[Suggestion] The I.P.A.W.S (Integrated Power and Water Solution)

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Make an integrated power + water variant of floors and walls. For example, an IPAWS variant of stone floors and walls might have built in power and water lines, but an increased cost to make. Instead of running unsightly wires and pipes, as long as benches are in contact with said walls or floors, they would be powered and watered. Obviously this would still require you to connect a wire/pipe from your power/water source to one building piece. But I think it could be a cool way to reduce visual clutter, improve user experience and drastically reduce one of the most common power and water supply issues; wiring.

Under consideration QOL Suggestion Suggested by: Peaceful Jim (29 Sep, '23) • Upvoted: 10 Apr • Comments: 1

Comments: 1

20 Feb
ThePassionateGamer
My two cents to your idea: Another way instead of adding "I.P.A.W.S." versions of every type of building tile make it an upgrade that you can install in existing tiles. Install to existing wall makes the wall have pipes and wires in it. Install in connecting wall to expand wires and pipes and so on. Place Light on wall to have it automatically have "wire-connection".

Another variant could be to have electric-installation-box and plumbing-installation-box as buildable items. Each having a specific number of connected building tiles to which they give either power or water. For bigger bases you could expand those boxes to bigger versions to increase the ammount of tiles they can support.