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Author Topic: Custom Composite Buildings  (Read 620 times)

Yahivin

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Custom Composite Buildings
« on: November 16, 2007, 12:13:00 pm »

It would be totally sweet to be able to create custom combinations of buildings that can be saved, reused, and shared. For example: a multilevel workshop with the correct buildings, stairways and stockpiles saved as "Masonry MACHINE!" or some such name. Then whenever you create a new fortress you can build a new "Masonry MACHINE!" with just a couple button clicks and not have to tediously layout your perfect design over and over each time you want to reuse it.

Also, a custom trap room made from a dozen different traps would benefit from being able to be saved and reused.

To save the composite building specify the diagonal corners of the x,y,z box that it exists in, like designating any other area. The game can then make a little collection of wall, floor, building, activity and stockpile info. Then when you place the composite it will generate the mining/floor/wall construction tasks, then the building tasks, then the stockpile/activity areas. And "BOOM!" you get to reuse your favorite trap room over and over, improving and updating it to keep getting cooler. You should also be able to download other people's saved composites, as well as share your own.

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