Feature Suggestions

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.

When I'm joining a new server and picking a town, I do try to see what professions they already have to see if they're looking for a new Carpentry or such. Would be nice if when choosing a town it would tell you which profession the citizens already have.

I think it would be a good addition to a feature where you would be able to sell electricity/power. So players would be able to build a power station of sorts, which could tie in nicely with the settlements.

Trees seem to grow at differing rates so I've taken to sampling trees to check their maturity. It would be great if we could mark which trees are suitable for felling. This would allow us to run through a plantation quickly marking trees then once the majority are ready, we could bring in the trucks, or outsource the work, as is done IRL. "Go fell all the marked trees in that forest". The easiest way would be to add a right-click function to the Soil Sampler that paints a high-contrast band around the trunk around chest height. A more immersive way would be to remove tree sampling from the soil sampler, and add a new tool "Forestry tools" which incorporates tree sampling and a couple of cans of spray paint. Again, left-click to sample, right click to add or remove a mark. Thanks for your consideration.

I am loving the new boats.... can we have trains next please!

Make auctions possible. Set currency, minimal cost, minimal value between bids and storage from where you can get the stuff.

I’m catching up on some streams recently, and had an interesting idea that I felt tied into the game mechanics fairly well under the category of “beyond the meteor” challenges. Tying into the theorized “chemistry” profession, could form hydrogen and oxygen. If near water, both could be made through electrolysis, but costs a lot in electricity. The alternatives could be inspired methane/natural gas to make hydrogen so tied into oil drilling. This method would pollute and be easier to accomplish. Oxygen could just have a “compressor” or something similar make it. I’d say barrels could house the gases just fine as well. Next, you could use electronics and industry to make components for a space program. One that couldn’t happen before due to the meteor. This space program would have multiple uses, but namely the victory condition could be the sun will have a solar flare in 45 days that wipes out all electrical using components and we find a way with the space program to prevent this solar flare, especially with our atmosphere weakened by how we polluted it so badly taking down the meteor. The space program, to keep things realistically not too hard to develop would be unmanned missions. Nobody “goes” to space. But they still are highly collaborative missions to build non-reusable rockets for various missions. Like… one could mine an asteroid for a substance not found on earth to fight the solar flare. Another could build a solar mirror to give a power boost to all solar panels on the planet. I think space program that takes high collaboration to just KEEP giving an entire server feelings of another WIN over and over, is really beneficial. On the other hand two countries could compete for space resources too. Maybe uranium fuel, or titanium for space projects that benefit all? Or a country/town keeps it to themselves. Here’s a better summary example of a chain: Oil Drilling now has a tied in profession: Refining Refining makes natural gas/methane Chemistry makes Hydrogen from this methane and steam. Chemistry also makes oxygen from a compressor. Chemistry could make both oxygen and hydrogen from electrolysis… if it has water. These two gases can be made into fuel… which I’ll explain later. The lab would be a huge undertaking made up of 4 parts and NO PROFESSION. I want to get away from the feeling of a “quarterback”. The engineer-mechanics-industry or however it works out always being the hero. I want the space program to truly feel like EVERYONE is a part, not whoever is taking industry is saving everyone. I’d rather the votes upon country or federation or team of people united and accomplished this. The lab’s 4 parts could be the in different places on the planet. 1 would be a launch pad/manufacturing facility. This would be the industrial center… usually would probably be made in the desert with steel and concrete. But would still have to import electrical components to build the ships. The 2nd part would be a communications array, to communicate with spacecraft (per se). This would be crafted where gold is prevalent as it leans more towards electronics. 3rd would be a fueling facility (this will tie in really well into oil spills) this is where hydrogen and oxygen are used to make rocket fuel, this area would prolly lean to whoever has oil near them. But would take shipping fuels from all over the world or pipelines which need to be maintained. Maybe fuels aren’t an item and are not put in barrels anymore? Maybe new boats and trucks specialize to carry liquids? Not items? New stockpiles that can take pipes? That are “tanks”? Anywho, lastly, number 4 would be the control center. This would probably be the civilization that led in culture, prevailed in government or wherever the government is at its strongest. All 4 of these “lab” parts tie into every late game industry, and finish the game off really nicely. Each lab part could critically help the space effort. The refueling is obvious, the manufacturing/launch pad could also be a maintenance town/team, things go wrong with the spaceships? It would make it very immersive and feel tied together. The communications array would get back information about the mission, and have to relay that to the control center. The control center has to make the actual decisions, have a risk vs reward system. Different scenarios. Add rocket tests and with each test success chances are higher and higher for a mission. Sorry for the idea vomit, y’all are the experts here. Thanks for taking the time to read my idea, and thank all of you for the most recent bug fixes and added content, yall are doing some amazing work and keep it up! Much appreciated from my friend and I!

These machines would take all items form the selected storage contirainters and put them into other ones. They would allow more kinds of automation (take coal from stockpie and put into a generator). While it would be possible to make a very long chain of them, they woud be quite expensive nad require a lot of power.

Add palm oil recipe from heart of palm. It would give a way to produce oil for food or biodiesel from a tree plantation. IRL it is the main source of biodiesel since it has most yield per hectare. For the gameplay, it would allow an unusual career with woodcutting, gathering, milling.

First of all.... Sorry if this is a duplicate (couldn't find a suggestion that looks like this) Is it possible to add a searchbar in the crafting tables? For example: The Research Table is a good example, since there are a lot of recipes in there. This causes some players to oversee a recipe. Adding a searchbar into the crafting tables, would be easier for people to find a particular recipe