Prototype castle builds

I cannot, for the life of me, get the joists/planks thing to work. It acts like it requires something to be beneath the planks.

i would be careful doing that i have laid out a large castle (about 7 block high walls) and spanning most of one of the side islands and left it while i went to sleep. When i woke up i saw the castle half built with my bricktrons stuck between blocks they placed around themselves with each of the walls pretty much looking like piramids

This is my first attempt to build something interesting, it's tower stairbridge (there was tiny fight down here, remains of brave warriors and well-served workers):

Note: catapult can be built on 1x1 brick, ridiculous ).

Used materials from only one mine, after some dancing with tunnel option:
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Underground palaces... Um-nom-nom

Don't know what for these Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y buttons are needed, looks like malfunction.

I noticed you said the stairs option seemed broken for the mine. I never tried it with a simple mine yet but I have used the stair feature when mining a tunnel. What you have to do is click on stairs, click on a yellow square on the edges of the mine and it will highlight green and show you which way the stairs will go. Multiple clicks will make it go deeper until you get where you want and then you will switch back to add blocks to increase the size of the tunnel. Hope that makes sense Maybe that feature is only for tunnels?

Plank placement is really tricky, the only way i can manage to do it is to stick something under where I want my plank to be, and then place the plank on top. It is very tedious, and I;ve only tried bridging a 2x1 gap.

As for bricktron weapons, how do you give them to your bricktrons?

I agree, I think its best to put the stockpiles in the actual building as it is mostly empty anyway.

Using the prototype island, I built my castle on left side of the giant blue crystal and mined on the right side of it and put the stockpiles inside the castle. That way the crystals gets sucked off the miners as they pass by the giant blue crystal and new bricktrons spawn every now and then. I guess this is an alternate way without using the barrels and I think it spawns bricktrons faster.

Press 'esc'>options and select debug menu. Then press 'esc' to return to game. Next click on either of the four groups at the bottom left to open the debug menu. There you can spawn archers, warriors, corruptrons and enemy warriors. It is imperative that you do not click the menu tab. It might glitch, and then you won't be able to deselect the debug menu after.

That is a great tip that I'll keep in mind. I wasn't aware that the big crystal would take from the miners as they passed.

Couple of steps for building bridges and another castle!


Dig a base into the island you're on. Since the bridge can only be built from one side you need to make sure it's not too tall


After that build your bridge outwards using a 2x1x1 block as you can see below. Remember to add stairs so your bricktrons can build higher.


From here you can add detail as you want. Have another castle!



And for those struggling with how joists work you should lay stuff out like this to start, before you try to add any joists



After that you can add the joists. The vertical parts need to be placed first

I couldn't figure out the joists either ... so I ended up figuring out how to make second levels from pure stone. This is the results of about 2-3 hours playing last night. I have no idea how you guys got extra bricktrons, I was stuck with 6. This was meant to be the outhouse of the main castle that would be built behind it on the second level.



Birds eye view of the twin spiral staircases.



I couldn't open my Menu, either by button or ESC, as a result I could not save the game. So I figured I would get them all to carry a few barrels of TNT into the castle, as a final stand.



The aftermath. This actually kinda bugged out on me, the camera wouldn't stop zooming in/out. But I did get it on Video (fraps). They all died ... T_T

so nice builds! I myself couldn't make almost anything as the game bugged

I see everyone else seemingly picking the end of a peninsula so thought I'd go a bit different. Below is the in progress Tower One of my castle, The Four Towers. Some of it's a bit rough looking, but it's getting the job done. As soon as I have Tower One finished and start on Tower Two you'll see a completed wall. Also had a couple bricktron's that went unresponsive....so they were punished. See below! I gotta set it to non-windowed mode...



Here's the inside shot if you will.

And for an outside view.

Well, for my very first attempt, I will not complain.

Wow, I'm amazed by how easily some of you seem to have picked this up! Although, I've only just started playing around on it for the first time about an hour ago. Hopefully I have time this weekend.

wow guys these are really impressive! I've got castle envy. Ran into too many glitches and had to restart every twenty minutes

I struggled the hole day (yesterday) to get the planks and logs to work god damnit. But I finally undestood how they are supposed to be used, anyway pretty difficult if you ask me.

How are people taking Pictures/Screen shots?
F1, like some games don't work, F12 from Steam dont work, an I haven't got Fraps installed.

This AI Bugs (Getting stuck looking for paths) is driving me mad + Not been able to save our creations...
So a wonderful game, I look forward to updates + Beta.

Steam works fine for me.

Also you could always just Print Screen, and paste it into Paint.

I don't know if its just my observation. I think the 'miner stuck bug' that some people is experiencing is because (if the user didn't make any barrels) the crystals that the miners collected gets piled up on their bag. When their bag becomes full they can no longer collect regular stones or anything at all. They just freeze and stop. But once you put a barrel they will immediately go to it and unload the crystals and get back to work. Also works if you make them pass by of chill out a few moments near the giant crystal.

I've had 1 unresponsive, he wouldn't do ANYTHING. He actually enjoyed getting in the way, and would constantly go into the walking path of others, made me rage. I should of just blown him off the island.

By anything, he was never a miner, he wouldn't chop trees, he wouldn't build, nor would he mine. I had empty barrels, that wasn't the problem.

Sometimes, you just get that retarded Bricktron who should be launched to the sun.

I experienced something like this. At first I ordered one to chop trees and I kinda interrupted him before he chopped the tree down. I tried making him continue but he didn't. Normally they would just continue chopping it down but sometimes they just start not doing anything at all and as you said they do enjoy getting in the way.

I spawned an enemy swordsman next to him and let him die.