Hello Starbound team. First of all I wanna thank you for the tremendous work you've done. Though I need to say that the current solution with __merge pseudo-command in tables isn't a very good solution. Because current scheme breaks mods isolation easily. Why I would think so: 1. I assume that if SB has mod, it should provide maximum operation safety for each mod. This means a mod shouldn't break other mod's behavior by accident. And the current schema with "overwrite by default" effectively violates this. 2. A mod should add new objects in a safe and easy way. Current requirement of '__merge' pseudo-field breaks this. 3. Although mod author sometimes requires to modify existing list of objects. So we should provide some way to do so for him My proposal: 1. Tables in config provide _only_ merge behavior, for safety reasons 2. There's API called 'registry' or like which gives full power of object lists manipulation. Thanks.
My apologies, I was thinking that all mod-related stuff goes to Modding forum, and that Suggestions thread is for vanilla game only.
it's more like, need help with mods ? -> modding board got a suggestion to everything and anything about the game ? -> suggestions not a big deal, a mod already moved the topic!
