In sandbox games in general such as minecraft and terraria, stuff when destroyed with the right equipment drops to the floor. What i suggest for starbound is that unless things are taken apart (with a few exceptions) carefully with the right tools, you run the risk of destroying the block converting it into junk taking excessive damage and force such as physical damage and explosive damage can also reduce things to bits of junk. There are four catagories of junk Metal junk - (self explanitory) Biological junk - Broken wood (In such small pieces that its useless), useless bits of plants/plant creatures, dead things (enemies and the cloned versions of yourself considering whether they are in the game) Miscillaneous useful junk - Wires, tape, nuts and bolts (Stuff that falls off the object involved in making it) Waste junk - Nuclear waste, chemical waste, unnatural waste etc (Stuff that can't be recycled or degraded) All junk except for waste junk can be recycled in some way or form, metal junk can be converted into the relevant base metal involved (Usually iron), biological junk can be burnt and Misc useful junk can be re-used. Waste junk needs to be stored far away from everything so that it doesn't harm you or the enviroment or appropriately and responsibly destroyed unless you can think of something else to do with it. (Insert practical joke of entirely smothering/flooding a friends planet with toxic waste here ) To offer up a quick example of how that would work, meet Dave. Dave is very early in the game still resorting to primitive tools such as a pickaxe, unfortunately the local fauna of carnivourous elephants thinks dave is made out of peanuts and attempt to eat him, with a door in the way they can't reach him. One particuarly big elephant rams dave's wooden door to his hut down. Dave is now in tiny pieces scattered all over the place but also so is his door that gave him the false sense of security and confidence till it was smashed down and reduced to junk.
I like the idea of trash in the game. I hope it gets put in. Recycling is a nice touch as well. Flooding places with toxic waste sounds lovely as well.
