Building tips and tricks #4
More community building tricks: standard vs lite mode differences, sinking the watchtower for a rustic pavilion, bringing solo-only ironware items into guild mode via diagrams, extending a bar counter with a flat top cabinet, and creating a monitor using diagrams with empty slots.
A collection of creative tricks shared by the community builders in the Discord #tips-and-tricks channel.
1. Standard mode vs lite mode
by AegisNite
Standard mode and lite mode don’t share the same assets representation. Trees and vegetation can look different, and the textures and colors of certain wood and building materials also change between modes. Something that looks great in one mode can look noticeably different in the other.
Warning! Using ReShade on lite mode? ReShade is a post-processing injector not officially supported by the game. Using it would likely get you banned. Stick to vanilla visuals.
2. Sink the watchtower for a rustic pavilion
by Crueliet
This watchtower has a unique rustic-looking bell on top. While the full structure doesn’t fit or blend well in many scenarios, sinking most of the tower into the ground leaves behind a clean platform — or no platform at all — and a lovely pavilion. Adding a couple of your favorite lanterns completes the look perfectly.
3. Bring solo-only items into guild mode via diagrams
by Crueliet
Some ironware items are currently available only in solo build mode. But you can save them into a diagram in solo mode and then place that diagram in guild build mode. So in the future, when we get more items like this, we’ll be able to use the same trick to bring solo items into the guild.
4. Extend a bar counter with a flat top cabinet
by Wyrdrake
Q (Davidsu): Is there something that looks the same that can be used to make the counter longer?
Sink a flat top cabinetThis cabinet component has some that make it fit the bar counter
5. Create a monitor using diagrams
by KARIN
Place a diagram without filling in all of its component slots. The empty slots create a screen-like void, while the filled parts form the frame around it — resulting in a clean monitor shape. Wonpil was the first to demonstrate this idea in the Heavenly Sage guild to our knowledge.
