AutoScaffold

AutoScaffold Fills in the missing foundation when you place a building where vanilla wouldn't let you — over a cliff edge, above a lower rooftop, across a gap. The moment you click, AutoScaffold queues platform blueprints to support the building, picks sensible tiers based on what you've researched, and prompts for research on the spot if you haven't unlocked the right platform yet. hold SHIFT while placing Lock the altitude. Press SHIFT and the ghost stops snapping to terrain. Its Z freezes at whatever it was when you pressed the key. Drag the cursor horizontally and the ghost tracks a flat invisible plane at that height — no more fighting the camera as the ghost jumps across valleys and cliff tops. Stay anchored. Whatever was directly under the ghost at press time (a rooftop, the ground, or both) becomes an anchor. As you drag, at least one footprint cell must stay over that anchor — the ghost "sticks" at the last valid position rather than flying off across the map. SHIFT + F flips and SHIFT + R rotates clockwise while SHIFT is held, so you can orient the ghost without releasing the lock. Release SHIFT and you're back to normal ground-snap behaviour. What else it does Auto-plans scaffolding. For every footprint cell that would reject placement due to missing support, AutoScaffold computes a column of vanilla platforms from the first solid block up to the building's base. Tallest-unlocked-first, greedy bottom-up (3+1 for height 4, 3+2 for height 5, 3+3+1 for height 7, etc.). Respects research. Only uses platform tiers you've unlocked. If a column can't be built with what's unlocked but could be with a locked tier, the game's native research-unlock dialog fires for that tier; confirm and the placement proceeds. Faction-matched. Folktails buildings scaffold with Folktails platforms, Iron Teeth with Iron Teeth, and any modded faction that ships its own platform templates works automatically. Cost preview merges with vanilla. When a placement needs scaffolding, the ex