Erasing Inside Buildings

Using the Magic Erasers, o­ne can erase buildings along their edge, but what if you want to erase inside a building leaving it's outer edges intact? Well, in this tutorial, we'll show you how to erase a 4x4 hole inside a building. This opens up the door to many more design possibilities, including multi-level towers, a new type of "water tower," and towers being repaired...

The process takes advantage of the fact that although stone piles are seperate to a quarry, they are still linked to it (much the same way as a wooden gate is linked to the walls and towers either side of it). But before we can take advantage of this fact, we first need to construct a conventional magic eraser.

Note: o­ne could use a large magic eraser if desired, but to keep this tutorial concise we've used the standard magic eraser as a foundation.

First, set up the walls...

Next, place gatehouses over the walls as shown...

Flattened view:

Moving o­n, place a tower over the walls to remove them...

Then, place a line of wooden wall and attach wooden platforms to it as shown...

After that, place a perimeter turret over the wooden platform stairs (anywhere o­n the stairs will do)...

Next, delete everything except the perimeter turret, leaving you with this...

Afterwards, place a strip of wooden wall as shown, three spaces away from the edge of the tower image...

Add 2 wooden platforms to that strip of wall...

Then, place another perimeter turret over the wooden platform stairs (this serves two purposes: o­ne, to remove the stairs from the platforms; two, to use as a placeholder to keep boulders from being placed under it)...

Next, paint lots and lots of quarry boulders around the area...

Continuing o­n, destroy the perimeter turret, leaving a 4x4 patch of dirt and completing your eraser (this is where the quarry stone piles will go)...

Now here comes the tricky part: Place 4 quarries so that their stone piles go inside the dirt patch. You may have to place bits of wall to focus placement of the stone piles o­n o­ne 2x2 patch. Play around with it until you have 4 quarry stone piles ready to be erased. Be sure to leave at least o­ne tile between the stone piles and the quarries. Here is our arrangement:

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Destroy the platforms, walls, and turret. You should end up with something like this:

Mark where the stone piles used to be with a line of wall. You wouldn't want to misplace your tower, would you?

Next, paint the area over with land to remove the boulders and dirt...

Place a tower over the marker so that the area where the stone piles were is now inside the tower:

Flattened view:

If you wish to erase inside the tower, leave it as is. If not, delete it and there will be a 6x6 patch of dirt, where you will place the building you do want to erase inside. In our example, we just left the tower. After you have decided which building in which you will erase, destroy the quarries:

Finally, paint over the remaining boulders with land terrain and you will be left with something like this...

Examples

Now, what can we do with this? Well, if you raise the terrain inside the tower and then place a perimeter turret inside it, you could make a tower like this:

As you can see, both towers remain fully functional! By adding crenellation around the outer tower, the effect is improved further as it now looks like three seperate towers!

Alternatively, you could make a water tower by placing raised terrain and then water inside it. Be careful; placing foam can create some very interesting effects. By placing the water inside the tower, you avoid glitches if you placed it o­n the outside, and you can have a door into the water. It also allows troops to go atop the tower, as can be seen in this picture:

Another thing you could do uses the Construction Sites methods to create a tower in the process of being repaired. Damage the tower a bit with enemy troops until there is visible damage. Then place stairs down to an ox tether inside the tower and a nearby quarry. The finished product could look like this:

Flattened view:

Create custom effects of your own and experiment with different building combinations - you don't have to use towers so experiment with Inns, fletchers, etc.

Happy Erasing!