Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

Look at some of the abandoned buildings in the wilderness, many of them give good examples of how to build and what is considered a good foundation. It may even be worth your while to place a workbench in an abandoned building, and slowly destroy it from the roof down. You will notice that even many wood buildings have foundations for their floorboards, like large 45 degree beams sunk into the ground, with just a few inches above ground that comes into contact with the wooden floor and corner walls.

That is a good suggestion, and like to build my wood buildings with wood beams for a foundation, but I think it actually takes away some structural integrity, since the structure that is built on it will no longer be considered touching the ground (the parts will be green rather than blue).

I also find some of the pre-existing buildings very annoying. :-)

For example, the wood building with the large overhangs that leaves very little floor space inside. If you take off the overhangs and move the walls out, they only go out half of a wall/floor piece, so you either fill in with a bunch of small pieces, or tear the whole thing down and build a proper hut!

Then there's the smallest tower in the black forest. It's just a bit too small to put a proper staircase in, and if you do put in a spiral staircase, there's really no room for anything else. If I have to build in one of those, I generally put stairs to the top and then turn it into a giant mushroom with my structure sitting on the top. That actually works pretty well, as long as I don't fall down the middle of the tower.