Porkbrick Posted February 14, 2025 Report Posted February 14, 2025 (edited) Beams are awesome! the building possibilities they offer is really unique and nearly endless. to start: the flaws/drawbacks as they stand now. -they can be really difficult to place accurately. lots of times, you think you have it only for it to jump to the wrong point when you click. -they are very hard or downright impossible to break once placed. the hitbox is super tiny and doesn't even show depending on what you have in your hand. also, it seems that beams placed on chiseled blocks become permanently attached to that block. -im pretty sure this is a bug, but last time i was building, breaking beams vanished without dropping anything. -its hard to find the precise point to attach to. there is a grid of snap points on every block. 5x5 on every face and any exposed internal portion (stairs, slabs, chiseled blocks). but there is no visual hint as to where those points are. i think Tyrone has said there are plans to extend the beam hitbox the the entire beam. one problem solved. hopefully the behavior with chiseled blocks is just a bug and gets fixed, as well as not dropping when broken. i propose a clear visualization of the snap points available while you have a beam in your hand. simple clear points should do, and maybe give the beam some level of transparency while its being placed so the end doesn't obscure the points. or maybe holding shift or ctrl would show the grid. there should be some mechanism for picking up a placed beam end and moving it to a new spot. maybe holding a hammer in the left hand with a beam in the right hand lets you left click the placed end and move it. if the hitbox is the full beam then whichever end you are closest to would be the end that picks up. what do you think? any other ideas? maybe beams of differing thickness could be a thing? edit: almost forgot the issue of the beam hitbox causing collision issues. that definitely needs addressed. Edited February 14, 2025 by Porkbrick 1
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