SPOILERS !
Just a solid "Thank you" toward Klei for finally doing a bit of justice toward builders, and a notice for who has missed it.
(+ tiny requests at the end before this stuff release)
We're finally getting a way to eliminate the Brightshades menace on absolutely any build we want that contains our lovely plants !
I've been feeling super down about decorating at all for quite a while because I would likely hit restrictions on the final touch. That was awful since the rift stuff is essential but it would enable a plague that had no elegant way to be fought in the places they have no business to be at. I grew too tired of them...
Next week or so, we will gain access to the Embalming Spritz, a perfume bottle of Pure Horror that can be applied on bushes, crops, trees, likely anything that grows to turn them 'Scared Stiff'. They will no longer grow, or can be picked, but still worked to remove them.
Not only this will make Brighshades keep away from places we don't intend of exploiting like in the old days, but this will also allow us to retain the states of plants, which is new !! So if desired: a tree could be kept at it's full size, or dead looking, same for a fully ripped pomegranate or blooming Forget-me-lots. It's also seemingly confirmed it will remove the risk of petrification, yipee !
Now, there's just a few things that bothers me as a builder that I hope to use the spray for and something tells me it won't be able to do it unless we ask for it. Also certain of these could be achieved without the spray but thank to this tool it's only more natural to request these changes now :
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Everlasting stumps :
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Currently about all trees' stumps despawn about 30 days after they've been chopped down. Stumps are fancy decor elements and it sucks that... we can't exactly use them. DST performances have been drastically evolving since the start so IMO, this is time for this feature to go, or make the spray preserve them, but please give us the option.
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Currently about all trees' stumps despawn about 30 days after they've been chopped down. Stumps are fancy decor elements and it sucks that... we can't exactly use them. DST performances have been drastically evolving since the start so IMO, this is time for this feature to go, or make the spray preserve them, but please give us the option.
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Birchnut Trees leaves :
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Between saves and loads, their foliage tend to change of color, can be same season, growth cycle, minute, reload and they might shift from red to yellow. I wish the color remained because they are fancy and as plants goes there aren't many bushy red plants available, and you can't blame me for asking for berry bush skins often. So frankly we could at least have the colors be somewhat persistent during the same season and make use of the spray to lock a preferred one.
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Between saves and loads, their foliage tend to change of color, can be same season, growth cycle, minute, reload and they might shift from red to yellow. I wish the color remained because they are fancy and as plants goes there aren't many bushy red plants available, and you can't blame me for asking for berry bush skins often. So frankly we could at least have the colors be somewhat persistent during the same season and make use of the spray to lock a preferred one.
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Mushrooms, Cacti, Reeds :
- There's both a warning and a wish here. A warning because if any growable can be sprayed, there could be a griefing / mistake situation where players loose complete access to certain plants. So there should probably be a way to scrap-off the fear from plants juuust in case.
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And in the situation where they could just not be sprayable... I do wish they could if that mean we could for example lock mushrooms out at any time of the day, or keep the summer flowers from a cactus. I do be to the kind to ornate around them when the setup present itself... or c_move() em' a bit but shh.
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And that's it for me. But is there anything else specific you'd like to use that tool for ?
I'm happy about this, happy about the storage solutions, and a few other things the beta will offer, a good update is on route so keep it up Klei, and again, thanks !