Testing 232: Closed Storage and Decorative Blocks!

[Trickyy90]

Yeah looking forwards to only needing access to 1 power coil! I may even put it behind a door so it’s super neat

[Venom]

Im really considering this myself. Considering the lighting update ruined my build, new blocks, new storage, and cheaper marble/mosaic might finally make me do it officially

[Firehazurd]

NOOOOOOOO! The concrete needs to stay super smooth! It’s for doing cool color contours and stuff!!

Don’t take that away!

[Goblinounours]

Well, I’d rather have a block really made with “super smooth for plain colors” as main intent.

Like, concrete isn’t supposed to be super smooth…

[Firehazurd]

I 100% agree, but in lieu of getting such a block (cloth for example) I’m happy to have this option upcoming, especially since it seems like it should be spray tintable!

[james]

Updated OP with details of the next Testing update. The migration will take a little while so it’s not live yet.

@james

Testing 232.1:

• “Roads” plots (red squares in the plot-visualisation map) will no longer be able to reserve neighbouring plots as part of the beacon-buffer system. This was including in the Testing 232 notes but wasn’t actually enabled.

Bug fixes:

• Allow liquids to flow through the new Trellis blocks. There is no migration done here as only released on the testing server, so any existing liquid/trellis interactions wont update until you make some changes to the surrounding blocks.
• Don’t allow the foliage-type Trellis blocks to be spray-tintable, foliage is not spray-tintable and these are classed as being variations of those foliage blocks rather than a variation of the trellis block. Foliage and Mould trellis blocks take their tint from the foliage or mould.
• Fix the prestige calculation server crashes by forcing a migration of the world prestige in response to some of the recipes changing prestige rating.
• Fixed closed-storage crashing when placing Forged items into the storage.
• Fix fuel-type blocks (wood/peat/compact coals etc) not being usable as fuel in the Spark core and Furnaces after the last update.
• Fix for z-fighting between internal faces of different alpha-cutout voxels like the new metal grid blocks.

[majorvex]

@Goblinounours

Like, concrete isn’t supposed to be super smooth…

Stucco is super smooth tho

[Goblinounours]

Seen from this far, sure.

[majorvex]

@james

Don’t allow the foliage-type Trellis blocks to be spray-tintable, foliage is not spray-tintable

[Takritimous]

James did say before that eventually we’ll be able to spray everything that makes sense to be sprayed

[Venom]

If i can find a video of leaves being spray painted can we then spray paint foliage?

I wont be greedy tho lol at least we can spray paint marble now

[Xaldafax]

@Goblinounours

My third problem is that the new chests don’t have a ‘blocky’ shape like the stone containers, so if I start using them, you’ll be able to see what’s behind them.
I’d like to be able to replace all my stone containers with these new models, but if none of them is big enough to block the view of what’s behind them

I personally love that we finally have blocks that you can see past. It is nice to have something that feels like a storage room with various boxes. I wish we had most sizes and stuff.

Now I do understand that feeling of closed off storage like what you mean. I wish we had a cabinet or something that gave that too for those that want that.

[james]

@majorvex

Stucco is super smooth tho

Screenshot of Boundless on next-next-gen.

Maybe…

[Goblinounours]

Yeah, it would be cool if we could upgrade stone storage into a stone cabinet, same look as the stone storage, but with doors, which would work like the new chests of this update.

[Cuetzpalomitl]

When i saw the picture the first time I thought it was a very impressive screenshot

[Goblinounours]

I mean, this photo looks uncannily clean, like, almost no imperfection. ^^

[james]

@molav

Hey @james there is a lot of confusion on what boundless is really supposed to be, can we get clarification on what wondeestuck’s aim is? So we can stop fighting?

Is this a builder game that is striving for progression and rpg style play or minecraft oriented builder simulation with no progress?

This question is basically impossible to answer without clear and agreed definitions of all the terms. But I don’t want to ignore your request for an answer.

My answer would be that “Boundless is a sandbox MMO”.

And more generically - I want Boundless to be an amazing sandbox.

[james]

@Cuetzpalomitl

When i saw the picture the first time I thought it was a very impressive screenshot

Competition time - recreate the screen shot in Boundless.

[bucfanpaka]

… Bicycles confirmed? (Hmm, that would be pretty fun with ramps and slides and all!)

[AeneaGames]

@catfud

there is definitely a case for building a whole new workshop…

If they add rentable planets right away, I will so build a new workshop!

I did try some stuff out on testing tho, very, very compact coil setup, since you don’t need to actually be able to see them all and/or to reach them it doesn’t matter they are very close to each other. Which in turn means you can put machines much closer together and make a more compact workshop.

But mine is so big I rather now wait until I can do it on the final destination! Rental planet, haha

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and of course I’m sure you’re advocating to make a new workshop in a different spot AND keep the old one completely running so they need to buy more power coils