Neither can penetrate an overhead.
Rimworld constructed roof vs mountain.
Allows you to edit the roof type on any tile in a rimworld savegame.
Penetration happens with drop pods and artillery it affects no roof duh thin roof and constructed roofs.
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.
Instead of needing to build walls and lose a ton of resources.
They re also fire proof with more hp than log wood walls.
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.
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.
The same applies to artillery strikes.
And as u aenir stated they re generally easier to defend.
Roof collapses cause injuries to colonists and damage items.
A roof will collapse if the last supporting wall or rock is removed whether by mining deconstruction or destruction.
This is just my 2cents.
Drawing a remove roof zone will cause colonists to remove a.
This works for any map size.
Rock roof mod is a simple mod just to patch core.
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.
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.
Building into a mountain increases the amount of resources you have to play with.
Only tested with rimworld 0 16 at the moment.
Shells fired from mortars or drop pods will break through constructed roofing but not through overhead mountains or any tile underneath one.
Many resources can naturally be found in mountains such as minerals stone and even loot.
If it s an overhead mountain collapsing colonists will be buried alive.
Rimworld savegame roof type editor.
When you select roof zoning you can see the colored draw area of all different roof types.