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Work shifts/schedule management
It would be nice to be able to have multiple work shifts. Rather than all your bevers working for 16 hrs and then trying to do all their personal stuff in the ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Let us change difficulty mid game (switch game settings on the fly)
So i played the demo and it was pretty brutal. So i started a fairly easy game this time around. But i've developed my beaver city pretty decently, so i'd like to be ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Catastrophes (Disasters mechanic)
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Improve Multi-Core Use
Hello,
I have played about 15 hours in game so far. I have noticed that as the population goes up and the gameplay expands further into the map, only 1 core is ...
Under consideration
Performance
Further improve saving - allow overwriting, more info, etc. (better save load)
Patch on 20.11.2021 expanded handling of save files, but there is still request for more improvements.
I've collected some ideas that didn't go into the mentioned ...
On it!
Suggestion
Display Surface measures: dimension size of crop field (show area), length of road or dam, ruler
Add measurements when placing any item that are draggable. For example, when placing crops it will show a grid measurement on the UI like 10x10 or 6x7.
Giant sequoia for late-game Folktails high platform equivalent
The folktails are all about being good stewards to the environment. In keeping with this theme, I suggest a late-game technology for the folktail faction - the giant ...
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Suggestion
Loading Screen Progress Bar or Animation
The title says it all. Sometimes unsure if the games hangs or is actually loading. For people with slower pcs this might be very comforting, to see something is ...
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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Suggestion
Frost Chippers (faction)
If winter season becomes a thing, a new faction could emerge; behold the Frost Chippers.
This faction of beavers developed to thrive in cold temperatures of nordic ...
More beaver Animations
Have not played alot yet but I feel that all the beaver actions feel quiet stale. Some animations like using an axe when cutting down trees would be nice, for ...
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 ...
Under consideration
Bug
Upgrades for Buildings to add additional Workers and increase output / make them stable
Via a new technology, buildings could get a better Version of itself, e.g. with more workers. Alternatively, you could choose another Upgrade, that makes building ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Shaped dynamite charges - explosives for digging deeper and wider (multi-level)
Please add a dynamite tier-2 option that will dig down 2 levels instead of just one.
Projected cost; 2x explosive, 2x planks, 1x water to create the shaped charge ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Research tree and/or dependency and/or requirement
Maybe not need to be visually UI of a tree but somethings should have dependency, especially building that have production chain. We should not ever be able to unlock ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Sand!.. Its problems and the many goodies it brings
Whenever water flows downhill it could create sand deposits in areas where water flows slower.
This means that the lower a reservoir or simmilar structure in ...
Please add a power transmission on/off switch
It would be handy to isolate groups of buildings when you don't need them, or power is low.
Under consideration
Suggestion
Faction suggestion : Desert beavers
In a post-apocalyptic world it is only natural some beavers evolve to cope with the harsher climate.
Desert beavers require less water then oth factions and make ...
More Crops and Food Variety
The idea is simple: add far more crops - such as maize, sweetcorn, cabbage, rice, quinoa, teff, beets, etc. - , and make it so that beavers become happier with more ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Make wet and dry seasons less binary by adding rain and ground wetness level (how much water spawns)
The way how this will work is that when it rains, the ground wetness increases (spawning water to the source) with maybe a small increase of water spawning while ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Weird latency when rotating camera using Right Click
When I want to rotate the camera using the right click there is a little latency between the moment I click and move and the moment the camera begin taking that ...
Under consideration
Keep bot (golems) fully optional (let beavers do terraforming)
Golems are received differently by the community, some love them, some not so much.
But good thing about golems before terraforming update was that they were ...
On it!
Suggestion
Suggestion please ad an upgrade for water pumps
The water pumps are 3 to 1 with the irrigation towers can you please include an upgrade for the water pumps as im having to put down 10's of water pumps
Under consideration
Mushroom Farming
New building for mushroom farming. Takes water to operate. Stackable, no sunlight needed. Mushrooms provide food, but are not very nutritious. Mushroom farming is ...
Improve and simplify Distribution Post interface and mechanics - easy district resource sharing
Okey, I am not sure if any suggestion like this is already out there, but I didnt seem to find one. I would really love if the hole interface/district trading system ...
Forced warehouse clearing - discard resources, delete materials, dispose food from storage
The game has some problem with clearing warehouses from unnecessary resources in them, for example, when a new warehouse is being built, and all other warehouses are ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Auto clear resources when placing structures
it would be expeditious to automatically clear trees and plants when placing structures
Under consideration
Show range of relevant buildings when planting or building related structures, farms area
Currently, when planting trees or crops, I often have to cancel planting just to click on the forester buildings etc just to check how far their reach is, and have to ...
Please don't turn all storage into 1 good per building storage
I just read the Dev blog 6 about the upcoming update 3 (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1062090/eventcomments/3497635791227923645).
I know the idea is subject to ...
hazard tiles (toxic wasteland) and polluted water for map building
having hazardous tiles and toxic water at the start of a map may be an interesting element for the theme, toxic water would not dry up over time like normal water(or ...
Make district build range "elastic" rather than a hard border
I think the district build range is a good mechanic that's for the most part well implemented. My only issue right now is that I find the hard limit punishes you too ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Remove drop off point from the game
And just allow distribution post to pick target district center directly. Have an existing drop off UI in district center to control distribution limit instead. Then ...
Done
Suggestion
Folk Tail Restaurants/Iron Teeth Delivery Service
The Folk Tails, with their desire for everything comfy and tasty, surely would appreciate a nice little restaurant or pub. Just imagine them sitting there, with ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
More things to do with Metal
If you make aqueducts and lifts, those could be great uses of metal. I got the minimum I needed, now I just have hundreds of blocks and nothing to use them on. I ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Add on-screen warning when layer visibility is active (building disappear, platform top invisble)
Many players find it confusing (specifically since you can activate it by mistake with alt+wheel) and with shadows still visible it looks a lot like a bug. Mock-up ...
Flying unsupported power shaft - power bridge spanning several tiles
much like the bridges.
a power shaft that can be researched to be placed on the edge of land, with the rest hanging over water to be connected by another from the ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
[UI] Real life clock
We've all done it, lost track of time while playing a game. Any chance that a simple clock could be added somewhere in the UI that would display the current real life ...
Two way distribution post
I think it would make sense if beavers dropping off goods from one distribution post would also collect goods needed going the other way (unless they are dying of ...
Done
Suggestion
ambient wildlife/NPC Factions
I think it would be an interesting addition to the game if you could run into similar creatures who had also evolved alongside the beavers to be the new apex species. ...
Under consideration
Build through Demolishable elements, placement over deletable objects like trees and bushes
It would be helpful, for me, to be able to mark resources for "demolish" and be able to build paths through the demolished area without having to wait for the ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
bigger maps (larger maps)
make huge maps
Beaver life spans and births
I suggest randomizing the life span of beavers within some range, so that they don't always die in batches when they die of old age. Usually, if one or more lodges ...
invert warnings on water tanks/storage structures
it's of far more use to me to have a popup icon over an empty water tank than a full one
Under consideration
UI
Planters and Gardeners
It would be very interesting to have planters in this game. They could allow you to take farms vertical, something that’s not possible as it is. And farmers can take ...
Under consideration
Suggestion
Water visual bug - water in corners, "leaking" diagonal levees
It seemes like when water is like this(shown in the picture) it bugs a little