The house toy has a cute little easter egg: If you remove all the foundation pieces of the structure, the remaining structure above starts bobbing up and down slowly, hovering - very subtle way to acknowledge "yep, I did in fact think about that case too".

in Townscaper, doing the same can cause propellers to appear beneath your structures

Hmm, how? All I see is stilts (in the browser version, at least, which I imagine should be the same as the Steam version).

An arc through the middle can cause no stilts or propellers!

https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#MzJODmWAdn_ETTo_gSLput...

(and, for posterity's sake, the shape with propellers is a donut).

you can even stack them! https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#MzJODmugKVfngggBBBC_TM...

Huh. Adding one sea level block to the outside of that doughnut leads to all the propellers disappearing but no stilts. Resulting structure does not look very likely. :)

Ahaha jeez, he really did think of everything.

It only appears in certain rare configurations. You need a section of town with no exterior corners.

Ahh I see, thank you.

I highly recommend following indie devs on Twitter. It's always cool watching the game take shape over the years, and sometimes you also get behind-the-scenes details

Also wanted to pop in to recommend his Twitter. Watching these games get made has been a blast. Just the right mix of interesting math and creativity. I always dig into his blog posts and threads.

looks like the precursor to Townscapper