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 constructed roof vs mountain.
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.
Drawing a remove roof zone will cause colonists to remove a.
Many resources can naturally be found in mountains such as minerals stone and even loot.
Colonists will be able to remove overhead mountain.
A roof will collapse if the last supporting wall or rock is removed whether by mining deconstruction or destruction.
When you select roof zoning you can see the colored draw area of all different roof types.
Orange overhead mountain yellow thin rock roof cyan constructed roof blue constructed steel roof teal constructed solar roof pink constructed transparent roof purple constructed transparent solar roof areabuildroof and arearemoveroof area zones.
Instead of needing to build walls and lose a ton of resources.
Shells fired from mortars or drop pods will break through constructed roofing but not through overhead mountains or any tile underneath one.
Neither can penetrate an overhead.
Mountains or hills in rimworld are a natural structure that contain resources and special rooms.
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.
The same applies to artillery strikes.
And as u aenir stated they re generally easier to defend.
They re also fire proof with more hp than log wood walls.
This is just my 2cents.
Rock roof mod is a simple mod just to patch core.
Only way i have seen is in dev mode or by removing the walls below it even the rock walls and it will fall down on top of the ground below.
If it s an overhead mountain collapsing colonists will be buried alive.
Allows you to edit the roof type on any tile in a rimworld savegame.
Rimworld savegame roof type editor.
This works for any map size.
Penetration happens with drop pods and artillery it affects no roof duh thin roof and constructed roofs.
Roof collapses cause injuries to colonists and damage items.