Chisels, Slopes and stairs

[nevir]

I think we’re very unlikely to get true microblocks due to the memory overhead required for allowing microblocks of differing block types (that’s effectively 8x the memory cost, worst case - which would be particularly impactful for the servers). Square chisels are probably more reasonable (possibly 1 bit overhead per block), since the block is all one type of material.

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James’ comment makes it sound like it’s not out of the realm of possibility, but probably something that would be post 1.0:

@james

Quick comment here. There are some requests that I think of as polish - for example adding inverted stairs. We’d really love to polish up everything that is already in the game. As much as we want to do this, we’re currently focusing on expanding the gameplay. If we were to add inverted stairs, which we really want to do, then (some) people would complain that “nothing ever changes in the game”. So at the moment, we’re trying to be disciplined by focusing on the updated gameplay. This mainly includes adding the first pass player character and creatures models and animations, and more sophisticated combat. We also have a few other surprises in development - which are really cool. So keep the requests coming and understand why some items might get their additional polish down the road.

My hunch: it would probably require a fair bit of dev & artist time to set up the textures/meshes to support it