[2019] I was expecting this to be destroyed after the patch

Hey there,

The wipe is doing what it is supposed to be doing. Multiple instances of the same piece overlapping in the same place are merged into one, while cross formations with fence foundations will get one of the pieces in that formation nuked at random, which could cause problems down the line considering some people relied heavily on this structure. Also, new rules for building pieces have been put in place to avoid using the middle socket in fence foundations.
Our first announcement was initially vague as it wouldn’t affect legit constructions too much, but it caused some panic so we tried to explain it even further. Additionally, we’ve been refining the script that ran this “wipe” for a week, so it is even less destructive now than what it was initially.

Yes, whatever is standing now is mostly fine. There are still some fence foundations in a T formation what would not be allowed by the new placement rules, but they will not be nuked.

On PC, anything that is left has survived the apocalypse. There’s some fence foundations that are built in certain ways that are no longer allowed, but they won’t be wiped any further.
We mention this because we know some people got the geometry of their base altered and asked if they could replicate that formation after the patch just for visual consistency.

According to our stats, there were tens of thousands of pieces wiped in official servers, but they were mostly targeted at structures that were used maliciously. So some people out there were hit hard by this, but we can all agree that they were not surprised about this outcome.

That’s normal @Scooper