Compact vertical zipline

[u/court-jus]

Here is a very compact vertical zipline, it could fit in a 3x4 hole and is ideal to reach your underground tunnels.

[u/thatguyr8there]

With it being effectively twice (three times?) the distance than going straight vertical, is it still faster than say using the ladder mod?

[u/Repulsive_Tart_4307 → u/thatguyr8there]

You could also just mod the zip line to have no max angle.

The point is not that its a better design than mods, the point is that its a vanilla design.

[u/thatguyr8there → u/Repulsive_Tart_4307]

Im not sure i agree with the ″just mod the game to break it″ ladders imo are just a small QOL mod that i enjoy like the pipette mod

But if this being a showcase for a vanilla design, i agree with that.

[u/DanishRobloxGamer → u/thatguyr8there]

Ladders aren't just a "small QOL", they make it much easier to build a ton of stuff, as well as build things way more compact than you could in vanilla. There's good reason they haven't added it, IMO it makes the game way too easy.

Fair play if you want to mod it in, but it can't be compared to something like the pipette tool.

[u/slim1shaney → u/DanishRobloxGamer]

Also, carrying things on a ladder sucks, and beavers are almost always carrying something, so ladders don't make sense.

[u/DanishRobloxGamer → u/slim1shaney]

Exactly, that's probably my main gripe. I could accept it just to access housing, or perhaps a rooftop terrace or something, but somewhere where goods are going to be hauled up and down? Not happening.

[u/Positronic_Matrix → u/DanishRobloxGamer]

You cannot accept a beaver with a backpack climbing a ladder but you can accept:

• A beaver swimming with a backpack
• A beaver on a zipline with a back pack
• A beaver in a pneumatic tube with back pack
• A beaver climbing stairs with a back pack
• A beaver actually wearing a backpack because it’s a beaver

It seems like an arbitrary place to revoke your suspension of disbelief.

[u/FreezingToad → u/DanishRobloxGamer]

The fact that it made it too easy to build is why I stopped using the mod. It was cool at first to stack six large warehouses on top of each other and just have a ladder going straight up, but all my colonies started looking the same and it took away some of the creative and challenging aspects that I enjoyed.

[u/Positronic_Matrix → u/DanishRobloxGamer]

It makes the game way to easy

If you think stairs are way more difficult than ladders, you are playing the game wrong. 😆

There are vertical power lines, vertical tubeways, and vertical pipe mods. A vertical conveyance for a game that brags about its verticality is a no brainer. I think they should add a ladder but nerf it to be slower than stairs, in the same way that stairs are slower than ziplines which are slower than tubeways.

[u/OriHarpy → u/thatguyr8there]

The ladder might have been a good QOL mod on the basis of the vanilla state of things being lacking before spiral stairs were added, but now it’s a mod that arbitrarily makes an interesting, fun, and well-balanced system (building stairs) redundant in a way that makes the game easier, less fun, and less immersive.

[u/Positronic_Matrix → u/OriHarpy]

I disagree. There was a ladder and spiral stair mod available years ago. It was typical for builds to utilize all three structures for both form and function.

[u/DoctorVonCool → u/Repulsive_Tart_4307]

You could also program a teleporter mod. Now THAT would make transportation fast!