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Yes. Text gets cut off too often.

No. I dont care/like the names as they are.

Dont you have anything better to do then making such tiny adjustements?

[Varyag]

And random idea:
Transform changeling into "magmaling". They are magma-safe. Make reaction that says "Command magmalings to spawn magma". Runs "slayrace magma magmaling". Magmalings have a interaction that they can only do when in magma, Start:10000, transform themselves into something non-magma-safe.  Tada, walking magma-spawners and landmines.

Would be an excellent alternative to the liquid spawner but keep the liquid spawner in until it's been tested. From what i can tell it is like this: Drop a few magmalings into the empty reservoir below and enjoy as it fills up on its own and finally cleans itself up. Just how much magma are we talking about when they are commanded to make magma?

[Vabalokis]

I would like to have that building nameing thing optional

[Apani]

I'm pro for the workshops names telling you how big they are. It helps with planning, especially if you want to make a moderatly-sized above ground fort.

[sir_schwick]

Rotated versions of the rectangular workshops would be nice.  If named with dimensions as proposed, it would be obvious which workshop you wanted.

I remember the manuals in an older MW version listed the materials needed to build workshops.  Why were they removed from the current manual which I otherwise think is awesome?

[Meph]

Rotated versions of the rectangular workshops would be nice.  If named with dimensions as proposed, it would be obvious which workshop you wanted.

That would be a bit over the top. ^^

I can make the dimensions optional, sure. Not atm, but when I modding the GUI again. No problem.

The manual doesnt list them anymore because I change them now and then, and all buildings ingame list what they need anyway. People dont need to look them up, because they can see it ingame. Most groupings also use the same, for example all labs use 2xblock, mortar, pestle, 2xjug. I could add them back the the manual, buts its 334 buildings across all three races. O.o

Magma Amount... I could do several reactions. Lesser Magmaling, Magmaling, Greater Magmaling. Can be as much as you want, one Magmaling could spawn 7/7 magma, or 100x 7/7 magma, as you like. But due to coding ALL magmalings on the map will start spawning it. Its all, or none. (would still work with the lesser, normal and greater one, you could pick a type.)

[Meph]

Completely forgot the black/white ones.

Concepts.

[Vabalokis]

for earth altar it could be maybe more brown?

[Meph]

Nah, its brown. Cant do more then that. I only have access to one shade of color.

And the workshop dimensions, thats how it would look:



Instead of: "(3x3)" I could do " - 3*3", which is probably less intrusive. OR "3.3" "5.5" and so on.

[Vabalokis]

Doing it with "X" i think is most intuitive

[jonveck]

As far as the building names are concerned, it shouldn't really matter since (so long as you're capable of building one) you can see it's dimensions by selecting it.  For me, what would be a lot more useful would be more 3x3 buildings.  I love the special buildings (e.g. altars and guildhalls) being larger and more detailed, but other workshops (like boneyards and furniture builders) don't strike me as needing to be bigger than standard.

It really is not that much of an issue in the end for me since, go ahead and call me a heretic, I change the raws so that make of the 5x3 or 3x5 buildings are reduced to 3x3.  Not sure if it actually bothers anyone else, so maybe that's just a little change that I alone will do to my copies.

[Quarterblue]

I think buildings should naturally be in the form of NxN, the same number of tiles for width and length. It seems odd that some buildings can't be built in some rooms because they were dug North-South rather than West-East. Orientation should not matter, in my opinion.

[Meph]

[Godlysockpuppet]

Personally I don't like the look of the stone or bone cutter

[Varyag]

I would say that the stone, bone and gemcutter workshops look crazy cluttered, my suggestion would be a chair, a table, and 1-2 items to represent what kind of workshop it is. The 5x3 workshops look just fine because there are floor tiles and everything is not piled on top of everything else.

[Meph]

Yeah, I thought the same, but I tried to keep them 3x3. I can easily make them 5x3 and give them a better design, but they are super-basic workshops and I dont want them to take up much space.