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Eh maybe there should be some things you can eat with your helmet on, but they either can't replenish your "nutrition" bar up to full or cost a lot more than normal food. Are you saying you don't want anything like a health potion? I'd imagine there'd be some sort of "volatile" storage that...

Internal armor plates right now can slow down an enemy's attack when they hit it. Proper placement of internal armor can protect blocks of systems, while also increasing structure.

I wouldn't mind seeing a bit of extra mass added for a full plexstorage. Though I'm iffy about having it be based on the mass of the items stuffed in; it might be better just it based on the fractions of items stored. That way you know what your maximum mass is when fully loaded, without having...

Nope nope nope nope nope. Totally imbalanced. A miner the size of an asteroid would be totally unmanageable after eating just two or three, and this would make mining a lot less fun if your ship got super sluggish before you got enough resources to build another one like it. This thread, which...

Having armor protect everything until it gets to 0% just extends the period of time until damage is done and the interior design of the ship actually starts mattering. Nope. Armor should partly protect everything to different amounts. So stuff like hull should be 70-80% protection (more than...

Abstracting hull and decorative blocks? Excellent idea. (Though it would be by tier of hull)

Actually, maybe this would be controlled using the turret computer groups?

Well, that might help with displaying which entity you're working on, but knowing which part you want to put the piece on is another.

I think your idea won't work, simply because asteroids are in known locations. With minecraft, there are huge volumes that can contain a resource cluster. With starmade, not so much, especially compared to the mining rate of a midstream player.

And if you enter the computer itself, you get direct control. You can also stick one of your NPC team in them to give you the ability to set a target but still keep the turrets going once the target is gone. Also double right-click resets the orientation of turrets.

Yay! While you're listening, I'm going to point out that the wireless logic method of dealing with inter-ship actions (binding two specific blocks on different ships) will probably not work as well for cargo, both for immersion and balance reasons. First, considering the game has no...

The only time I don't expect that to hold is when you do the astronaut weapons update.

Execellent. Now to figure out how to build the stargate.

Nice idea, but these would have to be fairly small or very rare to avoid being the dominant source of materials.

You can design a turret so that's it's accessible without getting exposed to fire, and design you ship so that you can reach the turrets from inside. AMS will really become ineffective if we have to rely on other players to man it for us. Anyway, I don't think by default you should be able to...

You don't want this mass to be the same as the placement mass (mass a block contributes to a ship) because then you wind up with capsules taking up more cargo space than the ore or crystal you refined them from.

I'd say straight up stack count limits aren't the best idea, but finite storage is absolutely necessary. I'd rather each type of block has a "packing volume" and each inventory (plexstorages, astronaut inventory, whatever mass storage thing they come up with,) has it's own "cargo volume." And...

While that idea might work in practice, it'd be very complex because the blocks would need to be switched over to different entities. Though switching easily to a docked entity or back up the chain is something that would definitely help building flow.

All turrets? Even the PD ones?

Yeah, I like. I wonder if someone will use this to make a fully functional stargate (Dial in an address, spinning ring and all that.)