I really hope that update never happens - creatures should be able to attack you right outside your front door imo (if you bother to build a front door that is!)
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No, indeed I think I prefer to see the beacon’s influence restricted to merely what’s available to us players. Though now that I think of it…:
Would love to see creatures smell the scent of the player’s builds only to see them occasionally try to nibble on some blocks while they’re at it. Not to allow complete block destruction but maybe change the textures slightly showing creature activity. Show creature tracks in soil around beacons and show ‘different’ kinds of behavior around player beacons in general. All in all heightened senses around beacons would be cool.
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I like your idea of a ‘foreigner’ being unable to break blocks easily, it’s on the right track for a train of thought.
I always had the same thought with minecraft builds. There is no point to building with stone other then cheapness and look, because it’s easily broken like wood. A stone wall is breached in seconds. It offers no anti-player defense, neither does a wooden wall. (Nevermind fire)
But, if you make stone tougher, it’s time consuming to collect or mine ores. There could be a balance to be had, with stone taking longer then a tree regardless of tool. But, make finished stonework cost more raw stone and make placed finished stonework harder to break, unless you are the builder or something.
Make caves and ravines the easiest source of minerals, and strip mining / pit mining (As I call it) more time consuming.
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I like the idea of creatures being able to attack you right at your door step. However, I really hope beacons can protect my creations (home) from being destroyed by ‘the hoppers’. Imagine having your items loot from your storage chambers after a hopper creates a huge gapping entrance for all to enter and take. Or… Like what some of you mentioned, tougher materials can be resistant to perhaps a hoppers explosion.
I disagree with regeneration of your home back to what it was since it doesn’t happen in real life situations.
On top of all my rant of how precious my home is. I feel that titans should come and attack a whole village of players which causes permanent damage to homes almost like an apocalypse. When that happens, I will accept the damage, fix my home and gather all the other victims to fight back. Or I might just flee to another world for safety.
Well that’s how we humans are, We need a common enemy to motivate us to fight together. A world can be going through apocalypse, and people could be scrambling to migrate their resources to another world where it is safer. Or heroic guilds can step in to fight and obtain the titan’s core to eventually become the ultimate ruler of that world. Kind of like how countries are no longer the same after a war.
I’m just going wild with my imagination after reading through all the creative inputs above.
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Why not add to beacon controls a “public” feature. Meaning anyone can alter the area, not just friend tokens.
or beaconed areas can be altered by all in default (expect world regen). when you place your own token you claim your beacon and now you can only alter that area.
That would defeat the purpose of what the beacon is though. Default should be private.
To be honest. The purpose of a beacon is always different depending on what you want to achieve. Which is also the reason I think we need some toggles for beacons.
But I agree that the default should be private because of all the people who just assume that it is private because it is in all the other games which use similar mechanics.
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that’s true. people assume its private so it should already have your token in it when placing. if you remove your token it becomes neutral, sounds more right.
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This is why I haven’t played much either…I am very sad alllll my hard work and my first (ever!) huge build - the capital tree on Lapas - will be gone forever at some point. 
I don’t want to invest tons of time and effort building something grand only to have it gone without a trace come the release.
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That’s why they tell you upfront about such things. But yes, no one should get attached to anything they build or craft yet. Just use the time to learn and experiment.
I’m among the group that can’t even get the game to open at the moment. I’m looking forward to when it will.