Macro Management (Multi-select buildings)

[whole herald]

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3503326209
Mod.io: https://mod.io/g/timberborn/m/macro-management-multi-select-buildings

With this mod you can now select and manage multiple buildings at the same time! It even comes with useful utilities like Copying and selecting all buildings with filters.
All hotkeys are rebindable in the settings menu (Settings -> Keybindings -> UI group).

Selecting multiple buildings
You can select multiple buildings of the same kind (Lumbermills, Large Tanks, etc.) by:

• Holding Shift (or whichever you bind the "Alternate Action" key) and clicking on a building. Shift clicking a selected building to unselect it.
• Select a building then click Select All (Ctrl + A) or Select in District (Ctrl + Shift + A).
  While one or more buildings is selected, you can also click Copy (Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert) to quickly select the Build tool to build the same type of building.

Macro Management
With multiple buildings selected, you can then also uncheck or check to decide which buildings to be affected. You can see quick info of them including their names, the status (Pause/Running), the Storage's type, the Dwellings' number of beavers.

You can (when applicable):

• Pause/Unpause.
• Set the Storage's type or remove it.
• Set Workplace's settings: Workers, Priority and Type.
• Set the Production's recipe.
• Delete all selected ones (with Delete key).

Tips

1. Use More Naming to rename your buildings and it will show up in the list.
2. Use #1366490328785489960 's Scrollable Entity Panel to add a scroll bar when the panel is too long.
3. Selected buildings are highlighted.

[supple osprey]

This is an insane QoL buff!!! Thank you!
Now, only one question remains... mod.io when?

[whole herald]

sure will upload 😂

[whole herald]

it's on mod.io now: https://mod.io/g/timberborn/m/macro-management-multi-select-buildings

[supple osprey]

Just tested and it works as expected (or should I say, as dreamt: I've hoped for this kind of functionality to come to the base game ever since I bought it). My megacities will be so much more easier to set up now!

[glass ginkgo]

If you select a beaver then Shift-Click another beaver, the mod causes a crash.

[whole herald]

what... that's... crazy lol

kinda crazy I didn't think about checking for that!

[whole herald]

v7.0.1: Fixed a crash when holding Shift to select multiple... Beavers. Also there was a conflict with Buff & Debuff that was fixed, you can update Buff & Debuff if you use both mods.

Thanks @glass ginkgo

[whole herald]

v7.0.2: Fixed a crash when hovering over the Delete button when selecting multiple buildings. Thanks @winged burrow

[whole herald]

v7.1.0: Added Hauler Prioritization panel support.

[modern isle]

For some reason this mod's UI is not showing up on the entity-panels for me... multi-select with shift-click still works though. What could be the issue?

[whole herald]

well that's strange... it's kinda hard to diagnosis the problem since it's only invisible and no error.

maybe check the log and see if any warning is printed out?

and when you multi-select, do you still see the buttons? (i.e. build another, select all etc)

also is it possible that your panel is too long so you can't see it without a scroll?

[modern isle]

i do have scrollable entitypanel from timprove ... let me check if there is anything in the logs. And, no the extra buttons don't show up in the multi-select panel - nor do the keyboard shortcuts work

[modern isle]

here is what it looks like ... but nope, nothing on the logs ...

[modern isle]

does this need to add some component(s) to the buildings to function? from the component dump i had by Automation's debug tool, it doesn't seem like any extra components from this are on the buildings ...

[whole herald]

no, it's just a fragment that works on almost all buildings (i.e. BuildingSpec)

just curious, could you disable everything except this mod (and dependencies) and start a new game? maybe there is a mod conflict?

I do check that if you cannot build a selecting building, that panel won't show

[modern isle]

I'll try that later when i have some time

[torpid herald]

@whole herald Im using the multi-select tool, but am I right to say that applying the same rotation and position for multiple selected buildings isnt working? I can copy these settings over to other objects, but only if I select one and then use the copy/paste tool

[whole herald]

yes that's correct, maybe I will add it later.

[whole herald]

v7.1.1: The multi-select and copy panel and hotkey should now show up and work with TimberApi. Thanks @plucky schooner for the report.

this is the difference that was fixed in last update

[slender bay]

Does this support setting the accept/obtain/supply/empty option? I should really just install the mod and try it, but I'm lazy.

[whole herald]

oh I am surprised it's not in the same Stockpile fragment.

from the screenshot on Steam, apparently not, I can add it though

[whole herald]

v7.1.2: Added support for Good Supplier (Accept Goods, Obtain, Supply, Empty).
Thanks @slender bay

[tawny stone]

Allow dynamite to be armed while multiple are selected?

[whole herald]

I could add it but why though? 😛 don't they blow all up in chain anyway?

you can also use this if you want a pattern/timing etc https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3464790115&searchtext=Explosive

[shell shell]

Yeah, with 0 timing, is very good to reduce population 🤪

[slender bay]

Awesome. Context: https://youtu.be/mD0gojapPYc?t=2545

[whole herald]

thanks a lot 😄

[whole herald]

Option to select all buildings within an area?