Grid Lock

Grid Lock

Align your whole settlement to a single global grid. Grid Lock snaps the building placement preview — position and rotation — so what you see is exactly what you place, and every structure lines up with the next.

Features

• []Snaps structure placement to a global grid — position and rotation — in the live preview, so what you see is what you place.

  []Snaps the Terrain Level Field and farm-field start point too, so the ground you flatten lines up with the buildings on it.

  []Hold Shift to place freely off the grid.

  []Configurable grid spacing, rotation increment, and post-snap distance.

  Usage

  Build as normal. The placement ghost steps to the grid in both position and rotation. Hold Shift to move off-grid freely, then release to snap to the nearest grid pose.

  For terrain, place the Terrain Level Field's start point — it snaps, and the field extends from there on the grid.

  Configuration

  Settings live in BepInEx\config\mugsy33.gridlock.cfg (created on first run), under the section. Edit it with the game closed.

  • []Enabled — master switch; when false the mod snaps nothing (default: true).

    []SnapTerrain — snap the Terrain Level Field start point to the grid (default: true).

    []SnapSkewed — snap fences, gates, and hedges too, with a post-to-post join onto an existing pole; set false to leave them vanilla (default: true).

    []Spacing — snap increment in terraforming squares; one square is 2 world units, so 0. 5 is a 1. 0-unit step (default: 0. 5).

    []RotationStep — rotation snap increment in degrees (default: 15).

    []PostSnapRadius — distance within which a fence/gate/hedge pole snaps onto an existing pole, and at which the join releases; 0 disables it (default: 1. 0).

    []FreeMoveKey — hold to move the ghost freely off the grid (default: LeftShift).

    Known issues

    • []Incompatible with GridSnap — remove it first. Grid Lock was created to replace GridSnap (apologies to guilhermu) so it works with my other mod Tidy Terrain. Do not run both. GridSnap snaps placements to its own grid and silently overrides Grid Lock, so structures land off the ghost and fences will not join to a post. Uninstall GridSnap and use only Grid Lock.[/]

      []Grymm's Builder Buddy — the Shift key overlaps. Grid Lock uses Shift for free placement (turn snapping off in game). Builder Buddy uses Shift as its slow-rotation modifier. If both mods are active, holding Shift triggers both features at once. You can disable the modifier in Builder Buddy's config or change the key for Grid Lock in this config.[/]

      []Footprint Grid Snapping clashes. The footprint mod overrides Grid Lock's snapping.  Though I think rotation still works.  They are mostly redundant anyway.[/]

      []Farm and terrain field rotation does not snap yet. Farm fields and the Terrain Level Field snap their position to the grid, but not their rotation. This is planned for a later update.[/]

      Requirements

      • []BepInEx (IL2CPP build) — install it into the game folder first. Follow the official BepInEx installation guide: docs.bepinex.dev — Installation (use the IL2CPP build for this game).

        Installation

        With Vortex: click Mod Manager Download and enable the mod. BepInEx is still required (see Requirements).

        Manual install:

        • []Install BepInEx first (see Requirements).

          []Extract this archive into your Aska game folder — the one containing Aska.exe — so the plugin lands at BepInEx\plugins\GridLock\GridLock.dll.

        • Launch the game.

          Multiplayer

          Treat multiplayer as untested.