Wooden Spiral Staircase

[GloryChan80]

When the new spiral staircase was announced, I was excited, I had plans to use it in one of my characters' FC room in a lovely and elegant attic apartment styled design. I got supplies and got a friend to craft the staircase for me.

However, that is where the excitement ended and the frustration began.

For more than two hours, I tried positioning the staircase so that I could use it to lead to a second, lofted partial floor. However, the staircase is too tall to be usable for that purpose. Every combination of floated furniture I could think of to try and make the staircase usable has ended in failure and frustration.

Putting the shortest and least wide furniture that I can find in game without legs that would ruin the idea of it meeting with the floor and not poking through the other end (I tried both the Oasis Stall and the Hingan Sideboard) against the staircase prevents me from ascending the stairs fully.

Even extending the Flooring Mats to an extra square and placing the Flooring Mat ever so carefully meets with complete and utter disappointment, and frustration to the point that I am not sure I'll be able to finish the room that I have already spent hours and hours planning for and building up to this point.

I was SO excited for this furnishing. I spent all these days waiting for its arrival, and SO wanted to love it for its beauty and what it would add to my FC room. But now I am beyond frustrated.

Having decorated for FC rooms, apartments, and a small house... and having friends that have decorated beautiful spaces for both medium and large houses alike... I can only imagine it being even close to usable for large houses if they're meant for anyone other than a Lalafell to be able to utilize them at all.

Please, can something be done to make this staircase usable in spaces like mine, for someone of an average to tall height? Even making another, shorter version of the stairwell... or making a version that doesn't have the outer railing would be so much better, so much more usable for people like me.

[ItMe]

For more than two hours, I tried positioning the staircase so that I could use it to lead to a second, lofted partial floor. However, the staircase is too tall to be usable for that purpose.
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I can only imagine it being even close to usable for large houses if they're meant for anyone other than a Lalafell to be able to utilize them at all.

I know what you mean. I'm using lofts to split each floor into 2 floors so I can make a complex little Lala sized house and the staircase is still too tall for my needs.
I wonder how they decided on that height. As is it's bad enough that part of me wants to just raise the lofts so they line up with the top of the stairs, but then the area above is still just a bit too snug (even for a min height Lala) and the area below them is just huge. Until we find a clever work around it feels like a real lose lose situation.

[LycaVirgin]

Honestly, there isn't even a solid work around for this. I personally was looking to make a Raktika inspired Hut for may future Male viera and thought the spiral stairs would add the extra flare to the three home style, however its clear this isn't really possible. The staircase was an ambitious idea but it feels like no-one play tested it first to be sure it would actually work. there just isn't a reasonable place to put them at unless you are in a large making some kind of lofted area.

[Merrnryn]

You aren't wrong. As a house designer I cannot for the life of me think to how to make them work in a situation where I can use them as intended. As a max height Elezen the camera is ... yea.. no. The height they are at is unuseable to me, I cringe for all the Au Ra's, Roe's etc that are just too tall for them at all, let alone the height they go to.

[Seleni]

Using the preview function, it looks like it’s that height because enough room is needed for taller races to not clip through the staircase as you go up, yet the design calls for the top to end on the same side as the bottom. (540 degrees)

They should have just cut-off 1/3-ish of a circle on top.

[Besame]

When I first saw the staircase, I thought, "Uh-oh". I was right, glad I didn't make one. Post if you guys find a good workaround.

[Divinemights]

It looks like something for mansion size to me

[Arielen]

Is it possible to sink it into the floor? That might offer some relief to the issue of its height.

[ItMe]

Is it possible to sink it into the floor? That might offer some relief to the issue of its height.

No, no floating down : (
Only floating up from a floor below.

[Destati]

Came here looking to see if anyone else had the same issue. At my height, placing the loft where the stairwell connects causes the camera to freak out from ceiling collision. It ain't comfy. I really hope they'll release a shorter version or something, because these things would save a few precious furniture slots and space.