Add landscape elevation on screen to show height under mouse

27 votes

Show the height continuously in the corner as you move the mouse around to assist in planning. Alternatively have a measurement tool that can show landscape height and perhaps other measurements like distance

[mod edit]: heightmap overlay now goes here too as alternative \ additional implementation for same purpose.

Under consideration Suggestion UI Suggested by: Funketime (20 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 22 Feb • Comments: 13

Comments: 13

05 Oct, '21
Thelightcosine Merged
We need a game tool that allows us to click on a square and get a numerical value for the elevation so that we can easily compare elevations between two disparate areas.
06 Oct, '21
Ben Merged
Add a UI tool that tells you the elevation of the top of the tile that your cursor is on. I have often wanted to build large bridges/ dams and found it tedious to try and figure out the correct height for everything. This tool would also help for seeing where the new waterline will end up after dam construction.
06 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Elevation Check Tool" (suggested by Thelightcosine on 2021-10-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"UI tool for elevations" (suggested by Ben on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
06 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
Edited title for better search
08 Oct, '21
Rohan
Came looking for this. Was cutting a channel through a mountain, got halfway through and realised that where I was bring water too was actually one level higher than where I was coming from. Would definitely be helpful to have a way to instantly tell. Maybe not a mouse thing as the title suggests, but a filter/view you can toggle that displays the world in the height levels. Either numbers on every square or perhaps colour coded, ie. this level is red, level above is yellow, etc. Could be an accessibility problem though for those with colourblindness.
09 Oct, '21
Shraeder Merged
With some terrain, it's hard to tell what Y level it's on relative to other terrain. it would be nice to turn on a filter that highlighted each level of terrain a different shade or color.
11 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Heightmap" (suggested by Shraeder on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
10 Nov, '21
fabnie
this would be a very welcome addition to the game. I enjoy games like creeper world which need the hight to be shown for survival reasons and to be able to see your current absolut hight in timberborn would be a game changer/huge qol improvement.
01 Dec, '21
Neffster
Agree on height map but I would like to expand to full x,y,z coordinates of each block to help me count how far something is as well as how tall
27 May, '23
Jamie C
I like the mod that does this. It should be a built in feature.
22 Feb
Peri Merged
This is now multiple runs that I've discovered that, oh, I'm already basically at the bottom of the map. You shouldn't have to even unlock the dynamite (or the better dynamite) if this is true; there should be a way to tell what layer you're currently looking at and how much further down it goes before you spend like two thousand research points discovering it doesn't do anything.
25 Feb
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Add visual indication of the layer or proximity to bottom layer." (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-02-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.