by Aerolite08 » Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:14 pm
I'm sure someone's suggested something like this before, as many people are finding the game needs some faster means of accomplishing many ranch chores.
The roadmap suggests there will be drones to help automate more of the ranching process, but this could still be an addition to accompany it.
Item Compactor
An upgrade to your Vacpack that allows you to input/withdraw items in groupings of 10.
The Item Compactor could be a toggled function, bound to [Tab] or some other convenient key. When toggled on, a small icon appears near the player's health/energy bars as an indicator.
Availability
This upgrade would require the player to have obtained the 50-unit tank. It would be intended that most players would obtain the Item Compactor before they've picked up the 100-unit tank.
Technical
This function could present some issues when it comes to if/how compressed items are ejected into the wild. It's probably not much of an issue with plorts, just mash 10 together as a bigger mega-plort, but I'm unsure how your slimes would attempt to share a single larger chicken to eat.
The simplest solution might be to disallow that, making the Vacpack only able to eject items into a vac-port while the Item Compactor is toggled on.