Wishlist: Quality-of-Life Features for Alpha 6

[Silowyi]

@mrxak

2. Destroy or Transplant Wild Silkweed/Berry Bushes

This please, had an entire house fail to complete because one wall was too close to a bush.

@mrxak

3. Designate Items for Disassembly

This was the subject of my one and only topic post on these forums so far

[SteveAdamo]

@Silowyi

This was the subject of my one and only topic post on these forums so far

and kudos to you for seeing the “error” of your ways…

seconding your suggestions, by the way…

[mrxak]

Since Alpha 5 was mainly bugfixes, I’ve edited the topic title.

Now with more 6!

[EpicDwarf]

@mrxak

1. Planning Mode - If anyone’s played Prison Architect, they know what I mean. I would like to see some kind of way of drawing out rectangles on the ground that indicate where I’m planning to build. If this would come with dimensional measurements too, that would be fantastic, but for now I’d settle for just the ability to draw on the ground. Right now it’s possible to fake it with empty stockpiles, but ideally we could get some kind of separate “layer” that had no effect on the game, but allowed the player to really plan things out. Of course it should also be just as easy to erase planning marks. The way I see it looking is simply a transparent white overlay on any squares the player decides to fill in, and these would of course represent anything the player wished, from walls and buildings to stockpiles to roads.

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We really need this. It’ll improve building a lot. I imagine it as this. You make a plan of a house, with the floor, walls, roof, and doodads. You can edit it and move the plan around until it is how you like it. I would also like it if you could “save” these structures and can put them into the game later or until you want them. Then, if you’re ready, you can start building it, preferably using a button in the GUI.

Good idea!

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@mrxak

2. Destroy or Transplant Wild Silkweed/Berry Bushes - This has been suggested a bunch of times already, but it’s worth mentioning yet again. The sorts of settlements I’m wanting to build are quite large, and take up a significant footprint on the ground. The first real task I seem to have in a new game is actually figuring out where the immovable objects are so I can plan around them, and it’s really not that fun. Being able to deal with wild plants and get them out of my way would be of huge benefit to me, and let me actually start playing the game sooner, rather than spending lots of time up front trying to avoid these objects as I draw up my plans. Adding in a new mechanic to transplant such objects would eliminate nearly all of my siting issues, allowing me to start building immediately without worry my row of houses is going to bump into a bunch of plants along the way.

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Another good idea. They should work like the flowerpots that are used for the wild flowers currently.

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@mrxak

3. Designate Items for Disassembly - Right now, I’m not building any of the starter beds because once I place them, I’m stuck with them. I force my denizens to sleep on the ground until I’ve tech’d up enough to build the nice beds. Every item, next to the move button, should really have a disassembly button, causing a worker to pack up the item and return it to a stockpile. Now that I think about it some more, #2 and #3 could be solved with the same feature. Those objects you no longer need or want, stick them in storage.

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This would be good too, but what would also be good would be an upgrade mechanic, like what @Teleros has said.

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[tecmobowl]

First off, incredible so far.
I didn’t see a feature requests sticky so here goes, sorry if I missed it.
Tree planting +1 for fruit
Make building fences like building walls (in process?)
Beasts of burden

[Kaz]

There’s already a request type thread going on.

Here: Wishlist: Quality-of-Life Features for Alpha 6

[SteveAdamo]

@tecmobowl

Beasts of burden

this… would be interesting…

@Kaz

There’s already a request type thread going on

thanks @Kaz … merged!

[crazy_angel_60]

Yep. And the items that get left on ladder rungs are rather annoying too.

[crazy_angel_60]

This would be handy if you want to upgrade an individuals’ bed to comfy from mean.

[Yosmo78]

My suggestions/wishlist is that you should be able to make more fire pits with stone, and that you have to unlock comfy beds by leveling up your carpenter and weaver to a certain level, using the lvl up system that radiant wants to incorporate, and it will have a purpose to the mean bed.

[Mokkun]

as others have not mentioned it, think ill do, Since eating different kinds of food make them happy(er), how about making them chose something other than their last eaten food if available… had them grumpy from eating pumpkins to much when berries, corn and different kind of jerky was available for consumption.

[xophnog]

I’d like to see an inventory list so that when I am carpenting/weaving and item I know that I have enough materials to make the item.

[Yosmo78]

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@Yosmo78

My suggestions/wishlist

Is that when you kill a goblin they will sometimes drop there jagged cleaver and you can equip it to your swordsmen.(the cleaver will do more damage than the wooden practice sword), and another suggestion is an animation for the opening of the picket fence gate.

[Ramcat]

When placing an item, the next item of the same type has the same orientation as the previous one you placed. When placing a row of chairs it is a pain to turn the rotation of each one (same as a row of beds).

[Sapphiru]

Hey guys… I searched (for a bit) and didn´t find this suggestion…so here it go:
A button/command to stop what he/she is doing and retreat the villager to the center of the village.
A suggest this cause I was raided by globlins, and my footsoldier started following then to fight. He reached one, killed, and started following the other, after a couple minutes he was all the way around the map.

ps: eventualy he got stuck attacking a globin head on the ground that didn´t take damage [bug… ] but … the suggestion is there!

TLDR: a retreat button so the villager stop what it is doing and return to the village.

[MajorFordson]

I’d like to see some ground detail around the foundation of buildings. Currently they just sit straight on the green grass, which looks odd. It’d be nice to see some disturbed/barren earth around the bases of walls, with little weeds and stones and stuff.

[LeadfootSlim]

I’ll definitely throw in my two cents on upgrading items; for example, just adding cloth to an existing Mean Bed to create a Comfy Bed.

[Relyss]

Can I have tree houses? ó.ò

[myserval]

Right now, when crafters have an item that they can’t craft due to resources, will wait for that resource to be available, rather than moving onto the next one in the queue. What’s worse, you can’t force them to move on by re-arranging the queue, because they’ll still be stuck on the first crafting request.

This, I’ve found, happens most often with the weaver’s spindle, before you’ve collected any silk.

[LeadfootSlim]

Having jobs bumped to the bottom of the queue if they lack materials would be best, I think. Definitely a good streamlining feature.