Coloured Blocks

Basically yes.
That's why I came up with the idea of blocks being treated as a group of blocks. Let's say you have a group of 100 wood blocks, and like 5 different colours of wood in different quantities. You choose the wood block group of 100 and upon selecting that group/placing a block a window would pop-up with the ability to select a block with the colour of your choice from between these 5 colours with different quantities let's say like 50 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Orange, 10 Yellow, 10 White, then you would be able to re-open that window again with some shortcut key.

 

#3. When you aren't building, you'll not want to think about them. To me, that seems like the most important part of this choice.
When you are building you can paint them. Whether the blocks are their default color or the new dirt color is not terribly important since you may want it either way depending on the building project.

Edit: someone said this isn't simply for dirt. I'd have to take it back if all wood would default to the default wood. Wouldn't you?

Edit #2: My reasoning is that you do want some part of your exploration to be remembered in the materials you build with.

 

Then a whole planet it is! We got lots of those right?

Besides, I don't know, the other options all make me feel uncomfortable, it's insignificant but it slightly hinders one's freedom to, say, put regular looking dirt on a green-dirt planet or vice-versa. I know there's other ways such as the painting tool, but it really sounds odd that one has to artificially replicate such a basic thing...?

 

Option #3 is my preference. If I want a block to be a different color than the default I will paint it.

 

I completely agree.

Plus, it's not like single planets are gonna have hundreds of colours. Inventory fullness will only be a problem if you're constantly traversing between many planets.
And even then, all you have to do is remember to store dirt on your ship.

 

Option 1 simply from a customization standpoint alone. For example say I want to replicate a crystal planet in a biodome on a temperate planet, it would be nice to keep purple soil for it rather than the dirt magically switching to brown for no reason.

 

I'll vote number 3 like all the cool kids so I fit in. I want to say number 1, because it would be fun, and honestly guys inventory management isn't a big deal for dirt. Do we actually need to walk around with all that dirt? Why keep it unless you're terraforming or building ... something with dirt?

A cool option that could be implemented after release and when you have some time would be to just the inventory branch into arrays for itself.

So for examples, building blocks can stack up to 255. Throughout my adventure, I go to planet A, and B. A has brown dirt, and B has blue dirt.

I pick up lets say, 70 dirt from planet A, and now in my inventory, I have "Dirts - 70". I go to planet B and pick up another 70 dirt. Now when I check my inventory, I see "Dirts - 140". However when clicking it, a new little menu pops up, or something simple, just some boxes that can be generated according to the number of dirt varieties in this stack. It'll now expand to say "70 brown dirt, 70 blue dirt" and I can choose from one of the 2. This allows for all dirts to be specific, allows for mostly everything to be infinite, and keeps the inventory manageable. And it shouldn't be TOO difficult

Anywho just my speculation

 

Voted 3 too.

 

I agree. I doubt we need painted dirt though, since we have other paintable blocks, such as wood, that are more useful imo.

 

One seems the most complicated, but is definitely the most sensible option.

You should probably turn this into a poll if you want to effectively utilize our basic feedback, so you don't have to go through every single post to make a final decision. Unless you want to spend your time like that, I dunno.

 

Option 3, but what would happen about placing blocks on your ship?

 

If you need our opinion Tiy, then you should probably do this then.

 

I bet it will just look brownish, which I presume to be the default color of dirt, at least in this quadrant of the universe.

 

I'm going with option #1 for sure. I see option #2 and #3 as creativity killers for those who want dirt with a specific color variation only found in the wild. Either way, I'm sure there's a compromise to be had here... you could always go with #3 and then revisit this issue post-beta release.

edit: Oh, I thought this only applied to dirt. If it's all environmental blocks then I definitely choose option #1. Reading most of the previous replies, I think this all comes down to being a item management/UX problem rather than an issue about choice. And in that regard I see option #2 and #3 as stopgap workarounds.

So I say go with option #1 and revisit this problem post-beta to try to fix the UI/UX issue.

 

Another for option 3 here.

 

I'm thinking I'd prefer option 1. As someone said above, inventory management won't be an issue unless you're deliberately traveling all over, grabbing tons of different blocks.

I'd go for option 3 if the paint tool allowed you to custom mix paint colors, instead of just getting a standard (and limited) paint set.

 

If the engine can handle all of the options, why not make the system flexible? Add 2 new kinds of items. 1 new tool, and 1 new box. Let all the blocks stay in the color you dug them out.

New tool: Soil Mineralization Device. If you equip this tool and then place dirt blocks, the dirt is automatically matched to the planetary dirt. If you do not equip this tool the dirt block uses its original color.

New box: Coloring Storage Device. This is a container with a twist. You can set a specific color to this box. Every block item that COULD be colored with the spraycan tool changes to the boxes set color. So if you have a red box, every dirt block you place in there, becomes a RED dirt block.

This way the players would have the ultimate block access storing choice! Booyaah!

 

Option 3 sounds to be the simplest but it is not my favorite. I like the idea of finding planets with specific resources and being able to harvest them so I'm leaning more towards option 1. Maybe if you collect dirt of a certain color that color could be added to a pallet or something.

 

I vote option 3

If we are mainly talking dirt. option 1 assuming one color per planet. Who wouldn't throw away dirt if they need space. It would be great to save a cool color if you decide to as well. Option 3 sounds more manageable though.