A remove roof area will cause pawns to remove any roofs in a given area.
Rimworld roof storage area.
Keep in mind each roof tile needs to be within 6 range of a wall to not collapse.
Zorba now works on rimworld and i think he ported a few of his mods.
Choose manage allowed areas and click the new area button.
Best way to handle food storage iv e found is to have seperate rooms for the seperate types of food based on how quickly the rot.
The area is to large and thus the roof has collapsed somewhere or you ve got a vent somewhere bad.
Jun 20 2017 7 38am on the bottom right corner of the screen are a bunch of buttons that toggle certain options and overlays one of them turns roof display on.
But a roof supported with columns will work just fine.
Give the area a meaningful name like barn or range.
This is useful for things like.
Solid walls and separate rooms will break the area of influence of a trade beacon however support columns for larger rooms don t block its effect.
Go to architect zones and click the expand allowed area button.
Areas can be designated to have a roof or not have a roof by drawing either a build roof area or remove roof area.
If there is no supporting wall or rock within 6 tiles no roof.
A build roof area will cause pawns to build a roof in the specified area.
Short of that start checking mods.
Items purchased from a trader will be dropped within range of a beacon if unroofed otherwise they will be dropped as close to the beacon as possible avoiding.
You can build sort of an market hall until you sort things out.
You can normally see where you re missing a roof by the lighter area where it should be shadowed.
The no roof area allows the player to designate an area which will not be covered by thin roofing once a surrounding wall is constructed.
This can be used to create outdoor roofed areas to prevent snowfall or item deterioration or indoor unroofed areas protected solar panels indoor growing areas.
However a a roof too wide will crush under it s own weight potentially injuring everyone underneath it.
A ignore roof area will cause pawns to not alter the roof in a specified area.
Trade beacons will work under a roof.
I m going to try this next game iit s ok to leave piles of wood uncollected outside because it doesn t currently deteriorate or you could make another lower priority pile farther away.
Click again on the expand allowed area button and choose the name for the area you just created.
One way to protect a storage area on a new place is to extend a roof from the building.