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No one is against a mod API; it'll totally be great. It's just that adding a mod API now won't solve OP's problems, and bench did a pretty good job of explaining why.

It doesn't seem practical to do that - if you want to blow up the ship, you'd be better off piloting a ship with guns than flying around in astronaut mode placing charges one at a time.

That's more or less what I'm thinking. I feel like restricting what it can blow up is a bad idea; with a small enough radius you aren't really damaging the actual ship, just cutting your way though. I think making them take up a lot of inventory space is a better idea, so that you can only carry...

Did you even read bench's post? They don't have the basics down yet. They're planning a lot more basics that don't exist yet. I'm also not sure you understand how simple race gates are. They're a copy/paste of warpgate code; it probably took schema an hour to do.

APIs aren't free - schema would have to spend time keeping the API up to date. It probably wouldn't be backwards compatible, since we're still in alpha, which means that every update would probably break something - and we get a lot of updates. You'd spend a lot of time waiting for your mods to...

A simple patch to warheads doesn't seem that far fetched. Or maybe a separate block that destroys a 3x3x3 cube around itself. Trying to find the thinnest hull would be an extra element, but if your drill has a fixed range, it has limited use. If you have to fly around to a bunch of different...

I think the biggest issue with this is that if you cut into a random point on the hull, you'll probably hit a system brick rather than interior, especially if it's a combat ship. The best places to board are the obvious ones - hangars and USDs - because you know they're connected to interior...

So, the other day my computer overheated while I was building and it corrupted a whole bunch of things. Most notably, the sector I was in was completely deleted - every ship disappeared. Two of them were pretty important to me, so I tried to get them back - and succeeded. Here's what I did...

I would assume that automatically recalling mining drones when their cargo space is full is something they're already planning on. It's basic enough that I don't feel like you should need logic to do it.

Also nitpicking: actually, shooting a bullet out of a car does make it go faster (relative to the ground), and shooting a missile out of a moving ship (especially in space), even one that needs to speed up, would not result in you crashing into it unless you're accelerating faster than your...

Tow cables don't work so well in space because there's no friction. If you accelerate to 1 m/s, then decelerate back to 0, the thing you're towing will still be moving at 1 m/s. If you want to slow it down, you'd have to completely flip it around (while still moving at 1 m/s), then thrust in the...

There's a pretty substantial difference in the entry barrier between lua and logic blocks. Anyone can hook a button up to a door, but most people have trouble with basic scope rules. Plus, lua is probably one of the worst programming languages. Just because it's easy to sandbox doesn't mean we...

Tetras wouldn't help in this situation. OP is looking for a corner block where the square base is cut in half diagonally, which is a distinct shape. If you try to use a tetra there, you can't line it up with both the wedge on the side and the wedge above and behind it.

And highly illegal. That's why they hired someone to write original music, because that's not illegal.

I agree with keptick - this seems like it would be easily circumvented. Particularly in a game where everyone controls the resources necessary to produce ships, there isn't really any market security in selling them. For example, I could also buy your ship, take it to my shipyard, make a design...

TIL. I searched for it but couldn't find anything.

Pretty self explanatory; a wedge version of the ice block. Currently if you want slanted engines, you can't use the ice trick because there's no ice wedge.

Please no. This would be incredibly annoying. What if I have to take a break for a week? The current system of just making you lose your homebase protection is fine. It's easily reversible, and if you have to take a break, you can have your friends cover for you. More to the point, if I'm a...

It doesn't seem practical to hide a 400-600m ship for a bunch of reasons - for one, just loading it in is going to noticeably lag you, and unless you don't see it until every exterior chunk has loaded, you're likely to see some interior systems. Beyond that, it just takes up so much of your...

The idea behind inertial dampening (in this sense) is that you use some of your thrust to automatically correct your trajectory - meaning it costs power and is more useful if you have more engines. Besides, there's already a config option for space friction, which totally isn't a thing.