Update 3: Please make LIQUID storage default to water

36 votes

Every single liquid, aside from water, is not even available untill much later in the game. Its really tedious and makes no sense that i should have to click the tank and then click water for all of my liquid storages in the early to mid cycles when there is literally no other option that could go in them that early.

Even in late game I think i would still prefer them to start on water even on folktail who have more options. For the IT its even more significant because for them they only have maple and medicine and lets be real a single large tank of each will serve them for even the largest of settlements. So for all the other tanks in a playthrough of IT its needless clicking.

The normal storage is fine to start on nothing because they have berries, carrots, chestnuts, grilled chestnuts, and potentially potatoes, grilled potatoes, and gears relatively early on. But for liquid storages i feel its just senseless and adds a ton of extra tedious clicking that could easily be avoided.

Under consideration Experimental QOL Suggestion Suggested by: Grey Kylia (25 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 02 Feb • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

25 Nov, '22
TTJ
Please don't! I am sure that I would in at least 50% odf the cases forget to set the correct item. It would be extremely frustrating if beavers would always start to fill the wrong liquid into the tank!

For QOL marking several tanks at once to change its purpose could help.
26 Nov, '22
Grey Kylia
When you start to build a storage you can specify what you want in it before its even begins construction. So this wouldn't really happen where you forget because you're likely only building a tank or 2/3 for maple or biofuel or whatever for a specific reason and since its on your mind you will pick it when you place it. In every other situation tanks are for water. However, even if you forgot to pick, somehow, it takes seconds to change it to what you really want and uptick its priority to move any water stored there away. There is no downside to making the default choice water because if i forgot to choose i'd rather it be full of water and useful than empty.

At the very least it should be an option to set a default storage to water because it would make the entire early and most of midgame significantly smoother. Or perhaps ONLY set small liquid storage to water by default and let the others by default be on none. I still think default water on all is better but its not up to me.
29 Dec, '22
Edo Merged
Can within the liquid container water be standard 'ON'. Like, in the begin game I always have to turn it to water.
01 Jan, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Water as base for liquid container" (suggested by Edo on 2022-12-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
15 Jan, '23
LaffeeTaffee
In response to TTJ, I think the fact that you can designate what type of liquid it will store before it's even built will mitigate this problem. Although it's still a good idea for later game when you might be using many smaller barrels for resins or syrup to be able to select multiple and change it from the default which would be water.