Did you repair a broken bed in an underground ruin, but it turns out you can't sleep in it? I have a solution..

[Broccoli Clock]

I was told a few weeks back that the beds you find in underground ruins can't be slept in if they needed repairing. Of course, I ignored that helpful nugget of information and went ahead and repaired one and took it home. Imagine my surprise when the thing I was told about turned out to be true!

Anyway, not all is lost, as it seems that the hit box of the bed doesn't match it's actual shape, so you can place items "into it". What items you ask? Well, a straw mattress for one. Turning the canopy bed that wasn't functional, into one that is.

 

 

[Cattastrafy]

Clever!

 

I finally found ....two actually...of the real things. It turns out they're in what seems to be a particularly rare underground ruin prefab, it also is the only one I saw with an aged owl chest in it. Prob took like 50 to 75 underground ruins for me to find them almost back to back heh.

[Broccoli Clock]

3 minutes ago, Cattastrafy said:

I finally found ....two actually...of the real things.

I found one in a previous playthrough but never took it back to my house.

I'll be honest, this is more a happy accident as I had resigned myself to it being nothing more than decorative, and tried to place the straw mattress on top of the canopy bed only to find it landed inside it. Upon realising that, I thought I better share the knowledge.

I do think that it's something that'll get patched at some time. Not directly, though, probably be an update to models/hit boxes that'll nix it.

[ifoz]

I've been messing around with wrench offsetting and this idea... I think this is pretty good.
Wrench offsetting completely ignores hitboxes by the way, and that's intentional. It's great. 

(Basically you place a functional bed, and then place a decorative bed a block above it. Then use a wrench (press F to change to offset mode) and offset it down until they merge nicely).

(Edit: Btw, the reason the clutter beds only have a hitbox on one half is so that the devs can hide goodies underneath them in ruins. Check under beds when you're ruin hunting - you might just get lucky!)

Edited March 25, 2025 by ifoz

[Broccoli Clock]

21 minutes ago, ifoz said:

I've been messing around with wrench offsetting and this idea... I think this is pretty good.
Wrench offsetting completely ignores hitboxes by the way, and that's intentional. It's great. 

The wrench is both the must useful and the most useless tool in the game. Absolutely brilliant for the stuff you mention, but ask it to rotate a corner shingle block and it'll not give you any joy.

I'll certainly mess around with this now I know what is possible.

23 minutes ago, ifoz said:

Check under beds when you're ruin hunting - you might just get lucky!

I'm fairly diligent with searching underground ruins, but I've never come across anything under the beds (and I've seen a ton of them). Whether that is RNG, or I'm missing things, time will tell.

[xXx_Ape_xXx]

12 minutes ago, Broccoli Clock said:

The wrench is both the must useful and the most useless tool in the game. Absolutely brilliant for the stuff you mention, but ask it to rotate a corner shingle block and it'll not give you any joy.

There's a solution to this 

Wrenchable Rooftiles

[Broccoli Clock]

1 minute ago, xXx_Ape_xXx said:

There's a solution to this 

Wrenchable Rooftiles

Thanks, although I am on vanilla just now.

I'm guessing that placing is one of those things, it just clicks after a while, in the same way the "other block game" does.

[ifoz]

12 hours ago, Broccoli Clock said:

I'm fairly diligent with searching underground ruins, but I've never come across anything under the beds (and I've seen a ton of them). Whether that is RNG, or I'm missing things, time will tell.

It's only in specific ruins.
A couple have gears under beds, the blackguard barracks ruin has some shoes, a jug, a parallel transfer vessel and some scrap hidden under a bed, and one ruin has books under one of the beds.