Suggestion: Building Laser

1st Official Post

    Often I (and others) find that they need to place some blocks in a far away and rather inaccessible place. The solution? The Building Laser!


    Crafted the same as a mining laser, with the crystal swapped for a lapotron (transporting matter across the room still takes a lot of power!) this tool would allow you to place blocks at extreme range!


    Upon rightclicking, it would look through the hotbar for a placable block/item, and place it where you are pointing! (limited range ofc, though should still be pretty far)


    Crafting:simple, just a lapotron
    Sprite:simple, just make it blue
    Implementation:relatively easy
    Awesomeness: 1337gibbl HAYO!

    First off how would a space be inaccesible when you just place blocks under you to elevate and destroy one block to make it accesible and you could have placed that block before you surrounded it with other blocks so your going to make Alblaka code more and take longer to release IC 2 because your forgetful???????????????

    Quote from andrewred

    First off how would a space be inaccesible when you just place blocks under you to elevate and destroy one block to make it accesible and you could have placed that block before you surrounded it with other blocks so your going to make Alblaka code more and take longer to release IC 2 because your forgetful???????????????


    It's hardly because I'm forgetful.


    Also the point of a suggestion is to improve the game, not to slow down how long it takes to make.


    And considering we are in this magical industrial age where we have lasers and crystal storage, do we really want to be limited to building blocks under us the only means of getting to hard to reach places? Sounds barbarian.

    I don't know, I kind of like how minecraft makes you work for things. A building laser may destroy a vital part of the games appeal. (no need for scaffolding, careful planning of what to build when and how)

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    We have jet packs don't we?


    Jetpacks aren't really stable enough to use for this purpose.


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    I don't know, I kind of like how minecraft makes you work for things. A building laser may destroy a vital part of the games appeal. (no need for scaffolding, careful planning of what to build when and how)


    I would just like to mention that EVERY single IC gadget is designed to make your job ("makes you work for things") easier, faster, and more efficient, with a price of course. Electro furnaces? Macerators? Miners? Mining lasers? What do all these do? Make your life easier. Admittedly, these things have quite a large curve of resource requirements, and in the end you work harder for these amenities than you would if you just played vanilla, though the satisfaction of being able to sit back and not have to do anything is great.


    It's by no means cheap, a lapotron isn't something you can get right away, and considering it would (likely) require 1m eu's per charge, I hardly find it as ruining the experience, it simply expands the length to which you can improve how efficiently you can go about your minecrafting.

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    Jetpacks aren't really stable enough to use for this purpose.



    I would just like to mention that EVERY single IC gadget is designed to make your job ("makes you work for things") easier, faster, and more efficient, with a price of course. Electro furnaces? Macerators? Miners? Mining lasers? What do all these do? Make your life easier. Admittedly, these things have quite a large curve of resource requirements, and in the end you work harder for these amenities than you would if you just played vanilla, though the satisfaction of being able to sit back and not have to do anything is great.


    It's by no means cheap, a lapotron isn't something you can get right away, and considering it would (likely) require 1m eu's per charge, I hardly find it as ruining the experience, it simply expands the length to which you can improve how efficiently you can go about your minecrafting.

    Fair point.

    And pointless to say, even when you have everything, there still remains a world of possibilities of things to do, especially if you have BuildCraft in there alongside IC.

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    Implementation:relatively easy


    Sure, just drop me the code then :O


    The idea of a "ranged block placement device" is already in my mind,though i will probably rather use the Block Launcher idea.