# Constructing counters can replace wall

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/constructing-counters-can-replace-wall/969>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [April 23, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/constructing-counters-can-replace-wall/969 "2013-04-23T13:31:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![warppooted](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/warppooted/32/905_2.png) [@warppooted](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/warppooted)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/constructing-counters-can-replace-wall/969/1 "2013-04-23T13:31:37Z")

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Just as the title says. I managed to replace an internal wall of a house by constructing a counter in it’s place.

EDIT: Have replicated it with a bank wall, as seen in the picture below. Does not work when I tried to do the same outside.

 ![](http://i.imgur.com/nAyTjqB.png?1)

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**Author:** ![Reservoir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/reservoir/32/28_2.png) [@Reservoir](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Reservoir)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/constructing-counters-can-replace-wall/969/2 "2013-04-23T18:59:22Z")

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Hopefully no one will use this to make the game easier…  
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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**Author:** ![warppooted](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/warppooted/32/905_2.png) [@warppooted](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/warppooted)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/constructing-counters-can-replace-wall/969/3 "2013-04-24T08:11:21Z")

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Hehe I’m breaking into banks and police stations using this bug … "Ain’t got no time for your fancy smancy computer terminals, I’mma just BASH yo wall into a counter!

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**Author:** ![Endovior](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/endovior/32/3070_2.png) [@Endovior](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Endovior)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 12:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/constructing-counters-can-replace-wall/969/4 "2013-04-24T12:43:41Z")

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Yeah, the construction commands could use work in general. When you move a piece of furniture through an open door, it disintegrates the door; when you move furniture along open ground, it leaves a trail of flooring behind it (no need to spend tons of nails on building a roof to protect from acid rain; just drag a bookcase around); and while counters can be built into walls to replace them, they can’t be built on stone floor… if you’re already standing on a stone floor. If you’re standing on regular floor adjacent to a stone floor, you can totally put a counter down there.

I think mostly what’s required is to differentiate furniture from terrain, such that a piece of ground might have a piece of furniture on it, separate from any items that may also be present.

EDIT: some quick testing confirms the general problem behind all this; the legality of furniture construction seems to be based on the terrain you’re standing on, not the target terrain. Which is bizarre.