Conditional power production - automatically start and stop power wheels or engines

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• 14 Mar, '24
  Mandos

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  Agree, running engines is expensive in logs and having to turn them all on individually each drought when the water wheels stop is just irritating. Having them kick in when demand is there would make them a far more useful thing to build.

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• 01 Oct, '23
  MasterBeaver Merged

  Considering this issue is closed, I open a new one: https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/319578/engines-should-only-provide-power-when-needed-only-while-staffed
  
  In the new U5, when an engine is connected to a Centrifuge or Decontamination pod, the engine keeps spinning and burning fuel. It does this even when all contamination pods are empty and when the centrifuge is not running because it's out of badwater.

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• 02 Oct, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "U5: New badwater buildings: Engines should only run & provide power when there is demand" (suggested by MasterBeaver on 2023-10-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 10 Aug, '24
  No Thanks Merged

  If even a single building on the power network is active, ALL of the engines connected to that network remain active. I find it ridiculous that I have to manually pause engines so that I'm not running 10 engines for a single fermenter needing only 50 hp.

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• 22 Aug, '24
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Iron Teeth Engine Smart Shutoff" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-08-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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