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[snailstick]

When building things that require you to select material(s) from a list, how about a customizable list so that you dont need to scroll through twenty pages of stone/bars/wood/blocks/etc? Like 'Do not show stone' or 'Show only blocks'

[AlStar]

Not that it's what you're looking for, but blocks, bars and logs always show up at the bottom of the list of building materials, so if you just scroll off the top of the list, you'll get right to them.

I agree that Toady needs to look at the building list though. Does anyone really care just which stone is used in construction? (Or even if they did, would they even know which one that was from the list?)

[Dumatoin]

Or perhaps when you select [w] [c]
you first get a list of material types.
Stone
Wood
Bars
Blocks

When you select the type, you get the list of items in that type of material.

The menu system for many workshops already uses this.

ie

The Glass Furnace asks you which colour of glass, then you select the object, as opposed to showing every single thing you could possibly make out of every colour of glass.

[Wood Gnome]

i do try to avoid using light/dark stone when building roads or workshops, since it is more valuable to me as a craft item.  mason shops already have the option to use only stone, or light/dark stone for building items, with the preset being only regular stone.  maybe something like this can be used elsewhere?  or maybe when you choose to build something you first get a list of

stone
light stone
dark stone
blocks
bars
wood

then you can either choose any type or a specific flavor, maybe with the option to lock the setting for future use so you don't have to do the same thing for every workshop/patch of road you build.... just an idea

edit: as mentioned above    (think i missed that post...)

[ November 30, 2006: Message edited by: Wood Gnome ]

[Toady One]

Yeah, this has already been suggested several times, in more or less detail.  There are other changes that need to be made to the building construction interface as well.  I'd like to do this fairly soon, but there's always a lot to do.