I've already seen at least one thread requesting there be a way to craft the blocks and items that currently you can only get by deconstructing pre-existing dungeons and buildings, and there's probably a lot more, but I figure I could offer a more detailed suggestion for it and how it could be done. Looking at the different races and their building aesthetics, there seems to be a bit of a theme of at least two different types of buildings/settlements for at least a few of them, and I think I can build on that. (har har) For starters, my suggestion is to have a crafting station specifically for making racial and specialised building blocks, with the idea of cutting down on recipe clutter, a problem which can get out of control pretty quickly in sandbox building games, Terraria coming to mind. In my opinion anyway. (I never could understand why most Terraria players had to have every crafting station smushed as close together as possible) This opens up some decent opportunities for flavour too, possibly varying between races and tiers- you could call it a Brickworks or Thatchery or Construction Depot or whatever. And as for what's built at this station, well of course the idea is to build crafting materials for buildings, with each race starting with the blueprints for their the materials their race's structures/dungeons are typically made of. Humans start with the prison bricks, walls and accessories, Apex with materials for those drab apartments, Florans for their primitive and cool homes, etc etc. Much like with weapons and armour, blueprints for other materials could be found and shared to expand your purview. The idea is pretty much to give each race more of its own flavour, being best set up at the start to build in their familiar aesthetic, though whether or not that's a good idea is up to you. And considering each race seems to more or less have one aesthetic that's relatively primitive (or modern) and one that's more advanced, you could have a later tier upgrade that allows players to build the more advanced building materials associated with their race. (and naturally any other building materials they've acquired blueprints for) Humans are able to build the metals and blocks of the military bases, Apex can build labs, etc. Not so sure about the other races mind. This is just an idea and mostly written with something I would like in mind, and I fully expect other people to have different ideas about how it should be done, but hey, it's an idea.
I as well. We need our racial constructs. On that note, i want to be able to craft all fo the racial crafts (like say a glitch clock if youre a glitch) because why the cheese do we not have them? Sure ill be ok with unlocking them as you get the materials for them, but still. Otherwise the bulk of those blueprints are going to the replicator.
