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Since we already have topics for both hand held and ship based weapons, I figured I would make a topic for non-combat items and objects.

Handheld devices-
TAC-PAD- Kinda like a sign or a book, only it can hold maps and receive/send private messages. Also might have a tracking thingy.
Welder- Used to weld things together with iron/steel/ect blocks. Bigger version is used to make ships, but is mostly used for repairs.
Radar module- Does radar. Placed.
Beacon/flare- Used to signal friendly forces for things like air strikes or pickup. Comes in all sorts of colors.
Jammer- Jams radar and wireless transmissions. Placed.
Medkit- Heals slowly after use. Does not replenish hunger. Will continue to heal until full health.
MRE Ration- Meal, Ready to Eat. Most nutritious crud planetside. Replenishes 5 hunger points and makes you wish you joined the Naval forces.

Ship mounted-
Holotable- Shows maps and information. Sort of like a big TAC-PAD
Ship core- Heart of the ship. Possibly slipspace drive. Varies in size.
Repair drone- Goes around ships and repairs. Seeks out vacuum. After 1 MC day, returns to a charging station
Charging station- Recharges drones.
Life support- Generates air within the confines of the ship. Near Core.
Generator- Generates power. Type can be varied.
Radar scanner- Scans area around for about 1k blocks for nhostiles. Also scans planets for hostiles and exposed mineral deposits.
DRADIS- Upgraded Radar. Triple the distance and power.
Jammer- Jams enemy radar and comms for 1k blocks around.
Communications array- Sends signals that can be intercepted and listened to if not encrypted. Can be jammed.

Cores, machines, joints (please?), crafting tables, cloners, cryochambers, tractor beams, repulsor beam, engines, radio, screens, computers, wires, etc. etc. etc.

robot pets, mining bots...

the dev team has a lot of work to do

blockman42 wrote:robot pets, mining bots...

the dev team has a lot of work to do

Exactly what I was thinking. SOOOO MUUUCH CONTENT.

(offtopic) What the devs really need is for someone to tell them exactly what needs to be done. An organizer.

That's Mack.

Could the radar/DR$ADIS and comms be upgraaded to cut past jamming (with a certain amount of success)?

Probably, for an additional power usage. Also, the stuff might need repairs every so often.

ACH0225 wrote:That's Mack.

Mac's good, but more of a supervisor than an organizer.

I like the name of the improved radar , they are all obvious ship parts. I guess we will need to think about resource processing machines like in tekkit.

Iv121 wrote:I like the name of the improved radar , they are all obvious ship parts. I guess we will need to think about resource processing machines like in tekkit.

A complete list of materials would make that a lot easier.

MATERIAL GATHERERS:

Oil/natural gas drill-harvests underground pockets of gas and oil. No need for operator.

Horizontal miner- Similar to the railcraft tunneler, whatever it's called.

Vertical miner- Like the oil drill, but only mines solid things.

Mining beam- Tractor beam mounted on ships used to break apart asteroids and planet surfaces and bring substances to the ship.

Gas miner- Can be mounted on ground, low-orbit stations, ships, or balloons. Advanced gas miner is multi-block.

PROCESSORS:

Grinder- Grinds materials into dust and gravel.

Good ol' furnace- vanilla furnace, smelts iron and some other stuff. Produces slag as by-product.

-more.

catsonmeth wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:That's Mack.

Mac's good, but more of a supervisor than an organizer.

That's because at this stage, there's nothing to organize. Except for the occasional good idea (like MineCrak's C.U.R.E), everything that people put forward is obvious (and I am planning something similar already), excessive (in terms of the scope of Futurecraft), or just plain bad (like, Cool3303 level bad). That's not to say that I don't want your ideas, someone's bound to come up with something that we missed, but saying "I think Futurecraft should have 'x'" is more often than not just a civilized way of saying '"I want haz big gun".

In short: input is welcome, but few things you say, especially in regards to in-universe content, I, Fr0stbyte, or the other DEVs haven't thought of.

Dr. Mackeroth wrote:

catsonmeth wrote:

ACH0225 wrote:That's Mack.

Mac's good, but more of a supervisor than an organizer.

That's because at this stage, there's nothing to organize. Except for the occasional good idea (like MineCrak's C.U.R.E), everything that people put forward is obvious (and I am planning something similar already), excessive (in terms of the scope of Futurecraft), or just plain bad (like, Cool3303 level bad). That's not to say that I don't want your ideas, someone's bound to come up with something that we missed, but saying "I think Futurecraft should have 'x'" is more often than not just a civilized way of saying '"I want haz big gun".

In short: input is welcome, but few things you say, especially in regards to in-universe content, I, Fr0stbyte, or the other DEVs haven't thought of.

We have devs that aren't doing anything and things that need doing.

And they're being no more helpful to the productivity of the mod.