Packing dirt with a shovel

[Heegrim]

We should be able to create packed dirt in-world by holding right click on a dirt block with a shovel. 

I play with soil instability on (and I love it), but it would be nice to be able to pack dirt without breaking the blocks first. It is so hard to make a hobbit hole without causing multiple landslides.

This should extend to rammed earth too, each time you pack it with a shovel it will cycle through the different textures.

The new in-world hide scraping mechanics are awesome and this would follow that theme.

[Nagahiro]

I use this mod for that feature: https://mods.vintagestory.at/packyourshovel

it would be neat tho to have it in the base game. however, from my hours of experience playing the game I do think shovels and axes are my most used and consumed tool out of all the other tools, so that much uses out of a shovel would probably make you burn through many more shovels to come

[Heegrim]

15 hours ago, Nagahiro said:

I use this mod for that feature: https://mods.vintagestory.at/packyourshovel

it would be neat tho to have it in the base game. however, from my hours of experience playing the game I do think shovels and axes are my most used and consumed tool out of all the other tools, so that much uses out of a shovel would probably make you burn through many more shovels to come

Cool! Thanks.

Maybe packing dirt with the shovel shouldn't use durability then since the crafting recipe is already free.

[Nagahiro]

4 hours ago, Heegrim said:

Maybe packing dirt with the shovel shouldn't use durability then since the crafting recipe is already free.

in vanilla you'd have to dig up soil first to craft them into packed dirt lol, 6 soil = 6 packed dirt, 6 soil = -6 durability, therefore shovel to packed dirt ratio is 1:1, for 1 packed dirt the shovel uses 1 durability. this principle is applied to the mod. I don't know if it's balanced tho, maybe I would have to play with it more