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Let’s talk about a few problems with open worlds for a minute:

1. They’re boring. You have generic bricks, and you have gravity. And now, for some reason, you have invisible gravity. Because clearly, the most important thing in a mode where everyone has edit powers and nobody has god mode is the addition of an invisible way of throwing people into the air.

2. There’s no way easy to fix this without making things even worse. Look. Even the invisible gravity managed to do this. And adding things like boosters is even worse. This means a lot of the more fun action blocks are off limits unless you want them to be abused. No boosters, no portals, no spikes. No matter what, without the ability to choose what blocks are available and what blocks aren't, you're going to have a lot of angry fans. Maybe some keys and switches would be alright, but it would be kind of silly for someone to look around for switch 13 when they can just delete the door and place a new one in its place when they come through.

3. There’s no soul. Every open world is exactly like all the others, none of the bricks are visually pleasing and the background is a lifeless grey. There’s just nothing attractive about them.

4. This really shouldn’t be the case. Everybody Edits is intended to be a multiplayer level editor. Yet the mode that’s designed to combine level editing with gameplay is incredibly barren. The rest of the game kept evolving, but open worlds were mysteriously forgotten on the sidelines. And that’s sad because Open Worlds have a lot of untapped potential. That’s where the Theme Packs come in.

What are Theme Packs?

Basically, these are block packages purchased specifically for open worlds. Each Theme Pack will contain a number of blocks from different packages, including at least a couple special blocks. For example, a ninja Theme Pack might contain all of the ninja blocks and decorations, as well as the hidden, secret and invisible blocks, and maybe even some fog decorations. A space package could contain the mars blocks, the space shuttle and the invisible gravity. Or, a jungle Theme Pack could contain all the jungle blocks, ruins and the swamp.

Upon starting an open world, in addition to naming it, you get to choose up to three Theme Packs to apply to the level. Among these is a “primary” Theme Pack which dictates the default background for the world (other backgrounds can be added manually in places, but when they’re erased, the background will return to the default instead of the boring grey). Anyone in the world can use any of the blocks, decorations or backgrounds there. Only the creator of the world needs to own the Theme Packs.

There would be a basic Theme Pack, of course, that would include all the blocks that are already available in open worlds and players would start out with. The exception being the gravity blocks, which would be available in every open world, regardless of Themes. Additionally, this Basic Pack would also include one-way blocks.

Additional ideas:

Player Portals: Portals for open worlds could be included in certain Theme Packs. Rather than have values to be set, each player would have two portals to place (One the normal blue and one orange) that transport players between them. Whenever a player places a new portal of that color, the old portal disappears.

Phantom Boosters: These are white boosters that don’t do anything. In five seconds, they become normal boosters. The reason for this is that the normal boosters can be used by trolls to shoot away other players. The Phantom Boosters are the fix for this as, if they’re placed on a player, they could be deleted before they become active.

Also, if you like this idea, please vote it up on the Trello: https://trello.com/c/4CMOhjro/54-open-world-theme-packs

Basically, these are signs that look smilies.

When you select the NPCs, you get to choose what smiley to assign to them. You can choose from any of the smilies you own. Then you type in the text. When you walk in front of the NPCs, the text box will be white with black letters, similar to how it looks when players talk, as opposed to the white on black of traditional signs.

There are plenty of worlds already that use signs as if they were characters. This would help with those worlds and could add a little life to cities. Even on a quest, instead of being given hints by a lifeless sign, you could be advised fellow traveller.

In order to differentiate them from actual players, however, their smilies should either be grey-colored, or be square-shaped instead of round.

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I bought the secret block before the Invisible blocks were added, and trying to place an invisible block does nothing. I can see it in my available blocks, but I can't use it.