Building Materials

While repairs can be done for free without materials, once you've got a significant amount of money saved up, it's time to spend some of it making your farm look less crappy! Rebuilding generally works in two stages:
 * 1) Replace the old materials with new.  (After all, it was falling apart when you got here; how much longer would they have lasted?)  (*)
 * 2) Decorate the new material.  (Glaze for wood, paint the house, and plaster over bricks in the colour of your choice).
 * (*) Note that replacing metal parts (including replacing wooden doors and the cow stalls with metal versions) is a one-step process, often including some automatic paint if and where appropriate. Also note that the pallet of metal sheets your granddad left you to fix the greenhouse is apparently magical and never runs out!  Take shameless advantage of this! :D

All the building materials can be bought at the Building Materials store. The price of each material is variable.

You can use the HDS Pickup truck to transport bought materials, (with the little crane on the back) However, this is extremely tedious. Save your money and time by parking an unused old tractor at the Building Materials store instead! You can then exploit the quick travel that comes standard with every drivable vehicle, zipping back and forth from the unloading dock to your home to equip and build. To buy materials, Walk up to pallets of materials in the store and select them.

Bought pallets will appear on the unloading dock across from the warehouse doors. For the Quick travel method, this is where you will want to park your old tractor to use as a warp gate. If for whatever reason you want to use the HDS Pickup method (You hate yourself and your time) to move materials from the dock to your truck, maneuver the boom arm over the material, then move it over the flat bed until you see a green placement guide appear. Don't worry about rotation, the material will snap in place wherever the guide appears.

Whatever method you use, bought pallets remain on the unloading dock indefinitely, so don't worry about losing it. Just treat it like a personal materials storage yard, the owner seems to not mind. To sell back unwanted or leftover materials, they must be on the unloading dock. If you took your materials home (Again, because you hate yourself and your time) you will need to transport them back onto the dock (Bet you wish you quick traveled now). You can then walk up to the pallet and you should have the option to sell.


 * Tip 1: To best operate the crane, rotate your view until you're in front of the truck, looking into the windshield.  The crane's left-right orientation will now match your directional keys/buttons.
 * Tip 2: Most of the upper parts of buildings can be repaired/replaced without the need of scaffolding (exception, the hay barn) which can save you some time.  Simply enter the 2nd floor (or the house's attic) and target the roof segments from below.  Most 2nd story wall segments can be targeted from the ground by standing close and aiming upward.

1 It would seem that you can just paint over old wood planks with wood glaze, getting the same result as when you first replace old wood planks with new wood planks and then paint them with wood glaze.

2 Obviously you only need 5 pallets of roof tiles in total. Choose any combination you like.

Wooden planks
Wooden planks are one of the most important building material. This because most buildings have a large part of wood in their structure. You will probably require more than a full truckload to finish the entire property. The only building that does not use wood is the Greenhouse.

Bricks
Bricks, not to be confused with the stone bricks, is a red like material used in several buildings. The following buildings contain bricks: The garage, the hay barn, the barn and the house.

Airbricks
Airbricks (possibly "stone bricks" in some translations) are roughly square, white when new, and grey when old. They are used in several buildings: The garage, the hay barn and the house.

Metal plates
Steel plates are used to replace rusted steel parts. When entering the farm at the beginning of the game, there is already one pallet of steel plates available next to the greenhouse (which strangely seems to be infinite!) The following building contain steel parts: The greenhouse, the silo and the player house (the troughs). It is possible to replace wooden doors (not including the ones in the house) and the cow stalls with steel parts rather than wood if you prefer. Considering you can do so for free on your first day, why not? (Unless you prefer the look of the wooden barn-style doors, of course). Don't forget your silo either (you can place a scaffold to help you reach the top).

Shingles
Shingles can be used to cover roofs. All roofs on the buildings can be replaced with shingles, except for the silo, the greenhouse and the chicken coop.

Steel roof plates
Steel roof plates can be used to cover roofs. All roofs on the buildings can be replaced with Steel roof plates, except for the silo, the greenhouse and the chicken coop. Steel roof plates can be bought in two colors, metallic and red.

Bitumen
Bitumen can be used to cover roofs. All roofs on the buildings can be replaced with bitumen, except for the silo, the greenhouse and the chicken coop.

Ceramic roof
Ceramic roof tiles can be used to cover roofs. All roofs on the buildings can be replaced with roof tiles, except for the silo, the greenhouse and the chicken coop.

Solar panels
Solar panels can be used to cover roofs. All roofs on the buildings can be replaced with roof tiles, except for the silo and the greenhouse. In addition the solar panels generate some social points and money every evening at 6:00pm (SP 70, Currency 140, with all roofs covered in solar panels). These are the only roofing materials that are more than merely cosmetic. They are also the most expensive by far, but a good investment! You need 5 of these for your farm (Including your water well).

Note: If you start getting "charitable" renovating your neighbors' roofs with solar (out of the goodness of your hart, of course) just know that you will get no appreciation (revenue in the form of SP or cash) from your endeavor. (Nice try wise guy).

Ceramic tiles
Ceramic tiles are used on some floors in the house. Specifically, the entrance, the balcony and the bathroom. You'll need less than a single pallet of these to finish the house; they are not used anywhere else.

Wood glaze
Wood glaze can be used to darken the color of new laid wood. Expect to buy as many of them as you did wood planks (probably more than a full truck-load).

Scratch coat
Scratch coat is used to cover the old wallpapers (or is that a very rough, old-style concrete, as the floating text would indicate? It's ugly, whatever it is!) on the indoor walls and ceilings in the player home. You can think of it as a primer coat of paint, that fills in any rough scratches on the old wall material, so that the Finish coat will look smooth.

Finish coat
Finish coat is painted over the scratch coat on the indoor walls and ceilings in the player home. In the current game build, you cannot choose the colour. It's dark grey paint, but does at least include a nice white trim stripe along the top and bottom edges of the wall. On ceilings, it's a lighter grey colour.

Concrete plaster
Concrete plaster is used to cover bricks or airbricks with a specific color you can select, so it's basically paint, from the players' perspective. It's usable on all buildings except the chicken coop and the greenhouse. Note that the interior side of the walls plastered will be grey.