[Suggestion] Allow material/grounds on map border to change

[shentino]

Having my map bordered by paving stone is BUTT UGLY, and I want to get rid of it, but the game forbids changes to the tiles there, presumably to prevent cheating by blocking off cells that register as escape targets.

I'd like to be able to put sand/gravel/grass/dirt/etc down, even if fences and walls are forbidden.

[yuk]

I would LOVE that!! It would be sweet if you had like 5 blocks around your prison area as a buffer so prisoners couldn't take one step and be gone forever lol.

[murgh]

Something like this perhaps?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... =740737747

[shentino]

Something like this perhaps?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... =740737747

Close, but not quite.

I want border tiles to be directly editable...though naturally with any obstructing options like walls and whatnot forbidden.

Also, I'd like to leave the tiles by the road as concrete tiles and put grass/soil everywhere else. And tear up that butt ugly paving stone.

[xander]

My recollection is that the border tiles were modifiable in some of the early alphas. However, this lead to problems with path-finding, and with entities getting stuck outside of the map. This can be a problem for workers, even if all they are doing is laying down new sod (the process of changing the material type can push a worker out of the map). The current solution, while perhaps not ideal for everyone (or for every purpose), is pretty straight-forward and uncomplicated (i.e. unlikely to introduce bugs), and has only aesthetic consequences. If the aesthetics are *really* that bothersome to you, your save files are easily edited plain text.

xander

[yuk]

Ohhhhh that explains it then!

A lot of the time I have my workmen buzzing outside my gate. And half of them are gone....I guess they fell off the map because they're all stuck at the gate for no reason.

[murgh]

Something like this perhaps?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... =740737747

Close, but not quite.

I want border tiles to be directly editable...though naturally with any obstructing options like walls and whatnot forbidden.

Well it won't give the possibility of editing every single tile to your choice... Only way to do that is by using the Material Duper from the RoadWorks mod.

Also, I'd like to leave the tiles by the road as concrete tiles and put grass/soil everywhere else. And tear up that butt ugly paving stone.

...but it can do exactly this in a matter of seconds. And besides grass you can cycle through all other floor types as well.

[yuk]

Why not allow the placement but have them auto build?

[murgh]

Why not allow the placement but have them auto build?

Allowing it is hard coded into the game, the only way around is to cheat by spawning the stuff with a script.

[yuk]

That's what I mean...let us place the thing to spawn so we can change the blocks individually.

[murgh]

Mod has been updated to duplicate single tiles as well. And it can also duplicate in diagonal way for the corners!

[yuk]

Oooooh nice .