1.3.6 Preview: Block Swap

[butterflypixie]

Block swap depends on your highest pickaxe power of the pickaxe(s) in your inventory. You won't be able to block swap ebonstone, crimstone, Dungeon Bricks and so on unless you have a pickaxe that can mine them normally.

ive been informed thank you for telling me anway

 

[WonderKind]

this update in general will be game changing for terraria

 

[Wicstar]

This should be implemented right now

 

[Kardfogu]

Just let me replace the the regular wooden platforms my Demon Altar spawned on with Living Wood platforms - that world was generated before 1.2.4 and the Demon Altar spawned in one of my Living Trees.

Honestly replacing blocks under a Demon Altar or equivalent would be nice.

 

[Airarret]

Brings to mind a good question: will blockswap work with wands (bone, living wood, living leaf, living mahogany, etc.), or only with blocks that can be placed directly?

 

[Sigma90]

Brings to mind a good question: will blockswap work with wands (bone, living wood, living leaf, living mahogany, etc.), or only with blocks that can be placed directly?

I would say almost definitely yes, since they are used to place blocks.

 

[KeylessConstruct]

This is cool!

 

[2d Minecraft]

Huge, huge, huge! Love it so much!

According to Minecraft, there is a hack that lets you destroy blocks so fast, that if you were to, theoretically, replace them if you were fast enough. I am led to the conclusion that this is indeed, 2d Minecraft

 

[RandomSheep7]

I NEED THIS

 

[Gabrielismo]

This new feature, which we are calling Block Swap, allows players to replace one block with another without having to break the previous block first! Tired of the way your house looks? Now you no longer have to tear the whole house down to change it. Need to clean up those random clay and stone blocks in your yard? Just swap them all out with your block of choice - much faster than mining them all individually!

So we can swap Lihizard blocks, right? Or does the block have to be placed in the first place?

 

[Ordinary Orange]

So we can swap Lihizard blocks, right? Or does the block have to be placed in the first place?

Either way, if you have the Picksaw.

 

[Gabrielismo]

Oh well.

 

[PotupchikGAMESStudios]

This is 1.4.. Not 1.3.6...
Also, why no mod updates on here?

 

[PotupchikGAMESStudios]

This is 1.4.. Not 1.3.6...
Also, why no mod updates on here?

I mean on the fourums.

 

[Aurora3500]

This is 1.4.. Not 1.3.6...
Also, why no mod updates on here?

At the time, what is now 1.4 was still known as 1.3.6. This post was made before 1.3.6 turned into 1.4.

 

[PotupchikGAMESStudios]

At the time, what is now 1.4 was still known as 1.3.6. This post was made before 1.3.6 turned into 1.4.

uhh... I like posting stuff like that when I know why its like that.... idk y lol

 

[TheCosmicApple]

Will it work for chests?

 

[ppowersteef]

Will it work for chests?

The gif shows that it can replace chests. So looks like you can.

 

[Stoovan]

So does this mean anyone can get any block (including ores) without a pickaxe since they can just swap it out for some random block?

 

[ppowersteef]

So does this mean anyone can get any block (including ores) without a pickaxe since they can just swap it out for some random block?

As mentioned in the main post:

Block Swap uses the mining power of the strongest Pickaxe in your inventory. Therefore, you will not be able to replace blocks that you cannot mine and it will take the same number of "swings" to replace a tile that your current pickaxe takes to mine the same block.