Allow Demolish when managing planned fortifications and wall lines

Hi Crate team,

I’d like to point out a UI friction point when managing planned fortifications and wall lines:

The Issue:

Currently, there is no way to cancel multiple active wall construction sites at once.

  • When using the mass-selection tool (Verwalten / Manage ) to drag a box over multiple placed/queued wall segments, the Abreißen (Demolish) button at the bottom remain disabled/inactive.
  • Impact: If a long section of wall is misplaced or needs to be re-routed, players are forced to manually click on every single individual wall segment one by one to cancel the construction site.

Suggested Fix:

Enable the Cancel / Demolish multi-selection actions in the Management menu for unbuilt wall construction sites, allowing players to box-select and clear multiple planned wall segments simultaneously.

Attached screenshot showing the management menu with selected wall segments where the action buttons remain inactive.

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To the left of the manage tool there is a clear tool you can mass remove segments with. C is the default binding to bring it up.

​Thanks for the hint! Just to clarify: I’m aware of the Clear tool (C), but that’s precisely where the issue lies.

​The problem isn’t opening the tool, but the fact that mass-selecting unbuilt wall construction sites with the multi-selection tool does not allow you to cancel them.

  • ​When you drag a box over multiple queued/planned wall segments using the management selection, the “Abbrechen” (Cancel) and “Abreißen” (Demolish) buttons remain grayed out / inactive at the bottom.

  • ​The Clear tool (C) works fine for existing objects, but queued wall blueprints still have to be canceled manually one by one.

​My suggestion is specifically to allow the mass-selection tool to bulk-cancel these pending construction sites!

I have to assume you didn’t even bother to test it; because the clear tool removes unbuilt wall segments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGdtH5vEXrg

Thanks for the reply! Just to clarify, the confusion seems to be about which tool is being used.

I am specifically referring to the Management (Verwalten) menu when box-selecting multiple queued structures.

As shown in my video demonstration here:

  • The action buttons (such as Demolish / Cancel ) are physically present in the management interface when wall segments are selected.
  • However, they remain grayed out and completely inactive for unbuilt/queued wall construction sites.

While the individual Clear tool can remove them one by one, the mass-selection management menu fails to handle them, even though the UI buttons are already there. That inconsistency is what this feedback is about!

Ohh I’m glad you posted this – I was getting frustrated by having to delete every single fence section, one at a time, instead of using the Clear tool – I didn’t even realize or remember the latter even existed.

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