I've always wanted players to be able to express themselves artistically in this game while building their home, but having finished the basic prototype for domes they don't feel like they are meeting that goal. As such I have tried a crazy experiment where the player can use their resources to place hex blocks in the hex grid. That experiment is now available to play on the 'hexblocks' Steam beta branch.
I'm not committing to having this be a mainstream feature of the game, but that said having played it I really like it. Please give it a shot and let me know what you think. Some things to know about it:
* Place blocks by going into the inventory (tab) and picking "Petrite".
* To make it easy to try out the feature and place plenty of blocks, I have changed each ball of Petrite that you pick up to award you 20 Petrite.
* I have disabled the creation of domes for this branch, because they're basically broken now that there are hex blocks.
* This will save to a different directory than before, so you'll be starting from scratch. Make sure to visit the Codex.
* There's no way to delete blocks right now, so be careful.
You can drop your thoughts in the Steam Community forums, or you can join our Discord.