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Petting Mode
You may know about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_You_Pet_the_Dog%3F
While beavers are wild animals and shouldn't really be disturbed without a very good reason, ...
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Water physics needs some work with floodgates (at least)
Not sure if I'm just misunderstanding how the floodgates work or something but I put one upstream of my district--which also has a dam downstream--and it keeps ...
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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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Irrigation Tower fix
Irrigation towers use water even when there are no tiles in tower radius that requires water. Seems like a bug, or very odd behavior. I was expecting to setup the ...
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More “fun” buildings- parks and water parks
I think the game is severely lacking in the amount of “fun” buildings for you beavers, especially in the early/mid game. At this point, I think my beavers would be ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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 ...
Placing the First District Centre (Pick choose select starting location)
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 ...
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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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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Map Overview - Zoom out to see map (furhter than with unlocked camera)
It would be great if we could have a button that gave us an overview of the entire map, so we could see everything in one picture
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Change high floodgate into controllable levee (stackable modular 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 ...
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 ...
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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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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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 ...
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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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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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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Can't delete platform without deleting neighboring windmill
I can't delete this platform without deleting the neighboring windmill.
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Bug
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
Add Game Controller Support
As title says, add generic game controller support, as that will hopefully support most game controllers. If not, adding most mainline controller support (i.e. XBOX, ...
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Campaign, Missions, Gamemods, game setting goals.
Campaign like in ANNO; Build a Temple, big Dam or Big Build which consumes a lot of different good like wood, planks, water, iron .... OR build a City with 1000 ...
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Gameplay
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 ...
Need for more 'solid' building types - variety of solid roof constructions
Building upward is amazing. It's fun, it's pretty, and it's one of the things that can help set this game apart from a lot of similar builders.
The short of the ...
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 ...
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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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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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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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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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Improved Map Browser
Right now, maps are hard to navigate.
Issues:
The scroll window is too small, showing only 5 at once.
The "[Custom]" prefix adds visual noise which leads to ...
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 ...
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.
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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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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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 ...
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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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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Beavers should be able to Swim Up & Down without Stairs, and Paths should be irrelevant to swimming.
I appreciate that beavers can swim now, but the logic is still too much like walking.
A beaver can only reach deeper levels of water if there is a staircase down. ...
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Otters
I know that the game is all about beavers, but maybe another water based animal could have survived and evolved. I'm talking about otters! They could be a faction. ...
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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 ...
Cut trees by default
Mark all land as tree cut allowed by default. Just like collecting berry bushes.
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