Overview
How to construct anchored buildings in various scenarios.
1 – Non-Launched
This works for the vanilla Bees and similar factions that generate buildings via worldgen and that can’t be planted.
This one is quite simple. Grab a blueprint from the buildings using command mode and edit the building into whatever you want. Then regenerate the world, and it should appear amongst the other buildings.
2 – Launched, Premade Blueprint
This one only applies to modded factions as far as I know. It is referring to buildings that grow out of “seeds” launched from ships.
This is also quite simple, same steps as above, except for the word regeneration. It should appear as a building when you “plant” some, although the pre-set modded blueprints will propably sill be the “dominant” type of building.
3 – Launched, No Blueprint
This is the most difficult of the three, and also only applies to modded factions which have building launchers, but without any blueprints. It may be the most difficult to set up, but also the best, as the game will only grow your building.
1. Pick the faction and building-seed-launcher-thing you want to make a building for
2. Go into the sandbox mode and type into the console: palette [faction number]
(note: leave out the brackets on that)
3. Press the 3 button to go into ship editing mode
4. among the palette, find: Command module of the faction, the seed for the buiding and a random block
5. Place the block, seed, and command together into a building. I dont think the shape of it matters.
6. Select the building and type into the console: export
(note: you should now find a new file on your desktop)
7. Go back into you normal game and open a new ship
8. Hit the import button and select the new file created by the export
9. This should import the “raw building” into the editor.
And done! Now make a building out of it, and it should be plantable.
Notes
-When editing, make sure that the yellow port on the base parts of the buiding is facing outward and has nothing obstructing it, it is a root attatchment that goes onto the asteroids.