I really hope this water collecting item can be acquired early on because that would make mining MUCH easier. No more needing to mine out channels to let water flow down. Now I can just suck it up and relocate it elsewhere! YEAH!
The way I figure it, it could be an upgradable gun. Water to start, upgrade to poisoned water by the time you have steel, suck up oil or something once you get say aegisalt, lava with say ferozium... Maybe add a medic-style backpack a la team fortress 2, get a heal-water gun. Fill it with Red Stimpacks, spray your friends during a big battle. Or any stimpack, for that matter.
imo it'd be better if right clicking on the gun sucked up liquids and left ejected them instead of using the matter manipulator.
Really hoping the super soaker is a temporary look. Looking at that I can only think of a cheap plastic toy, especially since I have that exact super soaker in a box somewhere. Plus it doesn't make sense to me to suck up water with a gun, or with such a tiny looking tank on it. I'd honestly rather see this as an object you place in the world, a pump, that sucks up all the liquid below it. With a large tank on top that fills as it pumps, only holding so much before needing to be emptied.
In Terraria, I always surrounded my houses with lava... It was great for pesky goblins and door-to-door salesmen. I'm not sure about this, but it looks like the suction doesn't put it into any kind of container, it just makes it one more type of block in your inventory. Seems like the super soaker image is pointless. On the other hand, it was always so annoying getting the wires, pumps, and levers all the way down to the lava layers to pump it to the surface. Fun the first few times... but annoying after doing it multiple times. I can see a few problems with that, though the main one would be it needing to be a stream of some sort to fit the gun. That you would then douse yourself with every time it hit that one block at foot level, leading to poison and burn status effects. Imagine all the "your mechanic made me kill myself" posts.
Now my ninja character can finally use water attacks, and yell SUITON!! before using them... Same here...
This is awesome! Finally building traps, sea, lakes for harvesting fish, creating areas and who knows, maybe some water or acid is needed for any crafting process?! ^^
i would like to see this kind of mechanic for crafting air-locks for underwater and and asteroid stations. also an aquifer could be possible to let seeds grow faster.
Well, cool... liquid manipulation functionality. I like the idea of something sucking up the liquids, but I do hope the super-soaker is a temporary sprite. o ~ o Also a simple edit of the liquid icons to make them look like they're in canisters would be nice, so you're not just holding bare liquids.
Great to see liquids are going to play a bigger part in the game in general. im hoping we see some mechanics to fit this. Limited capacity on your "super soaker", upgradeable to larger storage. Not bring able to just suck up any and all liquids at will, so not mixing liquids or being able to store molten rock in a basic canister. Liquids not being storable in regular chests, but barrels. Such things, as to really respect the fact it is suppose to be a liquid aswell as the individual properties of certain liquids.
that would be amazing! something like liquid glowstone from that one minecraft mod i saw a while ago!
I dislike how the same tool isn't used for both sucking and dispensing. Hopefully that'll change later.
I hope liquids behave differently in zero gravity someday. So many novel things could come out of zero gravity in this game. So many.
but then how would you suck up 3 different liquids at once? unless you could have interchangeable canisters
