Hi there Starbound community~ I just don't know how to explain it. I just randomly tought about Grapling hooks in terraria while browsing the suggestion list and then it hit me. ''What about a Rappelling rope and Zip-lines?'' For those who don't know what Rappeling is, it's a technique used by Climbers to get from a height to a lower ground using a rope. It's also used by many other proffesions such as Thecnicians and Millitary to Climb down buldings or from air vehicules.. And Zip-lines...Well, Basicly, it's the same thing, except it's mostely used to reach Point A to Point B over a gap. Reasons why it should be Added: -I've played alot of terraria. And to be honnest, as soon as you get your hands on the grapling hook, the gameplay just change WAY too dramaticly. You stop making platforms to ensure your way to safety, you just run and Hook evrywhere you want to go. It's kinda breaking some part of the fun of exploring in my oppinion. -Immersion wise, it's could be just awesome. -Could be a alternate way to explore. Post a wood pillar, manage to get to the other side of a gap, Post another pillar, attach a rope to it and Link it to the 1st Pillar. -You might want to use rappeling to build buldings with more ease. -Legs tend to break easily when jumping from a certain height without any support. Damm' Gravity. Matterials needed to craft the items: (PS.I'm using terraria crafting style as a refference.)-Rope: I'm not realy an expert in ropes, LOL. So let's say, 2-3 silk/wool/cotton materials to make a rope. (Totaly googled ''What a rope is made of''.) -Wood pillar: 2 or 3 units of woods. Would be a background item so we won't get blocked by it. The folowing items would be optional. -Suspension hook / Hook: 5 ores of mineral. Why not iron only? Cauz' Gota' have swag with a Golden hook. (After you read that, please kill me.)The hook would be necessary to hang on on the rope for a rappel. Tough, you'll need to manualy move yourself on a Zip-line. -Pulley: 5 ores of mineral. The pulley could be mainely be used either as a personnal item to go trough Zip-lines OR as a background item so than evryone could use it freely. Using it with a rappel rope wouln't do anything. Except making you fall to your death. Or get hurt badly. Who wana use a pulley to get down a vertical rope anyway? EXTRAS REQUESTS: About Ropes Physics. 1-It could be REALY awesome if there's was actuly some physics for the ropes. Specialy the Rappel one. That way, we could place them over some pits and use it to get across the other side. (Or just place them evrywhere and pretend you're Tarzan. HOOO-YOOOOHOHOOOOO! ) 2- Could Cut the rope? Gota sabbotage evrything while your best friend is on the rope. About Hooks. If you don't think than the hooks for the Rappel/Zip-line is necesary, How about a Climbing Hook? or a Ice Axe to climb up/down surfaces? It could also be used as a melee weapon. Out of subject We could also use the hook to swing across gaps with the help of a ''Hooking point''. As reference, Think about Simon's Whip in Super Castlevania 4 or the hook in the Disney's Magical Quest Series. Well, I think that's mostely what I had to say. So, What do you think about it? Should it be added to the game? Could it be Added? Anything you'd like to add? ~Thanks for reading all of this~ (PS. My grammar isn't the best. I've done my best to make it understandable. or something. Curse you Daily french language.) (PS2. Yes, it's my 1st post on the forums. Just had no clue where to start. )
I like the idea, especially if you can make the rope hang there to freely be used by anyone who has something to slide with. Or maybe also craft a platform that can slide down, and then be pulled back up (though slow because you are pulling it). Even a motor to do all the pulling at a faster speed!
I have already wrote a bit about my ideas for rappelling here, which are pretty much the same as yours, but I did not think about zip-lines! Great idea my friend.
Zip Lines and Rappels would be a nice fun thing to add into the game, even if we might possibly have grappling hooks.
once I had the idea of a directional booster attached to a power-fist as a grappling hook like movement aid, as well as hurting anyone who you erm..."axedentaly" bump into along the way. so I'm all for this
I like the idea. Although I would prefer having some sort of "zip-line launcher" instead of having to cross the gap first to set it up.
Then it would be more likely to be decomposable so it wouldn't last. We are saying once you cross the gap and place it, its there forever.
Reminds me of the new Tomb Raider game. I like your zip-line/rappel/climbing pick idea, have a Oh and take this
so with the grappling point with the hook you basically mean that you throw it and it goes around or it attaches like the hooks in The Legend Of Zeldia wind waker. I am sorry for any mispellings.
Yeah, Something like that. Tough I used some older games as reference, it's basicly the same thing. Tough, I dont think it would be possible to randomise any hooking points in caves. In some dungeons, NPC bases or any structures, it could be done I guess.
Don't we already have this? You can craft that rope-bundle thingy you can climb. Of course, Horizontal-"climbable"-rope would be nice. Also for the Aesthetics.
There are craftable grappling hooks, you need the robotic crafting table for them. For zip-lines, it kind of exists with sky-rails, but that's not really the same thing you want. However, even though there is a kind of zip-line, I want all of the things on this page. This is the kind of stuff that would set this game apart from others, because this is the only one that took time to put time into something non-essential, but still very nice, like this.
