Creative Castle Building is a pain

I need ores from a Glitch castle- because I can't make a custom spawner and warp into that castle when it's 5 minutes away.
Plus I want to make my own castles...

The problem is it takes way too long to steal the foreground and background tiles to move, rebuild. I have a diamond pick axe and it takes 7-8 swings to break a 3 x 3 section. Basically everything labeled 'stone' is as hard as bedrock in Minecraft. [edited because 3 x 3 became 3x3 =D)

I want to tear down a science factory to rebuild on another planet (obviously a different look I just need the mats) it takes FOREVER!

Please, for the love of God, make the pick axes not so incredibly weak.





For anyone recommending modding of pick damage, I'd appreciate it because I know you can but do not know how. Also, I'm mostly on a friend's server, so if you know how to server mod pick damage I would be incredibly grateful. Thank you all!

 

Diamond Pickaxes are still very primitive tools. They might be the best we can get now, but in the grand scheme of things they will probably be a good 2-3x slower than the best mining tools in the game. Diamond Ore starts appearing in the level 30-40 ranges, and considering there's 6 or 7 tiers of pickaxes, it's probably safe to assume there's going to be another 10+ tiers above Diamond Pickaxe. Most likely drills or something.

My guess is they don't want you tearing all that stuff down quickly so early in the game. I don't see it being a problem when more tiers are added. If you want a fancy house so early in the game, gotta work harder.

(I personally don't even make houses, there's so much storage room for chests/crafting on your ship)

 

I didn't think about that, it would be cool if someone dropped the item name of the higher tier items so I can mod it in as a crafting schematic for online play.

 

Remmber you just need one bit of it so you can scan it and 3d print it

 

Can you scan blocks? 'cause I can't.

 

I know you can scan decorations. Cant think of whether or not you can scan blocks

 

3D printing isn't really working ATM. it'd be a lot easier otherwise.

 

I think our loved guys at Chuckefish aren't really interested in allowing blocks to be scannable. Or at least, not all blocks.

If you could take the wood from one tree and scan it, you would no longer need to chop more trees, making it a poor design-wise decission.

Thats also valid for other common and easy to find kind of blocks, as stone or dirt, or even Iron blocks. Right at this moment of the beta, when the player reaches the silver tier armor and gets to beta sector, iron gets someway redundant and useless if it's not to make iron blocks. If those are made scannable, then who cares about iron anymore?

I think that, if they make blocks scannable at some time through the beta, they would have to make scannable only some blocks, and those would be the the kind of blocks you have to go look for, like wall panels, heavy stone blocks used by the Glitch, temple bricks used by the Avian, or concrete blocks used by Apex. This blocks can't be crafted at the moment by players, and could be made scannable for some smart amount of pixels.

It's my opinion. What do you think guys?

 

I worked with a gold pickaxe to dismantle a glitch castle. Yeah it took a long time. But it was worth it in the end when I had my own fancy castle with my hard work.

Also reply to MontyDrake: I don't want blocks to be scannable. It would utterly destroy the "search and scour for what I want" feel when I want to complete building project. And the planet hopping when I don't have enough. It's a like a side-quest for my luxuries. I would like however, to have the RECIPE for certain blocks. I'd still have to search, but if for some reason I can't find what I want within 20 planets, then I'm going to have to make it.

 

To modify the pickaxe damage, first you must go to your starbound folder, once in this folder, open up the assets>items>tools.

Since you have stated you are using a diamond pickaxe, you must locate diamondpickaxe.miningtool, open this using notepad or another textediting program.

Once you have it open you are looking to change the value for tileDamage, change it from 2.7 to something like 10.0, or 15.0, this should help you "mine" those material's, though I would say doing so will remove some of the fun in the game, personally I will wait till either the dev's or some one in the community create's recipes for these tiles to be made using mat's.

 

I don't know if you know this but there is something called a Laser Miner in the game..

 

There should be a creative mode for that kind of thing.

 

Does this actually spawn in the game naturally or would I have to force it to be spawned somewhere in the game? I haven't actually looked through every file as of yet, only scanned through some of the treasure, item, mat's.

 

You sir, are a genius.. Not once have i thought of putting my crafting and building stuff on the space ship.. OMG.. this would save so much time and i would never need to set a home planet because all the important things like Robot table and Metalworking table would be on the ship... THANK YOU!!!

 

My sarcasm Meter just exploded.

 

Wasn't sarcasm, but thank you for your input.

 

Not sure haven't found it either.

 

^^ Seriously?

 

I completely agree with you here. I was just considering possibilities.

 

How was this seriously not the first thing you tried to do?