I feel sand should be more dangerous.

Everyone loves those wonderful sand cave-ins. Here's they currently do:

-Makes it easy to get ores
-Reveals bigger, better caves,
-Potentially scare the everloving shit out of new players
-Suffocate you after you remain buried for six hours.

I think they should be more dangerous, perhaps do damage when sand or gravel falls on top of you, or maybe just randomly cave in, either forcing you to find a new way out or make sandy/gravelly grounds feel unstable.

 

Will it actually suffocate you? Every time I've been buried in sand I've never been hurt.

 

Yeah, I started seeing the water bubble show up after a bit the first time.

 

Hence the six hours comment.

 

Damn, you spoiled my secret method... first planet I always visit is a giant desert for reasons #1 and #2.

 

Well it should do some damage when it hits you in large clumps, but if it's just 1 piece it should just slide off of you. Actually sand and gravel did kill me once, I dug a piece and it sent me down into a large cavern to my death by fall damage.

 

This is why you should always dig underwater. When the water falls, you can swim in it so you don't take fall damage.

 

Agreed. I feel if it's enough to bury you, you should be damaged.

 

I feel this topic could use more feedback.

 

I agree.

Having your head submerged in sand / gravel should IMMEDIATELY start suffocating you, IMO.

 

I don't agree with them doing damage. I hated that feature in Terraria, particularly because you could be 1 pixel under it and take a ton of damage quickly.

 

I agree.

Or, at least, the current exploity nature of fine sand could be fixed tweaking terrain generation a bit, so that the other type of non-collapsing sand (can't remember the name, dry sand? sandstone?) more frequently divides pockets of its finer cousin. That way you wouldn't hollow out an entire mountain with a single, fateful pickaxe hit.

 

Well considering that there will be new environmental hazards being implemented into the game, its probably safe to assume there will be armor and or devices that will allow for survival in areas that have little to no oxygen, so when buried in sand those things should be taken into account because itd be rather dumb to be on a planet with little in the way of oxygen only to suffocate to death in sand when youre wearing things that provide the environment that the planet doesnt. just my two cents

 

Yeah. Suffocation takes a while, so you'll have plenty of time to dig yourself out anyway. It'll give a reason to be a bit cautious about excavating loose materials. I think having the falling stuff harm you might be too likely to insta-kill given the quantities the stuff'll be landing on you in...

 

to take it a step further, suffication really should be the only real penalty to sand being on you. simply because sand in a lot of areas of this game can collapse entire areas and if it were to do say 5 damage per hit with 100 health that means that youre only going to survive 20 secs being in it. thats really bad if you accidentally cave in an entire secution over your head or something.

 

I think this is the solution-- it shouldn't be damage, it should be water. It'd be kind of like what it is now, but your oxygen meter immediately starts depleting.

 

At least until things like pressure and gravity are taken into account. I'd be genuinely impressed if they could manage a good realistic system, though. Either someone would be really good at trial and error, or there'd be a physics major on board.

 

Sand is perfect. Leave it alone. Please?

 

I think the way sand currently works is fine, however suffocation should definitely begin immediatly after being covered, you should also take damage from being crushed under the sand so people aren't so keen on just diving right in and caring less about being avalanched by it.

The same goes for gravel and any other material affected by gravity.

 

No, sand and gravel should not damage you. It was annoying in Terraria to take damage from falling sand.