Variable ore bar and nugget stockpile materials

[Sephiron]

The only variable materials I care about. I wish stockpiles specifically for metal ore, bars, and nuggets had varying color respective of the ore that's in the stockpile.
1- good for larp (imagine a room full of gold bars)
2- helps everyone find what they're looking for without needing a ton of signs, keeps things organized and tidy
3- there aren't too many metals in the game, it hopefully shouldn't be too difficult to implement and is worth the QOL

[Sevenless]

There's a technical limitation preventing this. Serverside, stockpiles don't tell the client what's in them until you try to take an item out or craft with it. Lowers load on the server when you're in areas with a lot of stockpiles.

If this were changed any of the generic stockpiles (onion, bough, blocks, boards, nugget, bar, ore, stone to name a few) could recolour. But since I'm assuming it's using a list structure serverside it'd only ever be the top item that determines the colour.

Basically need the tech changed, then all of them become possible.

[Sephiron]

There's a technical limitation preventing this. Serverside, stockpiles don't tell the client what's in them until you try to take an item out or craft with it. Lowers load on the server when you're in areas with a lot of stockpiles.

If this were changed any of the generic stockpiles (onion, bough, blocks, boards, nugget, bar, ore, stone to name a few) could recolour. But since I'm assuming it's using a list structure serverside it'd only ever be the top item that determines the colour.

Basically need the tech changed, then all of them become possible.

Okay, that's surprisingly clever and unexpected. I still think there could be a workaround, however. Just give each metal type (gold ore, bronze bar, copper nugget, etc) a unique stockpile model, like how vegetables work. Only use the "generic metal stockpile models" when the ore or bars are mixed.

Yeah it's probably a little more work than just inputting a texture name into a library to retexture the stockpile material, but there's so few metal combinations that I think it's worth it

[Procne]

Okay, that's surprisingly clever and unexpected. I still think there could be a workaround, however. Just give each metal type (gold ore, bronze bar, copper nugget, etc) a unique stockpile model, like how vegetables work. Only use the "generic metal stockpile models" when the ore or bars are mixed.

Yeah it's probably a little more work than just inputting a texture name into a library to retexture the stockpile material, but there's so few metal combinations that I think it's worth it

But with vegetables each of them has its own stockpile type, not just a model. And there's no mixed stockpile. So you can't put carrots in beetroot stockpile. Arguably, maybe it would be positive change for metals to have their own stockpiles, with no mixed metal stockpile

[Sephiron]

Okay, that's surprisingly clever and unexpected. I still think there could be a workaround, however. Just give each metal type (gold ore, bronze bar, copper nugget, etc) a unique stockpile model, like how vegetables work. Only use the "generic metal stockpile models" when the ore or bars are mixed.

Yeah it's probably a little more work than just inputting a texture name into a library to retexture the stockpile material, but there's so few metal combinations that I think it's worth it

But with vegetables each of them has its own stockpile type, not just a model. And there's no mixed stockpile. So you can't put carrots in beetroot stockpile. Arguably, maybe it would be positive change for metals to have their own stockpiles, with no mixed metal stockpile

That would be fine too, honestly. But stockpile can't update unless you interact with it, and you can't put metals into a stockpile without interacting with it, so I don't see why it can't be updated with a generic metal stockpile model. Then again, I haven't seen the source code or anything so I don't know what's possible.

[Sevenless]

Okay, that's surprisingly clever and unexpected. I still think there could be a workaround, however. Just give each metal type (gold ore, bronze bar, copper nugget, etc) a unique stockpile model, like how vegetables work. Only use the "generic metal stockpile models" when the ore or bars are mixed.

Yeah it's probably a little more work than just inputting a texture name into a library to retexture the stockpile material, but there's so few metal combinations that I think it's worth it

But with vegetables each of them has its own stockpile type, not just a model. And there's no mixed stockpile. So you can't put carrots in beetroot stockpile. Arguably, maybe it would be positive change for metals to have their own stockpiles, with no mixed metal stockpile

Onions are a mixed stockpile. Fits yellow/red/garlic, dunno about leek.