Devs could you please fix water troughs?

[Jirel of Joiry]

I see them stuck in the air after idocs, and if you click on them it says you need an axe to destroy it. However if you try to destroy it with an axe it says you need to be in your house to do that.

I found a castle size spot but can't place cause of the water trough in space anging there.

 

[Zodia]

Someone told me that you can page a GM and ask them to remove them, but that it's sorta hit-or-miss because some GMs will tell you no and some will say yes.

 

[Jirel of Joiry]

Yeah, I've gotten the canned message they're not Allow to move items. I dunno. Its a glitch cause used to you could just hit em with a axe and they'd redeed.

 

[Zodia]

yeah, it's definetly something the Devs need to fix or just make it a firm policy that GMs can nuke em.

 

[Snakeman]

They have come to move leftover bar keeps, they are in the same category as items left & bugged. I'd just page again & fully explain problem that it is a bug item & it is a left over item from a house fall & needs to be moved to place another home.
Could always place a keep & put trough in the open area for time being (mark rune next to trough, recall in & destroy it once keep is up), then go into resize house size & place the castle.

 

[UltimatePower]

Water Troughs do not block house placement. They will dispear when you try to place, must be something else blocking you from placing a castle.

 

[TheScoundrelRico]

Water Troughs do not block house placement. They will dispear when you try to place, must be something else blocking you from placing a castle.

Operator error...la

 

[kittykat]

Water Troughs do not block house placement. They will dispear when you try to place, must be something else blocking you from placing a castle.

they seem kinda fussy about blocking/not blocking. I had a spot i couldn't place in till i did a house that covered the full area the trough was in (i was just going for a certain size and it was only catching part of the trough *i think*).

 

[Aboo]

I see them stuck in the air after idocs, and if you click on them it says you need an axe to destroy it. However if you try to destroy it with an axe it says you need to be in your house to do that.

I found a castle size spot but can't place cause of the water trough in space anging there.

Not sure about trying to place a castle, but I found a spot next to one of my houses where the house decayed and all that was left was the water trough. My first attempt to place a house caused the water trough to go poof. Of course I was attempting to place a much smaller house than a castle (15 x 18 eventually fit there).

Have you tried placing a smaller house first?

 

[Heimi]

Place a small plot beneath the trough, axe it, then resize the plot to a castle

 

[MalagAste]

You know I placed a house the other day that had left a vendor hanging around ... at first the vendor moved out from under the house... to under the house sign... not the vendor is ON my property.... odd behavior... and it's NOT my vendor... not sure now what to do with it or if I can access it...

 

[Orthus]

You know I placed a house the other day that had left a vendor hanging around ... at first the vendor moved out from under the house... to under the house sign... not the vendor is ON my property.... odd behavior... and it's NOT my vendor... not sure now what to do with it or if I can access it...

Same thing with parrots. I placed after an IDOC and had a dozen or so parrots move to under the house sign. They eventually disappeared, but it took a few days.

 

[Spelosty]

I seem to remember returning to an Idoc with an axe and successfully axing a left over water trough one time...

 

[Dragonchilde]

Place a small plot beneath the trough, axe it, then resize the plot to a castle

Actually, I've found that it's not even necessary to axe it, more often than not. Usually, when I test-place, the trough vanishes when the plot appears.