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Building
How do roads work?
At this time roads are purely cosmetic but are handy for settlement planning to take advantage of the Proximity Bonus. For example, you could use them to lay down a grid at the start of your settlement to optimize building placement.
Why hasn`t construction for a building I placed started?
Is there a big Red ! on the top item of your build queue? This means you are lacking the resources to build it right now. You can either move it down the list to try the next building in the Queue or Cancel it with the X. Otherwise you can leave it there and once you have the resources it will build automatically, whether you are online or not!