[2021] can we get a block stability system already?

Originally posted by seven:

Originally posted by AzureTerra: ... but it would need to be more defined in its colour's as the current slight shades of green don't help much.

I would say it doesn't help at all depending on a person's vision, or their monitor, or both. I can add blocks horizontally to a structure until it collapses and I don't see a color change at all. I think a game that does it quite well is Empyrion Galactic Survival. It calculates SI on each block and a horizontal column would shade from a stable bright green to bright red for imminent collapse at the end. It's a bit off at times but it is quite usable, unlike this game's implementation.

Empyrion's system is calculating it on the fly. Which is pretty easy to do when you're only running the calculations on a few hundred blocks of the focused structure, and not half a million blocks in the immediate area.

The system in 7 Days only runs the calculation when you tell it to due to it being so expensive on resources. There is a big difference between performing SI calculations on 200 blocks and 500,000.