September 3rd, 2021
Jace Talk: Beams & Beam Connectors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZGq-W7r2sk&t=432
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People have spotted these little black
things up here, and we're wondering what these were about.
So, well, when you go in, you can kind of get an idea as to what they were, because the next shot in the trailer was this here, right?
And some folks didn't really know what they were supposed to see here, but a keen eye spots these beams running all along the top.
Okay, so you can actually build beams.
Now, so beams are coming.
So if you want to build those, I would just pull that out there.
I can take it and I can just freeform build the beams.
as i want you can just kind of just do them however you want they do snap to things as well like the way these beams were built i think they were like uh something like uh a foundation or something i think the way that snoot did this was he built a bunch of foundations he put up a wall and then just built it out like that or something like that
And then from this point on, you can just connect the beams.
Alright.
So the beams, the way they work right now, they're actually in work in progress.
I think they're a little finicky to use, but we're going to find out.
We're going to sort of tighten it up between now and when Update 5 comes out.
But beams are pretty cool.
They're freeform.
You can do whatever you want with them.
Pretty exciting.
Now, these little black parts here that were sticking out the other side are actually beam connectors.
Yeah, so these are beam connectors.
You can just put them on beams if you want.
I mean, you can put them wherever you want, really.
And then you can sort of build a beam out from there to here, maybe.
build the connector.
Connectors are nice to sort of hide the seams, you know, and also like here when they, when they poke out of the wall here, you can do that, you know, use the connectors there.
I mean, there's, I mean, there's no saving this kind of garbage, but you know, you can put connectors on the tips.
make it look a little nicer.
I mean, like I said, there's no saving this, but yeah, the, the beams are, you know, free form and we think a lot of people will have a lot of fun with them and be, you know, get pretty creative with the beams.
Um, of course you can build these power lines up on them at the top here, as you can see.
Uh, I've also heard sort of suggestions of like putting down, like putting conveyors up on top.
I think kibitz maybe said maybe too steep.
And then you could just like run conveyor belts above if you want.
Like, I don't know.
Maybe that's a thing.
Maybe that's a thing you can do if you want.
Up to you.
Yeah, so those are the beams they're coming to now we can fly through the roof And we can see up here.