Workbench needs more attention
The_Shark
USA Join Date: 2015-08-24 Member: 207433Members
USA Join Date: 2015-08-24 Member: 207433Members
Okay, so I’ve noticed something. Yes, the workbench is powerful enough that it’s worth the trouble of finding the fragments, analyzing them, and building the bench itself. However, currently it only offers a grand total of seven upgrades. I’m making this post as a place to not only put my ideas for further workbench upgrades, but also for others to do so. I’ll also be putting in the ones already implemented so we can have a full overview.
Here’s the template I’ll be using:
• Item being upgraded
o Upgrade name and effects
Materials
I’d appreciate feedback on anything I put here, and I’d love others to add their own ideas. Anyway, here’s what I’ve got so far:
• Knife
o Diamond Blade (extra damage)
Knife x1
Diamond x1
• Knife
o Heat Blade (cooks fish on contact)
Knife x1
Battery x1
• SeaGlide
o PowerGlide (extremely increased speed)
SeaGlide x1
Wiring Kit x1
• Propulsion Cannon
o Repulsion Cannon (pushes objects away, but removes “grab” ability)
Propulsion Cannon x1
Computer Chip x1
• Fins
o UltraGlide Fins (increases swim speed)
Fins x1
Silicone x1
• Fins
o Swim Charge Fins (charges held item when swimming)
Fins x1
Wiring Kit x1
• Tank
o Plasteel Tank (increases max swim speed due to reduced weight)
Tank x1
Lithium x1
• Tank
o High Capacity Tank (greater air capacity)
Tank x1
Titanium x2
• Flashlight
o ILLUMA Beam (increased vision range)
Flashlight x1
Glass x2
Quartz x1
• Flashlight
o Blast-light (removes long-term use in favor of single, short blasts that stun some fish)
Flashlight x1
Computer Chip x1
Wiring Kit x1
• SeaGlide
o EternaGlide (slightly slower speed, but no power usage due to hydro-power generators)
SeaGlide x1
Titanium x2
Advanced Wiring Kit x1
• Propulsion Cannon
o Tractor Beam (greatly extends grab range and maximum size of grabbed items, but removes the “push away” ability)
Propulsion Cannon x1
Computer Chip x1
Quartz x4
• Air Bladder
o Pony Bottle (Refills 60 seconds of oxygen, but needs to be out of water for twice that to reload)
Air Bladder x1
Tank x1
• Stasis Rifle
o Railgun (one shot per battery, does 5x the damage of a diamond knife, extensive load time after the battery is replaced, uses 1 Titanium per shot)
Stasis Rifle x1
Advanced Wiring Kit x2
Titanium x4
Computer Chip x1
• Transfuser
o DNA Extractor (increased range by means of a hydraulically-launched hose)
Transfuser x1
Titanium x2
Silicone x4
Computer Chip x1
Wiring Kit x1
• Welder
o Laser Cutter (opens sealed crates)
Welder x1
Diamond x1
• Welder
o Fusion Welder (welds at 500% speed and has a range of 25 meters, but has a power requirement)
Welder x1
Plasteel Ingot x1
Advanced Wiring Kit x1
Enameled Glass x1
As I mentioned, if anybody else has ideas for workbench upgrades, I’d love to see them. As I’ve done here however, please make sure that if they have a major plus, there is also a drawback (the Fusion Welder’s power requirement, for instance), for the purpose of balancing. Also, please make sure that the recipes make sense. Having the Pony Bottle require an air bladder and two creepvines makes no sense at all, for example. Anyway, as always, feedback is appreciated.
Here’s the template I’ll be using:
• Item being upgraded
o Upgrade name and effects
Materials
I’d appreciate feedback on anything I put here, and I’d love others to add their own ideas. Anyway, here’s what I’ve got so far:
• Knife
o Diamond Blade (extra damage)
Knife x1
Diamond x1
• Knife
o Heat Blade (cooks fish on contact)
Knife x1
Battery x1
• SeaGlide
o PowerGlide (extremely increased speed)
SeaGlide x1
Wiring Kit x1
• Propulsion Cannon
o Repulsion Cannon (pushes objects away, but removes “grab” ability)
Propulsion Cannon x1
Computer Chip x1
• Fins
o UltraGlide Fins (increases swim speed)
Fins x1
Silicone x1
• Fins
o Swim Charge Fins (charges held item when swimming)
Fins x1
Wiring Kit x1
• Tank
o Plasteel Tank (increases max swim speed due to reduced weight)
Tank x1
Lithium x1
• Tank
o High Capacity Tank (greater air capacity)
Tank x1
Titanium x2
• Flashlight
o ILLUMA Beam (increased vision range)
Flashlight x1
Glass x2
Quartz x1
• Flashlight
o Blast-light (removes long-term use in favor of single, short blasts that stun some fish)
Flashlight x1
Computer Chip x1
Wiring Kit x1
• SeaGlide
o EternaGlide (slightly slower speed, but no power usage due to hydro-power generators)
SeaGlide x1
Titanium x2
Advanced Wiring Kit x1
• Propulsion Cannon
o Tractor Beam (greatly extends grab range and maximum size of grabbed items, but removes the “push away” ability)
Propulsion Cannon x1
Computer Chip x1
Quartz x4
• Air Bladder
o Pony Bottle (Refills 60 seconds of oxygen, but needs to be out of water for twice that to reload)
Air Bladder x1
Tank x1
• Stasis Rifle
o Railgun (one shot per battery, does 5x the damage of a diamond knife, extensive load time after the battery is replaced, uses 1 Titanium per shot)
Stasis Rifle x1
Advanced Wiring Kit x2
Titanium x4
Computer Chip x1
• Transfuser
o DNA Extractor (increased range by means of a hydraulically-launched hose)
Transfuser x1
Titanium x2
Silicone x4
Computer Chip x1
Wiring Kit x1
• Welder
o Laser Cutter (opens sealed crates)
Welder x1
Diamond x1
• Welder
o Fusion Welder (welds at 500% speed and has a range of 25 meters, but has a power requirement)
Welder x1
Plasteel Ingot x1
Advanced Wiring Kit x1
Enameled Glass x1
As I mentioned, if anybody else has ideas for workbench upgrades, I’d love to see them. As I’ve done here however, please make sure that if they have a major plus, there is also a drawback (the Fusion Welder’s power requirement, for instance), for the purpose of balancing. Also, please make sure that the recipes make sense. Having the Pony Bottle require an air bladder and two creepvines makes no sense at all, for example. Anyway, as always, feedback is appreciated.
Comments
I posted some things regarding the workbench once.
A real deal stun gun instead for the stasis rifle and a second tier builder.
Second:
I'm not convinced by the Railgun for obvious reasons and the Eternaglide.
The Eternaglide is kind of a nice idea but i think it needs refinement. The way i see it the Seaglide is the speed option for Swimcharge Fins. Ultraglides don't allow you to carry too much weight and are only a slight bit slower. So a free to use Glide would kinda give the Swimchargers the advantage of the Ultraglides and give you the charge ability on top.
My idea was that the use of the Seaglide with Swimchargers uses much less energy since the fins are still there.
Just some rambling...
Well i do very much like the Flashlight upgrades and the Pony Bottle (i think. Maybe you can explain a little further what it does, i'm not sure if i got this right).
The Fusion Welder is an interesting idea and i like the thought of some tools that eat more power, than your puny fins can generate. But the normal welder is pretty fast already.
I also thought of an additional use for the Laser Cutter. Instead of basalt or limestone i'd put Obsidian Chunks in the lava zone that only open with the Laser Cutter. To give it more reason to exist...
IRL pony bottles are emergency supplies of air. Imagine you're SCUBA diving, and you realize too late that you don't have enough air in your tank to make it to the surface alive.
Pony Bottle to the rescue.
It's a small supply of air, only a minute or two, but you just have to grab it from around your neck and put the mouthpiece... well, in your mouth. Open the valve, you can get to the surface alive.
My Pony Bottle idea is similar to that. The Air Bladder already seems like an emergency item, like a Pony Bottle. If you're too deep to surface alive, you use the pony bottle, which refills 60 seconds of your oxygen. Add the Air Bladder, and you'll make it out okay. To balance it, to prevent people using it to stay underwater forever, it would have a two-minute recharge, which only counts down when you aren't in the water.
Also i wouldn't make it a rechargable item. One use only. When you mess up and get bitten by a shark your first aid kit doesn't replenish itself either.
I agree, it'd be one of those "just not enough space" items, but having it be a one-use consumable would just make the crafting recipe not worth it. That's like saying the Air Bladder should be usable only once.
Illuminating flares that don't burn out and are much weaker, but like illuminating crystals glow forever. They are cheap and you can lay trails in cave labyrinths.
A decoy or scanner pet drone you sent to an area to investigate on dangers ahead.
Yes... Yes... And yes.
I'll work on recipes and stuff, and add them to the list (with credit, of course). I really like the sonar projector thing. Imagine blasting a Reaper sound at something. I can guarantee it would run like hell.
That sounds a bit overpowered. Depending on how it's set up, you could carry three inventories and two Seaglides...
Exactly.
Why not a suit upgrade that instead allows you to carry more items. Also why not have the tanks upgrade into a better air tank and be able to just place it on the character instead of taking inventory space?
Both amazing ideas. I'll put them in the OP as soon as I come up with some details.
Thanks, while I am thinking about it. If DNA extraction or manipulation isn't placed into the game. Why not a tech upgrade for the suit? Where you can have it advance radiation and retain your own water better as well as making you swim faster while being able to hold a greater capacity in your inventory. Like web gloves, fins on the arms and legs that stretch out into high tech flippers that use less calories.
So like, different suits instead of just the default and rad suits?
Yeah, or combination of other suits, you know you get these suits that can have one benefit, then need both suits and additional resources in order to get a combo suit. I also thought that these combo suits could come with aquatic camo so that you aren't as easy of a target to predators while swimming. They have aquatic camo swimsuits now so why not add it to the game suits. Be an additional perk.
It will, it's just going to take a while. They first have to make the Seamoth Update, Farming Update, then the Exosuit and DNA updates. It's all right here.
It states Farming via Plant DNA, but there is no DNA manipulation mentioned. This is there "to do list"?