Dirt & Water

[DutchRobin]

Hi,

At first i want to say i really love the game.
But i think the landscaping is a bit weird right now.

I would love to have just simple dirt blocks/walls to fill up holes instead of using the clay wall.

And then second i love making canals around my villages. So i would love it if there is gonna be water.
And i know water is different and takes a lot of time to develop. But maybe at first just a not functioning water block? just for visuals.

Keep up the good work. I really love the game.

[Wantoomany]

How would a non functioning water block work? You dig out around it and it just floats there? Do you have to pick it up and place it in your canal to fill it up? Would it take up stockpile space?

I personally would not want dirt added to the game if it becomes a physical resource that can clutter up the screen or my stockpiles. Especially if it's of limited use, filling holes or general teraforming, and can't be sold for anything.

[BENZ_PALADIN]

But I agree with him to have dirt block in game for agriculture and filling up holes. At least I can solve my camera jarring problem too!!.......(The problem appear after I do mining near my base about 4 level.)

[Vinegaroon]

I would like to be able to patch the ground in places

[BENZ_PALADIN]

It's possible to create "natural soil" block by combine these materials..... Rot Meat,Rot Vegetable for Nitrogen (in real life beans,Morning glory is best,But normal leaves are ok Amino acids are rich with Nitrogen ) , Bonemeals for phosphorus [Ca3(PO4)2], Woods,Sticks,Ashes for potassium [K2CO3,KOH] or (N,P,K) for growing plant later let them fermentation somewhere with time then you will got Natural soil!!........(Just suggestion ...^_^ )

[BENZ_PALADIN]

Thank...^_^

[BENZ_PALADIN]

Yes water is something extreme hard in Computer Graphic,So heavy process both CPU&GPU especially interact with real time AI......They may need to rethink for other user as well!!May be for Going Medieval 2, Whatever my computer can run this.

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by Morbious:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1029780/view/3328747612252033716

prob seen the news you get half your wish

on water the dev i think here said they want to add water later but its difficult soo
time will tell

Yeah, basically what I was afraid of. Mind you, I am not opposed to being able to terraform or fill in holes. I simply didn't want it as a byproduct of other work. Now if you want to dig or mine for resources you will get dirt. Sometimes more dirt or less dirt depending on where or how you dig, but you are going to get dirt.

I don't imagine its going to have much of a selling price to traders. And once you are done filling in holes or terraforming, what do you do with it? Especially if you are still mining for gold, iron, stone or clay, dirt is going to come with it all. Maybe it decays quickly, maybe there will be more uses for it, or ways to get rid of it. But for now, I just see it as a new way to clutter the map, rob CPU cycles, or fill up your stockpiles.

[Kaelroth]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Originally posted by Morbious:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1029780/view/3328747612252033716

prob seen the news you get half your wish

on water the dev i think here said they want to add water later but its difficult soo
time will tell

Yeah, basically what I was afraid of. Mind you, I am not opposed to being able to terraform or fill in holes. I simply didn't want it as a byproduct of other work. Now if you want to dig or mine for resources you will get dirt. Sometimes more dirt or less dirt depending on where or how you dig, but you are going to get dirt.

I don't imagine its going to have much of a selling price to traders. And once you are done filling in holes or terraforming, what do you do with it? Especially if you are still mining for gold, iron, stone or clay, dirt is going to come with it all. Maybe it decays quickly, maybe there will be more uses for it, or ways to get rid of it. But for now, I just see it as a new way to clutter the map, rob CPU cycles, or fill up your stockpiles.

For people who do a lot of terraforming, this really won't be much different than having an excess of clay or limestone. I play exclusively on mountain maps and excavate underground pretty heavily. Your comment could quite easily be talking about limestone in that regard. Limestone doesn't have much of a selling price and traders don't have that much inventory space to carry much of it. I have had to "get rid" of tens of thousands of limestone cluttering up my stockpiles. My method for removing it clears about a thousand each day. It's a slow process, but it eventually works. Dirt would work in the same regard.

One problem I would see is if a block of earth had 3 different resources in it when it was mined. If there isn't enough space around the mined spot, it is more likely that one of the resources would fall into the freshly dug hole and would need to be cleared out before being able to build a staircase or filled back in by a ground/wall block. Meaning you would need to make the hole big enough to build a staircase in order to get the materials from the bottom first, then fill it back up.