How to place stone/concrete paths?

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How to place stone/concrete paths?

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Hey, sorry if this is a newb question but, how the heck do I place stone paths? I've seen them in screens and videos but no idea how they do it. I looked on the wiki and the patch notes when paths released but it doesn't say how to make paths, only that you can.

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~Ctop

***EDIT***
Nevermind, I found the problem. I thought I was on the correct version, but it didnt update correctly. All fixed now!
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Re: How to place stone/concrete paths?

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When you have stone bricks or the new concrete item, you can place them, you can also only pick them up if you are holding one of them

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Re: How to place stone/concrete paths?

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It's much like putting down any other placeable item. Pick the stone bricks or the concrete up from your inventory, and right-click. Or shift-left-click if you want constructor bots to put it down.

Default is a 2x2 square, but you can increase the size of the placement area with the +/- keys, down to 1x1 or up to... well, I don't know what the upper limit is, I've usually stopped at 5x5.

You can't place either one within a tile or two of water, but otherwise you can put them pretty much anywhere, under already placed items.

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Re: How to place stone/concrete paths?

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Gus_Smedstad wrote:It's much like putting down any other placeable item. Pick the stone bricks or the concrete up from your inventory, and right-click. Or shift-left-click if you want constructor bots to put it down.

Default is a 2x2 square, but you can increase the size of the placement area with the +/- keys, down to 1x1 or up to... well, I don't know what the upper limit is, I've usually stopped at 5x5.

You can't place either one within a tile or two of water, but otherwise you can put them pretty much anywhere, under already placed items.
I put the stone bricks in my hand and tried right click+placing but it wont even show the green square on the ground. I have the current version as well. Thanks for the help though!

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Re: How to place stone/concrete paths?

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ctoptrophobe wrote:I put the stone bricks in my hand and tried right click+placing but it wont even show the green square on the ground. I have the current version as well. Thanks for the help though!
Did you click close enough to your character?

Placing down Brick works fine for me. I can also contribute to this thread that the maximum Brick/Concrete placement size is 10x10, but you won't actually be able to place on 100 tiles, because you can't reach that far. So you can't manually place a square of more than perhaps 8x8. If you try to place more, you'll get a rounded shape, i.e. with the corners missing. Unless you use "ghosting"/"blueprinting", of course.

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Re: How to place stone/concrete paths?

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Place is left click, right click is pick up

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