thanks! :)

Thanks! I try to keep everything easy to see and quick to move along so I can make each minute of the video count for more, so it's nice to hear that's working out. Quite excited by the stuff I'm working on for next video too, will be excited to share :)

While I won't be striving for exactly regular uploads, I'm definitely looking to be a bit more frequent than before :)

Thank you! Happy to hear you've stuck around for so long lol

These are very valid points! However, I think that this might actually be a good thing - it means your speed of interacting with the world can be modulated more by the tools you have access to. I'd agree that for serious gameplay, you'd absolutely want multi-block placing and breaking, but those tools can be tactically gated behind progression to direct the player towards more interesting gameplay for their current set of abilities. For example, making blocks smaller disincentivises early-game strip mining or cheesing the first night by digging a three block hole, because there's slightly more friction and slowdown to doing these things. Later on, you could get tools that help you place and break patterns of blocks, which can then encourage you to explore new ways of depending on block placement and breaking, similar to how Fortnite's building system evolved into a whole meta. Of course, I'd be remiss not to mention that there's fundamental improvements to the input mode that can be made too. Things like inferring when a player is trying to drag out a line of blocks, for example, would make it ten times easier to build walls. These are design problems I'm thinking about too. As far as tiling textures goes, worry not - I'm not only planning for textures to span multiple block widths to combat this, but also I'm thinking about combining world space procedural details with predrawn textures for lovely variation :)

Oh, and on the topic of non-block shapes - yes, definitely! Those will be handled by a separate entity system rather than trying to fit them into voxel data like Minecraft does. Broadly though I'm looking to stick to uniform cubes for most things - I imagine entities being things like doors and work surfaces rather than block variations.

Wow! Those are actually good reasons to make the voxels a bit smaller. With what you siad, I ended up thinking that this could also disincentivise cheesy strategies has pillaring up when fighting mobs, enclosing them in block fastly or enclosing yourself when you are low health. This could even disincentivise griefing. Minecraft has a bit of a problem with griefing being unbalanced, it's much faster to destroy buildings than to building them, could be a good opportunity to look into that. Nice to see that you'd already looked into the tiling textures, I'm excited to see how mixing with procedural details will look. And I'm glad that you are going to non-block shapes. Minecraft builders use a lot of these types of block like ironbars and levers to make little details. It's suprising creative people can get.

quite handy!

I fit the nerd stereotypes like a glove 😁

I don't currently have any plans to make it available, but maybe I could look into something in the future. No idea!

@@dphfox I would do anything ANYTHING

also the framework on display... nice

@@tristan6052 I've really enjoyed my laptop so far! very nice and feels like a step up from my old surface laptop i used to use