mass pause - draggable tool

Comments: 88

• 23 Sep, '21
  Zach Merged

  Like the build priority mouse option (which is amazing) it would be good to be able to pause/unpause buildings that way. Also adding that for hauling priority, and storage that contains each item type.

• 24 Sep, '21
  SkinkHeaven

  Was thinking something similar. Maybe allow selecting multiple buildings at once - would also provide an opportunity to change building settings when all selected objects are of the same type. Double clicking selects all buildings of the same type.

• 25 Sep, '21
  Logan

  Same for the Breeding pods. Pausing all of them at once would be very helpful.

• 25 Sep, '21
  David C Bollinger

  I saw a similar thing earlier, some sort of way to pause many building fast would be super nice! in my case it's tree cutting flags.

• 25 Sep, '21
  LordRedStone

  This could be combined with the popular suggestion of "assign beaver to this job". Just have an icon next to yours that assigns beavers from other jobs to the selected one(s). This would be useful for emergency food and water production, or generally to get beavers to do the jobs you want without pausing all other buildings.

• 25 Sep, '21
  CuddleCatTeej

  Yah, this is a very needed feature especially for later game when you have to turn off or on large quantities of buildings every time a drought comes in. Maybe it could go under the priority tab or something.

• 25 Sep, '21
  Incapybara

  I need this too! Or maybe some sort of menu where you can pause all instances of a specific building at once!

• 26 Sep, '21
  Alfred Merged

  Similar to the buttons to set the priority (on the bottom toolbar where you can click a priority then click buildings, not the building menu), you can pause/unpause buildings.

• 27 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Disable buildings" (suggested by Alfred on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 28 Sep, '21
  Andy Merged

  Just like the priority tool, there should be a tool that allows me to pause building that reside in a selected area.

• 28 Sep, '21
  Hamsolo Merged

  Being able to start and stop one or more building the same way we do with the priority tool

• 29 Sep, '21
  Baer

  I like this idea, as an addition to the 'priority tool'

• 29 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  I've edited the title for better navigation

• 29 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Area pause tool" (suggested by Andy on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "START/STOP building in batch (like the priority tool)" (suggested by Hamsolo on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Sep, '21
  Seizan

  I think being able to select multiple buildings would be best. Like CTRL + click for windows files. Let players select mutliple buildings. Then give them some global actions that can be applied to any buildings like "pause" and "unpause". Or even delete.

• 29 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Add pausing/unpausing to click and drag option" (suggested by Zach on 2021-09-23), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Sep, '21
  Mortn Merged

  I would really love a button so that I can stop buildings in bulk, similar to the priorities buttons.
  Feels like I use a lot time to start/stop a lot of buildings.
  
  Thanks

• 30 Sep, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Add a bulk start/stop button, like the change priorities buttons" (suggested by Mortn on 2021-09-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 01 Oct, '21
  Tetrygon Merged

  I was thinking a pause cursor that is similar to the priority cursor. Any buildings in the selected area is automatically paused.

• 01 Oct, '21
  Alcaztrul Merged

  Right now, whenever I go in or out of dry season, I have to manually pause/unpause all my water pumps, which I think is a bit tedious. I have a few suggestions:
  1) A tool that allows for mass-pausing/unpausing buildings/constructions in an area, similar to the priority tool.
  2) The ability to group buildings so that they could be paused/unpaused simultaneously.
  3) A keyboard hotkey to pause/unpause the currently selected building.

• 01 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "A way to quickly halt/pause buildings" (suggested by Tetrygon on 2021-10-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 01 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Tool to pause/unpause several buildings and construction projects at the same time" (suggested by Alcaztrul on 2021-10-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 05 Oct, '21
  Kenji

  https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/723433090944335933/895053755861569546/20211005225648_1.jpg
  
  In the priority area, a pause button would be nice so that you can pause several buildings at once.
  
  sometimes it is annoying that you have to pause and start each building individually!
  
  maybe this pause button could not only paralyze construction sites but also pause active buildings ?!

• 07 Oct, '21
  Arc

  Mass pausing would be great for planning; put out everything on a dam, for example, and then pause it all until you're ready to go. To expand the idea a bit though, it would be great if you could just select multiple buildings at once to operate on all of them (*including* pausing). For example, if I've built a large storage bin and I want to empty out the three it's replacing, being able to select all of them and go "empty all of these" would go a lot quicker than doing them individually; or alternately, suppose there's a drought coming and I want all my farms to switch to prioritizing harvesting. Select farms, switch them all. Would be a nice QoL.

• 08 Oct, '21
  Sean Hunter Merged

  
  2)It is a real pain to have to click and pause/unpause a large number of buildings at a time (think sending a bunch of beavers into science for the dry season and then back to their normal jobs during the wet season). It would a amazing to be able to just drag a region and pause or unpause all the things in that region just the same as you can do for priorities
  
  Congrats on an amazing game btw. Really loving it.

• 09 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "2 QoL changes: click-and-drag pause/unpause from the priorities menu" (suggested by Sean Hunter on 2021-10-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 09 Oct, '21
  Drefar Merged

  Anyone who thinks it would be really great with a button that can pause and enable buildings I mean like the Priority button instead of going into the building and I mean every building to pause or unpause the building XD it's such a hassle...

• 10 Oct, '21
  Drefar Merged

  This game is tedious if you want to micromanage!! Suggestion add a Button like the Priority button so you can click on building with that button to unpause and pause the buildings you want to pause or unpause because it's such a tedious task to go in every single building when you had a death wave and don't have enough workers and the workers just keep being on a lumber mill while the more needed job is water collecting or woodcutting or Gathering berries??? What if you have 100s of buildings and it's layered that would defiantly be a Nightmare...

• 11 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Are you having fun Micro managing when you need to go into each building to unpause or Pause it XD" (suggested by Drefar on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "1 Button to Pause and unpause like the Priority Button!!!!" (suggested by Drefar on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 13 Oct, '21
  Brian Dean Merged

  It would be nice if there was an ability to pause/unpause multiple buildings at a time. Breeding pods and water pumps come to mind. Similar to how there is a feature to tag several building projects as important or not.

• 13 Oct, '21
  Cleany Merged

  Pause/Play multiple buildings with a draggable toggle, e.g. like the delete buildings/resources toggle

• 13 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Mass Pause/UnPause" (suggested by Brian Dean on 2021-10-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 13 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Draggable Pause/Play Toggle" (suggested by Cleany on 2021-10-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 14 Oct, '21
  RiverTiger767 Merged

  Similar to the "Assign Priorities" button but you could select an area and it would pause all the buildings in the area and you can select the different option in that tab and un-pause them the same way. I feel like this would be useful for when you have a lot of breeding pods or water pumps and you need to pause them rather than clicking through them one by one. A small quality of life addition :D

• 14 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "A Pause/Un-Pause Selection Tool" (suggested by RiverTiger767 on 2021-10-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 16 Oct, '21
  Aerin Merged

  It would work kinda like how you would click and drag to destroy buildings, but you're able to just select them, letting you pause or play multiple buildings at once. Having to pause all my inventor's hut one at a time after a drought is kind of tedious
  
  It would also be pretty cool to be able to lock a beaver into a job. Assign a part time job during drought and have them come back to their original job during wet season. I've named a couple of my beavers according to their jobs and i thought it was cute, but then they all get mixed up after a cycle
  
  Awesome game, keep up the good work!!

• 17 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Quality of life addition: multiple building select" (suggested by Aerin on 2021-10-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 21 Oct, '21
  Drefar

  Would be so much better with a system Like Overlay and the same thing as the Priority Overlay just with different colors so you don't confuse those 2 and then it would also be better for those who can't see colors like green or something else I think you get it...

• 21 Oct, '21
  Brian

  The rubber band would be nice, but I was thinking something like double clicking a building selects all buildings of its type(or of it's type that's in the same pause state). Then the "P" could toggle them all.

• 23 Oct, '21
  Joel Merged

  A way to easily paus multiple buildings at once.

• 23 Oct, '21
  Christian

  Please, that would be a huge QOL improvement.
  
  You could expand the priority-tool (add pause/unpause next to low/mid/high) or make a similar tool next to it that allows to pause structures via grid like the priority tool does. Building huge structures in advance, planning to build them step by step over time, is a huge pain in the tail, having to manually select and pause/unpause every single darn platform.
  
  Another wish concerning pause:
  Let us click on one job in the job list on the left and select "pause all x" - having to manually pause/unpause all water pumps is tedious.
  
  Thanks for the great game and keep them updates coming! <3

• 23 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "A pause building button" (suggested by Joel on 2021-10-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 24 Oct, '21
  Askarium Merged

  Is it possible to implement an Button in the Interface for Pausing and Resume Buildings, like the Buildings Delete Tool, otherwise you have to Click every Building and Pause it. Its so laborious. In Hard Mode it is important to do that, especially for Waterpumps.

• 24 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Button for Pausing and Resume Buildings" (suggested by Askarium on 2021-10-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 28 Oct, '21
  Alessandro Merged

  ability to hold and drag to select a bunch of buildings to pause and unpause them all. The same way you can hold and drag over buildings under construction in order to assign priority.

• 28 Oct, '21
  SirMichael Admin

  "Ability to pause and unpause multiple buildings at once." (suggested by Alessandro on 2021-10-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Oct, '21
  CompletelyLucky Merged

  Having a function that allows you to select multiples of the same building or structure, like roads, to destroy or pause at the same time. Maybe have a part of the U/I that tells you which buildings are paused, click on it and it jumps to that specific building, or lets you un-pause it from that directly. Having to click each single building or structure to delete/pause can be a lot easier this way.

• 30 Oct, '21
  hail_autonom Merged

  Having a button like the priority button, but for pausing and playing a building I think would be a great feature. Clicking buildings individually gets tiresome over time. Just my opinion. Thanks for the time.

• 31 Oct, '21
  Keanu Merged

  A tool like the "Destroy Resources/Building" tool, but for pausing building function

• 01 Nov, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Multiple Selections" (suggested by CompletelyLucky on 2021-10-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 01 Nov, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "A pause / play button?" (suggested by hail_autonom on 2021-10-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 01 Nov, '21
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Bulk Pause tool" (suggested by Keanu on 2021-10-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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  01 Jan, '22
  Abby Merged

  i hate needing to stop every building one at a time id love if there was a way to drag over a bunch and turn them on and off just like with destroying buildings example in the photo. i love this game so far but this is honestly the most frustrating thing needing to stop everything to turn of my 35 water pumps one by one

• 01 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "pausing buildings in a more intuitive manner" (suggested by Abby on 2022-01-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 02 Jan, '22
  crimsonking Merged

  I use the priority tool a lot. I like to plan buildings before-hand and then use the priority tool to set at once what's for now and what's for later.
  This said, let's suppose my most urgent building is a forester and then I have an inventor planned at bottom priority. As planks take time to make, what will happen is that the beavers will fulfill the forester quota of logs and then start building the inventor, before the planks needed by the forester are available.
  In this case, I have to focus on the inventor and click on the button to pause its construction. Would it be possible to make that option available directly from the priority tool?
  In fact, would it be possible to treat the pause during the construction exactly as the other priorities? I ask this because I tend to plan a lot of buildings that I then put on pause, and this results in a lot of warnings popping out in the map, making it difficult to read.

• 02 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Construction-pause as a priority" (suggested by crimsonking on 2022-01-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 03 Jan, '22
  Nicole Merged

  Be able to turn jobs on and off by dragging and highlighting. This would make it easier to turn jobs that are not needed off quickly

• 03 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "drag select jobs" (suggested by Nicole on 2022-01-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 07 Jan, '22
  Nick Hulse Merged

  Ability to pause all construction or buildings via selection (shift+click, or drag select).

• 07 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Pause all selected" (suggested by Nick Hulse on 2022-01-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 14 Jan, '22
  Daniel g Rittscher Merged

  there needs to be a mass or blanket pause button for produstion. there is no way to currently pause buildings requiring power-for instance in a drought. also there needs to be a way to priortize buildings for workers,-water and food over plank or metal production ect

• 14 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "mass pause button" (suggested by Daniel g Rittscher on 2022-01-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 17 Jan, '22
  MELISSA Merged

  Similar to how the priority buttons work, but with pausing. Click and drag over what you want to pause. It would be super helpful during droughts instead of having to individually pause each building. Then unpausing after the drought.
  LOVE LOVE LOVE the game!

• 18 Jan, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Ability to Pause Building by dragging" (suggested by MELISSA on 2022-01-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Apr, '22
  ethangreiner

  I set up a mass breeder and to pause when not needed on mass would be very help full

• 11 Apr, '22
  Eddlit Merged

  A way to pause or start a bunch of buildings at the same time, the same way you can mass select priority in the game.

• 12 Apr, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Mass-pausing building" (suggested by Eddlit on 2022-04-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 01 Jun, '22
  Mars Merged

  Hi, thanks for making this wonderful game! really love it.
  can make a button for pause and unpause building working? like priority buttons.
  this could be very useful.
  cause I always need to change labors deployment, and I have to pause buildings work one by one, it bother me a lot.
  thanks a lot

• 05 Jun, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Need MULTY - PAUSE BUTTON for buildings !!!!!!! - just like priority buttons." (suggested by Mars on 2022-06-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 22 Aug, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "nowy priorytet PAUZA" (suggested by Grzegorz on 2022-08-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 02 Sep, '22
  Tussak

  This could be implemented similar to floodgates, 'Synchronize pause with adjacent buildings of same type' though that is not ideal. Ideally would setup named building groups on which you can toggle pause.

• 27 Sep, '22
  Peter Hazlewood

  Big yes from me. Having to pause mass building projects, or resource clearance (for example), manually is a big pain.

• 29 Sep, '22
  Xode_00 Merged

  It would be nice if there was a toggle somewhere that you could switch on and off to toggle the automatic construction of placed items and a selection toggle similar to the delete objects tool that would allow you to toggle this on and off for a selection of buildings at once
  
  This way you could plan out areas of your colony by setting down the build orders, but have them paused by default until you're ready to build an area, or you can pause building while you gather/produce resources, then selectively build things as you want to and potentially avoid problems.
  
  Would also be nice to have a way to make blueprints so you could build for example a section of dam wall with a certain setup of stairs and then lay it out in a repeatable pattern more easily, or perhaps design a district center block with certain buildings you want in each district and then stamp it down.

• 02 Oct, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Building Planner/Pause Toggle" (suggested by Xode_00 on 2022-09-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 14 Oct, '22
  2006Frankruf Merged

  For those who have many breeding pods or others things out all next to each other you should be able to like the assign priorities creat a large area to unpauses and pause things.

• 31 Oct, '22
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Pausing prioritizing" (suggested by 2006Frankruf on 2022-10-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 07 Dec, '22
  Switchblade88

  Thinking about this potential feature, similar to Tussak's note above it would make sense to be able to toggle all buildings on a specific 'power network'. The shared building data is already there for available supply so it'd be ideal adding an additional toggle for a pause trigger (perhaps specifically on power generation buildings, so production buildings don't get an excessively cluttered UI).
  
  Alternatively, perhaps this should be part of an automation/logic overhaul with additional solutions/buildings. This would link pausing to (say) a water level trigger via the stream gauge, so in drought all linked buildings get paused.

• 13 Jan
  Codre Merged

  Whenever the dry season comes , you usually have to pause most to all of your water pumps. In the early stages of the game this is fine but as you go on this can get really tedious , especially when you have around 10-12 water pumps / district . I was thinking about an option to pause all adjacent water pumps ( like the floodgate option ) or to have a per district option available in the town hall to pause all pumps when the dry season comes . I hope the devs get to see this as it would be an awesome QOL change : D

• 24 Jan
  Carmen Merged

  for me its necessary to have a button, for example in this case, a button to click 'play and pause', all at the same time, not going one by one, on every building that can be paused and play, in the manage settlement

• 25 Jan
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "MASS-PAUSE WATER PUMPS" (suggested by Codre on 2023-01-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 26 Jan
  Jcheung Admin

  "button to put pause and play at the same time" (suggested by Carmen on 2023-01-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 14 Feb
  Draythix

  Having a 'mass start/pause' buildings tool would be extremely helpful for me. I like planning out large parts of a district all at once, and the best way to do this right now is to queue up the buildings and then set them to the lowest priority possible. However, I have found that doing this causes the district to stop transporting building related resources (such as planks/gears) to other districts until all of the queued up buildings have been built, and this can cause big problems when I am planning out construction over a lake.
  
  I can currently working around this by pausing the building construction until I actually want them to be built, but this is a huge hassle when dealing with dozens of platforms.

• 17 Feb
  t. llyfant Merged

  Same concept, select area or one square with 'pause' or 'unpause' and use it to highlight and turn on or off multiple structures instead of clicking them all and doing it manually.

• 18 Feb
  Krell356 Merged

  In the toolbar where you can quick select priorities, it would be nice to be able to do the same with pausing and unpausing buildings instead of needing to individually select and un/pause a group of buildings.

• 11 Mar
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Please add a 'Pause/Unpause' button/tool that works like the priority and construct/deconstruct tool" (suggested by t. llyfant on 2023-02-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 12 Mar
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Add pause/unpause to the priority tab" (suggested by Krell356 on 2023-02-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.