I ended up building near the old place, same safe peninsula. And as usual, there's always something that messes up the building plans. I wish one would get ALL resources back, not less than half, so it wouldn't matter if one made mistakes and needed to move the whole dang thing.
I ended up building where there was a bit of a dip in the ground. So I couldn't place a foundation in the last corner. The last!
I tried using a pillar for support but no. I could place a ceiling but since the ceiling "floor" doesn't align with the foundation floor, that didn't look very nice, even from the inside. So I ended up deleting the test pillar and all foundations in that row, making the house 3 foundations smaller than planned. I'm probably going to be able to cram the most basic stuff in anyway.
Proceeded to build a pen for my dodos. Well, the "fence foundations" won't line up with ground foundations, so I had to place them by "eye" (?). Anyhow, I thought I left some space between the pen and the house, but the row of fence foundations parallel to the house wall was apparently too close and wanted to snap into the wall (yes yes, they DO snap to the foundations, just at the wrong height!). So, again, demolish some already placed bits and place the pen further away and well... 2*3 in size rather than 3*2, which is just an orientation issue, I know. But I like my things well aligned.
Next, decided to go for a thatch roof but since the house is 3*4, I ended up with a hole in the middle of the roof where the roof pieces can't snap. Unless I place a pillar right in the middle of the house's one big room. And pillars are a pain, since they seem to snap not to the top of each other but to the middle, requiring many more of them. Maybe they can snap to the top too, I dunno... I never managed.
Not sure I'll be playing again soon...
Then again, I do have a minty green parasaur in the garden (untamed, but he seems to like it there) and two trilobites nearby. I've left them alone so far - I don't have much storage space yet anyhow.