Every space has a Construct: an empty white room that the people of the conversation decorate together. A channel's Construct belongs to the channel, and a private conversation's Construct belongs to its two people. Nobody else can go in.
Going in and out
The green gate stands on the central island of the End of Time, a few steps from where you arrive. Walk up to the gate and press E. It asks if you want to enter. Answer Yes to go in. Inside, the white gate in the far corner asks the same way and brings you back. On a touch screen, the hand button of the on-screen controls does the same as E.
Placing pieces
Press Build in the top-left corner, or B, to see the pieces. The pieces are in tabs, one for each theme and one for the End of Time. Choose one and click the floor to place it. It stays in your hand, so you can place a row of chairs with a row of clicks. A see-through copy shows where it would go: green where it fits, red where it does not. The piece in your hand is shown next to Build. Drop or Esc puts the piece away. Some pieces, like a sofa or a long table, take up more floor than a chair. Turning one turns all of it, and only where it fits.
Drag a placed piece to move it. Click a piece to select it: Turn or R turns it, and Remove or Delete removes it. A right-click removes a piece at once. On a touch screen, a tap places or selects a piece, and dragging moves it. Walls and corners turn like any other piece. A door in a wall lets people through.
Pieces that do something
Stand next to one of these pieces and press E, or the hand button on a touch screen.
- Lamp: Switches its light on or off.
- Door: Press E to open the door, and again to close it. It stays open while someone is in the doorway.
- Die, Coin: Press E. The result appears on the piece and in the chat.
- Teleporter: Press E on one teleporter to arrive at the other one of its pair.
- Sign: Shows a short text above it. Whoever put it up can change it, and the moderators can too.
- Arcade cabinet: Lists the games, and each one opens in a new tab.
- Board: Shows the channel's topic and the messages of its Pinned list. Only a channel's Construct has one.
- Screen: Shows the last picture posted in the conversation.
Painting the floor
In the Floor tab, pick a floor, then press and drag: the whole rectangle is painted. Erase makes it white again. You can walk on a painted floor and put pieces on it.
Together
Everyone inside sees each change at once. The Construct is kept just as it was left. Press F next to a chair or an armchair to sit down. The Construct, the office and the game room are part of the space's gathering, which stays open while anybody is in one of them. Some places stay clear: the gate and the ground in front of it, the spots where people arrive, and the spot where somebody is standing. A chair stays where it is while somebody sits in it. A piece that would leave somebody with no way back to the gate is refused. When a piece cannot go somewhere, a note at the top of the screen says why.
