http://starmadedock.net/threads/make-decorative-block-usable-scaffolding-ladder.5631/
No need to apologize. I simply wanted to bring valuable nuggets of information from the dev team to light. I don't consider any feature to be definite until I'm actually playing it (a spaceship in the hand is worth two in the shipyard), so I consider this thread a perfectly valid suggestion.
Exactly the conundrum I have every single time (even with big ships) when I need to make pathways up or down. Gravity lifts need either manual usage or logic systems, just so much easier to just put a ladder slab down and climb up.
The slabs can work as stars now, so I don't see a need for a stair block... however, I'd love to see ladders and hatches.... maybe kerbal space program style extendable ladders :D But I'd settle for an armor block with notches cut in it so it can be used as a ladder but not occupy any more space than a flat wall-- and still have full armor HP. So we'd need a ladder square and angle block for each armor type.
I know it is a typo but, agh. My sides!
the problem with using slabs as stairs is that they take up more room than wedges to go down/up the same distance. also (as of last time i tried on the update that added slabs in the first place) stepping on slabs removes you from gravity. that last point may have been fixed since i last tryed.
Actually, it's not just slabs that do that now, but any other shaped block that's not a wedge. Kind of annoying since I build my cockpit seats as pits in the floor.
