@Void Stitch Holy fuck bro, start the work now!!!!!

@Void Stitch your faction idea is amazing, but one slight flaw, unless the faction is quite tanky I doubt they'd be able to survive the process. Nevertheless, it's an amazing idea which could be further improved via a "syringe" which could just be a melee damage block.

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I hope it's possible to make that mod, that sounds amazing.

@Void Stitch Thats a bit drastic, maybe start with grafting, then go to grappling, and after that replacing cores, and then combine them. One step at a time.

Now since it is possible to make a faction like "Reassemblers" which has all the blocks, something I am interested in would be a faction which is able to grapple onto an enemy ship, perhaps using a specialized plant on its hull, bore into the core, eliminate it and replace it with a core for your faction, allowing you to take over the ships of enemy factions at the expense of R and C. This would in effect be a variation on the ability to grab parts from wreckage and graft them onto your ships.

Now if this is not something you want to do then perhaps the maker of that Hiigaran mod, or one of the modders who has done some extensive work with plants.

Now for what I'm thinking the plants would require a drone launcher. They would still produce seeds as usual, but when the drone launcher, which would have whatever damage resistance is deemed appropriate, takes damage this would trigger the launch of drones, perhaps with a X number of drones per X amount of damage calculation.

The drones would have just one function, float around and release resources as they are shot at. You could make a specialized drone for the player which only targets the drones released from the "asteroid" plants. This would be the only way of harvesting resources from these plants. In effect this would add in asteroids which regenerate and grow.

I think Moby Dick is talking about making asteroid mining more like how it is in the X-verse games ie eg X2 and X3. This could perhaps be more feasible than it appears, though it would need to be its own mod.

First off, and the point I would have made in the first place, the use of modified plants would be perhaps better in terms of both function, weapon interaction and visual aesthetic.

Damn had to break this up due to character limitations.

...damn...

I apreciate your interest and ambition, but unfortunately, not likely to happen.

I'm afriad due to reassemblys modding capabilities, this would not be possible

OOH OOH OOOH! And only certain weapons can extract the resources, normal weapons can destroy the blocks, but not gain any resources from it. MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

So, I have an idea. How about, only the CORE of asterioids have resources, and the damage needed to destroy an asteroid block is raised! This sound like a good idea? :D

Thank you much, just a shame Steam reverted or forgot that I even changed the description.

To change the preview put an image with a title "preview" (without quotation marks) into the mod folder. It must be at least 200x200 pixels

Command and resource photosynthesis functions equate their appearance. Can't change the texture alone as they come with the asteroids' new ability. Would have already if I could have. My apologies.

However, if you want me to make the uncommon version, it would change it to where only certain asteroids boast the resource containing chunk, severely lessening the amount of those textures you see. Plus, since it would be only certain blocks, I would change said blocks to make them look like space gems. But since the blocks containing resources would be limited, if would be more of a hunt to try and find them. Consider it space prospecting.

+, What color do you think the space gems should be? I was thinking a wonderous Minecraft-diamond-blue.

++, Anyone know how to change workshop's front displayed image of this mod? I'm sick of seeing that form of grey instead of the image at this page.

It is a cool idea but i don't like the texture. Can you change to a more asteroid style ?

That's one specific asteroid out of many that can still be found in the game. They're the same shape as in vanilla, it's just they yield resources now.

"Why not keep the normal shapes?"

Have asteroide that are not a bunch of square like in the screenshot

Please be more specific about "normal shapes" and keeping them, I don't know what you're refering to. Keep the blank, shapeless center of the asteroid? Keep the shape of the asteroids by not mining them?

Why not keep the normal shapes?

great idea !