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Does anyone find trying to place and/or snap plots and foundations to be an enormous struggle?

McMasters

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I swear I spend the majority of my time with this mod just attempting to place plots where I want them to be. They rarely interact properly with other construction pieces, let alone each other. They won't allow themselves to be placed on 50% of all terrain, they wont snap to floor pieces in the way I want, they won't snap to other plots properly, they won't allow other pieces to be attached once they're built, I could go on and on. I'm tired of spending an hour trying to game the settlement building system just so I can place a plot facing a certain direction on top of a 2x2 wooden floor just to find out that now literally nothing can be attached to the floor piece and I can't place any new plots adjacent to the original one. I don't just want to resort to placing plots randomly all over the settlement.

It was already a huge pain trying to get the plots to connect (let alone connect facing the right direction) when they had foundations attached, now it's nigh impossible. I just want to build a big wooden platform and put plots on it in a neat and orderly fashion, but it is literally impossible to do so. Even if I try to use the 2x2 foundation pieces, they won't snap to each other and they're extremely finnicky about where they can be placed in initially.

I absolutely love this mod but I feel like I have been dealing with these placement issues from the very beginning of its launch. I cannot understand why this is even a problem, shouldn't everything just connect automatically? Why can't I attach plots to floors in any direction I want? Why won't plots snap to each after they're built?

For a settlement building perfectionist this is an extremely frustrating problem to face and I can't be the only person dealing with it. I came on here to complain after struggling for literally 2 hours trying to place 4 plots on a platform made of basic wood floor pieces and it makes me want to abandon the mod altogether. I don't recall seeing many individuals complain about this, but have any of you noticed this problem?
 
Not really, no -- I've had very few issues with things snapping together, though I do also use Place Everywhere (PC). The only snapping issues I've run into are if a foundation already has a building on it, new foundations for new buildings usually won't snap to the existing ones. But just laying out empty foundations works fine, and the SS plots snap to the foundations with little issue.

Are you using any other mods that might be affecting lot snapping or item scrapping?
 
Not really, no -- I've had very few issues with things snapping together, though I do also use Place Everywhere (PC). The only snapping issues I've run into are if a foundation already has a building on it, new foundations for new buildings usually won't snap to the existing ones. But just laying out empty foundations works fine, and the SS plots snap to the foundations with little issue.

Are you using any other mods that might be affecting lot snapping or item scrapping?

I'm using Scrap That Settlement.
 
Hmm, not familiar with that one, but it may be interfering with the SS snapping. Hopefully someone more familiar with it will wander by to answer.
 
I'm using Scrap That Settlement.
Hmm, not familiar with that one, but it may be interfering with the SS snapping. Hopefully someone more familiar with it will wander by to answer.
Looks like it is a PS4/Xbox mod only. Which might explain things. City building on console, shudder...
From the mods description it sounds like it isn't very compatible with other settlement mods.
 
I just adjusted some mods and I have the same problems. I built a flat 4x4 platform out of wood floor pieces. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the standard 2x2 residential plot could not be placed on 80% of the platform's surface. It would also not snap onto any of the floor pieces unless it was hanging halfway off the edge of the platform. I cannot understand why this is an issue.
 
Seems like you definitely have some other mod monkeying with things. From what you describe above, that isn’t at all my experience with placing a plot on sections of floor. I’m playing at the moment with virtually no mods that aren’t SS or addons
 
I'm using Scrap That Settlement.
Yes, STS does in some way hamper some snapping of objects.
I can't offer much advise, I've been struggling with this and found that using sacrificial pieces to make what I want happen is the only way I can get it done. Even in vanilla some pieces don't play well with others.
Like example above; foundations won't snap to existing foundations with buildings. But floors will snap to front of foundation, so I make floors across the front of where I want next foundation to snap to existing foundation and it works. Hope that makes sense.

Placing plots is a struggle, especially interiors. I just spent about 3 hours building Tenpines just to get my first 6 plots down. For me I've found pre-planning is the key to not having the headaches. I built up where and how I wanted those first 6 and built the beginning of the next plots. What sucks is having to dismantle 1/3 to 1/2 of it to place the plots because of obstructing pieces, but then the rest of it being built already makes replacing the removed pieces easier. (not much easier, but easier)
That and Place Anywhere is a God send
 
On internal plots I took like 30 minutes at one point to figure out how things would work with them.

I made a 4 x 4 square of floors and put up various walls and roofs and just started trying to make plots snap and add walls etc. it’s well worth screwing around a bit to figure out how they will place and what you have to do, for example, with ceilings to get walls where you want them, etc.
 
For me about 95% of the time if something is connected to the floor in front of where an interior plot will go, it will not place. Even some walls interfere with placement.
Using other pieces to get what you want placed has become commonplace for me.
AS Marc states above spend time experimenting, I've been actually shocked at some of the things I found I could do with building. Scaffolding and ball tracks have allowed me to do some interesting things.
 
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