Wedges, corners, pentas etc for all building blocks!

[Lecic]

just saying but the yogscast complete pack (a minecraft modpack) has over 40 000 different blocks/items

Minecraft has a max ID limit of 4096. However, it uses meta-data on certain blocks, like all the different wool colors, which are actually a single block with different meta-data. I think the metadata system supports up to 16 different variations, so theoretically that item count is possible, but it seems highly unlikely.

Also, Starmade and Minecraft are two completely different games, with different code. You can't compare them in cases like this.

 

[FunnyBunny14]

Would metadata be useful to 'save' item IDs in starmade? Like woth the different colours of hull, glass, lights, etc.?

 

[AsherMaximum]

Would metadata be useful to 'save' item IDs in starmade? Like woth the different colours of hull, glass, lights, etc.?

Kind of, but not really. Using 1024 block IDs (10 bits) plus 16 metadata IDs (4 bits) is no different than using 16384 block IDs (14 bits). Both take up the same amount of space.
Yes, you would 'save' item IDs, but you wouldn't save any data per block over just increasing the data space used to store block IDs.

 

[FunnyBunny14]

Good to know. I'm not a coder, but I want to give it a go some time.