Preface - (Please read the text, don't just look at the poorly made picture)

My Idea

(Schematic name courtesy of 'Combat Me Bro')

Making Schematics

I propose that in the ship, there is some kind of machine that can be found after you reach a certain point in the game (The player might find it abandoned in some ruins after a storyline quest?). When you use this machine (That I am temporarily calling a 'SchematicMatic'), you are taken to a screen like this:

(This is a very quick mockup) ​

Building from Schematics

Earlier Tier Schematics

As I'm sure you can imagine, the schematic machine will be a late in game kind of item. However as seen in the demo for starbound it can get quite frustrating to build a base on every planet you visit, since you will be going to a lot of them. So I propose that a very basic level of the schematic machine can be found early on. This low level version does not allow you to create or take out schematics. It starts off with a basic base schematic, and more can be found in chest and things. Basically this low level schematic machine will allow you to beam down bases to planets you or anyone has not been to, provided you have the materials.

Sharing schematics

Dealing with griefers

Final Note

I know this is not the only blueprint suggestion, but I'm trying to incorporate all blueprint ideas I can. If you have any other ideas that are to do with blueprints, please tell me and I will add them to the section below. I'm hoping that this can become a mega thread for all blueprint related ideas.

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