I have a problem! I keep having ideas for mods that I would like to make for personal use, since I don't expect them (those that could reasonably be features at least) to ever be added to the game, though I have made a few suggestions. But I don't have time to make any of them! At least right now. That's the problem with being a busy student / worker / housespouse / president / spaceman / wizard / militaire. For me (a repository of more ideas I may never make): Generalised / more intricate difficulty system at character select. The three play modes with regard to death. The difficulty scaling of enemies and hazards as you progress through the game. The various survival modes. Adventurer mode. You can pick up materials and things you need to craft, and you can dig, but you can't cheese the system by placing walls or laddering blocks or building temporary shelter. It would focus on moving quickly through the environment and not getting caught up on silly non-adventuring things. I really just want rope to be more useful. Would probably make digging a little easier too. Perhaps making the matter manipulator better at digging up soft materials like dirt / sand, and picks / drills better at breaking hard materials like cobblestone. Maybe make mined blocks drop like sand. Flatter drop off of lower level NPC damage so that while monsters might be less of a threat, NPCs practically always will be, even if you can still kill them easily. A cheap stealth system. (2015.1.11) Custom tailored sound manager. Let's you go through all of the sound files (perhaps even search what items / files they're associated with), hear them, see what situations they are played in, and flag files to mute. Like the saw blade noise, the player melee attack noise... Simple NPC behaviour mod to throw the beach volleyball back at you. And have snowball and water balloon fights. Arm civilians. Let them at least attempt to defend themselves. (2015.1.23) Allow use of tools while hanging from climbing rope. (2015.2.11) Slower damage scaling. NPC / mob faction interactions? I'll update this as my creative alien juices flow, and encourage anyone else to do the same. What mods are on your backburner?
I've been wanting to expand my boat mod with all sorts of aquatic-themed goodness. Think pirates, krakens, undersea Atlantis-like dungeons, etc. Unfortunately I haven't had the time. Real Life is a demanding mistress.
