Cactus Brick

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*edit* Don't forget the cactus is broken into three sections so you can't dupe the whole thing, you have to dupe piece by piece.

Or build it on a 2x6 plate and duplicate that into the brick below it (which will only duplicate the cactus), it's more efficient.
Ever heard of a brain?
Try using yours, they're free and useful.

forget off. My point is still valid.

Unless you have a desert the size of the walkable area of Slate, no it's not.
The brick limit is quite high and having even several hundred cacti at around 14 bricks a piece is only going to cost about 1400 bricks, which there's plently more bricks after that.

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Or build it on a 2x6 plate and duplicate that into the brick below it (which will only duplicate the cactus), it's more efficient.

Not only you can't do that once you place the cactus itself on the baseplate (unless you want an ugly 2x6 plate under it). This is also totally not as convenient as one whole brick.

Unless you have a desert the size of the walkable area of Slate, no it's not.
The brick limit is quite high and having even several hundred cacti at around 14 bricks a piece is only going to cost about 1400 bricks, which there's plently more bricks after that.

Your idea:
14 x 100 = 1,400 bricks.

My idea:
1 x 100 = 100 bricks

Ever heard of a brain?
Try using yours, they're free and useful.

Maybe you should use yours before you criticize me at every turn because you have some grudge against me.

[Cybertails1998]

Your idea:
14 x 100 = 1,400 bricks.

My idea:
1 x 100 = 100 bricks

And?

The limit is 256.000 loving bricks, and 1.400 bricks can barely make up 1% of that.

I'm not talking about the following 98.600 bricks that make up the rest of the build.

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And?

The limit is 256.000 loving bricks, and 1.400 bricks can barely make up 1% of that.

I'm not talking about the following 98.600 bricks that make up the rest of the build.

What you don't understand is my build would had been 1,300 bricks less and that's a good thing.


The average server can't even hold 256,000 bricks anyways. The average player can't even have 60,000 bricks with out their game lagging to stuff.



Why would you spam 1,400 bricks when you can keep it down to 100 bricks? I don't know about you but I like to keep my brickcount as low as possible.

[Jenxas]

Sure, the entire loving server can hold a lot of bricks.

Have you noticed what looking at a stuffload of bricks in one area does?

Tony is valid

[Jay the Cartoonist]

Altered go take a nap 

[mntbrrychch]

Why would you spam 1,400 bricks when you can keep it down to 100 bricks? I don't know about you but I like to keep my brickcount as low as possible.

What build would you need that you need over 100 cacti for?

[Jay the Cartoonist]

What build would you need that you need over 100 cacti for?

a desert?

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a desert?

Apparently it wasn't obvious enough.


I mean come on, imagine Red Dead Redemption with not a single cactus to be found.

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I'm surprised a cactus brick suggestion is getting negative attention.


I guess some people would rather have a 1,400+ higher brick count as opposed to a 100+ higher brick count. Not to mention the unnecessary duping because the cactus is broken into 3 or more parts because of octo bricks and then you get ugly un-rendered lines holding the cactus in place.


With one brick I can just set it and forget it.

[Jay the Cartoonist]

I'm surprised a cactus brick suggestion is getting negative attention.


I guess some people would rather have a 1,400+ higher brick count as opposed to a 100+ higher brick count. Not to mention the unnecessary duping because the cactus is broken into 3 or more parts because of octo bricks.

Couldn't a 100+ brickcount ALSO be a 1400+ brickcount? B)

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Couldn't a 100+ brickcount ALSO be a 1400+ brickcount? B)

Oh man! Let's do more math!

My idea.
1 x 1400 = 1,400 bricks

Their idea
14 x 1400 = 19,600 bricks - YE-OUCH!

[Jay the Cartoonist]

Tony you DO have to keep in mind, however, special bricks like this lag more than your standard 1x1 because of the faces.

100 1x1s =/= 100 cactuses

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I assume someone would make a cactus as low poly as a pine tree. I can plant over 15,000 pine trees with out a drop in my framerate.

A cactus shouldn't be no big deal then. Neither should other special trees (in the future).


*edit* I'm sure 14+ octobricks combined would have more faces than a single cactus brick. There is 10 sides total in these octobricks (not counting octobrick corners, which is more than 10). You're looking at about 100-300+ faces here for each octobrick cactus.

[Destiny/Zack0Wack0]

Tony you DO have to keep in mind, however, special bricks like this lag more than your standard 1x1 because of the faces.

100 1x1s =/= 100 cactuses

It's going to be less network stress and rendering stress either way.