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Exploration system and scout parties
(Partly carried over from discord)
Purpose: add variety mechanic to distract player from city building for a moment, add some mystery element to game, making ...
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 ...
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QOL: Allow placing upgrades on existing buildings.
Some objects are a clear upgrade or modification of others. It should be possible to make modifications of existing objects by placing new ones on top of them without ...
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Efficiency Research (Repeatable End-Game Science)
Once all of the buildings have been unlocked using science points there is no use for the inventor building. I suggest that there should be production, movement, and ...
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Expanding foresters.
So forester is not a full time job as of current and require much more micro then a lot of other jobs.
So expanding them so they plant things and also harvest would ...
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Make replacing path with stair or gates easier (build over roads)
When I want to replace a path with a stair, I have to remove a path before putting a stair.
It is handy if I can simply put a stair on an existing path and it will ...
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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
Change high floodgate into controllable levee (stackable flood gate)
I would like to propose removing floodgate level 2 and 3. And change the system to allow arbitrary height of floodgate
My idea is, separate floodgate into top ...
Add Erosion System
Add a system for erosion along the sides of busy waterways, where over time they lose strength and collapse unless reinforced. This in turn would allow for the water ...
Can't delete platform without deleting neighboring windmill
I can't delete this platform without deleting the neighboring windmill.
Under consideration
Bug
Vertical Water Wheels - spin from falling water
It would be nice to have waterwheels work in the below configuration, particularly for high height maps, and just to have a bit of variation. It would also be nice to ...
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Placing the First District Centre
I am now starting my new games by placing a new District Centre closer to where I want to get started with my buildings and dams, and deleting the original Dc. Doing ...
Rice paddies, fishing and other water based food sources
water is a great mechanic in this game, but i would absolutely love to see fishing, rice paddies, aquaponics as another use for it, just because it makes a city in ...
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Please add High Priority and One-Off (one-time) deliveries from the Distribution Center.
While the route system works for regularly scheduled deliveries, sometimes you only need a certain number of resources once (and no more); for example, a delivery of ...
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Advanced Science building / Laboratory (higher-grade Inventor)
add a library building that functions like an advanced inventor. Maybe it employs more beavers, needs books to build. Higher science output than inventor
New resource - Coal (Charcoal)
Coal is one of the run-of-the-mill economic strategy game resources, but it has a good affinity with Timberborn setting.
First - you can produce charcoal from wood ...
Underground house and burrow house
For folktail faction. In addition to underground storage, we could also have a house that actually a double lodge but partly underground, And so require to build on ...
Prioritize emptying water pumps over water tanks
When emptying water pumps, the beavers will start rearranging the water in the tanks, resulting in the pumps filling up and losing efficiency. Would it be possible to ...
Under consideration
Water wheel keeps running during dry season
No current visible, but the 2 water wheels keep generating power during the dry season.
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Bug
Show total capacity of resource
When hovering the resource numbers at the top of the screen, show the total storage capacity next to the current amount. Ex: Water: 562/700.
Ability to pause ditribution routes
Currently you can only cancel distribution routes, but it would be very helpful if you could just pause / unpause them instead of deleting them.
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Schooling and intelligent upgrades.
In order to make some cool upgrades and gradually upgrade buildings, maybe intergrate education into the games. What I had in mind is that childeren actually can get ...
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Foreign Trade, off-map external trading, merchant caravans
I would love to see the ability to trade resources with foreign settlements. The way I imagine this being done is somewhat similar to Ostriv. There would be two ...
Migrate youngest adults first or select beavers and golems
Currently the game seems to migrate the oldest adults first. With an already established district containing several 70+ beavers, this can result in beavers migrating ...
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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 ...
Under consideration
Performance
Add shorter platform under existing platform without deleting, split \ replace tall platform
There have been a few times that I've built a vertical structure only to find that I need to replace my double or triple platform with a combination of shorter ...
Beaver canals
Real life beavers don’t like walking. They prefer to dig canals (normally without explosives) they use for travel. Safe and fast.
Suggested als alternative ...
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Performance (not necessarily FPS) issues (Lag, game runs slow, low framerate)
I have been waiting for early access since I played the demo and I haven't been disappointed, congrats ! But the performances are just not there IMHO.
On my ...
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Performance
Health System and Medicine (Diseases, Illness)
• Add a Health feature to beavers:
- Statuses: Healthy, Unwell, Sick, Injured, Dying
- Beavers need sleep, food, and water to remain healthy.
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First person view
I'd like to have a first person "View Mode", so I can walk through my districts as if I was a beaver myself.
Not entirely an beaver, only to spectate what they build
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Beaver logging animation, I want to see my beavers gnaw trees over!
I would love to see beavers animations improved. When "cutting" trees, it would be awesome to see them plant their teeth into the trees and gnaw them over, instead of ...
Move district centers without deleting the district
It is very frustrating to move district centers, which happens often. You currently have to delete the building and place a new one which kills the district. It would ...
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More links between items (cycle buildings, switch through buildings)
Some more ways to quickly navigate around the world
1. Clicking on a title under the heading "Employment" goes to the relevant place (for ex. clicking on "builder ...
Combat / Defense (War, Warfare, Fighting, Battles, Enemies)
It would be cool to have a watch / lookout tower on like hard mod or something, every now and then you get attacked and over time the mobs get hard and more of them? ...
Separate Working Hours for jobs or buildings
I'd like the ability to set differing work hours for things. For instance: I want all the beavers to work for 16 hours, and spend the rest of their time having fun ...
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Scaffolding
As things stand, beavers can build structures multiple stories high from ground level. I would suggest adding scaffolding in order to build something higher than 2 ...
Increase ingame speed - more options
I played this game many times, also saw others play many times. And noone is actually playing this game at 1× (rarely at 2×). I suggest increasing ingame speed to 4× ...
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Basic mining mechanic for all beaver races
While iron would still come primarily or completely from salvage, stones could be a useful 2nd tier material for dams, levees, buildings, and decorations. These tier ...
Make beavers swim faster than on land
OK, I know the folklore that the water in the river is polluted and the argument that we need incentives to build bridges over the river.
But still, beavers should ...
Trains, railway, funicular
ok so i got an idea for trains to be in the game so i could be and very efficient way of moving something from district to district like builders, supplies, water, ...
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Allow districts to be different faction
I would love to be able to add a new district of Iron Teeth beavers to my Folktails playthrough. It even would be in keeping with the backstory. And as new factions ...
Clicking Stopped Working - problems with mouse button control input
Repro:
One reproducable way is any building with a [VISITOR] Display, like Campfire or Carussel.
When a visitor is inside, click the mouse button down on the ...
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Bug
Decay and Repair - building maintenance
Ok so the idea here is
1. Add decay to all buildings, houses, dams, workshops, etc
2. Make a new worker that would specialize in repairing evering in their repair ...
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medicine not being delivered to medical beds
hi team I have noticed but the medicine is not getting to the medical beds When The Healer is paused
for example I have 300 medicine made and it's stored in the ...
Building upgrades - Attachments etc.
So, there's two ways I hope you guys can go about making building upgrades;
'Modules' - smaller mini-buildings that can be built and attached to resource buildings ...
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"Chiselheart" faction (stone specialists)
The Chiselheart faction (or whatever name they choose) would be able to quarry stone to make buildings out of them and use gravel as byproduct to make new soil ...
Cut trees by default
Mark all land as tree cut allowed by default. Just like collecting berry bushes.
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Catastrophes
see title. Catastophes toggled mode on/off like in sim city 2000. Earthquake, fire, crop plague,disease in the water tank so you need to pour it all in the river, ...
Suggestion for a book and knowledge rework: A library
I personally dont like, that books get "consumed" by beavers like its something to eat for knowledge. I know it can become stale reading the same book twice, but your ...
Water flow overlay
Adding an overlay to show water flow direction and maybe have arrows to indicate the force. That would allow more complex irrigation and show why water wheels lose ...