Planks and Bricks

[halfmaster1 77]

Don't you guys find it strange that you can put a stack of cobble stone in with a chisel, and boom, out pops a stack of bricks? If the game is going to be like this, why can't we just put resources in our crafting bench, and place down a house?

I think that in order to get a brick, you should have to place a raw stone somewhere, maybe smooth it, and the chisel it into a brick shape. You can then mine it, craft it with three others, and you have a brick block. Don't worry, you still have slab mode, so it shouldn't take more than 5 seconds. And if your really lazy, go make some blueprints.

Of course, this would waste a lot of chisel durability, and a lot of stone. Alternatively, perhaps you could manage to cut the stone into two or even four bricks.

If you don't want to got through all this bother, then you can take a chisel, go into detailed mode, and just draw bricks on the side of your house.

This would make bricks more valuable, and perhaps make a bricksmith a necessary job in TerraFirmaCraft communities.

My second suggestion is to change how planks are created. This one isn't nearly as annoying as bricks.

You have to place down a log block so that it surrounded on all four sides when looked at from above. Simply mine it with an axe or a saw, and a third, or an eighth, will get destroyed and a plank will drop. Continue to mine it to get the rest of the planks. The destroy time would be pretty low, to make up for the fact you don't get the entire block and you already cut it down.

So, what do you guys think? Is it good, is it horrible, or do you have something additional to suggest?

[turtletechy 37]

I don't like the idea. I think TFCraft is almost perfect the way it is. Its easy to pick up, seems natural, and is similar enough to vanilla for newbies. I think that things like this could make this mod into a useless thing like that damn BetterThanWolves. Has anyone really used that recently? Probably not. Why? Its too difficult, and the hardcore modes make the gameplay so unnatural that its too much of a pain to do much of anything.

[Krski 36]

"""""""""""""""""""""-.- You can chisel stone to the brick stage when it is placed down do you're research.

[LordOfWolves 514]

I don't like the idea. I think TFCraft is almost perfect the way it is. Its easy to pick up, seems natural, and is similar enough to vanilla for newbies. I think that things like this could make this mod into a useless thing like that damn BetterThanWolves. Has anyone really used that recently? Probably not. Why? Its too difficult, and the hardcore modes make the gameplay so unnatural that its too much of a pain to do much of anything.

Well, the real motivation why no one uses that mod is because BetterThanWolves doesn't use Forge, this means that the compatibility with other Forge mods is less than 0%. Instead, TFC uses forge and in the future it will gain more compatibility.

[HiddenSage 39]

Well, the real motivation why no one uses that mod is because BetterThanWolves doesn't use Forge, this means that the compatibility with other Forge mods is less than 0%. Instead, TFC uses forge and in the future it will gain more compatibility.

From what I've seen thus far, Bukkit compatibility goes a bit farther than Forge compatibility does. Or maybe I'm biased, since my primary vanilla server (Civcraft) is Bukkit-based, and most of my news on mods and updates is through there.

[wildfirefly12 10]

I have to disagree with this idea. Although it may be more believable, the game has to balance between being difficult and believable and simply too tedious to enjoy playing. It can be tedious enough building a whole building/structure/road out of bricks, but it is still enjoyable. If you over complicate the process too much and tilt the scale to far in the wrong direction. Just my personal opinion.

[Treyflix 277]

Dunk has already stated that a more complex (but not as tedious as this) system is being worked on and will be implemented in the very near future. With mortar.

[halfmaster1 77]

"""""""""""""""""""""-.- You can chisel stone to the brick stage when it is placed down do you're research.

And what do you get when you mine it? A brick? If so, then why can you use the crafting menu?

Also,

Dunk has already stated that a more complex (but not as tedious as this) system is being worked on and will be implemented in the very near future. With mortar.

Yay!

I thought my suggestion was tedious, but I couldn't come up with any easier ways. If Dunk can, that is great!