The community is split over the snow ground effect because you can’t see the block colors properly while building.
I always loved the effect, it’s super pretty.
But I recently started to build in a snow biome and now i got to feel the pain.
I went there deliberately, because I want the effect on my finished build.
But it breaks building to the point that I just have to walk away from the pc and do something else while it’s snowing.
To come straight to the point, my suggestion is:
Toggle the visibility of the snow ground effect together with the Plot View (B key on pc).
That way you have more control over your building experience without changing the effect itself.
This is just me but snow havent ever bothered me.
Im atm building on arie and there is snow too time to time. Im ok with it.
It actually makes my build look better and adds some cool colours.
The game seems to know when I’m just about to lay some grass down, or change block types with a chisel,it will just seem to suddenly start blanketing blooming everything with snow. really uncanny sometimes…(started imagining devs, poised over the “let-it-snow” button, just waiting for me to start… )
grrr…
Otherwise snow is a great affect for builds.
Just not when I’m building it.
The snow is great, but that much? Only in winter please… for that aspect I wish this game was more like animal crossing.
Seasonal effects during the seasons…
I’d be fine if it was linked to another key and not PlotView. I also would be fine if it was a setting where you could just turn off if you didn’t want it.
I like it but it still seems to be way too frequent and I do like an idea on turning off while building.
It greatly depends on the planet and biome.
At The Ancient Gate in Biitula it rarely ever snows. Like 2 times a week at most.
But at my new project on Xa Frant which is right next to an ice biome it snows once every 10 minutes or so.
Ground cover during snow is broke. I cant see which brick to block change, cant see colors.
And apparently I moved to a weird spot. It will literally snow for 10-30 minutes, randomly start/stop every 3-5 minutes. I have even seen it flicker the snow on and off several times in a minute.
I like the snow. but the groundcover needs dialed back about 50%.
Good solution to the problem. Most blocks have an orientation and snow makes it impossible to see the surface to gauge the orientation. If we are meant to build as easily in snow as anywhere else, using plot view for it is a good compromise.
If it is supposed to be harder to build in snow biomes, devs could reinforce their wish by giving a tutorial popup about it. “You are building in a snow biome! It may be difficult to build during snowstorms.” As well as a simple icon next to the region name saying what kind of biome it is. So new and old players alike make an informed decision
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