So I decided to play for the first time in ages today, and set up a jaguar farm to try and get a melanistic variant. My plan was to build one basic habitat, save it as a blueprint, and then place it down a few times in a row to set up the farm. However, I hit a snag, because when I tried to place one of them down, it was raised a few metres off the ground. Lowering it is obviously possible, but it's still a nuisance, as I was hoping for near-perfect uniformity.
Habitat Blueprint Raised Off of Ground
- Thread starter NZFanatic
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I don't use blueprints a lot and even less habitat blueprints, but my understanding is that when you place a blueprinted item, at least my experience with grid items, it lines up the lowest item to the ground level. I always find this when copying some item I have made that has parts extending into the ground, that I have to re-lower it into the ground before placing.
If you are just looking for a simple habitat to copy-paste for farming with no aesthetic preferences, probably if you can create one that has no elements below your normal ground level, which I don't know but might even include terrain being lowered, water that sits in the ground, or habitat barriers that extend into the ground, then inserting it will result in it being at ground level.
When it comes to copying things that you want to have things extending into the ground but want to neatly lower it to the right level when re-using, adding a marker item e.g. a flat piece off to the side, which should be lowered level with the ground, can help you more quickly get things lined up.
If you are just looking for a simple habitat to copy-paste for farming with no aesthetic preferences, probably if you can create one that has no elements below your normal ground level, which I don't know but might even include terrain being lowered, water that sits in the ground, or habitat barriers that extend into the ground, then inserting it will result in it being at ground level.
When it comes to copying things that you want to have things extending into the ground but want to neatly lower it to the right level when re-using, adding a marker item e.g. a flat piece off to the side, which should be lowered level with the ground, can help you more quickly get things lined up.
Good call. The habitat had one of the premade large climbing structures in it which was sunken down due to the rocks. It's probably easier just to build the basic square habitat, copy/paste it a few times, and then toss down the same basic equipment. Since this is simply for farming I don't need it to be flashy, after all. Alternatively, I could place the bassic equipment in the first habitat but raise it to ground level and then when it's copied over, just multi-select the items in question and lower them all to the same level.
Thanks for the help - I hadn't considered the fact that it would raise the lowest item to ground level!
