Roof quest stuck? Check the building before the tracker

Quest configuration: 0.8.10.842 · Player and support reports: August 2026

Answer first

Check missing pieces before assuming a tracker bug. Window walls and windows are separate; so are doorway walls and doors. The roof is followed by placing a bed. If the building checks are satisfied but the journal and screen tracker disagree, try these older support workarounds:

  1. Press T and check the quest journal on your phone — the next objective may already be listed there even though the on-screen tracker looks stuck, and you can keep playing.
  2. Sleep to the next day.
  3. Restart the game client (save first, then fully quit and relaunch).

If you cannot find the roof, door or bed blueprints, try the player-reported list-browsing checks first. A missing visible entry is not, by itself, proof of a quest-tracker bug or a particular unlock condition.

The checklist below records older configuration. Read the updated roof and wall checks before buying replacement parts.

Check these 10 building objectives first

Farewell, Nylon Palace! checks more than the roof. Match these steps to your phone journal; placing a blueprint is not the same as finishing construction.

  1. Craft and place a storage chest.
  2. Build at least nine house foundations.
  3. Build at least nine standard exterior wall sections.
  4. Build at least two window-wall sections.
  5. Install two windows, in addition to the window walls.
  6. Build an exterior wall section with a doorway.
  7. Install the door itself.
  8. Build a doorstep.
  9. Complete the roof.
  10. Craft and place a bed.

Window walls and windows have separate checks, as do doorway walls and doors. Check for missing pieces before using the roof-tracker recovery guide.

Full quest and sources · 0.8.10.842 game configuration, not individually play-tested.

Check the roof type and the updated wall objective

The list above records 0.8.10.842 configuration, not a promise that every accepted part stayed unchanged in later patches. Compare it with your current phone-journal objective.

For Farewell, Nylon and Palace, update 0.8.10.868 accepts a Wall with Big Window where the objective previously required only an Exterior Wall. This named exception does not prove all window or doorway parts count.

Roofs go directly above walls; Roof Extensions extend an existing roof. Check the blueprint name rather than treating these as interchangeable pieces.

Update 0.8.10.871 adds a How to Build Roofs tutorial on your first roof placement. Use it to check support and placement constraints before assuming the tracker is broken.

Sources: .868 roof and wall changes · .871 first-placement tutorial.

Symptom A: roof built, quest will not complete (tracker stuck)

Official Corroborated by players

This is the officially confirmed case. Moderator/support Jennoula confirmed in "Tutorial build roof" (Aug 4, 2026) that "there is a known issue with the quest tracker sometimes getting stuck," and gave the workarounds that have worked for almost every player so far:

  1. Press T and see whether your next objective shows up in the phone quest journal. The on-screen tracker may still look stuck, but you can continue the quest anyway.
  2. Sleep to the next day — this sometimes gets the tracker moving again.
  3. Restart the game client.

This support advice dates to August 4, 2026. It does not establish that every current stuck objective has the same cause or that a restart will fix it.

Two independent players corroborate the restart/logout route in "Cant finish Roof quest...?" (Aug 3): X-C0brA-X saved, restarted the game, and the quest showed as finished after the restart; KnottyBoy did the quest steps via the phone journal, then logged totally out and back in, after which the on-screen quest passed.

Symptom B: a blueprint is missing from the workbench list

  1. Drag the workbench blueprint list left and right with the left mouse button to inspect entries beyond the first visible group.
  2. If the top arrow buttons move the choices, check whether the open left panel is covering some of them. Do not treat the first visible group as the complete list.
  3. If you can see the blueprint but the door will not place, move to the separate door and doorway-wall check.

This list-browsing check comes from player reports. It does not prove that every missing recipe is unlocked or that scrolling fixes every save.

Player reports and source limits

In No door plan at workbench, rllewis3 reported finding entries by left-dragging. The author then identified choices obscured by the left panel after using the top arrows.

A separate Missing roof thread reports slowly using the mouse wheel to reach roof and bed entries; scrolling too far could switch to the furniture tab.

The threads began on August 4 and August 2 respectively. They are retained player reports, not a current-build reproduction or a confirmed recipe-unlock rule.

Symptom C: the door blueprint is visible, but the door will not place

A door and a wall with a doorway are different pieces. Compare the exact name in your objective with these separate recipe records:

The recorded house quest checks the doorway wall and the installed door separately. Use the full building checklist to see which stage is missing.

Placement report and configuration limits

Earth Hunter describes exterior and interior door choices plus the need for a doorway wall in the original door thread. This is one player's placement report.

The recipe links and separate quest steps come from the retained configuration snapshot. They do not establish live unlock timing, exact placement controls or a guaranteed fix for a blocked door.

Symptom D: hole in the middle of the roof (Roof Cap Lvl 2)

Single report unverified

Several players use Roof Cap Lvl 2 to fill the hole in the middle and then wonder whether that counts. One player, bucfanjoe (in "Cant finish Roof quest...?", Aug 3), reports that their own build moved past the roof step even with a hole in the middle, as long as the exterior edges had a roof tile — but notes being unsure whether Lvl 2 caps count, and adds that having actual doors and windows placed in the wall cutouts may matter. Treat this as a single unverified report: if Symptom A's fixes fail, completing the wall openings and edging the roof is a reasonable next test, not a proven fix.

Troubleshooting flow (our consolidated checklist)

Work through these in order — each step rules out one of the symptoms above:

  1. Can you find the blueprint at all? If no roof/door/bed plan appears at the workbench, fix the UI first: slow mouse-wheel scroll, left-mouse drag, avoid the top arrows hiding plans behind the side panel (Symptom B).
  2. Is the current objective complete? Compare the 10 source-backed building checks. In particular, install the windows and door themselves and place the bed after the roof.
  3. Is the tracker stuck? Building done but the quest will not advance → press T and check the phone quest journal, sleep to the next day, then restart the client (Symptom A, officially confirmed known issue).
  4. Still stuck? Report the build version, current journal objective and building screenshots on the Steam discussion board. Include which checks passed and which recovery steps you tried.

Roof quest FAQ

I built the roof exactly as shown. Why won't the quest complete?

First check the phone journal for missing windows, a door, doorstep or bed. The roof is only one of ten objectives. If the conditions are satisfied but the screen tracker still disagrees, try the older support workarounds recorded above.

There are no roof or bed blueprints in my workbench. Is my save broken?

Probably not. Multiple players "missing" roofs, beds and doors were actually hitting a scrolling UI quirk: the plans sit far right in the building tab, fast scrolling overshoots into the furniture tab, and the top arrow buttons can hide plans behind the left panel. Scroll slowly with the mouse wheel or drag the pages with the left mouse button.

Does a Roof Cap Lvl 2 hole in the middle block the quest?

Unknown. One player reports progressing with a hole in the middle as long as exterior edges had roof tiles, but was unsure whether Lvl 2 caps count — a single unverified report. If the official tracker fixes fail, edging the roof and fitting doors/windows into wall cutouts is a sensible next test.

Historical reports and verification
Evidence status: 1 officially confirmed known issue · 2 multi-player corroborated fixes · 2 single reports (labeled) · reviewed Aug 7, 2026 — How we verify →

If your roof quest will not complete after you built the roof, you are not alone — this was one of the most-reported problems on the Steam discussion board in the first week of August 2026, with players posting about it in English, German and Russian, and some getting stuck even earlier at the first step of placing stairs (Tutorial build roof, Aug 4; Whitebear, Aug 2; Campingqueen769, Aug 3).

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