Building on hills

Drawn buildings work on plopped land , not just the flat stage. Two footing styles cover it. The Ground row in Build › Draw picks between them: Carve | Sit atop.

Carve, or sit on top

• Carve cuts a flat pad into the hillside and sets the building into it, the same idea as a fig that digs in . The pad belongs to the building: move the building and the pad heals behind it, and a fresh pad is carved at the new spot.
• Sit on top keeps the ground as it is. Every wall grows a footing that reaches down to the lowest ground beneath it, so walls on a slope stand on stone up to their floor line instead of floating.

Sloped connectors

Where a wall runs along a slope, sloped connector pieces fill the stair-step gaps between wall segments, so the building’s base follows the hill in clean diagonal lines.

One floor per building

A building holds one floor level. On a slope that means the floor sits at the height of the building’s uphill side, and the footing does the work below. For a terraced look, draw two buildings on two Cliff levels and let each take its own footing.

Reshape the land under a standing building and it re-settles: footings re-reach, pads re-carve, nothing floats.