Feature Suggestions

Most building materials have their own unique features, and mortared stone appears quite outdated and bland in comparison to other materials. I'd propose to add unique shapes to them: arches. They should be a multiblock shape, just like ramps, and automatically appear when the shape is composed correctly. There are two variants: Arches are as close to a full half circle as possible without excessive blocks Arches are flatter but easier to construct without guessing Downsides: a lot of prefabs to be made Benefits: not only do they look dope, but on top of that, they're going to incentivise players to build more structurally sound and realistic structures

I think for people who just want to creater their own perfect world, would be great to have NPC's in game to help the player to grown. ( i know is not what this game is about). Make like DLC or Mod just for this few people would be nice.

Hello again everyone!! Its the same old pall loads of ideas ahaha. So I noticed I dig a lote. And I reminded that we need art and so, to grow our land influence. Why not add to the game findings? Like dinosaurs bones, ancient ceramics, precious stones. So with that we could have an museum in our town. :) what all of you think about this?

A magnetic coil that can convert mechanical energy into electrical energy would be cool. This means you can continue to use old wind and water wheels to generate energy. Above all, hydropower is missing from the electrical energy that is possible from the mechanical energy with water wheels.

I think some kind of feature where furniture isn't a one time buy and then forget thing would help the game a lot. Maintenance for Furniture make the furniture have durability similar to food/tools, where the carpenter can repair them Either make them break, or make them loose there bonus once a certain durability is reached

Instead of mechanical power being transmitted wirelessly, instead make it so that each machine must be connected by a power shaft from the mechanical power producers to the consumers. This will give players more control over how power gets distributed, will add a little more challenge to professions that require mechanical power, and also just be cool and fun. The shafts could either work similarly to the pipe system, where they connect automatically to nearby shafts, or for something more complex, the player would have to manually select the direction to use, or use a gearbox to split/combine power connections. The power shafts and/or gearboxes themselves would be created by Basic Engineering, either out of logs or wooden gears. Towns could create a network of power shafts to share power with the various townsfolk, or an individual citizen could just have their own private network. I am guessing that internally, the system could use something similar to the pipe system and the existing mechanical power system blended together, so I don't imagine this having too large of a development or performance cost. This request is inspired by the power systems in the Minecraft Create Mod, and the game Timberborn. I suggest checking both of them out for more inspiration. The feature as I've presented it here is much simpler than either of those.

Oil isn’t the only liquid found underground, aquafers have been tapped by wells for centuries. Especially in areas that lack usable surface water, Eco should try and reflect this too. Underground aquafers occur in various areas throughout the world, the denser the deposit the higher the water compacity with average surface rainfall and humidity determining refill rate, another factor is the aquafer fill condition which determines how much water in in that location. It is possible to overtax an aquafer rendering it impracticable at cost, as each pump will reduce surrounding water levels the deeper it goes. A shorthand way of getting a density heatmap is to combine the heatmaps of limestone and sandstone below a certain altitude, as they are the porous rocks found within Eco. That determines how much water can be down there. Then subtracting for each placed well from deep to shallow, determines how taxed that aquafer is. Masonry Water Well: fills water buckets and/or increases local ground moisture via basic labor, moisture gained per labor is based on aquafer fill and altitude. Can only be placed outside, stops working if contained in a room, if picked up it becomes “recycled material” (i.e. fraction of the material that made it). It is the shallowest and the first to stop production when overtaxed. Mechanics Mechanical Well: converts mechanical power into piped water but very inefficiently, water per watt is based on current aquafer fill and altitude. It’s a medium depth well, stopping production later than a basic water well but before the deepest well. Electronics Electric Well: converts electric power into piped water but inefficiently, water per watt is based on current aquafer fill and altitude. It’s the deepest well, the last and hardest to overtax.

when traveling the lifeless ocean can be pretty sad, look at games like salt 2, and atlas for examples of waves and water/boat physics to make traveling on the water more interesting.

Working on trying to recreate some buildings has lead me to a real conundrum. I can design very elaborate shapes with say, Framed Glass or Ashlar, but I can't actually combine the two shapes without a block of separation between them. Many of the T5 blocks already share similar block designs; it would be fantastic to have full cubes that are made of half of one block material type, and half of another to allow you to seamlessly blend borders visually on your builds. An alternative could also be the game engine simply recognizing negative space that another block can fill in, but I suspect that would require fundamental changes to how buildings works and thus mixed block types would be much easier to implement.

Transporting bulk goods via water is the most cost efficient transportion in real life. Currently the best players have is using the industrial barge with multiple trucks on it. Instead the best mode of transporting goods should be a "Container" ship with either the container being purely a visual element or the containers instead replaced with stockpiles. Visually I could see it being two large stockpiles in the same column and the control tower/driver seat being in the rear. Basically the real life bulk ore transporting ships. This would allow raw resources or finished goods to be transported around the world in large amounts, allowing more raw ore or crushed ore to be transported at once instead of many trips being required or the full smelting process being done on site to save on transportation.