Palbox Surveyor - Now With GridLock

Palbox Surveyor - Now With GridLock

Version 0.1.14 adds wood, stone and metal defensive-wall GridLock and removes repeated class lookups between wall previews. Includes the Square Bases 0.1.1 planning-grid repair.

Quick start

[olist] [*]Page Up: start/stop Surveyor. The border follows you and the grid starts visible, aligned NORTH-SOUTH / EAST-WEST. Turning the camera does not rotate it. [*]Shift + Page Down: align to a completed square foundation below you; over valid open ground, align to your view instead. [*]Page Down: lock the plan or resume following. Arrow keys nudge it in 25 cm steps relative to view; Shift + Up/Down adjusts height. [*]With the grid locked and visible, choose a supported foundation or defensive wall and hold the game's Align / Axis Alignment control (RT by default). [*]Foundations hold a grid cell; wood/stone/metal defensive walls hold an edge with their ends at intersections. Aim up/down to adjust height and build normally. Release Align to choose again. [/olist] Shift + Page Up hides/shows the grid. Stopping Surveyor resets alignment and manual height offset; unlocking keeps them. Menus discard nudge taps. Startup and nudge shortcuts use the keyboard; controller GridLock uses native Align.

Walls and support

Native wall-to-wall snapping stays automatic and takes priority; no gate connections are added. Eligible grid-held or native-chain walls can rest on completed square foundations or flat floors from the listed supported families. Unfinished previews, slopes and triangle pieces are excluded. Physical support, other placement restrictions and material costs still matter. Completed buildings never move.

Foundation GridLock families: wood, stone, metal, glass, ancient, SF and Japanese style. Wall support includes these square foundations and their flat floors, excluding Japanese flat floors. Modified grid pitches retain ordinary wall placement. WallSnapEnabled and WallSupportEnabled in config.lua control the two wall features. Wood, stone and metal wall placement are gameplay-confirmed; every support-material combination is not individually tested.

Circle, square and the real base

Uses vanilla-circle planning, or automatically matches Square Bases when its native square mode is active. Surveyor moves a proposed plan, not a real Palbox or work area. INSIDE/OUTSIDE measures your character against that plan; native building warnings evaluate the preview against the real base. The flat grid can pass through terrain. Palbox Border Auto-Hide controls real borders, not the planning grid. Both companions are optional.

Manual and support

Full operator's manual on Nexus, also included as OPERATORS_MANUAL.md. No border in a new world? Load or place a Palbox to supply its border template. No GridLock? Check LOCKED mode, visible grid, supported preview and your actual Align binding. Include a fresh UE4SS.log, game/loader versions and the failed action in support reports.

Installation and tested scope

Subscribe to this and UE4SS Experimental (Palworld). Let Steam finish downloading, enable both in Options > Mod Management, apply and fully restart. Back up custom Scripts/config.lua settings and reapply them to the new file. Use one active copy; do not combine Workshop with the manual Nexus edition or a separate manual UE4SS loader. PalSchema is not required. Tested in Windows Steam local single-player, Palworld 1.0.5 and UE4SS 2281fa31. Native helpers validate the executable. Online co-op, dedicated servers, Game Pass and Linux/Proton are not validated. Gameplay acceptance used manual installation; Workshop packaging is checked separately.

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