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Monking 28 Jan, 2022 @ 9:27am
[suggestion] ladders, sanding tools, and more.
I'll start this post with a bug I've found, I've noticed you can't clamp the measuring tools to the table, be it the rulers or the cutting guides, the cutting guides are specially troublesome as they tend to fall a LOT when trying to position something on them.

With that out of the way I'll give some suggesting for the team, that I personally feel would make some thing a lot better and simpler:
1. a ladder, reaching high places right now is really troublesome, maybe make it so that if you grab it on the sides you move it and grabbing it by the handles you can move yourself?
2. sanding file, right now it is VERY time consuming to make circular shapes and I feel that a sanding file would really help with it.
3. nailing things to the workbench.
4. if the sanding option is too much maybe a coping saw that follows the path of a marker, but in this case I guess a drafting compass tool would be required as well, maybe even make it so that the saw coping saw can only follow the path of the compass so it'd be easier to put it in-game?

I've already suggested a level in my previous post so I won't be doing it again. And... that's all I could think of, you don't need to take any of my suggestions seriously, these are just some things that I noticed missing while playing the game, AND BTW, LOVED IT! I live in an apartment so its pretty much impossible for me to work with this stuff, and I just love the idea of wood working, MY BEST WISHES TO THE TEAM, YOU GUYS DID A WONDERFUL WORK SO FAR WITH THIS PROJECT!!!!
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wooden-robot  [developer] 28 Jan, 2022 @ 12:14pm 
Hey Monking,

First, thanks for playing! And also thank you for taking the time to provide feedback and suggestions.

To address your initial comment, it is true that you cannot clamp anything but wood inside of the hand clamps, but you can use the table vise to clamp down the miter blocks (I think this is what you meant when you said "cutting guide").

To your suggestions:

1. A ladder is a pretty easy thing to whip together. You could even share it on the Steam Workshop for others to import into their game and use. You could offer a couple of options like an A-frame ladder or just a simple straight ladder :)

2. Sanding has been suggested a few times, and unfortunately it's a bit of a challenge to implement. The only way I'd be able to implement it would be very similar to how the saw currently works (simple straight cuts), but instead of cuts with two pieces after the cut, one of those "pieces" would just be deleted to simulate being sanded away. This is due to the limitation of geometry needing to be convex shapes.

3. You can nail objects to most of the environment except the workbench. This is on purpose as it is really easy to accidentally nail items to the workbench if it was allowed. You could try using the table vise to hold your build in place, or to build a "harness" that is clamped in the table vise and then attached to your build to keep it more in place. Get creative!

4. See the response to 2 for reasons why this isn't so easy (i.e. this would require convex shapes)

Again, thanks for the feedback. Also you may want to check out the Discord server. There is quite the history of discussion on there about new features, and you can also check out some other players builds: https://discord.gg/8zp6v5D
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Date Posted: 28 Jan, 2022 @ 9:27am
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