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Bohandas

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Why Can't I build this?!?
« on: March 25, 2011, 07:55:18 pm »

Can anybody figure out why the game won't let me build the following custom building:

Spoiler: Alchemist's Furnace (click to show/hide)

A word of clarification. I am able to select the building from the furnaces menu, but it gives me the error message "Needs fire-safe building material table". This would be in line with the requirements I set for it, except that I have several stone tables, (including about six that are made of bauxite). WTF?

(EDIT: by the way, I do have the entity files changed so that I can build the requisite TOOLs, btw.)
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Re: Why Can't I build this?!?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 08:26:49 pm »

Im not sure this is it, but you might want to remove BUILDMAT from the table item. I think that tag tells the game it should find any building material item, which are bars, boulders and blocks. Not tables.
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Re: Why Can't I build this?!?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 08:38:56 pm »

Im not sure this is it, but you might want to remove BUILDMAT from the table item. I think that tag tells the game it should find any building material item, which are bars, boulders and blocks. Not tables.

That's probably it. I'm gonna go test that now.
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Re: Why Can't I build this?!?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 08:45:43 pm »

Im not sure this is it, but you might want to remove BUILDMAT from the table item. I think that tag tells the game it should find any building material item, which are bars, boulders and blocks. Not tables.

That's probably it. I'm gonna go test that now.

Ok, it didn't work, but I didn't re-gen, I just removed the tag from the definition in an existing save. Is this the kind of thing that requires a regen?

If not I'm just gonna remove the [FIRE_BUILD_SAFE] tag and see if that works...
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Re: Why Can't I build this?!?
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 08:51:58 pm »

Your barrel mat tag seems to have :: in it. Try fixing that?
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Re: Why Can't I build this?!?
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 09:03:05 pm »

Im not sure this is it, but you might want to remove BUILDMAT from the table item. I think that tag tells the game it should find any building material item, which are bars, boulders and blocks. Not tables.

That's probably it. I'm gonna go test that now.

Ok, it didn't work, but I didn't re-gen, I just removed the tag from the definition in an existing save. Is this the kind of thing that requires a regen?

If not I'm just gonna remove the [FIRE_BUILD_SAFE] tag and see if that works...

Ok, I tried that, and it worked, and in the process revealed many other flaws in my design, including the game completely failing to pick up on the HAS_TOOL_USE token
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