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Rimworld constructed roof vs mountain.
Instead of needing to build walls and lose a ton of resources.
Mountains or hills in rimworld are a natural structure that contain resources and special rooms.
When you select roof zoning you can see the colored draw area of all different roof types.
Penetration happens with drop pods and artillery it affects no roof duh thin roof and constructed roofs.
The same applies to artillery strikes.
Allows you to edit the roof type on any tile in a rimworld savegame.
Shells fired from mortars or drop pods will break through constructed roofing but not through overhead mountains or any tile underneath one.
Rock roof mod is a simple mod just to patch core.
How to remove thick roofs overhead mountain use the regular remove roof area option found in the architect zone area menu to draw an orange area above the roof you want to remove.
If it s an overhead mountain collapsing colonists will be buried alive.
Do not recomend the second option it is slow and well lets just say high odds of people pancakes which are not good if you like those people but it is good for mining xp.
This works for any map size.
Colonists will be able to remove overhead mountain.
Neither can penetrate an overhead.
I provides a method to visually change between constructed thin rock overhead mountain or no roof on any of the map tiles in your game.
Rimworld savegame roof type editor.
This is just my 2cents.
And as u aenir stated they re generally easier to defend.
Many resources can naturally be found in mountains such as minerals stone and even loot.
Roof collapses cause injuries to colonists and damage items.
Meaning if you get an alert raiders are dropping right on top of you they can get inside your buildings if they re covered with thin and constructed roofs.
Only tested with rimworld 0 16 at the moment.
They re also fire proof with more hp than log wood walls.
A roof will collapse if the last supporting wall or rock is removed whether by mining deconstruction or destruction.