By default colonists only build roofs over enclosed spaces rooms.
Rimworld roofs not being built.
A roof will collapse if the last supporting wall or rock is removed whether by mining deconstruction or destruction.
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The build roof zoning can make it possible for you to build roofs where your colonists wouldn t automatically build one.
On the left grid square you have the vertical line of walls along the left edge within 6 tiles supporting the center and on the right grid square you have the horizontal line of walls along the top right corner within 6 tiles.
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If it s an overhead mountain collapsing colonists will be buried alive.
Which were unroofed by zone while the farm was being built and after the construction is done the farm won t roof over.
Walls support roofs in a circular area around themselves with a radius of 6 tiles 4 on the diagonal.
Built roofs come crashing down but the dark spots are all i m given with cleared mountain space.
Roof collapses cause injuries to colonists and damage items.
The no roof zoning will make sure that no roof gets built on the tiles you ve selected.
If there is no supporting wall or rock within 6 tiles no roof will be built.
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As long as there is no other work to be done in there with a higher priority the colonist will finish building the roof.
I tried roofing over the geothermal buildings but when i dezoned it it just went from unroofed to outdoors.
Designating such an area will also remove existing thin roofs and thin rock roofs when applied but thick rock roofs will remain intact.
It took me a while to realize they were the cause of one of my wind turbines not working.
1 does the roof have support.
So can they be mined out.
This also means your constructor will deconstruct any existing roof.
Until some building logic is reworked there are a few ways to easily create collapses.
They don t seem to come crashing down like built roofs do without support.
Drawing a remove roof zone will cause colonists to remove a constructed roof.
There is a chance if the colonist is tired they may go to sleep on the floor if it is not their room with a bed in it so you may want to make sure you are using a colonist with a decently full rest meter.
A roof will not be fully built in a room that is more then 11 blocks between two parallel sides.