Suggestions for new block types and block shapes in Vanilla

I love space engineers, the possibilities of building with rotors and pistons excited me from the start.

Above all, I like building ships and bases and being able to give them my personal style.

But I also noticed that, in my opinion, many block shapes are still missing.

Many of the blocks are difficult or impossible to combine with each other, so additional shapes should be added.

The next thing I would like to suggest is additional skins for Hydrogen Thrusters.

We now have 3 skins for Ion Thrusters and 3 for Atmo Thrusters, and so far only 2 for Hydrogen. I have to say that the existing skins all look the same, with the exception of the new flat Atmo Thrusters, but otherwise it's the basic design always the same.

With Hydrogen you see it most, they are circular, I mean there are so many ways you can design thrusters, the workshop is full of them, I would like to have something like that in vanilla too.

Next, the weapons.

So far we practically only have projectile weapons, the railgun is more of an energy weapon but still shoots a projectile.

On the one hand, it would be great to have the railgun in the game as a real turret (designed by Keen himself).

But you have to say Space Engineers also need real energy weapons, like lasers or plasma.

In my opinion, the game is already moving towards the future, we already have a jump drive, energy weapons shouldn't be a problem, if necessary you could get templates from the workshop...

And while we're talking about weapons, shields shouldn't be missing, I know this topic has been discussed several times, but I still think that you could at least add something like hull polarization, which is only intended for large grids. There are also many ideas for such things in the workshop.

Yes, you could say, just download and be done with it, but I would like to play with fewer or even no mods and still have such great options in vanilla.

My last suggestion would be a kind of HUD compass for planets, then it would be a little easier to find your way around. (It has nothing to do with blocks but would still be practical)

That's basically it for my suggestions, at the end I'll add some workshop links to give examples of block shapes, energy weapons, shields and thrusters.

I wish all the engineers out there a lot of fun.

Links:

Blockshapes: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940152027, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2369221906, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2322204813, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789286638

Thruster: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3078500424

Energy Weapon: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2082309225

Shield: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=484504816

Compass: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2687667563