The percise Geoplacer

[Creatingabe1125]

I came up with an idea to add geometric placement into the game.

you can find it at the junk yard along with wobot or the next piece of loot in the big junk pile for existing worlds. You also have like a 1/30 chance of finding the blueprint in the big junk pile. It costs 4 scrap, 2 electrical doodads, and 1 thermal stone

It does what geometric placement does by letting you place structures on a grid. It is also thermal powered and only operates when the thermal stone in it is warm or hot. It has durability and loses some of it slowly when functioning or when freezing. If the thermal stone has no temperature nothing happens, if it get cool then nothing happens, if it starts to freeze then it starts to lose durability whether worn or not.

It has a thermal stone because I thought it would use the thermal stone’s structure to calculate where to place stuff on land, and it’s the source of power.

here’s a drawing of how it would look like: 

[Swiyss]

I thought about a geo placement in-game recently too and.. I think that the reason why they haven't done it yet is because they don't want to be apart of the idea of putting things on a grid itself. It's not that the mod is bad, it's just that when on a boat for example, the place on a grid gets very limited. And the idea of building things on a grid kinda indirectly breaks some immersion about certain structures. I'm all for a way to add mods to console.. But I don't want built-in geometric placement in the game.

[Frosty_Mentos]

It could also just be like a special magic table we could build or deploy, giving us a grid to build with and remote building ability. Deploy potted plant there, crockpot there... Select and it'll build it with shadow magic or robotic copters or something. All it would cost is the materials those would cost. Would be great if walls were part of the ability to build.

Might bring some cool strategies too, kinda like an RTS style building ability.

[Creatingabe1125]

17 hours ago, Swiyss said:

I thought about a geo placement in-game recently too and.. I think that the reason why they haven't done it yet is because they don't want to be apart of the idea of putting things on a grid itself. It's not that the mod is bad, it's just that when on a boat for example, the place on a grid gets very limited. And the idea of building things on a grid kinda indirectly breaks some immersion about certain structures. I'm all for a way to add mods to console.. But I don't want built-in geometric placement in the game.

Maybe they are planning on doing it when they come up with a good way of adding it or waiting for the right update.

Though what immersion does it break as I don’t see the problem.?