Hi,
Yes, the memory limit is a major issue. There's also the fact that the new blocks we add are running into that 4___ ID glitch, which might indicate that we've passed some threshold and are starting to roll over. I'm hesitant to add many new blocks until both of these are addressed.
Shelving the sound blocks was brought up in the past, but I've already addressed this:
Removing blocks is, erm, a little bit problematic. If an ID has been used somewhere in the world, removing the block from the mod will lead to world incompatibility problems until that specific instance is removed. Shifting all the current IDs to fill the space left by the sound blocks is also difficult.
This is also why I've tried to tell people to not use sound blocks, but of course, nobody ever listens to me. :/ The only way we could get rid of sound blocks now would be to use Mike's block replace script.
Also, I made a post in the past explaining my general philosophy regarding block additions, which I'll repeat here:
I just want to point out that I'm still really hesitant to add new "general" blocks (general is defined as blocks where the context of use covers the entire map, which is the case even for the subset of "just rich houses"). I know I added some much appreciated new things in the recent update, but there's always a measured consideration of whether a block will actually outdate a lot of things, or whether it's a non-noticable but practical update (for instance, the full blocks with half door texture aren't actually cosmetic improvements themselves, but they allow for more possible designs for things), or a perfect substitute for existing blocks (i.e. many people will still prefer to use the old block, so you aren't able to make a hard division between "old" and "new" on the basis of that block alone). So please just keep that in mind when making new block suggestions.
I'd appreciate it if any new block suggestions could be motivated in regards to this.
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Anyways, regarding the specific suggestions on this page so far:
1. 2-tall sunflower CTM: Easily done, I'd just need a texture for the 2-tall version.
@Thamus_Knoward would you be able to work on this?
2. White/pink roses: Should be an easy add also
3. Smooth sandstone recolor: Not going to touch this until there's more of a consensus on the RK color.
4. Red Keep secret door reskin: Easily done
5. Gray wood: Can we simply retexture the existing light gray wood here? I rarely see it used, and I don't see it majorly affecting any builds if I simply make it more dull?
6. Colored wood stairs/slabs/walls/etc: Hard maybe, but leaning towards no. Currently, the use of the colored wood is generally as an accent material, rather than a primary material. Typically the full block version suffices for building house facades with the painted wood. What kind of things do you see the stairs/slabs/walls/etc. being useful for?
7. Wood borders: Yeah, what Tham said. We tried to have the border on the full block and no border on the slabs so people could have the choice. But, I would be happy to remove the borders on the full blocks if there's no scenarios in which the borders are useful. I'd like some more input on this though.
8. Half wattle fence: Should be able to do this. Quarter doors are a hard no, though.
9. Wisteria: I think this should be possible? I'm just not sure about it being a bit too niche.
