Ability to group buildings (pause multiple buildings with single click)
Currently, each building must be micromanaged individually. If, for example, I have a battery of 6 water pumps along an unmanaged river, I will want to pause production on these structures during droughts. To do so currently I must select each building individually and pause them. It would be far more sensible for me to group these structures under either a hotkey (like various RTS games) or allow me to create "complexes" that can be collectively turned on or off.
This would be very useful for other purposes as well I'd imagine.
[mod edit]: add image from merged suggestion
Comments: 114
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16 Sep, '21
Panindhra Tallapudi MergedAn option to disable all workplaces like water pumps, lumberjacks etc.., with a single button. It is good at the early game but becomes more difficult later on to select each and every building and to pause them
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16 Sep, '21
Harry MergedPlease add a way to group buildings together to pause/unpause them or add a way to make them auto unpause according to the weather/season.
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21 Sep, '21
Thaina Yu Mergedhttps://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/215444/ability-to-group-buildings
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21 Sep, '21
pmduda Admin"Group Buildings" (suggested by Harry on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (7) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Sep, '21
David C Bollingermy big use would be turning off my loggers when I max out my logs. In my massive colony, I actually need the couple dozen of them to keep up when I'm building something big, but even with over a dozen log piles, they fill up if I'm not building.
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27 Sep, '21
electrocatalysisI'm voting for this, but with the next comment.
We won't need this function as soon as we get the possibility to set work priorities for types of buildings in general.
The list with building of every type you have and possibility to change their priority for employment.
Then, at some point, you will just open the list and change the priority for the appropriate buildings and the beavers will go to work in the buildings with higher priority. -
07 Oct, '21
Shiroe MergedHi,
I think an function for group building is very interesting (like put off / on a lot of pump with grouped order).
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08 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Grouped building (ctrl+[X]) function" (suggested by Shiroe on 2021-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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09 Oct, '21
hungry beaver MergedIt would be nice to select some buildings for a control group.
like pausing/unpausing water pumps on different altitudes, or opening/closing multiple dams. -
09 Oct, '21
Bart MergedI would like to be able to add building to groups that I can toggle active as one. For example every draught I have to disable all the water pumpers and enable the science sheds, and afterwards the same rollback,
It is a hassle so I would like to group them.
I would even invest logs etc in something like a guild headquarters or whatever. We can have a shed and a "crew boss" beaver guy with a fancy hat go around (de-)activating buildings, and he'd take his time so the building's position can be optimized in the road network to add a bit of gameplay depth to it, -
11 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Buildings in control groups" (suggested by hungry beaver on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Add feature to manage building activity toggle groups" (suggested by Bart on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Oct, '21
Andrew Pritchard MergedBeing able to turn off all the pumps, or all the water dumps for a particular district would be a nice feature.
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12 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Turn on or off an entire type of building per district" (suggested by Andrew Pritchard on 2021-10-11), including upvotes (0) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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23 Oct, '21
pastèque MergedPlease make it possible to make groups of buildings together, to turn them on or off all at once, so we don't have to pick every building manually if we want to turn off all water pumps for example.
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23 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Make building groups" (suggested by pastèque on 2021-10-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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06 Nov, '21
onixtro Mergedwell that. is really annoying to be turning on and off buildings one by one, requires a lot of time that becomes boring as a repetitive action, also, it is complicated to remember all the buildings you want on or off each drought.
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06 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"group buildings in a single button, to pause (turn on/off) in group" (suggested by onixtro on 2021-11-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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09 Nov, '21
MagesticCloth MergedCould we have the ability to group buildings (like water dumps) and then toggle those groups on and off? So we could enable certain buildings during droughts and disable them during floods or vice versa?
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10 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Group buildings and then toggle them on and off in those groups" (suggested by MagesticCloth on 2021-11-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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17 Nov, '21
SoerenI was thinking the same. Make groups - and toggle by season or manually. Often you will miss clicking pause on a pump, or starting a pump in drought season.
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21 Nov, '21
patricklowe Mergeda way to turn off all builds of the same type at the same time or to set up control groups so you could, in theory, pause all the pumps to save water, turn off mills since there not able to work or turn on science to use those workers
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22 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Building control grups+pauseing/unpauseing a bunch of builds at once." (suggested by patricklowe on 2021-11-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Nov, '21
lebkuche MergedMaybe you could add a way to select/deselect and enable/disable mutliple buildings at once. It would ease the micro-management during drouhgts when dealing with reservoirs getting sucked empty by multiple water pumps.
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26 Nov, '21
lebkuche MergedMaybe you could add a way to select/deselect and enable/disable mutliple buildings at once.
A selection of different types of buildings, an overview of districts/ maybe selfmade groups? Also please, an option to edit names!
As an example: It would ease the micro-management during drouhgts when dealing with reservoirs getting sucked empty by multiple water pumps.
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28 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Option to enable/disable multiple Buildings at a time." (suggested by lebkuche on 2021-11-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Option to enable/disable multiple buildings at a time" (suggested by lebkuche on 2021-11-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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04 Dec, '21
Reeser MergedSeriously, it's so annoying to turn all those water pumps on and off. Even more when you have 10 of them.
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05 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"A button that pauses all the chosen buildings in dry season." (suggested by Reeser on 2021-12-04), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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08 Dec, '21
Sami MergedIt would be nice if there was a way to turn off all of the same buildings in a district. Like having one button to turn off all of the water pumps in a district. This way you don't have to click every single one of them and turn them off individually. Or even set your inventory limits to all of the storage buildings in the district.
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08 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"A Way to Turn Off Multiple Buildings" (suggested by Sami on 2021-12-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Dec, '21
onebrownmeece Mergedscenario: I often have water wheels during regular cycles and switch to engines during droughts. I’d love a way to turn all the engines on / off without having to go to each.
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16 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"[micro-management reduction] Turn on/off all buildings of a given type" (suggested by onebrownmeece on 2021-12-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 Dec, '21
JoakimI want to upvote this!
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30 Dec, '21
Rob MergedBe cool to group all my water pumps together so I can pause them all at once before the drought comes.
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31 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin"Grouping" (suggested by Rob on 2021-12-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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31 Dec, '21
Grant MergedI would like to be able to group buildings together so that I could turn them all off/on at once. Something like in real time strategy games where you can have unit groups usually binding them with Ctrl + number (Ctrl + 1 = Create a new group with the 1 key).
Sorry if this was already requested! -
01 Jan, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"Building Groups" (suggested by Grant on 2021-12-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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05 Jan, '22
meestaShin MergedHey guys, it would be great if we can set groups of things we build to sync on/off. For example, Irrigation Towers in a certain area. Also, maybe if there's an option to have them turn on/off when droughts come into play instead of having to click it ourselves every time. Thanks!
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05 Jan, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"Selective Sync-ing of buildings and everything else" (suggested by meestaShin on 2022-01-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Jan, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"Selecting multiple buildings of the same type and assigning them to hotkeys" (suggested by Draythix on 2022-01-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Jan, '22
Blazehb MergedHey, every time when the dry season comes i turn off my waterpumps manually. it would be nice to do it with one klick or maybe to be able to say "only working in normal climate"..
i think a priority for all buildings would be nice as well.. -
25 Jan, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"Stop Working Button" (suggested by Blazehb on 2022-01-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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19 Mar, '22
Félix GL MergedMultiple selection (double click for all the same structure, Shift+click for selection group, Shift+ Num. to keep a group selection.
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20 Mar, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"QoL improvements" (suggested by Félix GL on 2022-03-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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14 Apr, '22
Jack MergedIt would be cool to be able to link buildings into groups that you could then manage from a management window. Example: I have 10 water pumps located in the same area pumping water from a certain reservoir. When the drought comes instead of clicking each one to pause the pumping, you could put them in a group and call it "Water Pumps Group 1" and then pause the entire group. This would be great for other resources as well. If I realize oh I'm done making paper for a while I can just click the group with the paper factories and pause all of them at once.
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14 Apr, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"Building Groups" (suggested by Jack on 2022-04-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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01 Jun, '22
Brett MergedYep completely agree. I often turn off all my water pumps as a drought hits - I'd love a way to do this en masse.
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01 Jun, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin"Option to disable all workplaces with a single button" (suggested by Panindhra Tallapudi on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (6) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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08 Jul, '22
chext MergedWhen I say this I mean like having a key-bind where if you hold down ctrl and left-click on a priority it will trigger the priority for all buildings like that one. Instead of having to individually prioritize each and every one of them because it can get a little tedious at the times.
