2nd story

I saw something with my own two eyes. An actual second story in a base. Not a split level of one room. Someone had stairs leading down to a room underneath the base entry room. A separate room.

How can I place rooms in a base under(or over) the one level map we are all familiar with?

There's no way to create an actual second story room.

What they did was create a raised floor by stacking desks across a raised floor tile object. When you are standing on the floor you are actually standing on a large array of desks.

There's a number of stickied posts in this forum that detail the stacking tricks people have figured out.

The basic tricks are:

- Floor Safes and Accent Lamps allow you to stack Floor objects not only on their tops, but on their sides as well.

- Make a column of Floor Safes or Accent Lamps, and then attach a Floor Tile at any height along the side of the column making instant scaffolding that you can build a floor on.

- Cubicles allow you to stick Wall objects on their sides.

The forumite aptly known as 'stacker' also made some videos on How to Stack.



-np

*nod* You can place the 'entry point' of the base on any supportable horizontal surface in the entry room. So if you build a layer of desks high above the floor, you can place the entry point there, and have stairs lead down into the the rest of the base to create the illusion of the rest of the base being a lower level.

Yeah, I am working on something like this right now.

I like using the Accent Lamp / Floor Tile combination myself. The increments on the lamp don't seem so hit or miss as they do with the safe, and the floor tile allows you to easily place blocks/desks on it's surface. Makes it much easier to create a second or even third floor.

Just a note: The increments are exactly the same.

There are exactly 48 increments from lowest floor to highest ceiling.

The safes are 4 increments high.



-np

Good info Ninja, thanks.

Is there a guide somewhere that lists how tall things actually are? That would probably make things a lot easier.

Edit.
SOmetimes I should just look at the top of the page before I open my mouth. Thats where I found a guide.