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Beaver nurse office - deliver medicine, food and water to patients in medical beds
Alternative to https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/314972/medical-beds-stock-water-and-food-for-patients
But I suggest to a small office building that ...
Extend priority system to tree cutting and harvesting
Please extend the priority system to adjust the priority of cutting particular trees and harvesting particular berries (crops already have their own priority system). ...
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Add water locks for passing boats or rafts through dams
At later game one would likely want to transport more goods across districts. For game setting water transport is most obvious ones and few suggestions about that was ...
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Demolishing resources from above - delete, clear, remove trees tile below
One thing very frustrating about demolishing resources it is that beavers can do it only if they are in the same level.
For example : I want to construct something ...
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Better Employment/Unemployment Statistics
Currently, employment statistics are represented as follows;
Employed/Available (jobs)
This, while in and of itself useful, lacks significant information that ...
District Range - mechanic is not clear and not intuitive
Hello here are my thoughts on district range:
- District range is limited (i think that is great, else why build multiple districts?)
- District range is very ...
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Fairs for socializing including Firework (Socializing, Festivals, Celebrations)
A place for beavers to have fun with a combined function for socializing and eating. Furthermore, you can bring explosives there to have a firework (every X days) to ...
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Windmills aren't producing enough power - more reliable wind
So in my game I started trying to use windmills to supply power as rivers become harder to access and I need more power. my only issue is they aren't always working. ...
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Floodgate keeper job
It may be handy to 'automate' floodgate opening and closing with a new beaver job.
As an example use case :
- I build a floodgate
- I build a Water gauge ...
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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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Floating gardens (chinampas)
Add a floating platform that would allow the planting of crops on water.
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Beavers stuck and stranded inside of slopes, buildings, constructions or midair
One of my Beavers got stuck inside of a water wheel after building it while swimming in the middle of a river. There is a path near it so it should be able to get ...
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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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Paused housing shouldn’t show as available in stats on left (housing places display)
Title. Makes it hard to keep track when you’ve paused multiple houses to keep your population from (re)exploding as Folktail after migrating some.
Warehouse Organisation [Storage archieve thread]
Materials in Warehouses should be sorted by Categories (Building Materials, Food Items, etc..) not alphabetical.
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Control electricity with environment (higher ground for wind power, place windmills on hills)
The power mechanics are currently consistent - any windmill would provide the same power wherever you place it, same as water wheels (assuming there's wind\water_. ...
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Beaver Faction: Underpaws
• District Centers are underground structures like the underground warehouse of the Folktails, and double as unlimited housing.
• Since DC is unlimited housing, ...
Set Desired water level for Water Dumps
At the moment I can think of very few situations for using water dumps, since the water output is so inconsistent. Making the dump stop at a settable water level ...
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Map Objectives (Win Conditions), custom scenario editor and challenge mission texts
Within the map editor it would be really cool if there were ways to set a proper win condition.
-build building X in location Y
-reach 10,000 stored carrots
-get ...
Expeditionary Builders - construction outside of their district
a team of 2 or more builders that can build well outside of any district; the down side is that they are slow and must carry their own food, water, and building ...
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Add name-list
It's nothing big, but I like the idea of having the ability, to create my own list of names for the beavers, replacing/expanding the original list.
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Aerial Ropeway
Instead of minecarts or trains I propose an Aerial Ropeway like this.
https://youtu.be/6RiYXI1Tfu4
The way it could work would be a two terminal system and ...
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start a game paused
allow us to start maps paused, maybe toss a large banner that says 'paused' and strobe the pause button too.
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rubble megathread
Suggestions:
-area deletion of rubble. maybe with resource destroy tool
-building for rubble to go to
-direct use from rubble pile
-toggle off rubble entirely ...
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Seasons - winter, autumn, spring, summer
Each season has its own features and challenges.
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Exploits: One square lake and Free Warehouse
Exploits have been reported by several communities.
This may be fun at first, but it makes the game much less fun, so please fix it.
1. one square lake
Use Water ...
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Balance
Always show building ranges when building, even if construction site tile is blocked
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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Water wheel does not produce power even if water is flowing [Problems with wheel after Update 1]
The issue is simple, I have two compact water wheels inside the main river of the map "Waterfalls". There is no obstruction or anything else (see screenshot attached) ...
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Food and water rationing, food limit, consumption order and food management.
I love the game and have no complaints otherwise! But could we get an option to adjust how much food they can ration out per colony?
MOD: This thread has been ...
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Differentiate religion and faction unique temples
Right now we have two factions that have the exact same temple and that's it. I suggest that this should be different for each faction to highlight their specific ...
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Allow builder beaver to pass though building when it try to build things and get back
As they was many case of stuck and strand bug https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/216282/beaver-stuck-inside-of-waterwheel-after-building-in-the-water ...
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Allow Beavers to build directly from rubble
So I noticed a small QoL thing. I wanted to move my log storage somewhere else so I destroyed my current log storage to use the rubble to make the new one. However I ...
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Potential Issue Warnings (Alert for hunger or thirst, low supply, etc)
Hello there! I'd like to suggest a new game feature which notifies the player of potential problems before they arise.
Examples:
- Current food production is ...
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Reinstate district gates - bring back old district crossing
LOVING update 4 and the new district rules. It would be good to reinstate the old district gates though for the period (can be quite long) when you want to split the ...
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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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Expanded Berry Nutrition (Plus others)
I'd like to see more options for satisfying Hunger and Thirst, especially with Berries. We are able to grow them but they usually end up taking up space once farms ...
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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!
Haulers waste time moving balancing storages or tanks - desired amount defaults are inefficient
The haulers carry the logs between two nearby log piles.
I'm not sure if this is normal
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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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Beavers dying of thirst because they prefer to work
After a drought the beavers collected water but then ran to do chores like chopping wood instead of drinking from the water tanks. I had 3 beavers to die from thirst, ...
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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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Water Elevator
Power consuming water elevator. Buckets on a track move water up from its bottom end and pour out the top. This would allow the ability to move water up to the top of ...
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 ...
Сampfire and other beaver leisure interactions and animations
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 ...
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
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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Add Taverns for food and drink
Seems odd that there is no way to give the beavers a dedicated place to access food and water. Also could be expanded to an Inn for long travels.
Add Discord channels for various languages
Add the "General" channels to the server discord for various languages to make it easier to communicate between people in native language.
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