Roof collapses cause injuries to colonists and damage items.
Rimworld constructed roof vs mountain.
When you select roof zoning you can see the colored draw area of all different roof types.
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.
Many resources can naturally be found in mountains such as minerals stone and even loot.
They re also fire proof with more hp than log wood walls.
This works for any map size.
Mountains or hills in rimworld are a natural structure that contain resources and special rooms.
Penetration happens with drop pods and artillery it affects no roof duh thin roof and constructed roofs.
And as u aenir stated they re generally easier to defend.
This is just my 2cents.
The same applies to artillery strikes.
Rimworld savegame roof type editor.
Neither can penetrate an overhead.
If it s an overhead mountain collapsing colonists will be buried alive.
Building into a mountain increases the amount of resources you have to play with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A roof will collapse if the last supporting wall or rock is removed whether by mining deconstruction or destruction.
Only tested with rimworld 0 16 at the moment.
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.
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.
Drawing a remove roof zone will cause colonists to remove a.
