Moonstorms QOL requests

[droooney]

I've been recently farming some celestial champions in my megabase world and was a bit upset about a couple of things:

1. Moonstorms spawning in the most horrendous places. The more you build over the world the more becomes the chance that a moonstorm is spawned on top of your nice build which can mess up your walls, fences, creatures. Moreover it's quite inconvenient to do a moonstorm quest within a build. I suggest we could have some sort of device that could move a moonstorm to a certain location. For example if you place this device, it would attract a moonstorm similarly to a lightning rod. It doesn't have to be cheap since it's an optional opportunity and could be craftable from gears, goat horns, etc and we could be forced to charge it from time to time. Also this way if you're not playing Wanda, you wouldn't have to travel across all your map to do a next moonstorm quest. For me that would be the best QOL possible since I love glowcaps so much
2. It could sometimes be a little tedious to collect charged moon glass since you need a lot of it and it spoils so fast. Also it doesn't really make sense that you essentially need to kill bee queen to kill/farm celestial champion. I again suggest some kind of craftable device that would allow you to charge regular moonglass. Again it doesn't really have to be cheap since you're not forced to use this. Also after multiple celestial champion fights I have loads of moon glass and nothing to do with it and it would be cool to make it useful

[Eughstein]

1.Agree, it usually very often spawns on my base or near it, but it can't actually harm your walls fences and other things
2.charged moon glass used to spoil way faster before, it spoiling 1 days is way more than it used to be.CC is endgame boss, it's expected from player to kill bee queen at least 1 time already, same as FW.You can use moon glass for glass cutters(that are very useful if you using enligthment crown due to their high damage and no sanity penalty) and statues, also axes, so ig it's already useful enough.

[droooney]

8 minutes ago, Eughstein said:

1.Agree, it usually very often spawns on my base or near it, but it can't actually harm your walls fences and other things
2.charged moon glass used to spoil way faster before, it spoiling 1 days is way more than it used to be.CC is endgame boss, it's expected from player to kill bee queen at least 1 time already, same as FW.You can use moon glass for glass cutters(that are very useful if you using enligthment crown due to their high damage and no sanity penalty) and statues, also axes, so ig it's already useful enough.

1. Charged moon glass pools, when destroyed naturally around/on top of walls, fences damage them. And along with moongleams they damage creatures as well. If you have a goat farm you absolutely can not do the quest around them, since they can become charged from moongleams

2. Dark sword is already a good weapon and arguably better than glass cutter, but that's another topic That said I use moon glass only for axes. Meanwhile it would be cool to have another source of charged moon glass

[Eughstein]

1 minute ago, droooney said:

 

2. Dark sword is already a good weapon and arguably better than glass cutter

they are, but if you use enlightment crown(which you should do because it's dps up) you want to have lowest sanity penalty and highest sanity regeneration possible, so i doubt that using weapon that drains sanity faster than old Wolfgang drains fridges is a good idea.

[Well-met]

I would suggest don't trigger moonstorms if you aren't ready to deal with the consequences

The term "QoL" isn't necessarily a free pass to make the game easier, unlike what most seem to believe.

 

[ArubaroBeefalo]

i think they should make the storm harmless to structures, there is no difficulty on breaking walls and fences. Difficulty should come as a danger to the player not as a monotonous maintenance

[ADM]

5 hours ago, droooney said:

For example if you place this device, it would attract a moonstorm similarly to a lightning rod

I've actually done this exact thing in this mod if anyone is interested, it does wonders so I can take it easy while the moonstorm is active in just the place I want (it's a 75% or so chance to successfully focus it per rod). Also was something I wanted to make to give alternative uses to the Crown Shards.

[Eughstein]

2 minutes ago, ADM said:

I've actually done this exact thing in this mod if anyone is interested, it does wonder so I can take it easy while moonstorm is active in just the place I want (it's a 75% or so chance to successfully focus it per rod). Also was something I wanted to make to give alternative uses to the Crown Shards.

tbh this sprite looks like it's official, great job

[ADM]

13 minutes ago, Eughstein said:

tbh this sprite looks like it's official, great job

@Notecja moment, as always

[droooney]

1 hour ago, Well-met said:

I would suggest don't trigger moonstorms if you aren't ready to deal with the consequences

The term "QoL" isn't necessarily a free pass to make the game easier, unlike what most seem to believe.

 

The device would make the game easier for a cost, big difference. And there's no real reason not to have a dedicated area for moonstorms. We already have dedicated areas for farms, all boss arenas, essentially everything, why not this

 

1 hour ago, ADM said:

I've actually done this exact thing in this mod if anyone is interested, it does wonders so I can take it easy while the moonstorm is active in just the place I want (it's a 75% or so chance to successfully focus it per rod). Also was something I wanted to make to give alternative uses to the Crown Shards.

Unfortunately not looking for modded experience, but thanks anyway

 

 

1 hour ago, ArubaroBeefalo said:

i think they should make the storm harmless to structures, there is no difficulty on breaking walls and fences. Difficulty should come as a danger to the player not as a monotonous maintenance

This also kinda works, though it's a bit inconvenient to do a quest at your build setpieces. Also birds do some damage as well

[Notecja]

22 minutes ago, droooney said:

Unfortunately not looking for modded experience, but thanks anyway

Actually we already have in base game "modded experience" - thanks to Klei employing one or more modders, who added global pause and quick drop : ) probably it's much more, just I am not always updated with all mods.

[droooney]

7 minutes ago, Notecja said:

Actually we already have in base game "modded experience" - thanks to Klei employing one or more modders, who added global pause and quick drop : ) probably it's much more, just I am not always updated with all mods.

Yeah I know about quick drop and that's actually really cool! Gives a chance for your and @ADM's mod as well, though you're probably right that it's much more. And about "modded experience" - I was just talking about that I don't really like installing content changing mods, I love what you can accomplish even in the vanilla game and want it to be even better