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title: "Troubleshooting - Wildform wiki"
description: "Why a spot was passed over, and what the messages mean."
url: https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/troubleshooting
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[Wildform](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform) [Wiki](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki)Troubleshooting

# Troubleshooting

Why a spot was passed over, and what the messages mean.

## When a spot is passed over

While you paint, the HUD counts the spots the brush skipped and why (**Passed over: ...**). A lot of one reason usually means a setting to change.

| Reason                    | What it means                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| no ground                 | There is nothing solid under that spot within reach.                                                                            |
| not natural ground        | Ground is set to natural, and the block there is stone, planks, a roof or something else that is not soil.                      |
| not the ground you chose  | Ground is set to what the stroke starts on, or to blocks you picked, and this block is neither.                                 |
| water                     | The spot is under water. Trees are not planted in water.                                                                        |
| a tree is here            | The spot is under the crown of a tree that was there before. The brush leaves existing trees alone.                             |
| too close to another tree | There is no room beside the trees already placed at this density.                                                               |
| too steep                 | The ground under the trunk rises or falls more than the [**Slope limit**](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/ground-and-slope#setting-slope-limit). |
| tree on its way           | The tree this spot asks for is still being fetched. The brush paints elsewhere and comes back to it.                            |

## Messages

| Message                                     | What to do                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| No way to place here                        | None of the ways to place works where you are. The Placing page of the brush panel says why for each one. On a server without permissions, install [BuildPrint](https://voxelsprout.com/buildprint) to paint into a blueprint. |
| The next tree is still on its way           | The tree is being fetched from voxelsprout.com. The first trees of a new species take longest; other ages and sizes are fetched ahead in the background.                                                |
| Loading the species list...                 | Wildform could not reach voxelsprout.com yet. Check your connection and click the message to try again. Trees you used before still work from the cache.                                                |
| Stopped ...: the server said ...            | The server refused a command, so Wildform stopped using that method on this server. Fix the permission, then reconnect.                                                                                 |
| Nothing to place there: every spot is taken | The brush found no room. Lower the density, or paint somewhere else.                                                                                                                                    |
| That's 300 ghost trees, the most at once    | Press Enter to plant them, then paint on.                                                                                                                                                               |

## Other mods

While paint mode is on, its keys go first and are not passed on, so Axiom's R and similar keys from other mods stay quiet. With BuildPrint installed, its panels step aside while you paint. If another mod still reacts, report it on [Discord](https://discord.gg/CvdkGbEW4y) with the mod's name.

[Previous All keys](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/keys)

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