Foundations Plus

NOTE: Requires BepinEx ( 5. 4. 23. 4 or 5. 4. 23. 5) to be setup!

---Words of caution---

This mod takes quite a few steps to try and ensure that, even if things go wrong after an update, nothing will be lost.

However - any custom item modded into a game can get lost after an update, so you should always:

1) Back up your save before updating the game

2) Check after loading that the custom pieces are still present in-game before saving, to ensure you don't accidentally lose them!

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Modifies the games buildable objects list to add new foundation pieces!

Foundations are now available in 5 sizes:

Original flavour: The foundations that are just slightly too small for your pods to sit on.

Wide-boi: The wide foundations are the same height as the original foundations, but scaled up to the same width as a pod. One pod SHOULD fit exactly on one wide foundation.

Maxi-pad: The maxi foundations are the same width as the wide foundations, but are also increased in height to be the same height as a pod, allowing you to interweave foundations as a support system with pods, should you want.

Slab: Original flavour foundations, dehydrated and squashed down - suitable for making bridges, gantries and walkways.

Slab XL: The same height as the slab, but the same width as the wide/maxi foundations.

Each set has the square, tri and ramp pieces, and as of 1. 1. 0 - now a quarter-sized piece.

Note that ramps are all scaled to match their respective foundation size (each ramp is a multiple of it's square foundation)

Slab and Slab XL also feature the Stumpy ramp; this is a single-foundation sized version of the ramp.

Foundations will snap to each other nicely (in theory) - but if you are mixing sizes, you'll need to manually line them up how you want them.

In addition, enjoy the Maxi Stair!

The maxi-stair has been increased in height, making it possible to build an exterior staircase from the bottom to the top of a pod (partially depending on what your doing with your foundation offsets of course... individual results will vary.)

Snapping woes:

Each piece will snap to itself, and other pieces of it's same "size".

Note that quarter-sized pieces will snap to the middle of their same-sized pieces.

If you want quarter-sized pieces to be placed only on one side, or for mixed-size pieces to be level with each other - then the only current way to do that is to use a mod like Grid Snap and enable "nudge mode" to move them where you want them.

UPDATED in 1. 3. 0:

Snapping points are now modified so that all pieces will (should..) align across their surfaces. and the quarter-sized pieces will snap on their corners, allowing them to snap to one side or the other of their matched full size foundation pieces. I still recommend using Grid Snap to allow for fine control + placement, but this should make life a lot easier! This is configurable - you can disable quarter piece corner placement, or disable all snap point changes via config.

New in 1. 2. 1 - The Glass Slab.

Available in both regular and XL sized; both full and Quarter versions. These are recycled pod roof windows, but to achieve wrap-around edging - each slab is made up of two copies of the windows, so you'll find them twice as punishing on your system.

New in 1. 2. 1 - The Pillar.

Available in a full-height and reduced-height; the Pillar has been recycled from wrecks for your building pleasure (god knows you've dismantled enough of them!)

Pillars will snap end-to-end to make it easier to build tall supports, but getting them where you want them might be a bit fiddly. Again - Grid Snap with it's Nudge mode will likely go a long way to help with this. Currently pillars will not target surfaces; they build like foundations do - so you have to do the same awkward manuvering.

New in 1. 2. 1 - Resized Rails!

Requested more than once - three new sizes of the 'Fence' hand-rail are now available.

Regular - sized to fit a standard foundation.

Quarter - quarter-sized of a standard foundation.

Wide Quarter - somewhere-in-between, and ideal to fill half of a full width foundation (making a full width version would have looked a little rediculous due to the stretching; so just use two of these.)

New in 1. 3. 0 - Vertical snapping! (at long last..)