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Ability to create arbitrary respawning items (or at least timed dispensers) on our home streets

You know how every once in a while, you'll find a secret spot in Ur where some item is hidden - say a drink or a few planks or carrots, or a RK? And after you take it, another one spawns there after a moment? I would love to be able to create those on our home streets! This would be ideal for folks who like to surprise & delight their fellow Glitchen by leaving out piles of food or cubimals, but feel sad when some goober takes all of them at once.

Having them work the same way they do out in Ur would probably be too tricky - do they take a cultivation spot?  Does the iMG cost to create it depend on the type of item? What resources would be needed to restore it?

So, the easiest thing to do might be something like a piggy feeder, except you can put ANYTHING in it, and something is available to be dispensed every 30 seconds or so.  So you could put in all your extra RK to be dispensed, or a whole bunch of random food/drink, and visitors to your street would get a surprise item from it.

Posted 6 months ago by Mongiesama Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +1 great idea

    Edit: might be a good feature for the botlers.
    Posted 6 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fits nicely with this idea
    http://www.glitch.com/forum/ideas/22542/
    Posted 6 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I seem to remember reading something about a version of the "picnic blanket" concept coming eventually (probably in Two Weeks™). And also something about home street vending… And then there are those Botlers.

    I suspect some combination of those items might provide something vaguely like what you describe. Not exactly a spawning point, but cool and useful nonetheless.
    Posted 6 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this idea.
    +1 
    Posted 6 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink