Just a quick suggestion that Dirt is universal, because my inventory gets filled by a multitude of rainbow coloured dirt blocks. A quick fix would that in your inventory is that the dirt looks brown, and then on the planet it corresponds with the dirt colour that is there.
Maybe a sub menu on the dirt...? I don't know. It's mostly pointless blocks that just take up my inventory space
Perhaps what you're looking for isn't to change the entire way dirt works for everyone, but rather to convert all dirt to the same color for yourself. Perhaps a machine that could convert all of the same materials to the color of your choice should be added. Get back to your ship, dump all different types of dirt in, one pile of dirt out. Voila! I have mixed for you a potion!
No, not really. My main point was for it to not take up so much inventory space. So categorizing it as soon as it goes into your inventory under a sub menu seems easier to me. Because of rather throw the dirt away than use a machine to turn it all one colour. However, that's not a bad idea
Well what he is saying is not that he has his inventory filled with all purple dirt, what he is saying is that he has like 45 green dirt and 7 purple dirt and 2k red dirt and from digging and such from various planets it adds up. There is also a tab for blocks however its nice for it to be orderly and be able to store other things there.
They have their own tab, yes. But dirt takes up more than like 65% of that tab. So I'm saying we put all the dirt under one item. When selecting that item, it opens a sub menu for all the color of dirt you've collected.
ohh you were refering to that.. i havent had problems with dirt yet but with cobblestone xD i don't really think the devs would do something like that in a while but i read something interesting right here it it's very easy to do with a mod but just making brown dirt due to not knowing what's the function that defines color in blocks... but you want something like tibia backpacks but item specific it's interesting maybe could even be done with some lua coding (i know you're not requesting a mod but a feature to the devs)
The more I think about this "problem" the more i dont understand where the problem is. You can store 16K Dirt in one chest on your ship. Why the hell do you need more dirt? Are you eating it? oO
That's not what we're saying, haha. We are saying that dirt takes up too much space in our inventories because of the different colored dirts. Instead of dirt taking up one inventory slot, it takes up a crap ton. It would just be nicer if it was more compact in some way.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit myself. Just tossing all dirt into one inventory slot would mean you lose the pallet for most dirt. having a submenu for dirt (cobblestone, sand ect.ect.) means that you have to implement a new function into the gui. making a machine that pushes all dirt input into it to a certain color (technically crafting to packed dirt does this, doesn't it?) right answers are usually the hardest ones, but why not have all dirt in one slot, with the character unlocking color pallets as they explore the universe(eg, if your homeworld has green dirt, and you get to a planet with red dirt, you can place green or red dirt using what you have. toggle it with middle click or something.) one function to hook into, and like 50(one for each block type that has pallet swaps) more arrays to save during saving x.x
Perhaps the different types could stack together in one stack up to 1000. And hovering over that stack could display the different kinds of dirt inside, and allow you to select which of the types you would like to place down. Same could apply for cobblestone or whatever. But really, can't you just throw it out? The delete slot is right there.
