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Am I right so far in believing that a visual overlay isn't really needed? I can add one in without much problem if it would help though!

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v0.3.1 has been released, it has a bunch of various tweaks (see the OP for the full changelog and download, as per usual). Here's info on the large stuff:

• Layout Blocks handle creative mode interaction a lot better: I may have missed some interactions - I'll fix those as they're found, but now you won't consume/gain Layout Blocks in your inventory when interacting with them
• Layout Block interaction with an empty hand now takes where you targeted on the block into consideration: Suggested by Wreckage so I decided to give it a shot, and I like it a lot - thanks again!

Wreckage posted his own image to explain what he meant when he suggested the feature, I altered the idea a tiny bit and I made an image overlaying the Layout Block texture so you can have a clear reference of the new controls:



Basically before if you right-clicked or sneak-right-clicked on a Layout Block with an empty hand you would chain blocks in a line on the opposite side of the block than what you clicked on. This functionality still exists and it occurs when you target the central area of one of the block's faces (represented by the angled arrow in that picture).

Now, if you click on one of the outer edges of a Layout Block, instead of placing/removing blocks on the opposite side - you can choose which side to add/remove them to/from by targeting somewhere within the respective area. I'm not the best at explaining, but the image is pretty self explanatory so test it out!.

Right now there is no in-game GUI overlay thingy (think in the style of the microblock placement overlay) to show where on the block you're aiming. This is for two reasons: one, I feel it's pretty intuitive and doesn't need one and two, I wanted to get feedback on the feature before I spent time adding in something that may not be needed (and just take up time/add clutter for no purpose).

With that said unless any big oversight/bug is found this should be the last 0.3 release. The next will be 0.4.0 and contain the first implementation of "Paint brushes" (for lack of a better name).

Enjoy!

In terms of adding more blocks by right clicking the top, I'm assuming you mean you'd like to be able to right-click any face and instead of the current behaviour, it would build in whatever direction you're facing? I can look into doing something like that for sure, I'd just be worried about it not being intuitive to many people. I shall give it a try though!

Yeah, non-alpas will no longer fight back, this makes them better as farm animals. An alpha maka however if provoked or sometimes randomly will attack. The idea is that a maka would flee from its predators waving its tail to deter them.

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Question about stairs. I have been trying to place komatiite stairs but everytime I place anoter block next to or around, the komatiite changes to gneiss. Also when origionally placed, NEI says I am looking at Gneiss. I'm using MC1.6.4 with Constructs UndergroundBiomesConstructs_1.6.x-0.4b. Anyone else having this problem?