Player Tools

Player tools are needed for gathering, building, defense, moving resources, and working with recipes.

Weapons

Weapons can be assembled in a conveyor-like way from cycles, multipliers, sights, projectiles, and materials.

Parameters:

1. Sights: optical, infrared, magical.
2. Projectile types: rockets, bullets, plasma, railgun, flamethrower.
3. Projectile contents: explosives, liquids.
4. Materials affect mass, recoil, and durability.
5. A badly assembled weapon can explode in the player's hands.

Replicators

Replicators are building modules.

Capabilities:

1. Different tiers for different grid sizes.
2. One-time and cyclic building.
3. Templating existing buildings.
4. Building speed depends on energy and voxel count.
5. Fast prop construction through a one-time object, for example a house grenade.
6. Filling large spaces with props from different categories.
7. Creating props by whitelist and blacklist.
8. Compressing a region of space for storage as a storage prop.

Filling modifiers:

1. Randomization.
2. Landscape types.
3. Decay level.

Gathering

Gathering tools:

1. Syringes.
2. Flasks.
3. Drills.
4. Chainsaws.

Backpacks

A backpack can provide:

1. Storage access.
2. Energy storage.
3. A communication portal at later levels.

Exoskeletons

Exoskeleton capabilities:

1. Force fields.
2. Built-in medkits.
3. Places for attaching props.
4. Carrying capacity.
5. Protection from certain projectile types.
6. Protection from external conditions: lava, water, hot gas.

Voxel Crafting

Voxel crafting from resources should preferably be split into tiers: from ground crafting to CNC-machine crafting.

Additional directions:

1. Resource upgrade tree.
2. Resource enrichment.
3. Liquid mixing.
4. Liquid upgrading.