Gates

[Ajvar]

How do you know exactly in which direction the gates will open when you build them?
Wiki is useless or I don't understand.
E.g. I'm bulding north fence and I want doors to open twoards north (twoarts outside of my area). It doesn't matter if I stand south of the wall and than click build gate or I stand north of the fence and than click build, it always opens in the same direction.
Does it matter if I click "Build gate west" or "build gate East"? Does it matter where I stand when I place a corner post?

[Fidgety]

How do you know exactly in which direction the gates will open when you build them?
Wiki is useless or I don't understand.
E.g. I'm bulding north fence and I want doors to open twoards north (twoarts outside of my area). It doesn't matter if I stand south of the wall and than click build gate or I stand north of the fence and than click build, it always opens in the same direction.
Does it matter if I click "Build gate west" or "build gate East"? Does it matter where I stand when I place a corner post?

I cant remember off the top of my head, but what i did was make a small make shift fence and wrote down what direction the gates opened when clicking to build gates from the different corner posts. the fences were easy to make and destroy. I have deleted the note pad file with the details on so cant tell you. but just giving you a quick method that will take you like 10 - 15 minutes to figure out for yourself if no-one helps you.

*edit, yes it goes from which corner post you choose to build from and depends on the direction of the wall. So like you asked, from the "build gate west" and "build gate east". I'm almost certain which side you are standing doesn't matter. I did the test on like my first week and to be honest, gave up caring when i made a mistake on 2 gates on a stone wall and couldn't be bothered to knock them down and do it differently. This is the first time I have thought about the gates not being how I wanted them. Thanks for that lol.

[TotalyMeow]

It doesn't matter where you build or which cornerpost you click on, they always open the same way. North and East, I think.

[Fidgety]

It doesn't matter where you build or which cornerpost you click on, they always open the same way. North and East, I think.

So your saying the mistake I thought I made was unavoidable? You cant make gates open neatly outwards in all circumstances?

[TotalyMeow]

It doesn't matter where you build or which cornerpost you click on, they always open the same way. North and East, I think.

So your saying the mistake I thought I made was unavoidable? You cant make gates open neatly outwards in all circumstances?

No, because then what if you messed something up or didn't know how it worked exactly? You could have gates from two wall layers overlap so that one opens one way, the other the other way, and now you you're having a terrible time trying to click on an overlapped gate. This avoids that problem.

[Fidgety]

I suppose when I think about it now anyway, the test I did was not done properly anyway. Well completely. I made 2 walls, one going east to west, one south to north. When I built a gate from one of the posts, I just assumed the other would open it the other way. so only actually tested 2 of 4 posts and wrote down predicted results.

[Chimm]

... it always opens in the same direction.

That seems to be exactly how it works. I was very confused myself by the Wiki description.

I build the gates at the end, so first i build the wall and go around corners, so the inside / outside relation of the wall is clear (which is not clear when there is no corner build and the wall is just a straight line). When I do this, the doors automatically open outwards as you would prefer it. So I think, you should first build a bit more wall until the "layout and inside and outside" of your base is clear.

At least, this is how it worked for me and I have build gates to the south, west and east.