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I see I shouldn't mess with you. ;)

Are you making that up or do you have hard numbers?

Maybe that's how laser guns actually work?

"Laser" guns shoot projectiles like cannons, and real lasers do have recoil due to momentum conservation.

How about this?

Let's just hope the breaking off mechanics never makes it to the vanilla game.

What you want is a half corner. It would only be needed in very low numbers, but it's really hard to make places like in your image look good without them. They should definitely be implemented if there are enough IDs left.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Why? There's no water or air resistance in space.

I make heavy use of round shapes, and these simply don't look round on small ships.

Shouldn't be a big deal to make the AI remember their ship and docking block, fly in range and shot a docking beam at it.

You don't need disposable drone racks, you can replace drones with shipyard repair?

When I last tested it the power failure bug went down the complete docking chain, but it's been a while.

Are you sure that's a bug, link maybe?

This bug isn't fixed, yet.

Or do a check if the undocked entity could move in any of the coordinate directions, and if not just leave it in the main ship's reference frame (like a space bar aligned astronaut) and don't do any collision checks. Repeat after more blocks are destroyed. If it CAN move, but still gets stuck...

I'm against a general cannon spread, especially for sniper cannons. Hitting a target is hard enough with only one shot per second. But I'd like to have it for cannon/cannon.

Yep, they do. 25 per enhancer if the wiki is correct.

I guess it would be more economic to use a possible additional byte entirely for more IDs since most blocks wouldn't use the color field anyway. With 8 more bits we'd get 1 million IDs.

+5 bits for orientation and 8 bits for damage. That's already more than the 3 bytes currently available per block. And 5 bits for material isn't enough, think about all the weapons, effects, decorative blocks, logic, plants, etc.