Wind has absolutely no bearing on structural integrity and so long as you have a roof on your build pieces, the rain won't affect it either - though rain only affects durability, not structural integrity.

As you go up each square in height, the colour indicator of stability will change, the ratio of levels to change in integrity is different depending on the materials being used to build. There's no fluctuation - the game has VERY defined rules in regards to this and with experience you learn how far you can push it and where/what things need to be placed.

It's also important to note that horizontal beams do not add to the structural integrity as much as vertical beams do.

It does take a few seconds for the game to check that the right supports are in place so if you are quick, sometimes you can use those few seconds to connect pieces that would otherwise fall down if placed on their own and left. Again, it all just comes down to practice and experience.

If you move parts of a structure, it will recalculate the integrity whilst it seems like it might fluctuate, it does settle. There's a bunch of advanced building tutorials on Youtube, I highly recommend Vetlive, Unknown Factions, and Gaming It Out has a great Advanced demo too.

Good luck! Hope you're enjoying it.

Thanks for the answers.

Not if you use Bean-O.

The colors tell you how far you are from a vertical connection to the ground and thus how stable the piece is. Blue means it is standing directly on the ground. Green means supported by such a piece. A piece that is red will break if you try to make it support anything else, but afik it is not more apt to collapse in a wind.

Originally posted by felixader:

I am wondering because a building i am... building has stability (the red, yellow, green indication if you hover over parts) go back and forth. They are green, then yellow, then green again and they sometimes just pop off.

I have pulled in loads of stabilizing beams, inside as well as outside, so it SHOULD hold. But as i said it fluctuates rather nonsensically.

Wind has nothing to do with it.

Color gradients are related to distances from what is detected as a ground strength support.

Blue-grey would be ground strenth while red would be a demolishing situation.

There are a few videos on youtube about this you may want to take a look at.

Sometimes people -think- something should be more stable but then it gets pointed out to them that there's something missing in support or they placed something just a hair off, or the ground under a foundation floor is slightly lower and the foundation actually comes out green instead of bluegrey(thus anything supported above it is 1 quality support tier lower, and the list goes on.

And lastly it is also important to point out that structures colors will change within seconds after placement as the game mathematically checks the support variables connected to it.

In the past, iron beams seemed to have a longer lag of such detection(one of the youtube videos on discussing this points this out). This too may be a factor.

Without also seeing pictures of you structure from all angles and various distances to give height width etc dimensions relative to the ground, its difficult to accurately tell you what may be going on.