Talk:Ruler

does the layout seem awkward to anyone else?
The screenshot demonstrating usage pushes the history section to the side. Since the history section is usually at the very bottom of a given page, this feels awkward to me. What should we do with the screenshot? Remove it, shrink it, rearrange it so the history section is below it, or just leave it as is? --Macks2008 (talk) 04:21, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * This is one of the bigger problems of the rush to get everyone's pictures onto the wiki in the days following 1.3. A lot of these pictures are literally the size of the articles they're meant to complement. If we put it between the page text and the history section it'd double the length of the page and add a ton of ugly whitespace. On the other hand, put it next to the infobox and it's cutting the page width in half. The placement isn't perfect but I feel like it's as fine as it's going to get.
 * A fairly clean solution for its unwieldy size would be to crop out the ~75% of that picture that isn't relevant to the ruler at all. Gearzein (talk) 04:35, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

is not ruler removed in 1.4?
or atleast the effect is there without needing it?
 * 1.4.0.1 altered the ruler into a melee weapon. It is still required for tinker recipes, and is still available in game from the Tinkerer. KairuByte (talk) 22:56, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Only shortsword with autoswing? Seems wrong.
Why does the page states that this is the only shortsword capable of autoswing while the Starlight also has autoswing?

Because the Starlight is not a shortsword. The final shortsword obtainable in the game is the ruler. The Starlight does not have the single crappy poke of a shortsword, it has a quick flurry of several blows per second that doesn't stop until you tell it to. Plus, the Starlight doesn't look like a shortsword, it looks more like a rapier, and that's noted on its page. An6ry (talk) 22:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)