Cancelling construction or disabling construction on edge

[J33nn]

I've created massive construction at the edge of map but my crew can't find route to do it's job. Can I do anything with that? I'm stuck!

[lukiono]

Build your construction 2 tiles away from the border

[J33nn]

Now I know that but I've made construction on egde and now I have 71 blocks length and 30 wide space which i cant use

[ronanc]

Yes, it's a pain in the ass but you're not the first person to be in this mess. Welcome the club and just don't do it again.

[Mas Tnega]

You'd have to edit the save file. You can do this in Notepad.

The instructions below assume there's only one foundation sitting around and were made up on the fly about 5 minutes ago. Someone might have explained it better/have a better clue than I do. With that in mind, let's begin:


First find the job queue. It begins with:

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BEGIN WorkQ     
    Next                 1873 
    BEGIN Items     
        Size                 _

Remove all of the lines that look like:

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BEGIN "[i ___]"    Id ___  Type Construct  CellX __  CellY __  MatType ConcreteFloor  FailureTimer 510.378  NumFails 1  END
BEGIN "[i ___]"    Id ___  Type Construct  CellX __  CellY __  MatType BuildingFrame  WorkTotal 1.00000  FailureTimer 510.378  NumFails 1  END

Then reduce by the number of lines deleted from the number next to Size. Don't worry about counting the lines deleted, it's just foundation width mulitplied by foundation height.



Next, find the construction list. It looks like:

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BEGIN Construction
    BEGIN Jobs       
        Size                 1 

And remove something looking like:

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BEGIN "[i _]"     
            Type                 Foundations 
            Material             1 
            PosX                 28 
            PosY                 13 
            SizeX                48 
            SizeY                39 
            Status               2 
            Hidden               true 
            Counter              194 
            Counter2             194 
            Timer                499.485 
            Speed                1872.00 
            BEGIN "[i 0]"      x 28  y 13  END
            BEGIN "[i 1]"      x 28  y 14  END
            ...
            BEGIN "[i 1871]       x 75    y 51
END

Finally, reduce the size at the top by 1.

Hopefully, the game won't crash when you load the save and the foundation will be gone.


Alternatively, start anew or live with it.

[HerrJoebob]

Thanks for that Mas Tnega, finally got rid of a "build something off the map" job that seemed to have appeared by itself on my large map.

[Das_Wuff]

I need to re-create them for A4, but I built a small-sized map that has road around the edges and cement tiles around the second tile from the side, so you have a sidewalk around your prison, and you know where's safe to build.

[J33nn]

You'd have to edit the save file. You can do this in Notepad.

The instructions below assume there's only one foundation sitting around and were made up on the fly about 5 minutes ago. Someone might have explained it better/have a better clue than I do. With that in mind, let's begin:

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Alternatively, start anew or live with it.

Yup thanks a lot for instruction