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A good question, and neat coding skills :) I meant to ask, what are all the cool things you would want to add to the creator tool? Maybe it helps us add some of the tools for everyone. (We are slightly careful to not add much bias to the creator tool; say we offered a gradient maker, that would start to push the world look into having many more gradients. Which is fine if that's what the creator specifically wanted for a tile, of course, but it's hard to tell before when offering a toolbox. A line tool would almost mean we'd need to also add circle tool, polygon, oval, rectangle and so on in order to not skew into one direction. If the tool is rather sparse, then it means it's also really open to your personal style and imagination.)

Generally, intent should be more important than tool, but sometimes the two are connected. We as community will always be the ones voting on what we want to have in this world, and creativity, originality, care and craft are probably what we prefer together if we all want it to be sustainable. Transparency of the creation process helps us with that voting... e.g. was it a line tool, or a copy tool, or...

(I've had a look at some terrific new earth-grass-toned solids and slopes yesterday and was wondering, what was the creator and artist thinking? How did they go about it? Everything we understand by analyzing and then doing ourself will be a toolbox that we add to our own creativity, mixing it into a personal style that tickles other people's brains because it shares our view on the world. That's how we learn and improve, and Manyland is a shared world of abundance that can really help with that. Even looking at outside pixel art, of course, can help us understand creation processes, and maybe the currently often detrimental-to-progress copyright laws written by campaign donations will one day be changed by society into a system where the focus is voting on originality and credit, not putting up copyright barriers. As it is, we want to try together to avoid many letters from lawyers in the future as we want this to be a sustainable world.)

As far as official APIs or support for more tools go, I think we have to look at this again together in some way in the future. We're currently trying to get the fundament right together, and some things will probably more naturally fall into place. Maybe we as community decide that the 'manual' drawing is just the right thing for us to make this world ours and full of character, style and soul. In terms of support, already we are spending some time to help with reports coming in from third-party browser extensions -- say, a translation tool in Chrome that somehow throws an error -- and every minute we look into that, we can't work on the many features like adding new block types that we really want to give to you. Happines of all of us manyzens is the number one priority guiding all other decisions.

Update: Thanks again for triggering all these thoughts. We now internally discussed just what to add to the terms to clarify the stance and not leave anyone wondering, and we now added to the terms what we think benefits the Manyland world and community the best, and makes it the most sustainable and best for all of us to maintain (and live in) together. We hope you understand and can help with the goal, and thanks again for bringing up all this!