Any Way To Prevent Roof Clipping In Open Floor Rooms?

It's a pretty common problem, @Moodbeamy. If the game doesn't consider an area a room, then the roof on that level will clip into it. Based on the pictures you've posted, the simplest solution in your case is probably to 1) wall off that area with the roof protruding through in the front where you have it bumped out a tile and 2) redraw a room around the roofing on the side and then delete the unwanted walls. Another thing to keep in mind is that roofing on other levels won't clip into this level, so you can also try redrawing your roofing from above or below (can work in some cases depending on what the roof needs to look like).

It's incredibly frustrating. Any time you try to close off an interior space with fencing, the roofing will encroach. I don't think it always did this, but it certainly has been a problem for the last couple of months. I've personally taken to using the arches with fencing (found in the "windows" section of the build screen) in place of interior fencing. But it's definitely annoying.

There are a couple of things you could do, though, to get around it. Adjusting the eaves on various roof parts can help, but it doesn't look like that would solve your specific problems. Instead, you could break your roofing up into smaller pieces. Pull your existing roofing pieces away from the wall by one square, and use half-hipped roofing pieces to fill in the gap.

Hopefully they'll fix the issue with interior fencing. But until they do, the half-hipped roof is your best friend.

Can we talk about how this has been a problem since at least March 2015, and it’s 2020. It’s 40 minutes away from 2021 which would make it six years that we’ve been complaining about this easily fixable problem.

It's actually even gotten "worse", cause now using platforms on outside walls causes the exact same issue, it turns the entire room into an outside one, hence protruding roofs and all that jazz.

Yes, it's a bit strange it only happens from time to time. The worst for me are diagonals, I've noticed it happens a lot more with these.

Anyone know of an easy way to create a 'vide' without fencing? My way is very elaborate.... I did find out a bit of a workaround for the clipping roofs this way though, does NOT work on eaves sadly, just normal roofs:

Also, I am not sure how this workaround survives gallery uploads and downloads, since you basically create 1 room both with and without floor. It tends to bug a bit with the gallery.

First, draw a room over the (ground floor) area where (on the first floor) the stairs will NOT remove the ceiling, remove the ceiling and the drawn walls of the room, but the room has to remain separate (if you click it, it is a different entity from the complete area) Stairs can not be placed for this part, since the area runs partly under the stairs
https://i.imgur.com/h1OGPm8.png

Then, place the staircase and go upstairs, draw a wall where the floor appeared
https://i.imgur.com/WFz3TSk.png

Remove the floor of the newly drawn room and (important!!) use the room draw tool to 'recreate' the room, see the red dots. This will make the entire area a room, but will NOT replace the bit of floor you just removed.
https://i.imgur.com/GD2iLX9.png

final result with roof pulled into the building, not cutting into the vide
https://i.imgur.com/1zAgYcq.png

Does NOT work with extended eaves! (Sadly)
https://i.imgur.com/ChrH32C.png

> @DeanXeL said:
> Anyone know of an easy way to create a 'vide' without fencing? My way is very elaborate.... I did find out a bit of a workaround for the clipping roofs this way though, does NOT work on eaves sadly, just normal roofs:
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> Also, I am not sure how this workaround survives gallery uploads and downloads, since you basically create 1 room both with and without floor. It tends to bug a bit with the gallery.
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> First, draw a room over the (ground floor) area where (on the first floor) the stairs will NOT remove the ceiling, remove the ceiling and the drawn walls of the room, but the room has to remain separate (if you click it, it is a different entity from the complete area) Stairs can not be placed for this part, since the area runs partly under the stairs
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> Then, place the staircase and go upstairs, draw a wall where the floor appeared
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> Remove the floor of the newly drawn room and (important!!) use the room draw tool to 'recreate' the room, see the red dots. This will make the entire area a room, but will NOT replace the bit of floor you just removed.
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> final result with roof pulled into the building, not cutting into the vide
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> Does NOT work with extended eaves! (Sadly)

You are my SAVIOR. I literally just created an account on here for the first time just to tell you how amazing you are. That fixed it. You are an amazing and wonderful person and I hope you have a day to match.

Hie everyone. I've been struggling with that problem for a while, trying all I could to open my floor without having my roofs showing. I managed to do it, I don't know how, and sadly I cant post screenshots of it yet.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly caused my situation to work, and if anyone has some new explanations, please share them.

I have stopped trying to get it to work! Now I use multiple roofs to avoid having the roof actually go into the space.

For your half-hipped roof situation, I would have one half-hipped roof that goes from left to right but is only as deep as the front of the extended room. Then I would have another half-hipped roof rotated 90 degrees that goes from the front to the back and goes all the way to the side of the extension without going through it and then mirror it on the other side.

I copy the roofs so they have the same slope. The roofs overlap well and play nicely with each other so it can be an alternative that allows you to have the same space configuration without the roof going into the house.

I had to scrap an entire build because of this same exact glitch. It is helpful to try to limit lofts to inside walls.

In your situation, I would make the roof at the top of the picture go away by building a 1x4 ledge up against the far northern wall. For the roof at the right side of the pic, I would adjust the overhang arrow to short.

I hope this helps and hopefully this will get fixed soon.