Wait. Are you saying you can put the same amount of steel blocks or wood blocks on a supporting wood block ?
Yep that is exactly what I'm saying.Wait. Are you saying you can put the same amount of steel blocks or wood blocks on a supporting wood block ?
If yes, I'll test that and if I find out it isn't true I'll send you a bill for my wasted time.
If no, how is that not the result of weight ?
That is incorrect... mass of the block absolutely matters. For example, a wood frame holds 40. So you can attach 2 steel blocks. Try to add a 3rd and it collapses. However, you can add a bunch of wooden frames without a problem.
Okay back again to my suggestion wouldnt it be better if the system would ditch the weight system and instead go for a maximum amount of blocks per support?@Danidas: You should find my bill in your email
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Both sides extend to maximum length before collapse: 2 steel or 8 wood blocks
Disagree.... using a system of maximum blocks would make a steel block no different than a wood frame for the purposes of SI and that doesn't make any sense.
Nonono, you misunderstood me.
I understood you.... but what youre saying is that wood, for example, could hold only 4 blocks, whether those blocks are steel blocks or wood frames. I find that too simple a system. Building should be more complicated than just counting blocks, IMO.
I agree that the information how much something can hold is slightly hidden. A block in my inventory tells me immediately what it can hold and its weight, but a block in the world does not.
Could also damage it with a stone axe and then try to repair it to find what resource it requires. Iirc all non-trap wood blocks have the same max "mass" allowed, Iron blocks have their own, the clay+stone blocks (cobble flag and brick) have the same as each other, as do the different cement blocks when dry (possibly when wet too). Could be wrong though and terrain had its own individual values from what I recall.
True thought i believe this would be better to be baked into some function like somekind of "look" action binded to "R" on upgrading tools. This way you could check all blocks fast if you are confused.
.... so all we need is an in game item to trigger this... like the night vision goggles... ummmm... how about “builders safety goggles”. Safety First!
. It would be a neat in game item to get and I “support” anyone who wants to add it, TFP included Im not sure how that thing even works, it seems like it generates only a "green=okay" and "black=could collapse at any time" warning.
I basically used this as the basis for reinforcing the original building, running several cobblestone upgrades down to the foundation in the corners and the middle of the back and front walls. Careful examination has taught me that the PoI in question is only just barely structurally sound. There's just one problem with the whole procedure you laid out: It is very common for anything from a few blocks to huge chunk of a building to be floating in air with no unbroken pillar all the way to bedrock anywhere in sight to support it, and these are often right after a chunk update because they occur when another part of the building has just been brought down, so it can't have anything to do with needing an update. There has to be something in the SI code that isn't properly calculating the SI for these floaty bits when nearby blocks have just been taken out. With the house I took over, it was fine after I took out the furniture (that wasn't even in the line-to-bedrock) until I exited the chunk and then re-entered it.
That is basically how Empyrion: Galactic Survival does it, except no black. Extreme red = about to collapse.
