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campfire interactions
Hi! I want to start with saying that I love playing your game. And especially I like how chill it is.
So I was sitting and zooming on a campfire while beavers ...
More Expansive Vertical Building
One of my favorite parts about this game thus far is the ability to build buildings vertically and in compact setups. However, transporting just about anything ...
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New food, recipes and production chains - suggest YOURS here!
I don't think it's very constructive to have a separate threads for each recipe, so let's collect all ideas for devs (or modders) to pick from here!
I propose ...
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Water Shed/Roofing to Reduce Evaporation, reservoir cover, shade balls
Suggestion for a late-game metal building/roof tile (similar in placement to the suspension bridge) which you can use to reduce or remove evaporation on that section ...
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In-Game Encylopedia of Terms/Mechanics
Perhaps at some point along the road you can add a menu to look up things about the game, like what different buildings do exactly, what certain materials are and ...
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Power shaft levee block
A power shaft that also blocks water would be nice. I realize I could use high-shafts on each side to get the job done, but it would be really liquid to have a levee ...
More Beaver Info (Gender, Thoughts, Family Tree, etc.)
I would really appreciate more information on the individual beavers, both helpful data and flavor stuff to give the game a bit more of a lived in feel. Right now ...
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Add "fog of war" in the additional "explorer mode"
You could add an additional game mode "explorer" and "fog" like in Age of Empires - a black area over all the map that gradually disaspear as the beavers move to new ...
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When resources are marked for destruction, they should be harvested if possible
It's not currently possible to prioritise the cutting of wood or harvesting of crops within a larger harvesting area, so I end up just marking resources for ...
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Seasons - winter, autumn, spring, summer
Each season has its own features and challenges.
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Collect honey from hives. Mead.
you got bees... why not honey? use that and flour to make flapjacks of something...
also, beeswax.:)
anyway, awesome games guys!
Add Clay, Pottery, and Food rotting (spoilage)
Add Clay as a resource, possibly have to be harvested by river bank or during dry season. Clay can be used in pottery to make pots, and storage vessels (useful if ...
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Stop or Reduce Mechanical Power Usage When Building Is Idle / Not Functioning
When you pause a building (or flood it), it ceases to use mechanical power. If the building is currently idle or in a non-functioning state: no resources, worker is ...
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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 ...
Tech tree with prerequisites based on dependencies and grouping buildings
Right now, buildings are unlocked individually, with no regard to what is needed for their construction or where they are in production chains. Buildings needed for ...
stairs and paths
to add some new paths and stairs to make better use of the narrow paths, like tunnels so you can still make farms or tress above them , spiral staircase so you dont ...
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Change either the "Plank" icon or the "Metal Block" icon
The plank and metal block icons are too similar, at a glance it is easy to confuse the 2 icons together. (personally they look like a slight rotation of each other ...
season variation and related endgame challenge
add random variance to seasons, so sometimes it'll be a few days shorter or longer.
if the earlier wet seasons are longer, and as time goes on, dry seasons get ...
Improved resource sorting and categories (materials types)
The addition of more resources in Experimental Branch was a good idea, and a welcome addition to fill the game with more content!
(But) if you gather a lot of ...
Science point sinks (Late game use for Science points, SP consuming buildings)
Some buildings could use science points to work. This could give use to them in late game. The list of SP-consuming buildings:
- School. Consumes books and SP. ...
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Forester or stairs need to not require planks
Forester or stairs need to not require planks, if you run outa trees without a mill your only option is to AFK until more trees grow.
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Waste, sewage
Where does the poo go?
Suggestion to add waste management. Houses will slowly increase in waste and require a cleaner/trash bev type building to clear it out. ...
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Fix the engines (power up for balance)
The Iron Teeth’s engines need a fix
Detailed calculation and explanation with screenshots is here ...
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Lodge/Lodge(Mirrored) HUD Redundancy
Lodge and Lodge(Mirrored) are an important distinctions in the build menu. However, when the buildings are reported as occupied under the housing menu of the HUD, it ...
Preserve the Roller Coaster Tycoon building vibe
I absolutely love the current "clunkyness" of Timberborn's buildings.
The fact that you cannot mirror every building, the fact that elevated paths and stairs are a ...
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Mark resource for destruction from modal
Would be nice if I could click a tree or a patch of carrots and mark it for removal like I can with a building/path.
Check valves - one-way flow water gate
Vavlves that allow flow only in one direction and block other way
[mod edit]: updated title and added image from suggestion by Pierre
District path limit should be shown while building path.
It's really annoying to constantly click on the district center to "check" the path limit while building path. I know when you are building other infrastructure the ...
Archeologist beavers for science
i believe we can all agree the current way of science generation is not fun or immersive.
this is my idea to remedy that.
Archeologist beavers would use a ...
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Restart option in menu (Replay same map)
Hi there, didn't see this one yet. Add a Restart option in the game menu so you don't have to completely exit and start over.
Suspension Bridge as Path for Building Purposes
Since floodgates can't be built on top of, I typically build a platforms to form a bridge along the path of where I want to build floodgates. Since unlocking the ...
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Modular Warehouse concept for expanding single storage building capacity
Looking at screencaps of more hardcore players I often notice arrays of warehouses. Obviously game balance can be tweaked in this aspect too, but I come with this ...
Always show building ranges when building
One frustration I currently have with the game is that building ranges don't appear if you can't build the building at the current spot.
E.g. I have a farm and I ...
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Allow 3 ways access to suspension bridge
The pole and rope should just be higher to allow access from the side
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More music variety - new soundtracks
The music's fine but with only two songs it eventually gets repetitive.
Set max population
Make a way to stop the ironbeavers from having excess kids. The spawning pits keep working and micro managing them gets tedious. Would be nice if you could set it ...
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Late game buildings for fun and spirituality
Compared to other needs, fun, spirituality, and (to a lesser extent) social life are currently hard to keep topped up, at least in late game (contrast this with, ...
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Backpacks, shoes, tools and other equipment and consumable gear
So the idea here is for a new set of buildings that uses paper and logs to make 'tools' as a consumable resource that the beavers can use to boost their stats (like ...
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Set Custom Defaults for "Desired amount" Values in Storage Buildings (warehouse preset)
I think it would be a nice quality of life change if we can have an option to pre-set values for the desired quantities of resources in different storage buildings. ...
Add double farms so you can stack two farms in the same space, bigger larger farmhouse
Add double farms so you can stack two farms in the same space
[mod edit]: merging it with suggestion to have more farm workers or bigger farmhouses, since they ...
Balance: Add a slight resistance to power transmission distance
Right now it seems like it is 100% efficient to transmit power over any distance, which seems a little OP. It might add a bit of balance to give a very slight ...
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Dynamite can be placed onto path tiles.
At the moment, the requirement for a road to build dynamite makes doing any kind of complex terraforming a real pain due to having to constantly redraw paths to give ...
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Gamma (Brightness) slider or some way making it easier to see at night (too dark)
Trying to plan buildings during the night can be a little hard to see, even just making it brighter when the build menu is open would be nice.
Add a setting so we can adjust how many auto-saves are kept and their freuncy (period)
With the new save rework, auto-saves are limited to 3. I can't speak for others, but sometimes I find myself going back 10, 15, on rare occasions 20 auto saves cause ...
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Job rotation with unemployed beaver
Whenever there are unemployed beaver in the district, I wish that there would be a system that, every morning, there would be employed beaver leave their job and let ...
Bring back Golem repairing (return coghead maintanance station) or even expand it to FT
Golems were great because they could be repaired and maintained to last longer. Please, please bring back repair kits. Maybe you could tweak it a little bit and ...
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Elder Beaver Age
An elder beaver age group. maybe reduced yield. really tired of making a new district and sending beavers for them to just die in a day from old age
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can we get a more affordable but less effective source of fun than the carousel?
a smaller 2x3 structure perhaps that beavers can go to and interact with to gain a small amount of FUN?
examples of recreational activities involving logs: log ...
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Variability in water consumption - less thirst with shorter work hours
Hi all,
What if beavers consumed less water when idle? It would be cool for 2 reasons:
- It prevents from a boring linear water consumption like x beavers ...
Zefnoly's stackable floodgate/bleedgate system
"It works by "hiding" a waterfall when opened.
But also limits the "flow" simulated through in a way similar to the watermills slow flow (but with a slider to let ...