Design Custom Building

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**This page describes the old builder tool. This tool isn't used anymore**

*Design Custom Building* is a function implemented in Stonehearth Alpha 4 which allows the player to build and design custom buildings for their Settlement. This includes custom floorplans, walls, roofs and item placement.

When initiating the *Design Custom Building* a menu will appear and it offers several options for the custom building. Each option has different tools and different materials to choose from.

## Mechanics

When designing a custom building (or editing an existing one), the procedure which you will go through is:

1. Foundation - This must be perfected before the walls are erected. Once walls are placed in Design mode, they cannot yet be moved / removed.
2. Furniture - Place initial indoor ground floor furniture to help get an idea of the size of the foundation. Furniture placed outside of a Foundation cannot be moved once placed.
3. External Walls - Set the column and wall colours and click the foundation to place the walls
4. Multiple Floors
5. Roof - Place this before any Internal Walls unless each "room" is to have its own roof.
	* Use the "Roof Offset" tool to increase the wall height
6. External Free Standing Walls - Set the column and wall colours. Use the Free Standing Walls tool to click a starting point (column) next to an external wall, hold Shift and then click a finish point (column). The Wall colour will be applied to the walls in between the two columns you selected.
7. Doors and Windows - Note that the wall has to be large enough for a door / window to be able to be placed. Doors must be placed on walls or manually after the Building is completed.
8. External Foundation / Road - External flooring for patio's, walkways, balconies can be placed after the External Walls
9. Furniture and Decoration - Note that only Furniture and Decoration that are able to be crated by your Settlement or in your Inventory will be available.

### Internal Walls / Rooms

Internal walls are not currently supported.

**Workaround 1**

Existing templates utilise a slab approach. To accomplish this, simply build the Foundation and walls of the largest room first. Then use Foundation and slabs to build the walls and roof of subsequent rooms. This can be seen in the Ascendancy Carpenter house available in Alpha 19.

**Workaround 2**

Separate Buildings into sections and build each section one at a time (i.e. multiple Building templates). For a seamless look for the roof, you can use the following settings:

* No slope
* 0 overhang on the side which will join to the next Building section / room

**Workaround 3**

Have holes in your Foundation to create double walls with gaps for doors. Draw the Foundation as normal and Erase where you want Internal Walls to be. You'll need to build doors manually and may encounter problems wherein Scaffolding cannot be placed on Foundation. Either manually create ladders or delete the Foundation on either side of the interior walls.

## Floor

**Draw Floorplan**

*"Pick a material below and drag out boxes to define your building's floorplan"*

## Walls

**Erect Walls**

*Pick a material below to raise walls around your floorplan.*

## Roof

**Raise Roof**

*Pick a material and customization options for your roof.*

In a Desktop Tuesday Radiant Entertainment embedded a video showcasing a few customization options for roofs and how the options are going to work.

## Doors, Windows, Furniture and Decorations

**Add Doors, Windows, Furniture and Decorations**

*Pick an object from the material palette then click on your building to place it.*

## Edit

**Edit**

*Pick an object from the material palette then click on your building to place it.*

## Undo

Reverts previous actions taken. Can not be reverted.

*NYI is an abbreviation for "Not Yet Implemented.*

## References

1. ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/253250/discussions/2/350532795338903924/?l=swedish
2. ↑ https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/way-to-build-rooms-in-stonehearth-with-bugs-and-work-around/8220