Which blocks or colours do you favour building with?
I personally use a wide range of blocks, but Sedimentary Bricks are by far my favourite, as they are separated into quarters, so work really well with the Stone and Titanium Chisels.
As for colours, I like neutral tones like browns, but have a lot of time for bright colourful highlights - Oxide Azure is my most use so far though.
Not sure about types, but I like the blues, teals, ceruleans, and just about all the purples.
Basically cool colors.
My fav blocks have always been lustrous wood, mainly because the trunk, timber, refined and deco all go really well together.
I’ve been building underground a lot recently so moved to stone for appropriateness. In both stone and wood though I’m a fan of borderless blocks and obviously/ harshly repeating patterns turn me off…
stones id say meta is my least favourite, refined stones i cant stand sedi (ignoring the light issue with meta) - usually use them to fill blanks / unseen holes in my builds. Deco I favour meta with the stripe, again when used in a border / accent fashion.
I absolutely love the bricks, all of them. Borderless, natural look. Our settlement is semi - nature themed so above ground I’ve kept to earthy brown/ green / grey tones. 3 more brick watch towers and then I’m back to using wood!
Same thing here, like all timber, not a fan of refined ancient and only lustrous deco grabs me.
Rock: Metamorphic, but only the smooth side
Stone: Sedimentary. That was my go to for a while.
Refined Stone: Sedimentary. I wish there was a kind without “edges”.
For wood, probably all things lustrous. Twisted is only really useful when making something else, like a workbench or door.
All the bricks are great and I love the machined metal design
I really like compact metals and sedimentary brick. All the imperfections on compact metals give the blocks a certain “worn” feel that you just don’t get with the other metal blocks.
Sedimentary brick also is really great for chiseling. Also, I usually use a transmutation chisel to turn other brick blocks to sedimentary, since metamorphic and igneous brick patterns don’t fit into my builds most of the time
Likewise! Though even with blocks that are seamless, when used repeatedly in large areas they can sometimes look monotonous and lazy. I was working on a cobbled road, and decided to mix up a few blocks for effect;
I did the same thing in a sewer system, to make it feel more used and interesting;
They’re my favourite metal blocks too. I use them a lot as cladding;
And if you look closely at this picture of the pagoda I built recently, you’ll notice I even did a band of compact copper along the connection between the roof tiles and the facing walls, as a make-shift lead flashing;
