Choose Additional Shapes (Wedges, etc) Similarly to Slabs

[IronDusk33]

Simple suggestion:
Get rid of all of the Wedge, Tetra, Hepta, and Corner block items, and simply add another slider in advanced build mode to determine what you want to place, similarly to how slabs are placed.

This would make sorting MUCH easier as you now only need to sort the base "Cube" item, instead of 5 items per block type, and you don't need to go through those additional steps to manufacture the shape variations, which is naught but an obnoxious chore for the vaste majority of players.

In terms of balance, the only thing that is required right now to get from a Cube to a Wedge is the appropriate factory, a handful of Power Reactors, and patience. Patience is the only thing on that list that not every single player has an abundance of.

Simple request that makes building a million times less tedious.

 

[FatCobra]

I too have been think about this I think its a great idea. It would also prevent the oops of "Crap I just made 10000 wedges and now I need cubes".

 

[NeonSturm]

I think it's time for SM to decide what direction to go:

1. Generalist : You can craft any shape or colour immediately from cargo contents.
2. Specialist : You can't. Then multi-block entities might be removed at once and put into a blueprint-meta-item filled with blocks.
   • So you can store turrets, but not the blocks from it. Build/Store Jump-drives or reactors without surroundings as whole entities.

The reason to be 1.5 was always "There is more opportunity for trading".
But really, 1.5 is a hard-coded setting on LOD (level-of-detail)