Soil Honeycombs and Seeds

[Hirnsausen]

"That's one  small step for a programmer, one giant leap for Dual Universe"
Neil Armstrong

We already can place soil and rock inside our inventories.
Create  a schematic that creates honeycombs from that soil. Those honeycombs can be used like any other honeycomb, but offer zero resistance. They can be used therefore as purely decorative honeycombs, and since they are so easily available soil honeycombs and soil schematic sell very, very low.

To avoid many data-intensive tunnels again, there could be a tool that creates holes to take soil into the inventory but those holes would close automatically "because these walls are not stable" after a few minutes ("Soil Sampler Tool"). Or you have a "Soil Mining Unit" where you can select a soil type that is available at that area, this way avoiding ANY hole.

Artificial creeks or lakes (silent and moving water honeycombs) on the own soil honeycombs? Just one more wish, not sure if possible.

However, at the same time please give us plant seeds.
When in Build mode and a soil area has been marked with Tool 7, a right-click adds one seed to the center of the selected area.
Alternatively, a new seeder tool allows to aim for a soil honeycomb and adds the pre-selected seed.
The plant grows then, until any of its parts above soil touches any element or any other honeycomb, and stays from that time in that size.
4 categories:
- trees
- bushes
- flowers

- ground cover (grass, moss, etc.)
Each tree creates a zone around it where no other tree seed can be planted. Bushes and flowers however can be seeded much closer.

The plants can be, for now, purely decorative even they are fruit plans or vegetables or herbs or spices. Eventually, in the future, it could become possible to harvest plants, if the player wishes so, and produces things out of the harvest. But for now, just decoration. Fruits show sometimes, sometimes not (not in season).
- pumpkin
- strawberry
- cacao
- coffee
- Cayenne chili and Jalapeño chili and sweet red bell pepper
- golden-yellow wheat plants
- corn
- apple
- pear
- coconut
- avocado
- beautiful varieties of orchids
- varieties of roses
- varieties of tulips
- nepenthes and sarracenia
- sweetsop and soursop
- lime and lemon, oranges, grapefruits, etc.
- banana
- spinach, cauliflower, lettuce
- grass and moss
- soy and beans and peas
- cinnamon
- baobab
- grape
- fig tree with aerial roots and divided stem
- date
- rhubarb
- different types of berries: blue, black, rask, currant, straw,, goose, ...
- etc.

Greetings to NQ Nerais.   🙂

Edited March 9, 2022 by Hirnsausen