Game Mechanics Vanity Rework

MrD108

Official Terrarian
The game has many ways to change the look and style of your character. We have accessories for the head, hands, shoes, hair, later we have capes, balloons, Royal Scepter, shields, medallions, belt accessories, colored yo-yo cords and fishing lines, colored golf balls, Rainbow Cursor, monoliths, tails and Critter Shampoo. And in 1.4.5. voice accessories will be added. However, despite this, the player has less than 10 cosmetic slots at his disposal. We are talking about something purely decorative, so it should be possible to customize our appearance more with accessories.

For example, when playing I like to equip the blue fishing line and blue golf ball, Treasure Magnet, Flame Walker Boots and Shark Tooth Necklace in vanity slots. In classic mode, that's it. I will not put on a tail, cape, Halo, Band of Starpower or anything else.

That's why I propose expanding or reworking the vanity slot system.
First, the idea for expansion is quite simple, you need to add a second row of vanity slots. The simplest solution, looking from the right: one functional accessory slot, one vanity slot, one dye slot, second vanity slot, second dye slot. The second row (further from the functional) will not have the ability to quickly swap accessories or insert accessories without cosmetic effect.

Secondly, the idea of a rework, adding a new vanity menu next to the house menu and equipment menu. The new menu will have a separate, labeled slot for each slot where you can place an accessory with the vanity feature. For example:
• Head Slot, where you can place accessories like the Obsidian Skull or Scuba Set
• Hand Slot, where you can place accessories like the Golden Ring or Bone Glove
• Balloon Slot, where you can place balloon accessories
• String Slot, where you can place colored string
• Golf Ball Slot, where you can place colored golf ball
• Music Box Slot
• Monolits Slot
• Critter Shampoo Slot
• Voice Accessory Slot
• Wings Slot (for vanity purposes only)
• Special slot for Rainbow Cursor (with hide/show option)

Current vanity slots will remain for players who use them for quick swaps (you can even rename them to replacement slots), but slots from the vanity menu will take priority in terms of how your character's appearance is displayed.

This way, players will have greater (in the case of an expansion) or complete (in the case of a rework) control over their character's appearance.
 
Additional thoughts, since information accessories work even in the inventory, they should work in the current vanity slots as well.
 
Unfortunately, even accessories that do not have a visible sprite can now be placed in "vanity" slots, effectively making them extra inventory space (albeit accessory-only slots). This used to not be the case, but was changed a while ago for some reason to now allow all accessories (again, even ones with no sprite) to be stored in vanity slots (which I think was a terrible change. It allows players to use them for storage, not vanity).

Adding more "vanity" slots would only make this problem worse... Unless they were to revert this change, which I personally doubt they would do.
 
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Unfortunately, even accessories that do not have a visible sprite can now be placed in "vanity" slots, effectively making them extra inventory space (albeit accessory-only slots). This used to not be the case, but was changed a while ago for some reason to now allow all accessories (again, even ones with no sprite) to be stored in vanity slots (which I think was a terrible change. It allows players to use them for storage, not vanity).

Adding more "vanity" slots would only make this problem worse... Unless they were to revert this change, which I personally doubt they would do.
I know and I included that in my idea.

In the case of the extra row of vanity slots, it would be reserved for cosmetic vanities and could not be used for quick one-button swapping.

In turn, the Vanity Menu would have a slot for a specific place on the body and only accessories visible in those places could be placed in them.
 
I play mostly on mobile, and i have a feeling it would cloud up the space, so what if you had a different tab for vanity and accessories, that way mobile doesn’t have the whole screen blocked up.

Edit: Instead of rows I realize you kinda just said that.
 
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