MithranArkanere
Terrarian
Now that the final update approaches, I think it's time to give players the most freedom in what they can build, and that includes being able to produce any biome artificially, in any shape they want. For that, what we need the most is a way to place or convert unsafe walls without mods or external editors.
If being able to do this early is not desired, there could be a limitation or requiring luminite, the defeat of a boss, or other late hardmode material to convert them.
In order help players control where they have safe and unsafe walls, there could be a way to let players see more clearly whether walls are safe or not. While this is enabled, either safe or unsafe walls would appear different, like with a glowing yellow border in its edge.
As for how the conversion could be done, here's some ideas:
If being able to do this early is not desired, there could be a limitation or requiring luminite, the defeat of a boss, or other late hardmode material to convert them.
In order help players control where they have safe and unsafe walls, there could be a way to let players see more clearly whether walls are safe or not. While this is enabled, either safe or unsafe walls would appear different, like with a glowing yellow border in its edge.
- A character upgrade like the Torch God's favor that is always available and can be freely toggled on and off.
- Special goggles or an accessory that work while equipped.
As for how the conversion could be done, here's some ideas:
- Conversion recipes:
- Now that we have a recipe to make safe versions of most natural walls, there could be a graveyard recipe to turn them into unsafe walls. For example: bring the safe version to an altar, and there they can be converted into the unsafe version, or mix them with a certain material with a Crystal Ball in a graveyard.
- Dungeon bricks and their walls could also have a way to craft them in the Graveyard out of replenishable materials, such as stone, bone and pink/blue/Green dyes.
- Special paints that convert the wall instead changing its color.
- They could become available from the painter after a certain boss is defeated.
- They could be crafted by players: negative paint + soul of light would create safe paint, negative paint + soul of night would create unsafe paint.
- A special paint roller:
- The spectral paint roller could be used in a recipe to make 2 tools. For example: 5 light shards + spectral paint roller + 10 luminite bards: Safe Roller. 5 dark shards + spectral paint roller + 10 luminite bards: Unsafe Roller.
- The 3 spectral paint rollers could be used as materials to make a paint multitool similar to the grand design. Right clicking with this tool in hand would show a small menu that allows you to choose between 5 options: Paint tiles, paint walls, scrap paint, make wall safe, make wall unsafe.
- A pair of clentaminator solutions. This would be less accurate, but it would allow conversion of large surfaces.
- They could be sold by the Steampunker after a certain boss is defeated.
- They could be crafted by players out of other solutions: 100 Green solution + 5 luminite ore: 100 Safe Solution. 25 of each of the other solutions + 5 luminite ore: 100 Unsafe Solution.