Yes, if this could be worked into a viable PVP protection system.....obviously it shouldn't make our stuff invincible, but rather increase each tile's hp by a percentage. May each one in a dungeon we destroy dropping a compononet we can use to craft our own security mechanism to help keep theives from stealing our stuff so easily. The more you have, the stronger your tiles become, and the harder it is for someone to say....break through your walls/doors and take your shinies. I still also think a passworded lockout is necessary in PVP lock doors and be able to turn such home protections on and off when we want to make changes to our own buildings. Maybe limiting their protection to a certain radius.....
I wonder if it'll be possible to have types of protection. For example: - Respawning: The blocks reappear after a set amount of time. - Everlasting. The blocks never break, but drop ore, with various degrees of reduced payout or increased mining time. - Switch: Breaking one block spans another, and vice-versa.
Well this is always a nice update to read about. Thank you for this. I'm a little bit confused (if that's the word for it) though. Is a Dungeon ID aspect to a block unique to that block alone, globally for an entire planet? Does that mean that if block {A} is shielded by a device next to it and you remove the shield, does that mean that the very same Block {A} will become unshielded elsewhere? .. possibly in another similar biome far elsewhere on the planet? What if two minidungeons that use the same assets are next to one another, and one shield is disabled while another isn't? What if there's some overlap between them? The Dungeon ID wouldn't be enough - it would need a reference to that shield as well. .. Right? Or is there some more obscure method for that?
We should make special areas for each boss that you teleport to when versing them and in that area every block has protection. Would fix a lot of "shortcuts" in boss fights.
So, do I build myself an unbreakable protection and possibly irrevocably trap myself inside it, or keep building them like always and have the Bone Dragon pierce through it? My, My. This is quite a conumdrom!
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Will these "shield generators" affect all blocks of a certain type in a given world? I wanted the freedom of choosing to leave some blocks breakable as a secret shortcut... Also, could there be many instances of shield generators with different "admin credentials"? I'm thinking of it like a 'key', that only a given player can open... That would open the possibility to sell slots in a planet, in multiplayer.
I am wondering if this will be at once a solid tile protection system, or just bypassable? By that i mean, even if we try to expand it to server worlds, etc.. Will things like Modded Tech / Weapons still be able to cause massive tile damage?
Oh! That'd make an AWESOME mod! But, if they made those personal shield generators, other people can just break them and make it go away.
I'm not going to lie, I'm one of those people who gets to a dungeon, and is just like "This looks too hard "-tunnels through- It'll be nice to have that challenge, knowing i can't just be a cheatie-pants. Also good job on me thinking this post was going to be a PSA for safe sex, lol.
From what Meta said, the Dungeon ID applies to individual tiles, not to type s of tiles. Each individual tile has it's own DuID value which can mean either unprotected, protected, or other stuff like "modified by player".
It's been planned since way before the beta was even out but it they never got around to making it It's not really for players. It's to stop players from cheating their way through dungeons.
Sounds good. I just hope we don't end up with places like that darkstone test dungeon with way too much wiring. : S Unjumpably long gaps, plus laggy wire platforms that sink into the wall make me sad. ;-;
If Dungeon ID is a bit of a misnomer, maybe it should have a different name. Protection/Protector ID?
I was thinking this could be really useful in creating multi-layer dungeons if there was an activated / deactivated state added, but then I remembered there's only a foreground and background tile layer. Still... *ponders possible uses...*
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