Game Mechanics Balanced way to copy and paste buildings (minecraft create schematics cannon go brrr)

[Pelzklops]

There are many quality of life mods that add the ability to instantly build stuff like sky bridges, boss arenas, npc prisons and such.
And I am sure many people would love to have something like this for the base game.

So I propose the idea of an Item that allows the player to save whole buildings as "Schematics" or "Blueprints".
You have two modes, Scan and Build mode.

The scan mode allows you to choose two points on the map to save whatever is build inside the square between those points as a schematic.

The building mode allows you to choose any schematic that you have saved and build it in any world you want. When you chose a schematic you get a preview of the build that you can choose. You can move it around with the mouse to exactly place it where you want it to be.

After the building placement is confirmed, the building process starts.

There are many approaches in how this could be done thematically, for example a drone.

You would place down a chest and right click on it with the schematic building item you use for saving and building schematics.

A drone will appear that pulls items out of the chest and it will start building, placing one block at a time.
That means, that it can only place blocks that you put in the chest.
This way it is balanced because you can't just choose any block you want, you just save time on the building process

This idea is heavily inspired by the Schematics Cannon from the Minecraft mod "Create"
I would put a link of a video that shows it's functionality to better show how the concept works, but I don't know if that's allowed. But feel free to check it out yourself

Thanks for reading through all of this and I hope you like the idea as much as I do

 

[Shаyd]

I don't think this is necessary for vanilla Terraria. This kind of thing should stay in the mods.

 

[ADHDemonYT🌳]

There are many quality of life mods that add the ability to instantly build stuff like sky bridges, boss arenas, npc prisons and such.
And I am sure many people would love to have something like this for the base game.

So I propose the idea of an Item that allows the player to save whole buildings as "Schematics" or "Blueprints".
You have two modes, Scan and Build mode.

The scan mode allows you to choose two points on the map to save whatever is build inside the square between those points as a schematic.

The building mode allows you to choose any schematic that you have saved and build it in any world you want. When you chose a schematic you get a preview of the build that you can choose. You can move it around with the mouse to exactly place it where you want it to be.

After the building placement is confirmed, the building process starts.

There are many approaches in how this could be done thematically, for example a drone.

You would place down a chest and right click on it with the schematic building item you use for saving and building schematics.

A drone will appear that pulls items out of the chest and it will start building, placing one block at a time.
That means, that it can only place blocks that you put in the chest.
This way it is balanced because you can't just choose any block you want, you just save time on the building process

This idea is heavily inspired by the Schematics Cannon from the Minecraft mod "Create"
I would put a link of a video that shows it's functionality to better show how the concept works, but I don't know if that's allowed. But feel free to check it out yourself

Thanks for reading through all of this and I hope you like the idea as much as I do

I don't think this is necessary for vanilla Terraria. This kind of thing should stay in the mods.

to shayd: nah I think it would be good

To pelzklops: I fully support the idea and think it should also take items out of your inventory that are not favorited

 

[Big Sammich]

No, I don't think this would fit in the base game either. There is absolutely nothing in the base game like this already.

 

[Depressed 0wl]

This doesn't fit the base game at all. Usually im a fan of whatever makes the game less grindy, but this feels very modded, and just makes it too easy.

 

[TechionPrime41 🌳]

It's way too overpowered, nor are there any items that automatically spawn structures within vanilla terraria for you. I don't feel like this should be added either.

 

[Pelzklops]

To ADDemon:
This might seem like a good and convenient idea at first but I thing there would be too much trouble with stuff accidentally getting auto grabbed, especially in multiplayer

To the rest: I see why you guys might think this is too op but it really is not that op. You still have to build and design your build and you still need to provide every single material that is used so the only thing that's really different is that you save time on building, which is especially nice for repeating playthroughs and stuff like map design. To balance it even further, I would definitely see this as a moonlord drop.
The Zenith says "Being OP after beating the game is cool!"

 

[Big Sammich]

To ADDemon:
This might seem like a good and convenient idea at first but I thing there would be too much trouble with stuff accidentally getting auto grabbed, especially in multiplayer

To the rest: I see why you guys might think this is too op but it really is not that op. You still have to build and design your build and you still need to provide every single material that is used so the only thing that's really different is that you save time on building, which is especially nice for repeating playthroughs and stuff like map design. To balance it even further, I would definitely see this as a moonlord drop.
The Zenith says "Being OP after beating the game is cool!"

I don't actually care if it's OP. I just don't want autobuilding in vanilla Terraria. What's the point of building something if you can just duplicate it easily? Even in Minecraft, that kind of thing is locked behind either mods or command blocks/datapacks/whatever. I would not want to see something like that in the base game.