I have been more into the building aspect of this game, more so than exploring, for quite a while and it really pains me having to destroy whole villages just to get their blocks to craft a house of my own. My suggestion is making a lot of these blocks craftable once you obtain them and making them craftable with relative ease (materials like wood, cobblestone, etc) just to add an infinity more of possibilities to people that enjoy this same aspect as I do. I don't know if this thread has already beed adressed or not, since I'm not feeling like scrolling through 1300~ threads just to find it. Any further suggestions or ideas would be nice and I'll add them to the main post as they come and if they seem reasonable enough. Have fun Starbounding!
I could be wrong on this, but I think the reason this isn't in game is because it would give the player waaay too many recipes at the start, many of which they'd never use. They could have the craftable blocks limited to selected race, but what fun would that restriction be? Personally, I think the way to go is to add blueprints for these items, then let the player loot them from containers and/or purchase them from an "Architect" NPC. This Architect could also just sell you the stuff pre-crafted, but of course, having it on your crafting table would be a lot more convenient.
Yeah, I thought about that too, but it really limits the creativity of players when it comes to construction. I saw on another thread that this same problematic was solved by adding a new table specific for these blocks to be in, a.k.a. Architect's Table, but it could be further implemented with having only a few extra blocks to begin with and then adding an npc on the outpost to sell the recipes for new of them. I wouldn't go with pre-crafted blocks, since it would make the recipes pointless and not adress the inventories overflowing with dirt, cobblestone, sand, etc. , but they could make it sell unique furniture at a high price just to keep it as a helpful npc. P.S. Thanks for trying to help b0ss.
We should have a crafting table dedicated to blocks and furniture. Really, I don't want to have to search for the recipe for Torches because I can make fifty billion types of chair...
