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Different soil types (terrain tiles variety)
Various soil types to add more colours to the game landscape, and more things to consider for colony planning.
Possible characteristics of soil:
- Fertility: ...
Mark Existing Trees for Replacement With Different Species (change crop or plant type in-place)
When you initially set up a forester, you have the choice between planting three different tree types. For your initial planting, you might want to prioritize quick ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Native Linux support
Maybe add native linux support? It currently works good with wine but native support would be better i think. And if it is added please make the linux version also ...
Weather Station (high cost research)
Aligning with some of the other suggestions that involve increased variation of weather, I propose that a weather station should be added as a worked building. This ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Add more Floodgate heights - taller (higher) floodgates
Hi. I'm building a gigantic dam and I found out that the currently available floodgate heights are not enough to easily control the water discharge. I would love to ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Blueprint drawing mode. (Planning)
One simple, yet super-useful feature that's unfortunately rare in these sort of games is the ability to draw right on the map. Plan the location of your roads and ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Water storage adjacancy sharing. Pipe. And change water dump to be workerless building
Like power that could be shared from ground floor adjacancy and shaft. I think water should be able to shared between water building and pipe too. The pipe system may ...
Under consideration
Upgraded Paths (Roads), pavement
I hope there will be a way to upgrade paths. Once upgraded, beavers will walk fast and get tired less. I very new to the game and I notice the lines on the path ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Float Valve
Managing water levels in lower streams can be a little tedious. Adding a float valve that you put into a reservoir dam to keep lower streams at a set water level ...
Under consideration
Minimap
I think the game definitely needs a minimap, it is really hard to go around having to hold the scroll
Option \ toggle to remove full storage warnings and building statuses (hide alerts)
The warning icons for full warehouse or water storage should be modified to be less strident. As shown in the attached image, some of my water barrels and warehouses ...
Allow windmill to transmit power downward, or a rooftop windmill or vertical axis windmill
Windmill was a great asset for folktail but we would more likely to build it on top of building, but it seem it did not transmit power downward. Which make it hard to ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Pipette Building Tool - duplicate a building (clone/copy)
Adding a pipette tool would be a quick and easy way to copy the same building. While building complex stucteres like big dams, I had often to switch between building ...
Mountain Beavers (faction)
a kind of beaver that lives in the mountains with several small rivers and steep terrain. There is no dry season only winter and summer. in summer beavers can gather ...
Boats or rafts (or other water transports)
It would be cool to have boats as a way of transport. For example you could build two docks on opposite sides of a large river and have them work as if there was a ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Further Expand and Improve tutorial - how to place pump, connect roads, build dams and more
Going after your suggestions we expanded tutorial. But should it be expanded further?
Under consideration
Suggestion
More End-Game Content [Endgame Mega thread]
The players all agree, Timberborn is a fantastic game, but there comes a time in each save where the settlement becomes more or less self-sufficient and it feels like ...
Ability to group buildings (pause multiple buildings with single click)
Currently, each building must be micromanaged individually. If, for example, I have a battery of 6 water pumps along an unmanaged river, I will want to pause ...
Making Depth Markers (gauge) more useful: let us name Markers, and give them an alarm feature
So depth markers require some science investment and resources, but at the moment doesn't tell us much more than we can already guess by eye.
My proposed change is ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Improving District Transporation (Distribution post trade routes Interface and efficiency)
A few ideas:
* Add information to Distribution Posts per route if they are stalled due to lack of capacity at the other end etc. It is not uncommon to have ...
shortcuts (hotkeys)
adding shortcuts to make roads , destory sectons and cut trees to make it easier. Adding Saving to the list.
On it!
Suggestion
Shadows just don't make sense. (Shadows rotate with camera)
Shadows. Simply speaking, Not very realistic. Shadows always point to the top right corner of the screen no matter what rotation your camera is at. I'm not saying ...
Cliff overhang platforms: To build againts cliffs
The idea is to have platforms that can be built directly against the cliffs.
There can be 1x1 platforms to have paths, but also 1x2 and 1x3 to allow building houses ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Fire Hazard / fire suppression
Some form of Fire risk to the town. Be it lightning, random chance, etc. Increased risk during dry season. And the beavers would need some form of hand pumps or ...
Better way to add and manage workers/individual beavers
I'm hoping that something like this is already planned, but I'm having a lot of trouble with managing individual beavers. For example, if I want a beaver to move from ...
No power warning when work day ends
Every day, after beaver work finishes, you get warnings for building out of power when something is powered by a power wheel. There's not much point in this warning ...
Bug: oscillating Water / waves
Servus, After finishing a dam on a levee, and after the following draught, the water started oszilating erratically. In the screenshot the bay overflows regularly and ...
Under consideration
Bug
Building multi-selection
It would be great to be able to select multiple building to be able to pause them all or resume them. Selection could be done either by building of the same type or ...
season specific commands (start or pause at drought) seasonal jobs
During dry season, I found there were a few good habits. For example, raising all dams once it starts to keep water for just a bit longer. At one district, I had ...
Independent district work hours - separate job schedules
it would be nice to have changeable working hours depending on the district (ie if one district farms a lot have them work 18 hrs while other districts could work 12 ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Remove path tool - brush to delete roads
Please add a dedicated remove path tool. The current method of clicking on each space and deleting is to long.
MOD EDIT:
in the meantime, you can use the delete ...
Faction idea; "Skygraspers" - To dream taller than the trees.
Skygraspers are a faction based around building tall buildings and reward the player for doing so.
The Skygraspers look towards sky like the trees that all ...
Beaver Kindergarten/School/Daycare/Playground for Kits
Beaver kits just run around the map and have nothing to do, they don't even have cute idling/playing animations or anything. I think it'd be a nice touch to give them ...
More Decoration Tiles
I feel like there should be more options for decorations (right now, there's just 1 bench, 1 type of bush, and a few statues). I think there should be more ways to ...
On it!
Add Steam Achievements
Potential achievements:
Lose, everyone died.
Population levels.
Happiness levels.
Flood a building.
Additional districts constructed.
Survive a drought # days ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Adjust birth rate and/or explain in the tutorial what's required to encourage positive births
I'm new for what it's worth, and I'm currently teetering on the brink of the colony going under because there aren't enough new births to get anything beyond ...
Under consideration
Usage of water for Transportation, floating goods by river
As beaver-folk, it seems reasonable to me, to use the Rivers for transport. Letting beavers collect ressources upstream and dropping them into the water (or in small ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Warehouse (U3) superthread
suggestions:
-revert to old system and add hard max
-segmet warehouses into blocks, ie small warehouse = 2 100 blocks or 4 50 blocks
-adjacent warehouses merge ...
Under consideration
Grain Silo (New Storage Tech)
Like the title says, just to increase building diversity and use the science points.
Water wheel and power shaft turning in opposite directions - rotation mismatch
The power shaft connected to this water wheel is turning the wrong way
Under consideration
Rework foods system to be easily expandable and moddable
General idea that was discussed in discord in a few variations is removing individual bonuses for concrete food items, but categorizing foods in a number of types. ...
On our radar
Suggestion
Show Forester/Farmhouse work boundaries in the Plant Trees/Crops view
Currently you have to click back and forth between the planting view and selecting foresters or farmhouses in order to determine how far out they can reach. You ...
I want more variations in the shape of the roof
Current roof types cannot handle irregular shapes.
Therefore, we would like to have a half-shaped or L-shaped roof that is the current 2x2 roof.
Beaver you will end ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Alert on Population Starvation
New player here, just had my entire population die and I didn't even know I had a food issue. I sat here for a whole day(game-time) waiting for work to start... As ...
Extremely low fps at speed 3
When using the fastest speed mode the fps drops into the single digits, this happens even when having just started a game.
Under consideration
Performance
Allow (or require) logs to the floated down the river.
Possibly faction specific (see River Beaver), the only way to get a log more than n tiles is to float it down to its destination in the water. Intended to be freshly ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Conditional Water Sources (unlockable sources, wells, springs)
Water sources that you can "unlock" via different actions, for example clearing debris from it or putting a water pump on it
Graveyard Building, Cemetery (Social/Spiritual Need, Record of Passed Away Beavers)
As the title says, I think a graveyard of some sort would be a good building to add. It could fill social and/or spiritual needs to some extent for beavers to visit ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Perfomance issues with higher beavers population - low FPS with many beavers
The game starts to lag after reaching 400 Beavers. First it starts with very short lags but with increasing progress the Lags get longer and longer. The FPS rate ...
Done
Performance
Copy/paste option for Warehouse configuration settings and other buildings
When we configure the warehouse, it would be a great help to be able to copy it then paste it to another warehouse
Under consideration
Suggestion