season specific commands (start or pause at drought) seasonal jobs

189 votes

During dry season, I found there were a few good habits. For example, raising all dams once it starts to keep water for just a bit longer. At one district, I had emergency pumps at lower levels that were flooded for most of the time, except during long droughts. All of these required a manual command, until I just stopped doing it completely because it was too tedious and I had enough backup resources, but I still wanted to do it, because it's cool and feels like the right thing to do. I think it'd be cool if we could set certain things to happen, i.e. operate this facility only during dry season, or raise these dams once a drought has started, etc.

[mod edit] Disable and enable buildings during drought

Under consideration Suggestion UI Suggested by: Yuval (18 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 12 Apr • Comments: 132

Comments: 132

19 Sep, '21
Seren Merged
The engine costs wood, so currently I'm turning it off during the wet season as water wheels cover the energy need. Would be nice to have a toggle to run only during the drought when the water wheels don't run.
20 Sep, '21
breadloaf
This would be a big improvement to quality of life, since water management is such a huge deal.

During dry season you have:
-pumps that need to be off
-factories that depend on water wheels will idle
-early game, some farms will idle
21 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Add toggle for engine to only run during drought" (suggested by Seren on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
21 Sep, '21
Thaina Yu
https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/215198/beaver-automatorsif-this-then-thatraise-and-lower-dams-automatically-with-a-beav
22 Sep, '21
Jokerthefool Merged
Have an option to auto disable Irrigation towers during droughts to avoid unnecessary dehydration
22 Sep, '21
Eric Merged
To reduce micro-management it would be nice if there were checkboxes or something to disable buildings on a seasonal basis. For example, you might want to automatically disable some Water Pumps or powered buildings during the dry season, and enable some extra Inventors to absorb the workers.
22 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Automatically disable irrigation towers during droughts" (suggested by Jokerthefool on 2021-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Add ability to disable buildings seasonally" (suggested by Eric on 2021-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
I've added keywords in description for better search
23 Sep, '21
Colin Geukes Merged
It would be ideal to be able to pause specific buildings depending on dry/wet season. For example I would like my engine of the second tribe only to be running during the dry season (or my pumps only be working during wet season). Doing this manually every dry/wet season is a bit too annoying and have an automatic pause/unpause depending on season would be a perfect solution!

Also it should not be too difficult for players to use such an option for their game as it can be a simple grid below a building that you can press to automatically pause/unpause a building depending on the season!
24 Sep, '21
Eric Merged
To reduce micro-management, add checkboxes or something to automatically pause buildings in wet/dry season. For example, during the dry season you might pause some buildings that require power, and unpause some researchers to give those beavers something to do.
(Note: I tried to post this suggestion a couple days ago and it didn't seem to work. Apologies if this really is a dupe, and feel free to delete.)
24 Sep, '21
Freelancer-7 Merged
I would like to see an option on the water pump UI to auto pause them when a drought starts. This could also be accomplished with a depth marker placed adjacent to the pump (as shown in the image) with the option to set the water level to pause the pump on the pump UI. Or both options! That would be great also.

Fantastic game by the way.
24 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"(Un)Pauze buildings depending on current season" (suggested by Colin Geukes on 2021-09-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
24 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Auto pause pumps during drought option" (suggested by Freelancer-7 on 2021-09-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
24 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Add ability to pause buildings seasonally" (suggested by Eric on 2021-09-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
25 Sep, '21
JJ Merged
I would like to have some kind of automated pause/resume on certain buildings based on draught. It gets boring to turn off certain pumps or power eating buildings when river stops moving and water gets low, moving the water workers into power wheels. Or at least implement mass pause/resume feature like you currently have on building priorities, making it bit easier.
25 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Pause / resume schedule for buildings" (suggested by JJ on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Sep, '21
Cr1t Merged
In most cases you should have enough water for the dry season and you need the Water for your Crops and Trees- Since someone doesn't want to pump all of the water out of the River during a dry season he shuts down all of the water pumps. With a large amount of Pumps this is a tedious process, so why don't add a button to some facilitys (maby even theese who us energy, since if you're using water weels you only have energy when the water flows) wich automaticly shuts down facilitys during a drought so the bevers don't suck off all the water and they can do other stuff.
26 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Automatic shutt of during dry Season" (suggested by Cr1t on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
27 Sep, '21
ExceededMerlin Merged
Allow to automatically set certain buildings to paused during draught.
28 Sep, '21
Hidden Merged
At the moment you can toggle a building on and off. During a drought I find myself constantly turning off Water Pumps to conserve the waterrrrr.
28 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Draught Schedule (Trigger)" (suggested by ExceededMerlin on 2021-09-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
29 Sep, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Toggle Off Building During Drought" (suggested by Hidden on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
02 Oct, '21
Joseph Frezza Merged
I think right before drought, maybe a button to emergency close all dams would be helpful. I know you can pause and do it but the option to do it all at once sounds good. open at your own risk though haha
05 Oct, '21
Tilner Merged
Add the ability to toggle building on/off for dry/wet season.
05 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"button to open/close all dams" (suggested by Joseph Frezza on 2021-10-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
05 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Add Dry Season toggle" (suggested by Tilner on 2021-10-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
05 Oct, '21
KnightForlorn Merged
Add a drop down toggle to when a specific building will run and auto-pausing during all other times. Same for during and out of Work Hours Something like:

"This building will run during [Season Drop Down Options: (All Seasons), (Wet Season), (Drought)] and during [Hours Drop Down Options (All Hours), (Work Hours), (Non-Work Hours)."

This way, production buildings that require power can be auto paused during non-work hours allowing what power is left to go to buildings like the merry-go-round or stop producing power like the engine. Could also make some jobs seasonal like water pumps that only run during the wet season, usually flooded pumps that only run during the drought or inventor's huts that only run during the drought. The default can be All Seasons and All Hours.
06 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Seasonal Job and Hourly Job Toggle" (suggested by KnightForlorn on 2021-10-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Oct, '21
Poet Merged
If the developers don't want to do logical automation, it would at least be a nice compromise to be able to say "in the dry season, these dams go to these heights, these buildings go off and these go on"
because manually disabling pumps and enabling power wheels does not scale well over time at the moment.
07 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Dry/wet season building groups" (suggested by Poet on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Oct, '21
Munakoiso Merged
Please add options on a building level for autopausing them. For example:
Auto-pause during wet season
Auto-pause during dry season

For example, I'd like to autopause my engine and water dump during the wet season, while someone might want to autopause all of their industry buildings during the dry season because they rely on water power. Or perhaps disable one of their gear factories, while not pausing their lumbermill, and auto-enabling their beaver wheel power in the dry season.

It would be a relatively simple thing to program (2 boolean variables on buildings, 1 or 2 methods to get the current season, and 1 or 2 methods controlling the pausing. And of course a bit of ui work to include the buttons) but it would be a major QoL feature for me!
09 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Autopause settings for buildings" (suggested by Munakoiso on 2021-10-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Oct, '21
Thomas Klewe Merged
This is needed. Right now, i have about 77 water pumps on my level and to avoid drying out land, i have to turn most of them off during dry season. This becomes tedious and is not a fun part of the game. It would be useful for other buildings too connected to water wheels but mainly the water pumps. If you could assign a temporary job for the beavers in the seasonal paused buildings like science station or haulers it would be great but just an auto pause would make me enjoy the game much more.
11 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Set building to automatic pause in dry season" (suggested by Thomas Klewe on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
14 Oct, '21
Kristopher Kerwin Merged
Seasonal Work Profiles: Select what buildings are paused or active during wet and dry seasons, as well as the # of workers that they have during those seasons. When it switches between those seasons, the game automatically switches between those settings; eg. perhaps water pump beavers will go instead to farmhouses to get crops out of the field before they dry out, or run instead to replace lost power at the manual power wheel? These sorts of changes should be able to be automated, and the user shouldn't have to be overwhelmed by too much code or a code-like interface.
14 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"QoL: Seasonal Work Profiles" (suggested by Kristopher Kerwin on 2021-10-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Oct, '21
myr2 Merged
Engine and Haulers-post

Engine (iron teeth): I would be happy about a function that, if you tick the box (like: Prioritize Building by Haulers) , the motor starts automatically in the event of a drought and when it is over, it switches off again. Especially in the late game with 20+ engines and several districts it is exhausting to switch them all on and off by hand. Especially if you are playing in hard mode and the drought occurs every 7 days.

Tug posts (all factions): When a beaver dies, a beaver from a nearby tug post should automatically take over his job. It happened to me several times that beaver died of old age at the water pumps and the building was unoccupied for a long time. One of my entire districts died as a result xD

thanks :)
23 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Engine and Haulers-post" (suggested by myr2 on 2021-10-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
26 Oct, '21
RanWithAPlan Merged
Can you please add a setting in floodgates, pumps, water dumps, and anything that consumes water, to turn off in the dry season.
26 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Quality of life with floodgates and pumps" (suggested by RanWithAPlan on 2021-10-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
18 Nov, '21
foisajfo Merged
I think a good addition would be to make it so you can have some buildings (like water pumps for example) automatically switch off during a drought, so that you don't have to individually turn off every water pump whenever it stops flowing. Also I think a good building addition would be some form of storage for excess horsepower so that you can build it up with water wheels during the normal season and siphon from it during the droughts when the waterwheels stop turning.
18 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Toggle buildings during a drought + horsepower storage" (suggested by foisajfo on 2021-11-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
08 Dec, '21
Adam/ThePlumbum Merged
Simple as it says in the title, this would be an option available to automatically pause or unpause a building during the dry season, nested into the building's options like the recipes - since some work will by its nature be seasonal (undammed farms, any industry served by waterwheels and in some cases, water pumps), it would save a lot of micro if we could set these buildings to automatically cease operation when they're useless - then the logical next step from there is to allow other buildings to unpause during the dry season to make use of this new workforce - probably research buildings but hey that's up to players.
08 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
""Pause/Unpause building during drought" function" (suggested by Adam/ThePlumbum on 2021-12-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
28 Dec, '21
Hungry Beaver Merged
It would be a massive QoL if buildings could be set to turn on/off in certain conditions (Pumps during droughts or when reservoir falls below particular level) to cut down on seasonal micro
29 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Building power settings" (suggested by Hungry Beaver on 2021-12-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Jan, '22
Beaverbiter Merged
Select if buildings should be operational always or only in certain seasons.
E.g. automatically turn off Water towers/dumps during wet season. Turn back on during dry season. Automatically turn off some industry buildings (e.g. gear maker) during dry season.
Turn off water pumps during dry seasons.
When buildings go off the beavers become unemployed and therefore available again. When a building turns on it draws from the unemployed pool.
06 Jan, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Option to automatically turn on/off buildings dependent on season" (suggested by Beaverbiter on 2022-01-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Jan, '22
Petr Bednar Merged
Add simple checkbox to pump for it to stop working in drought and start working when drought ends.

My usecase is that pump is on the same river that keeps my crops irrigated. I have water storage enough for a whole drought but not enough food stored yet to have a major production restart. This turned out to be major micromanagement nightmare for my oldest district which is not supported with big deep lake to balance out the the pumped out water and I need to manualy turn on and off 10 pumps.