For some reason, every single wiring item is appearing in the 3D printer, as well as the flags. Even wiring tools from other mods such as doors. I went to go mod all of these files, to try and remove them but after countless edits, I can't get them removed from the 3D printer. Why are all wiring items appearing there and at the cost of 1 pixel for some of them? Is there a way to delete access to the 3D printer too? I mean it is just a big useless illogical box, that I wish the devs would fix to be more logical but if deleting it is the only way to make the game balanced then so be it, I will do that. Right now all I want is the wiring items and flag to no longer appear in the 3D printer, how do I make this happen? Why is it happening in the first place?
Have to explicitly stated that the object isn't printable? You do so by including this line in your file: Code: "printable" : false, I include that line right above my descriptions, but it can go just about anywhere in the .object file.
So now I gotta put all the game wire device object files into a mod just to add printable, false to them all. Weee.
And "cost" is what determines the object's price at the 3d printer. You probably have a mod that's making everything cost 1 pixel; it doesn't normally.
It was the mod of someone elses that had all his items cost 1 pixel. I made it all cost 1,000,000 now but I'll add that line in there to remove it all from the printer. I just wish I had the skill myself to change the way the 3D printer works, scanning an item should only put it into your craftable list, like you learn how to make the item with whatever it's recipe file says.
In terms of game design, I disagree. It isn't like you can print a bunch of coal or steel. The vast majority of what you can print is simple furniture - aesthetic maguffins. If each piece of furniture had a crafting recipe, your crafting stations would be absolutely clogged with them; it would make scrolling through recipes utterly impractical. The 3d printer solves the problem of hoarding furniture, adds a way for endgame users to burn off extra pixels, and creates a dynamic where you only have to collect each piece of furniture once. If it were more convenient to collect and store furniture rather than craft it, that would quadruple the number of chests the average user used for storage, as collecting them would be a much simpler task than gathering whatever bizarre reagents X piece of furniture calls for. In short, the 3d printer is a pretty elegant solution to a lot of potential hassles.
I agree completely the only issue I'd encountered with it was the loss of an "economy" on multiplayer servers due to it, but then again just offer a lower price the 3d printer and your all good. Besides, I don't wanna waste my hard earned metal Ina couch. A bed? Sure. A chair? Maybe. Buts couch or poster? Definitely good for printer.
Do you construct a couch or a poster with metal in real life? No. Now if it was logical, it would use all of the dyes and plant fibers to make fabric and wood to construct a painting plus a little pixels to pay some artist to do the actual work and then, you have a painting that cost you materials plus money. Not just randomly walk up to a printer that craps out magical materials made of nothing.
Furniture isn't printed from nothing. Pixels are actually the raw material the 3d printer uses to create things. If it were a real life 3d printer, pixels would be the plastic you fill the printer with. That's why they're the de facto currency of Starbound.
So if a 3D printer were real, I'd be sitting on plastic chairs, watching plastic TVs, eating out of plastic pans, that somehow manage to sit on a red hot metal burner, eating with plastic forks, playing on my plastic computer with plastic wires and plastic curcuits, with plastic light bulbs and plastic electricity and plastic snakes would eat plastic mice... ?
3d printers are real, VasVadum. And it's not clear what in-game pixels are actually made of. It is science fiction, after all. And some 3d printers use metal irl.
CNC is not 3D printing, it removes material, rather than places material. If you start with a block and start removing materials, that is a mill, if you start with nothing and start adding material, that is printing.
