I'm disappointed by the bottom and top roof shapes

[Johnny Blood]

When i first saw these i thought they would allow me to make the roof steeper or flatter, but no... they don't go to certain spaces on the black to make them work. I don't know what to do with these roof shapes now. 

[Baarn]

they are just for the top and bottom of the roofs. but that still is very confusing and hard to use it for.

[Ryilo]

Take a look at the mod named one-roof

[Echo Weaver]

I've been meaning to ask on the forums what those pieces are for. I tried to use them, but they don't fit anything I visualize.

[Fistandantilus]

I imagine what your intending is a sort of peaked roof maybe? I mean you could maybe add them on as embellishments but they aren't going to give you that high-ceiling gap you might see in say, a Yurt. I am interested in what you were visualizing.

[nono_f_theabove]

I can't speak for other people, but I expected those blocks to enable a 22.5° slanted roof (2 blocks forward and 1 block up). unfortunately, the existing blocks only allow for a 45° angle (1 block forward and 1 block up). I've attached two screenshots. Those depict some ideas as to how to achieve a half slanted roof (2 forward 1 up)

[Broccoli Clock]

You know what would be a really good idea? Allowing roof pieces to be rotated by the wrench/spanner. Utterly frustrating, and somewhat odd, that roof tiles cannot be. Especially considering how easy it is misplace them.

[Echo Weaver]

1 hour ago, Broccoli Clock said:

You know what would be a really good idea? Allowing roof pieces to be rotated by the wrench/spanner. Utterly frustrating, and somewhat odd, that roof tiles cannot be. Especially considering how easy it is misplace them.

There's a mod for this that I don't play without: https://mods.vintagestory.at/wrenchroof

I have absolutely no idea why it's not in vanilla. I hope it will be eventually fixed. Adjusting roof tiles seems like the exact kind of thing wrenches were designed for.

Edited October 24, 2025 by Echo Weaver

[Professor Dragon]

On 4/15/2025 at 2:07 AM, Johnny Blood said:

When i first saw these i thought they would allow me to make the roof steeper or flatter, but no... they don't go to certain spaces on the black to make them work. I don't know what to do with these roof shapes now. 

I thought exactly the same thing!

On 8/26/2025 at 6:42 AM, Ryilo said:

Take a look at the mod named one-roof

This is THE ANSWER to most roof questions.

On 8/26/2025 at 6:54 AM, Echo Weaver said:

I've been meaning to ask on the forums what those pieces are for. I tried to use them, but they don't fit anything I visualize.

I know what you mean. I guess you could use the peaks for a ridgeline on a block line on your roof - but why do you have a block line on your roof? Spanish influence, maybe?
I gave them a real good try to incorporate them, but even when I wanted an overhang, the existing slanted roof did the job better than the low flat roof. Why there is no connectivity between the parts I don't know. Now, if they formed part of a low slanted roof, I could get behind that.

Overall, these roof parts look like they should do a lot more than they do. @Johnny Blood summed it up well.

[Broccoli Clock]

11 hours ago, Echo Weaver said:

I have absolutely no idea why it's not in vanilla. I hope it will be eventually fixed. Adjusting roof tiles seems like the exact kind of thing wrenches were designed for.

Yes, yes and yes. It is one of the reasons I refuse to use roof tiles. I know it's possible, I know the angles I should be in, but it's one of the most frustrating things in the game that I just ignore the "official" tiles and chisel my own, because... they *can* be rotated! 

[Echo Weaver]

8 minutes ago, Broccoli Clock said:

Yes, yes and yes. It is one of the reasons I refuse to use roof tiles. I know it's possible, I know the angles I should be in, but it's one of the most frustrating things in the game that I just ignore the "official" tiles and chisel my own, because... they *can* be rotated! 

I love roof tiles in general. I just always use that mod.

[Professor Dragon]

41 minutes ago, Echo Weaver said:

I love roof tiles in general. I just always use that mod.

So it's just me breaking and replacing the roof tile block to get the correct orientation?

Okay then . . . 

(Hmmm. Maybe that wrench mod would overcome a lot of placement issues. . . )

[Broccoli Clock]

1 hour ago, Professor Dragon said:

So it's just me breaking and replacing the roof tile block to get the correct orientation?

Okay then . . . 

(Hmmm. Maybe that wrench mod would overcome a lot of placement issues. . . )

No, not just you. 

The issue is that it's not difficult to place them correctly - once you line up the angles - it's that it is far too easy to place incorrectly and without a wrench option (and normally, being roofs, you are working at height, needing to be perched at a specific angle, and when you remove a block it's likely to fall to the floor than into your hands) it makes the task all the more tedious and frustrating.

The game's building mechanics are brilliant in places, and it easily outshines that low res block nonsense of "the other block game" but the situation regarding roofs is an odd one, almost to the point that there may be a technical reason why they can't be rotated rather than the devs just forgetting to add that functionality to them.

 

[Echo Weaver]

On 10/25/2025 at 6:09 AM, Broccoli Clock said:

The game's building mechanics are brilliant in places, and it easily outshines that low res block nonsense of "the other block game" but the situation regarding roofs is an odd one, almost to the point that there may be a technical reason why they can't be rotated rather than the devs just forgetting to add that functionality to them.

OK, I opened Wrenchable Rooftiles to see if there was anything complicated about it, but no, it's just a patch that adds behaviors to the roof tiles.

This just seems to be an oversight on the part of the devs.

On 10/25/2025 at 4:59 AM, Professor Dragon said:

So it's just me breaking and replacing the roof tile block to get the correct orientation?

Well, it was me until I found that mod.

 

[xXx_Ape_xXx]

It didn't require rocket science to make that mod, that's for sure 

Why it isn't vanilla, only the devs can answer..