Mod Idea - Lighthouse and/or Lighthouse Beacon

[Dr B]

While building my windmill, I got to the top and thought about how cool it would be to be able to put a REALLY powerful light at the top that would either link up to the mill with some gears and shafts and slowly spin, or at least shine out to the N, S, E, and W and shoot a bright navigable beam out so I could find my way home.  The light would need to be something you had to carry in both hands so that it wouldn't be some ultra-powerful lantern, probably.  

Alternatively, if there was a way to make lenses to place around a regular lantern to make it blast out a beam, that could maybe work in a pinch?

[Professor Dragon]

I like this idea a lot.

I'm sure that a lot of us have placed a lantern at the very top of our base - or mountain - as a navigation aid back to home.

The troubles are:

• It's not really that visible from a great distance
• It is small and not to scale of what you imagine such a light should be

So, yes, let's have a "big light" added to the game. Specifically to stick on top of your base, so it need not actually do any "anti-spawn" - it just needs to be visible from a distance.

Professor Dragon.

[Dr B]

19 hours ago, Professor Dragon said:

The troubles are:

• It's not really that visible from a great distance
• It is small and not to scale of what you imagine such a light should be

 

Yep, that's the two issues I have, too.  It's so comforting to come over a mountain and see my little house off in the distance, surrounded by the soft glow of all those little lights, but just imagine how amazing it would look to see a sweeping beam spinning off in the distance.