Recent content by wafflepie

Actually, Minecraft doesn't have tools to ensure 100% compatibility of the converted world for future stuff. Every time a world updates to a new version in which new biomes are added, the world seed's output will change and new terrain will not have any continuity with old terrain. Consequently...

Another thing: it's confirmed that once crew is added, there'll be a morale mechanic where you have to keep crew happy, or else they'll mutiny. One way of implementing that feature before crew NPCs themselves are added would be chambers specifically to provide for the needs of the crew, like...

This. This is what the building meta should be. There have been so many flamewars and failed balancing changes to try and address the fact that interior spaces, cool as they are, are not at all useful. However, many of the proposed solutions, and a recently implemented solution (looking at you...

Current build meta

I think planets should be a lot bigger (more space to build), and not all load at the same time (less lag). There also need to be more kinds of planets, and variation within a single type (so not all forest planets are the same, not all savannah planets are the same, etc.). As much as I'd like...

NPCs definitely need more attention. Hopefully, once the crew update eventually comes out, there'll be NPCs to guard the interiors of generated stations, and to pilot NPC ships.

But how do you use Pot of Greed?

One issue with crafting and item production is that it's just not very intuitive, for a couple of reasons. One is that none of the resources or factory types closely correspond to any real-world material or production process; the other is that all of the resources can be found in more or less...

So, technically, this is two suggestions in one, and they both involve obtaining renewable resources from planets. Right now, the most useful purpose of planets is stripping their crusts off for ore; so adding the ability to use planets as a steady source of renewable resources would make...

Exactly. That's why there ought to be more of a gameplay reason for there to be aesthetically pleasing stuff in ship's interiors. If there isn't, interior aesthetics is pointless. And of course, anything that takes away from existing gameplay just for the sake of giving people room for...

In my opinion, the solution to the problem of gameplay vs. aesthetics isn't necessarily the implementation of restrictions on existing gameplay systems, but rather the implementation of new gameplay systems that encourage aesthetics, namely, a crew system that encourages aesthetic building in...

Planets do need to be more interesting, if not now, then eventually. It is a space game, after all, and space games that have planets generally have things to do on those planets. Planets have only been improved a handful of times in the past; hopefully, the upcoming improvements will add more...

It would be interesting if different categories of items required different types of factories to make. Already, capsule refineries are used exclusively to make resource capsules, but what if there were paint factories that only made paint, armor factories that only made armor, computer...

Schine pls Add this guy's mods to the game (Except Darkspace. All the others though)

In my opinion, something that both Starmade and Minecraft majorly lack (but more so with Starmade, for now at least) is a reason to do things. Starmade's building system is super in-depth and complex, and gives you far more options than minecraft does, but the gameplay loop is simple: build...