpenter to level 6, and make houses that are just combinations of 1 fences, 1 endpost and 1 middle, can anyone figure out what combination reliably causes the fences to not build? (I am doing this right now and have not yet found out why some fence+post combinations are being stubborn.)

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**Author:** ![TheDarthDuncan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/thedarthduncan/32/63726_2.png) [@TheDarthDuncan](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/TheDarthDuncan)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/6 "2018-07-13T02:21:21Z")

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Well, any for me really. What happened was that I was building a sort of garden with a stone flooring.  
So, going from a wall, I placed an endpost, fences, a gate somewhere inbetween, followed by more fences and an endpost, following by the other wall (from the same building), all of this on top of road blocks, which I used as the flooring of my garden. Does that help?

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**Author:** ![Kenndalizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kenndalizard](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Kenndalizard)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/7 "2018-07-13T03:51:06Z")

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I got this problem trying to make a temporary fence for my pastures.  
I made a pasture 50x50 and made a one block high/one block wide slab all around and lined the top of the slab with fences and a gate using the new fence pieces and it wouldn’t build.

Alternatively tried making a stairway 3 blocks wide and lining the sides with fence posts on the walk up which also caused my building to fail.

Nothing turns red at all, if anything can that feature of something turning red be applied to furniture/decorations as well if they are causing error?

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**Author:** ![TheCursedJester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/thecursedjester/32/50935_2.png) [@TheCursedJester](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/TheCursedJester)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/8 "2018-07-13T08:37:44Z")

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Ah. I have made a duplicate post about this with a .gif demonstration.

> [@\[R874\] Some furniture items (fences?) stop a building from being built](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r874-some-furniture-items-fences-stop-a-building-from-being-built/36906):
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> Summary: Some furniture items (so far I think its fences) will stop a building from being built. Steps to reproduce: Draw out a room, floor, or piece of road. Place fences around it. Click to build. Expected Results: The building should pass and be built. Actual Results: The building cannot be built until the fences are removed. Attachments: Version Number and Mods in use: Release-874 (x64) - no mods.

I can reproduce this reliably with wooden fences and stone fence posts.

**Edit:** Wrong link! Woops! Posted correct one.

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Rogers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/joshua_rogers/32/51416_2.png) [@Joshua\_Rogers](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Joshua_Rogers)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/9 "2018-07-13T09:04:40Z")

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In both the cases you guys appear to be placing fences on top of road or slab blocks. And I think in a demonstration of the new builder on stream, there was a failure when attempting to use fencing on a second floor patio. I wonder if that’s the issue.

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**Author:** ![Sacred\_Games](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/sacred_games/32/70486_2.png) [@Sacred\_Games](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Sacred_Games)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/10 "2021-07-06T00:23:39Z")

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Is only building fences, if you save a template and then reuse that template, no showing where to put the build and if you put it anyway the game stop like pause and all the functions stop as well, no save game, no contruction, no anything.

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**Author:** ![Sacred\_Games](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/sacred_games/32/70486_2.png) [@Sacred\_Games](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Sacred_Games)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/building-fences/36910/11 "2021-07-06T00:27:45Z")

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Is only building fences, if you save a template and then reuse that template, the game is not showing where to put that build and if you put it anyway and build it, the game stop like pause and all the functions stop as well, no save game, no contruction, no rain, no anything, only the music is ok.