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Hull cubes only have a single orientation. So it should be possible to combine cubes, wedges, tetras, and pentas into one ID. This way the number of required IDs for hull blocks could be reduces by 60%. The OP's suggestion has a reduction of 80%, but mine doesn't require changing the bit pattern.

I'm not sure whether Schema likes it when people mess with his bits, but I think this is a good idea.

This is a popular request and the dev is aware of it, but he can't promise he'll make cores movable. This is more complicated than it might seem since block coordinates are relative to the core. To move the core all other blocks have to be moved instead.

Newbies should stick with Isanths and avoid attacking titans with a fighter.

That would remove the need for a pilot to have skill.

That's why I suggested Spore compatibility - the Spore creature editor is freely available, the full game isn't needed, so everyone can use it. That's probably a pipe dream, but who knows?

Purely decorative blocks should have no mass at all. It wouldn't even be that unrealistic. The mass of a screen, a light or a chair is negligible compared to one cubic meter of massive steel. The only problem is that it could be misused to make hull without mass which can absorb one hit unless...

A variable delay would be nice, especially if really long delays where possible to make clocks. But more important than that would be the possibility of having shorter delays, since the current delay is way too long for fancy blinking stuff.

Welcome! There's an introduction thread btw. ;)

I want a realistic solution to this problem, because realism helps new players to understand how the game works. In reality further away bigger targets are as easy to hit as closer smaller targets. So there shouldn't be an artificial modifier which takes size into account, but not distance...

In real life/Minecraft this is solved by cascading several XOR gates, but since the intention behind XOR blocks is simplification and saving space it should simply be implemented like ltmauve suggested it.

I have to say I'm opposed to chairs as the only place to sit on. Sitting and lying should be possible on all horizontal surfaces.

...and memory cells (they are somewhat tricky to make out of other blocks since it works different than in Minecraft).

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist voting for option 3, it was too tempting. But I gave you a like.

NumberOfBlocks refers to countermeasure blocks, not total block count. In my first example NumberOfBlocks is 1.

It would be more clever and realistic to give everyone a different code, so if a ship gets lost its code must be invalidated, but all other ships aren't affected. Furthermore, activating an IFF should require a password only the pilot knows, and if the pilot dies the IFF self-destructs.

Isn't this the exact idea behind faction blocks? But heat-seeking missilies difinitely need IFF.

If a default value in the server.cfg or blockBehaviorConfig.xml, for example, is changed in an update and I have modified this value in my installation, will this value be updated, too?