@Karthas
hope its not an issue, but ive updated this to 1.4 and added a measure of support for Ideology styles
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2905190598

1.4?

NEVER STOP UP DATING PLS. I can't complete my trophy rooms with out this mod.

Can we get a lil' preview image? plox

Yeah, that... That's just plain weird. A save/restart seems to have fixed it.

If it's also happening to regular smooth walls it's most likely not something my mod is doing. I don't touch those.

@Karthas: Yes, Orassans adds Neo-Concrete as 'Stony' stuff.

Having said that, after I made this report, this behavior - which I've only just now observed, despite using this mod for awihle - I noticed the same behavior... On a perfectly genuine smoothed, un-engraved, totally-natural rock wall!

I have no idea what in the heck is going on now.

Engraved walls should have "canBuildNonEdificesUnder" set properly to allow conduits under them, and I haven't heard this reported before. Do you have any mods adding new stone types or that mess with power conduits?

I issued orders to install power conduits in engraved natural walls, only to find that they're demolishing the walls! Is this intended behavior?!

I have a minor suggestion: Would it be possible for an engrave order, issued on a non-smooth wall, to automatically smooth and then engrave that wall?

Awesome! It was a painful week that my smoothed walls just being smoothed lol

Was working on that this weekend, was planning on adding some additional functionality, but I pushed the version update early so you all will have access to it.

can we get an update for 1.3, pretty please? if you're not busy, of course!

That is not something I had considered. I'll take a look at what would be involved in doing that and how I feel about the balance.

Could you make the engraved walls react to Artistic meditation type?

This mod menaces with spikes of awesome. All craftsmodship is of highest quality.

:D my mountain town thanks you!

Went ahead and fixed a longstanding minor oversight regarding relative beauty while I was at it. Engraved marble should now have a higher beauty value than engraved sandstone at equivalent art qualities. Should be up and functional for 1.2 now.

Woohoo! Thanks man.

Apologies, I thought I already had. To my knowledge nothing should need to be changed besides a version update of the modfile, but I'll double check that nothing breaks and upload an update this weekend.

Bump

Will you update to 1.2?

Unfortunately this mod does not allow for that. This is modeled after Dwarf Fortress which only allows for the engraving of natural walls. Secondly, the point is for the free extra beauty to be balanced by the requirement to build into, around, or under mountains.

yes but i would often like to engrave normal walls

You can engrave anything that counts as a "smoothedThing". By default this is just natural stone.

can you also engrave normal walls ?

At least we won't get ultra-depressed pawns should these masterwork/legendary engraved walls get blown up by enemy rockets. I hope.

That was the goal! Hope you enjoy it!

Really want to try out this mod, it gives me Dwarf Fortress nostalgia. Gonna have all sorts of horrors and atrocities detailed around my base, combines with inexplicable references to popular foodstuffs.

Aha, gotcha... & thanks so much for this mod, it really livens up the game!

Unfortunately not at this time. It is intended that you be able to smooth over a poor quality engraving allowing a section of wall to be re-engraved. If I end up adding more features to this I'll look into the possibility of adding an option to smooth surface which only targets rough stone.

Thanks @karthas!! Also, if I drag the "smooth surface" over the entire base, the colonists will smooth the engraved walls. Is there a way to disable that behavior?

Regarding engraving walls made from blocks - The extra beauty from natural walls is offset by the need to prevent bug infestation from living within natural stone. (Not likely to be added)

Regarding floor engraving - Something I always intended on adding but was a bit awkward/difficult at the time I first added this. I might take another look at making that possible soon. (Want to add)

Regarding art descriptions - Unfortunately that's not something that's included in vanilla Rimworld, and I lack the knowledge to make a usable GUI to do what you request. If one of the other modders I talk to knows enough to give me guidance I might see about implementing this. (Might add)

I like this mod a lot, but I engraved almost all available surfaces. I want to read what they say but it's tedious to click on each individual wall. Is there a place I can just read them all at once?

what about floor engraving?

how about engraving walls made from blocks? Game wont let me smooth those, i dunno y.

Mod has been updated. Tested with 1.1 and SHOULD still maintain 1.0 compatibility.

Just found out about the 1.1 release last night. I just need to check if the update touched any of the functions I use before I can mark it as compatible.

1.1 is released.
Will this be updated within the foreseeable future?

@Karthas Haven't got luck to find any... so ya.

The only requirements are that the mod follow the base game's definitions for natural stone. More specifically - "isNaturalRock" needs to be true and a smoothed variant needs to be defined as per the base game's formatting.

If you check the debug log in-game, after my mod is loaded there should be several messages in the format "Created {engraved} from {rock}". If that is showing up but it can't be engraved, then the mod which adds the stone did not format their data correctly. If that doesn't show up, then the stone is not defined as a natural rock.

@Karthas Thanks for the reply... do you aware of any kind of build natural stone mod which allowed this mod to work on them? I tried to find one, but failed to find any that actually works. I think they either are just actual walls with a natural stone look, or simply will bugged out when I tried to Engraved them.

They should look mostly the same as a constructed wall with little randomly chosen stylized images on them.

How does these looks visually? Or is there no change on visual just the art tag?

No worries, glad it's working for you now :)

so ummm im not sure how to say this but...my dumbass just forgot to install it

is there any easy way to copy a mod list?

I'd need more details to actually figure out what's going on. I'd suggest making a discussion with your full mod list and a link to a pastebin of your console log.

I cant seem to find it anywhere in the build menus and clicked on a smooth stone wall and there was no option

Where is it in the build menus?