Hey Hoteliers,
This week we're doing a little tool highlight as we know the community asked for this one for a long time! If you've ever found yourself painstakingly recreating identical rooms in Hotel Architect, the latest update arrived recently and with that, the copy and paste tool to save your time and sanity!
While the copy and paste tool is rather cool, we know some newer players might not be aware of it as there's a lot to take in when learning how to play initially. We apologise if you already know how to use it, although if you are an avid user, you may want to keep reading as we made some small but helpful additions in the latest patch thanks to player feedback!
Where to Find the Copy & Paste Tool
The new tool is located in the room panel on the right hand side of the screen when you select any zone in your hotel. Look for the duplicate icon - this is your gateway to faster hotel creation inbetween the furniture and delete icon.
How It Works
Using the tool is intuitive but here's the step-by-step on how to use:
Select a Zone: Click on any completed room or zone you want to replicate.
Copy: Hit the Copy icon in the room panel
Move to the empty space you want to place it in: Navigate to an empty part of your hotel layout, you can rotate the room to your liking.
Paste: Click to place/paste. The room will appear as just blueprints at first, and then once the builders have created the walls and floors, they'll bring all the room furnishings in too.
Recent additions
No More Accidental Debt
Thanks to the latest patch, you now can’t go into debt further than your credit when using the Copy and Paste tool which was quite easy to do before and something that we could see players getting easily carried away with! The system now checks your available funds before allowing a paste, ensuring you stay financially responsible while expanding your hotel empire.
Cost will now be shown when pasting!
We've added a price calculation when using the tool so you know how much you're spending when copying and pasting to help manage your budget.
Mirroring
The Copy and Paste tool now includes a mirror feature, so for all those decorators that love symmetry, this is for you! The mirroring feature will flip your rooms horizontally so you can make better use of your space and have some funky designs too.
The keybinds for this are the N and M buttons on your keyboard.
Have you tried the copy and paste tool yet? We'd love to hear if you have anymore feedback on the tool, you can join us in the Discord or pop it in the steam discussions!