This is actually something that just hit me. You can't really climb mountains in terraria. At least not like you would be able to in most platforming games. It's because mountains are all solid the only path is just over the top. I'm thinking mountains could be more fun to climb if it was mostly background with platforms and ledges on top. If your having a hard time picturing, I did some models in miniature. See the one on the left is how terraria makes mountains. Then on the right is what I think they should do in starbound.
Exactly my point. Plus, it's more realistic the terraria way, real mountains don't have mazes built into them, nomotog.
I was thinking more about whats fun to climb then what is realistic. Digging into them is something that I thought of. It's not quite expressed in the mini models (because they are mini), but the chunks that you walk on would be rather big chunks. That way you can dig ores out of them or dig caves into them.
That was what the rocket boots/red balloon/anything else that lets you go up high were for. I assume there will be jetpacks and flying vehicles in Starbound to make it easier to traverse terrain.
It would take out a lot of the possibility of nice caves and goods generating in a mountain if they were hollow. It would take a lot of "platforms" and be rather large to make up for that.
I personally like taking the long way around mountains. Plus it's usually where I built my houses in Terraria, and with Starbound's amazing backgrounds I would love the view . It is really interesting though.
I'm afraid I agree with other people here in that I think it's better just to have solid mountains. Gives a lot more opportunity for cool caves and things inside them, and mountains won't be such a problem in Starbound seeing as you can walk up blocks instead of having to jump all the time. Also I'm not sure random generation of your kind of mountain would always yield good results.
