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Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 11:53 pm
by Deacon
I know when building boxes you can use shift+mousewheel to rotate and cntrl+mouse to place it more exact, but is there a way to align something more precisely when dropping it after having picked it up?

Thanks

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:05 am
by Shiala
You can shift+right-click to snap them to the grid but if you really want to be precise in your placement, it just takes practice lining your character up and remember which spot to click on within a tile.

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:18 pm
by ramuller
The leveling tools in the custom clients provide a very handy tile grid that makes lining things up by hand a bit easier.

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 6:38 pm
by Shiala
Yes, I'm a nitpicker when it comes to organizing storage containers and would be lost without the grid tool. LOL

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:58 pm
by ramuller
Shiala wrote:Yes, I'm a nitpicker when it comes to organizing storage containers and would be lost without the grid tool. LOL

I came to the conclusion that 14 item large urns that take one tile are just as good as boxes, visually more forgiving about slight misalignment, and don't take wood (which is becoming a bigger and bigger consideration).

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:10 pm
by Shiala
I can't argue with that logic. I'm in the middle of a forest right now so wood is plentiful but trying to get the crates to line up nicely can be a pain.

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:14 pm
by Sevenless
For beginners, wood is definitely easier than clay by a mile. This flip flops after ~1 month of living in an area when easy wood is now a 4-5 minute walk. And that's assuming you're in a forest. Grassland it's much much worse.

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:09 am
by ramuller
Sevenless wrote:For beginners, wood is definitely easier than clay by a mile. This flip flops after ~1 month of living in an area when easy wood is now a 4-5 minute walk. And that's assuming you're in a forest. Grassland it's much much worse.

Clay isn't that hard for early use if you don't mind foraging for lime. You are all ready at the stage where you can build (and protect?) a sawbuck before you can make wooden boxes and pottery isn't very proficiency intensive, IIRC.

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:55 am
by snakegal
It is however a lil hard to get enough skills to make the kiln to make the bricks, to make the urns

Re: Aligning boxes when dropping them

PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:20 pm
by Deacon
snakegal wrote:It is however a lil hard to get enough skills to make the kiln to make the bricks, to make the urns


LOL, the "Ole" proverbial "Catch 22"