unless you want to jam everything in the player's face all the time. that sounds bad. and it sounds like a different game.


No, not all the time of course. Being literally the first tutorial and/or tip when starting a new game should be enough active indication if a player doesn't ignore it ...

Note: I had a longer response, but a browser crash ate it :(


How about changing the "Mine" keybind into something less easy to misclick ? Like Ctrl-Right-click for example.


Before this post I didn't even realize the keybinding could be changed, so thanks! This to me presents a problem of ...

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It's very easy to accidentally remove an entity, so let's make it a bit harder by adding explicit user intent. This has probably been suggested in the past, but I haven't found it.


What ?
Right-clicking removes placed entities and ground tiles like stone brick and concrete. I propose ...

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