Personal blueprint's

I think it would be great to be able to make structure on the surface of a planet and be able to create a blueprint of the structure. You could make a standard outpost that could be dropped on every planet you visit. This would allow quick outpost creation with a standard set of equipment that you need.

How should it work.

1. Create a structure on a planet.
2. Use a selection tool to select all the blocks you with in the blueprint.
   1. There could be a size limit to stop people from having down right huge structures.
   2. You would have to indicate a block to act at the placement point when the blueprint is used.
3. Go to a new place and summon your maker bot 5000 and feed it the blueprint.
   1. The robot would check to see if you have all the materials in your inventory to create the blueprint.
   2. The robot would tell you what materials your are lacking.
   3. If you have all the materials you get select a point on the ground for the structure to be built.
   4. After that the maker bot 5000 would go about building your blueprint over a course of time determined by the size of the blueprint.
4. After everything is done enjoy your new structure.

Things you could do with blueprints.

1. Make several building blueprint's so you can create a city quickly.
2. Blueprints could be shared on a site or traded in game.

I hope you like this idea. Thanks for reading.

 

That would be totally awesome! But they would have to make it so it doesn't also copy contents of chests so you couldn't cheat

 

That is a very good point. I didn't think about storage. The blue prints should have the ability to place storage items. You should either have the storage items or the materials need to create them.

 

Haha just came to this forum to post his exact idea, nice! I would be very happy if we can save and trade blue prints, or if the game would have special blue prints scattered all over the planets, which we have to find, then build and get something special for doing so, or progress the story line.

A lot of my friends are pretty bad at creating something cool in games like this, it would be awesome if I can help them out with giving them blue prints for different parts of buildings.

Seems like this would be perfect feature to have in game where you build stuff, yet none of the games where you build a lot have anything like that, Starbound definitely gonna score some points by implementing something so useful and fun.

 

Nice idea, though I think it would be better not to create BPs by selecting existing structure, but by crafting and then using special blueprint terminal, so that it will allow your imagination go wild without limitations of a specific place. Just build a structure you like and then save it for future use and construction. This also allows nice preview feature,

 

Love this idea, maybe we could make a way to share blueprints too!?

 

Some mechanics and device to make a blueprint hard-copy from some materials , maybe.