Originally posted by Master Green Fox:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Put up the support beams and the roof tiles first. Then if it rains the only thing you have to repair is the uncovered support beams if it rains before you have all the roof tiles up.

Ah yes, Because everyone knows that when building a house, you start with the roof first and not the foundation it sits upon. It is honestly rather difficult to figure a floor plan in reverse. Even more so if it is large and or complicated. Let alone trying to keep supports and roof up without all the stuff that supposed to be below it first.

No contractor I know uses wood flooring for a foundation. They start with concrete, stone, or brick. Then they do the framing for the walls, put Tyvek protected plywood walls up on the outside, then put the roof and roofing tiles on. After that is the siding and then rain gutters.

Its only when that is all done that dry wall is put up on the inside, wooden flooring installed, and molding and trim are added.

Originally posted by hazelrah:

since the damage is just cosmetic anyway... what i do now for a little variety is to only place some parts of a floor, and then just leave it. build the rest but leave the roof off. let that bit of floor take rain damage and get that nice green tint and then fill in the rest and roof it.

Lemons, I’d like you to meet lemonade

since the damage is just cosmetic anyway... what i do now for a little variety is to only place some parts of a floor, and then just leave it. build the rest but leave the roof off. let that bit of floor take rain damage and get that nice green tint and then fill in the rest and roof it.

Hi just starting up my own business but have loads experiecnce repairing. I'll take a retainer of 250gold per hour and an extra 250gold each time it rains.

I can also fill in walls or flooring for an extra 10 gold per tile

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Put up the support beams and the roof tiles first. Then if it rains the only thing you have to repair is the uncovered support beams if it rains before you have all the roof tiles up.

Ah yes, Because everyone knows that when building a house, you start with the roof first and not the foundation it sits upon. It is honestly rather difficult to figure a floor plan in reverse. Even more so if it is large and or complicated. Let alone trying to keep supports and roof up without all the stuff that supposed to be below it first.

Though, what bothers me the most with this is more that rain passes through anything without a roof tile. So, for someone like me who made the mistake of building a house on wooden pylons, I now have to rip up every single floor board on a round house (meaning many overlapping tiles) Just to fix the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ floor because it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rained. Also I need to delicately do this so as to not cause the whole thing to collapse. Absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ night mare. At least not make the damned rain inexplicably pass through all wooden objects so I can at least have the damage stop at the ruddy floor.

Originally posted by Nigrescence:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Put up the support beams and the roof tiles first. Then if it rains the only thing you have to repair is the uncovered support beams if it rains before you have all the roof tiles up.

I don't think it would have been possible to do the roof first for this project. Even if it was possible, it wouldn't have been easy. This was a three story build.

That's exactly how I did my three story build. Core wood poles and beams, temp ladders to reach the top, put my smoke holes and roof tops on and built from the bottom up after that.

Core wood poles let yo go up to a max of 24m. I went up 12m for 3 stories with an extra 4m for my chimney caps. It rained 4 times while I was building the frame and only had to repair the core wood poles and beams that weren't under cover. The ladders I didn't worry about. They were getting removed when I was done.
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If you mean 3 full stories with sloped roofs on top for a 4th floor attic and chimney caps you can still do that with core wood poles. Wood iron poles let you go up 50m.

Originally posted by Nobbler:

devcommands
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I'm not going to use dev commands in my game.

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

Yeah just leave it until you get done and put up a roof. Anything covered by a roof won't degrade. Anything that does degrade will just go down 50% and stop there with the weathered look.

I know a roof prevents degradation, but the project was too large to put up a roof suddenly. The project was also large enough that finding every piece of wood was a nuisance. I have since completed the project and thankfully it did not rain until it was complete.

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Put up the support beams and the roof tiles first. Then if it rains the only thing you have to repair is the uncovered support beams if it rains before you have all the roof tiles up.

I don't think it would have been possible to do the roof first for this project. Even if it was possible, it wouldn't have been easy. This was a three story build.

Originally posted by Happy:

Build in the Mountains - it never rains.

Now that's an idea, but I haven't even made it to the mountains yet. I don't know if I'd survive there. Besides, the point of this building was to be my home base, and it's built around a maypole, so it's not like I chose the biome, but Meadows is a good biome for a home base anyway. This building is going to have my extensive storage with labeled chests, and portals for everything. I do expect to make satellite bases in other biomes, but those will be smaller basic utilitarian sites, and not this massive one.

Build in the Mountains - it never rains.

Rain damage feels somewhat wierd; irl even many soft wood types can take a couple of full seasons before starting to look as weathered as the 50% damage does.
It's to much, to fast imo. As a builder, I always use the NoRaiDamage mod while playing solo, whitch contrary to its name, lets you set the time it takes the rain to do damage, for a pinch of realism.

Yeah just leave it until you get done and put up a roof. Anything covered by a roof won't degrade. Anything that does degrade will just go down 50% and stop there with the weathered look.

devcommands
env clear

Rain damage can't break things. It only decays down to half health.

Do you need a repairman? I charge 1 pile of gold an hour.

Rain can only take a wooden structures health down to half I believe. Stone structures don't take damage from rain.

Put up the support beams and the roof tiles first. Then if it rains the only thing you have to repair is the uncovered support beams if it rains before you have all the roof tiles up.