#Build limits

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Testing some fundamentals of the build mechanics. How far from a stable block can you go? Does material matter (for this experiment, no)? Does lateral integrity affect vertical integrity. Does a single new support reset integrity from that point or do the mechanics take into consideration the structure as a whole? Can you "Ark" a bridge (in Ark you can snap foundations under and extend above indefinitely, answer is no).. Does later snaps recalculate integrity (in 7 Days you later placed blocks can then cause existing structure to fail when you remove them even if they were not necessary as part of the original build). Etc. etc.

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some of you may not know this but you do get your mats back. You don't have to break each structure from the edge back. Just break the bottom one and the mats pile up.

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Piers work in mysterious ways... For this lighthouse build, game was not letting me build it that high - stopped about 70% of the way, 30-35 blocks high. So I added a pier half-way through it, concealed in the first floor (2nd pic). This allowed me to reach the intended height (about 45 blocks) and I think I could go even higher with a higher placed pier (as high as game allows) or maybe stacked piers. May want to do some height tests with them 👍

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# solid breach Piers work in mysterious ways... For this lighthouse build, game was not letting...

I ran into similar with my ocean castle. Pillars and beams in that case allowed me to go out father horizontally than just a pier as a foundation (which would snap and act like it was totally out of integrity. I have come to the conclusion that there is no ground under the water once you get a certain distance from shore. I'm testing that again now. I can get a glimps when I jump off into the water, what looks like an end of the terrain. I'd love to confirm that though. Maybe someone who already installed cheat mods can ghost fly down and let me know if I'm correct. This castle is at the limit on the back wall, pretty sure. #🎨│creative message

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yeah I don't think they stack but they stretch

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so after I got on the tallest one I could place the next one stretched even taller. There must be a limit.

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that's it, one smidge higher and it doesn't place.

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There you go - confirmed, after that it's just void until you reach the next island borders, which has similar features

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So this answered an interesting question...does raising the terrain actually give you a build boost? I thought the pier may be snapping to the world mesh underground but in fact I just got a boost by raising terrain to the max. So now I think I found the true height limit on a pier.

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Ok this is exactly 30 single blocks tall (I marked every 5th one starting top down)

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IF you raise terrain

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oh, right so I should be counting TO the terrain doiy

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  1. That is an odd number. so that would be either 13 or 14 walls tall
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I am now standing at the build limit for the one pier which placed on max raised terrain, so this pier is as tall as it can possibly get. On top of that pier I can build 24 small blocks up. However...

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I was able to place a pier on the pier like so, stretched as far as it would go. It was yellow so I know it isn't on the ground, it is pier on pier.

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And look behind me in this pic, that pillar is taller than the max I was standing on.

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I measured how tall the pier on pier was...it was 9 blocks tall. I then measured how much taller my pillar is on that pier and it is 9 blocks taller so that is very interesting because that means piers DO stack but they don't SNAP. I will keep testing and see how far we can push pier stacking.

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Just to be clear, the pier on pier did not snap in any way. I just positioned it as best I could so the posts lined up, and extended as far as I could upward before it turned red.

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I figured it would count as a single block but the interesting thing is, if that were so, I should have only been able to place 8 extra blocks, not 9 so it gave me a freebie boost.

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Interesting - it sounds like it just "pushed" that 9 block difference to the top 🤔

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I have successfully stacked a pier 27 blocks high on TOP OF another pier 27 blocks high and I'm working on the third. I can't reach far enough to do it in one move. I have to make one as far as I can reach and then use it to get the next one higher.

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You can place a third but that third one has zero structural integrity.

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🤣 I think I hit max. Unless there is some other trick I am missing, the highest placeable block should be at 27 + 27 + 24. Give or take a block for miscounting, I should be standing on a block 78 blocks off the ground. I think I am done with the vertical test now. Let me know if you have a taller structure than this !

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Nice, looks like a blueprint for a tower in the future 😁 Thanks for testing!