Expanded Materials - Stones and Mortars | Early Development #1

First of all, I have to say that these are just basic ideas and concept I write down to make it easier to organize everything whenever I start developing the final mod, that means everything is very subject to changes or tweaks. If you want to leave your own ideas or suggestions, you can do it straight in the comments or on my discord server, you're always welcome to join :3

Introduction

Expanded Materials - Stones and Mortars will be a new material mod that will complement the Expanded Materials Series. It will focus on adding materials obtained from earth or rocks, like different types of mortars, stone bricks and adobe or clay.

The mod is not planned to depend on any of the other Expanded Materials mods and will be standalone. This mod is meant also to have a much lower impact on game difficulty, by just adding some material variations to enrich the game and open the possibility for colonies to adapt to the environment and for creators to have a wider range of materials to build from and achieve the look they look for.

Early Ideas

To begin the development process, I will start with listing the early ideas so that after settling everything and having all the art assets, I can take a look at the planned features and decide which ones will make it into the final mod.

• Try to expand the code from recipes to be able to use different types of mortars on walls that are made with stone or other kinds of bricks.
• Add new stone types to have more brick variants, as well as clay and adobe bricks that will probably need cooking before being usable.
• Include Cement added by Expanded Materials - Metals. Probably make the process a little longer but cheaper in terms of resources.
• Different types of mortars to make walls stronger.
• Probably a dependency on Vanilla Expanded Framework to use the ItemProcessor code to make a concrete mixer or other types of furniture.
• Walls made from mortar materials may have a new style texture.
• Different tiers of bricks, but make them all usable in the same stuff to reduce incompatibilities and patching requirements.