Water flow overlay

66 votes

Adding an overlay to show water flow direction and maybe have arrows to indicate the force. That would allow more complex irrigation and show why water wheels lose power randomly.

[mod edit]: added image from suggestion by Pierre

Under consideration Suggestion UI Suggested by: Adam (23 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 24 Jan • Comments: 13

Comments: 13

18 Jun, '21
Raigán Avalon Merged
With repeated bug reports on the discord and no official ticket for it here, it's worth adding. As the water flow and levels continuously change, knowing why, for instance, a waterwheel isn't working can be very confusing or frustrating. Having some way, either through a building or through a UI element, to learn the current status of any particular body of water would be of great use to the player.
15 Sep, '21
Stephanie Merged
Adding a status to the water wheel would help as well, to explain why the water wheel is not working.
06 Nov, '21
frisco Merged
A visual tool to allow us to see the strength and direction of the flow of water would be really fantastic. The tool could be colour coded to show strength (red for weak green for strong, same as DC range indicator) and arrows to indicate direction. Would make it a lot easier to identify leaks or blockages.
06 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Water flow visual tool" (suggested by frisco on 2021-11-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Nov, '21
wiedmax Merged
Not yet ! - the topic stated as "Done" but it isn't completely true : the level pole that allow to monitor this level should also show the ACTIVE CURRENT body of water it is measuring - including temporary merge throught dam lowering AND the waterflow direction - to maintain the wheel performance which is YET STILL BUGGY !
14 Nov, '21
Zam! Admin Merged
I agree, there is still more that can potentially be done in terms of indicating the flow strength and direction, not just depth. Re-marking it as under consideration :)
14 Nov, '21
Zam! Admin
"Water level feedback" (suggested by Raigán Avalon on 2021-06-18), including upvotes (15) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.
14 Nov, '21
Zam! Admin
This is a thread for UI overlay to display flow, please follow this link for a suggestion of implementing this as a building:

https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/220619/water-flow-indicator
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12 Dec, '21
Pierre Merged
Add a semi transparent layer to visualize the water flow and its direction (see image for an example) : with the new wheels system moving one square on a wheel can produce much more electricity and visualizing the water to determine the current speed is not very accurate.

Could also be a structure that give those informations (water flow speed and direction) in a given range around the structure.
14 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Water flow layer view" (suggested by Pierre on 2021-12-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
02 Jul, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"川の流れを見やすくする。" (suggested by ふるかわ on 2022-06-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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03 Aug, '22
Italo Rodrigues Merged
When selecting the energy build mode, it could display the flow of water, and wind, so at the beginning we would know where it would be most efficient to produce energy.
04 Aug, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Water flow" (suggested by Italo Rodrigues on 2022-08-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.