Spent two hours playing gold rush. Thoughts as follows.

>6) When making loam, the building says I need 250 (irc) water and 25 dirt. Shame I don't know how much water or dirt is carried in a barrel/bucket. When you're making something in a building, it would be nice to see how many of which items you need to put in, as opposed to checking what you're making, then checking what the recipe for that item is, then checking what's already in the building.

This seems to have got worse. Trying to make loam became an awkward process of filling a barrel, filling a bucket, taking the bucket out of the foundry, emptying it, then re-filling it, then putting it back into the foundry, and repeating with that and the barrel until it finally decided to make my loam.

Also, when placing loam and digging, sometimes I really want to go perfectly horizontally or vertically, making a straight line with no sloping at all. The only way I've found of doing this so far is to zoom out as far as possible and place the mouse a great distance from my clonk, and this still isn't fool-proof.

>3) Elevators. Auto-movement. Aside from letting a load of water into the mineshaft, this also meant that when I had a clonk at the bottom of the shaft in the water, the elevator came down and apparently pushed him into the iron ore at the bottom. He got stuck and drowned. How about some buildings be controllable from a distance with the mouse? I.e. click elevator, elevator starts moving.

My elevators' auto-movement became one of my main obstacles this round. Trying to mine iron/rock/gold at the bottom of the shaft is a pain. If the elevator case is touching the bottom, whatever it covers becomes un-mineable. Instead, you have to move the elevator slightly upwards, pickaxe out a very small layer of iron/rock/whatever, then move it down, then back up, and repeat. It would be much nicer if I could just tell the elevator "Stay still!" and make it leave me alone until I was done.

And again, buildings being controllable via mouse. Control + click maybe? Would be fun to be able to tell an elevator to go up or down or stop moving or whatever without having to walk to it. Also, being able to make a pump stop draining power for a few seconds while I'm at the bottom of a mine-shaft an the elevator can't pick me up because of said pump. If control + click gets rejected, how about a new item: the remote control! A small wooden block with a big red button on it and a little crooked antenna sticking out the top. When used, you can click any building (or possibly any building that you are flag-connected to) to interact with it as if you had pressed space in front of it. Move elevators, turn pumps on/off, give build orders to foundries and workshops, the possibilities are endless!

This is just a little gap to try and make my wall-of-text a bit easier on the eyes.

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Build orders
If I want to make 20 bars of iron, I have to click the job 20 times. Instead, why not let us set buildings to automatically do a certain job when they can, by say, shit-clicking it. Shift- click the iron-bar icon in the smelter, and then whenever it has iron ore and fuel, it will automatically make an iron bar. If multiple jobs are queued like this, it will alternate them.

Also, when transferring the contents of a lorry to a smelter or whatever, shift click to move all of an item at once, instead of having to click 50 times to empty the damn thing? Please?

Looorrries. An easier way of moving a load of items onto the ground into a lorry. How-about if you press e while grabbing a lorry, it opens an additional ring with items on the
floor nearby?

If you're holding lorries and you press e, the lorries contents should always appear. I was holding a lorries and standing in front of a workshop. I wanted to move the the contents of the lorry into the workshop. I pressed e. But although I was holding the lorry, it was a bit in front of me, so only the the workshop ring appeared. So I have to close it, and either move the lorry or let go and move my clonk, then re-grab it. This happened many times. I know it's a minor-issue, but minor things can really make a difference, so I really think this should be changed.
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This is just another gap.
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And lastly, also minor, it would be cool if, when you put two elevators together, the two elevator cases could actually merge into one bigger-looking one.

Also, I'd like to upload a screenshot of the end of my goldrush round, but I can't find where OpenClonk saves screenshots. Help plox?

Played Crash Landing. I think lichen might be a bit too powerful. By the end of the game, I had 400 pieces of it. Powering buildings became a non-issue.
Multiple lichen plants can be planted in the same place, without needing water, and dry lichen can be planted as well as wet lichen. Are these glitches?

And, just for fun, before and after pics.