Add more Floodgate heights - taller (higher) floodgates

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• 25 Sep, '21
  Jcheung

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  the ability to embed a floodgate into the structure would also be nice
  
  (example below)
  https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/1018_mansfield_damlcrajpg

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• 24 Sep, '21
  Thasur

  If you can do the Floodgate high adjustment in 0.1 steps would be great. That make it easyer to mange the Waterflow to the perfekt Water Levels

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• 25 Sep, '21
  FuryoftheStars

  I feel like if flood gates were allowed to be stackable, there wouldn’t be a need for so many variations of (essentially) the same thing.

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• 28 Sep, '21
  Tristan Merged

  I want to be able to make taller dams while still being able to release all the water in them

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• 28 Sep, '21
  Abadatha Merged

  I like to build huge reservoirs for water power, and to never have to worry about drying out or thirst, however, there's no good way to fully empty the mill pond reservoir without knocking down a section and then rebuilding it. Proposing some kind of either stackable floodgate, a variable height flood gate, or a gate that can be built as the base of a dam built entirely of levees and still be able to drain it entirely for power if necessary.

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• 28 Sep, '21
  Thaina Yu

  How about this?
  
  https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/217878/change-high-floodgate-into-controllable-levee

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• 28 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Allow the stacking of adjustable levies." (suggested by Tristan on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 29 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Stackable Floodgate, or a 1x1 floodgate that can be built at the base of the structure" (suggested by Abadatha on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 06 Oct, '21
  Grant Merged

  It would be nice to have a flood gate that I
  
  1. Did not need to destroy each time I wanted to raise a dam
  2. Goes more than 3 blocks down
  
  It would make large dam projects really cool and open up strategies around water wheel placement, where maximizing flow out of the dam could change the power output

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• 07 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Modifiable height flood gate" (suggested by Grant on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 25 Oct, '21
  Ace2dk Merged

  why not create large sluice so that we could make a large dam and not be satisfied with 3 levels

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• 25 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "big sluice" (suggested by Ace2dk on 2021-10-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Nov, '21
  Edward Williams Merged

  I believe adding flood gates that go deeper than three blocks would be a great improvement. I've been watching some people play on youtube and I'm really interested in getting the game in the future when funds allow. Several people I've been watching play the game on youtube have been making really tall reservoirs for the iron teeth so they can survive longer in the drought season. The current flood gates only go down three levels and it would be extremely useful if there was an option for flood gates that go deeper than three levels, as this would allow people to further micromanage their massive reservoirs during drought. Thanks for making such a fun-looking game.

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• 02 Nov, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Add Flood Gates that go deeper than 3 blocks" (suggested by Edward Williams on 2021-11-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 07 Nov, '21
  amatius

  Continuing on the pattern increasing the floodgate height by 1 would eventually reach just another limit.
  
  A more realistic approach would be a single block which levvies can be built upon.
  I.e. allows to release water at the bottom of the dam (or on whatever level the player wants, depending on where it was built).
  
  It could be the existing dam piece. But it does not allow the player to control the water flow.
  So a piece which can be opened/closed would be a really cool feature which allows the player great freedom.

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• 16 Nov, '21
  JHM Merged

  Allow floodgate height to be "infinitely" upgradable (aka tall) if the appropriate amount of resources and/or science points are traded for it. For example, each triple floodgate section would cost 100 science points in order to upgrade to a quad floodgate, and have the price increase exponentially per 1 tile height increase.

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• 16 Nov, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Suggestion: Allow upgradable floodgates past Triple" (suggested by JHM on 2021-11-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 07 Jan, '22
  Thomas Weidner Merged

  With evaporation being a main loss of water from lakes during long droughts it makes more sense to build deeper and not larger (i.e. more surface area) lakes. Unfortunately, floodgates are only 3 tiles high at most. While one could use a mechanic water pump to exploit a lake 4 tiles deep and the deep water pump for a lake 6 tiles deep the most straightforward solution would be higher floodgates.
  
  Note, actual dams don't have flood"gates" at all, but drain using an exhaust low in the dam, I guess that this isn't possible with the way water is modelled in timberborn (i.e. it has to be surface water and cannot flow below parts of a dam).

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• 08 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Higher floodgates" (suggested by Thomas Weidner on 2022-01-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 25 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Hauteur Écluse" (suggested by Marty on 2022-01-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 20 Feb, '22
  Mark Taylor

  Stackable floodgates do sound like they'd solve a LOT of problems, and have them only automatically open (if set that way) the ones at their level and above.

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• 25 Dec, '22
  Bill Merged

  If they only go up the 3 tiles high because of balancing, thats cool, leave it. Otherwise i think it would be cool to have some 5 tile height flood gates, at least.

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• 29 Dec, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Taller flood gates" (suggested by Bill on 2022-12-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 11 Feb, '23
  hi Merged

  make the floodgates taller but the ones over 4 blocks tall require steel

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• 11 Mar, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "taller floodgates" (suggested by hi on 2023-02-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 13 May, '23
  Julian Murphy Merged

  Up to six Hight Using Metal Blocks and treated Planks. 🆒➕🆕

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• 20 May, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Add More heights to Floodgates" (suggested by Julian Murphy on 2023-05-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 30 Nov, '23
  David azevedo Merged

  Like bridges, it would be fun to have taller flood gate, but build with metal. Like bridges. At least for Iron Teeth

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• 30 Nov, '23
  melympe

  Yes, this would be really nice. Right now, I'm kinda working around the limitation of my floodgates by repeatedly destroying and rebuilding one stack of levees whenever needed. So my dam is 12 (or whatever) tiles high? Put a 3-tile high floodgate so it ends on the top. If I need more water from that dam, I just destroy the top 4 tiles of the stack of levees right next to the floodgate. If I need more water, I destroy another levee block... Then rebuild after the flood.

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• 01 Dec, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "4, 5 and 6 Blocks Tall Flood Gates" (suggested by David azevedo on 2023-11-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 07 Jul, '24
  esportfrank1 Merged

  make larger flodegate , insteda of triple, becuse when you have larger you can realese more water than befor

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• 13 Jul, '24
  Gin Fuyou System

  "larger flodgate" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-07-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 15 Oct, '24
  Egamma

  I think the sluice gate may be a partial solution?

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• 17 Mar, '25
  Orinoco

  Not just a partial solution, I think any of the reasons why you would want this are solved by sluices.
  
  If you make floodgates too tall they will start to look ridiculous. I think 3-high is enough. Any more than that just use sluices.

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• 19 Apr
  Isaac

  To solve this you could replace leveys with platform and put a floodgate in front of it so you don't have to try and build on top of the floodgate

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