Conan Exiles: Foundation vs Pillar/Ceiling Combo (Tutorial/ No Mods)

for decay timers what gives the most time for decay?

Nice

using columns+ceilings instead of foundations supposedly tricks the game and helps avoid purges

Ah i get it now. I'll try that out next time. Thanks man!

Helpful vid - I liked your explanations. Thank you for sharing

so quick question how could one do a castle of palace build with the pillar and ceiling combo implementing a gate and a draw bridge i have found them to not work without foundations

this is an old myth about foundations yet some server owners (who are not developers) keep with it. thrall wars mod developer addressed this issue way back in 2018.

Q:: Some servers claim that foundations lag more than other things like more than pillars is that true ?
A:: Again its hard to know what that is based on, there once was old myth that foundations had scripts and other building parts did not. But that one is of course just a myth all Building parts run similar scripts. Lag from building parts in the end only comes down to how many vertices they have, And does foundation have more vertices than pillar ? Maybe some types, and maybe some types of pillars have more than foundations. Base shape of both is just cube, then rest of vertices goes in whatever decorative shape is embedded in them.

After I build one of the sets of pillars I'm unable to build the stairs on the set over from it to put in the next pair of pillars.

Extremely helpful. You've got a subscriber for sure. Thanks a ton!

I didn't know we can place a wall inside a doorframe

The issue with the server stability was stacked foundations specifically but regardless if you put enough clutter in one location or have a giant base with lots of npcs, then you will get some kind of performance hit no matter what. Even though a lot of admins will witch hunt over a couple of stacked foundations meanwhile they have 4 giant ass RP bases with 120 npcs each.

I've tested both structures using Pillars and ceilings and using foundations with the /ToggleDebugHUD command and the FPS can be felt a lot. You have less frame drops with ceilings and pillars than foundations and the main cause is not those two pieces along but the torches animation or any other brazier that uses that display. Also, using a lot of Planters as decoration it reduce the frames by a margin compared to not using them at all. Exalted temples seems to cause a big issue when dropping frames compared to previously mentioned building pieces and torches/braziers.
The "optimization" some people brings up it still an issue. Same as when climbing got fixed back in People Of The Dragon DLC patch day, they completely ruined climbing straight surfaces, that includes: stairs inside dungeons, your own building pieces and any other flat surface you can think of when trying to reach the top.
Thanks as always for your videos, love your channel.

Down side to this. I play on RP servers and always have to use Foundations. This is due to the fact that most RP servers place a Build piece limit per player/clan on the server. This is to try and limit too much build spam. I would love to see you do some nice RP builds using certain build limits to see what kind of designs you can come up with!

A few years ago that was true about the foundations causing more lag. It has since been better optimized so each piece causes the same amount of lag problems. That said, the ceiling and pillar method will cause more lag but it does give you greater flexibility in your build for aesthetics as you noted. On many private servers there is a building limit for number of building pieces so that becomes another factor in your builds. All in all, I really appreciate your builds and especially so clearly showing that pillar trick to move pillars to the corners. You also just cleared up the issue for me on why I wasn't getting some of the stability I was expecting from the pillars where I didn't go all the way to the ground. Keep up the great videos.

I like turtles

We are waiting for your new creations.

no, i just wanna use only fence accounts!

Really nice.

Stopping purge this way on more or less populated serwer will give this server a lag in long run I dont kow how it is nowdays but few months ago only pillar bases coud have purge spaw inside

This week I built my first ceiling combo based villa just to try this out. Used sandstone as it was just a test so resources were not an issue. Pillar trick was easier and now I make everything with corner pillars as I really prefer the look. On this particular villa lag seemed to be a lot worse than at my main base which is five times bigger, though I'm playing solo so this is just pulling resources from my personal PC, so not sure if it's the same on an actual server. Thanks for the vid. Helpful.

Well that was a fast turnaround. Great info as always. ^-^

Thanks! Never even realized this as an option