Intrinsic structure repair

[forestcomber]

It would be great to have some level of or option for intrinsic / automatic (unassigned) building repair by units having that skill. Just like the priest or doctor unit intrinsically heals nearby injured units. A farmer wouldn't stand idle while their farmhouse is damaged. The same goes for any unit with building skills. This seems natural to me and would allow the player to focus more on strategy. I love this game, love the music !

[Perzival12]

On 23/11/2025 at 6:58 AM, forestcomber said:

It would be great to have some level of or option for intrinsic / automatic (unassigned) building repair by units having that skill. Just like the priest or doctor unit intrinsically heals nearby injured units. A farmer wouldn't stand idle while their farmhouse is damaged. The same goes for any unit with building skills. This seems natural to me and would allow the player to focus more on strategy. I love this game, love the music !

That would be an interesting idea. However, it doesn't really make since that the farmer just being near a building should repair it, since he is just standing there. However, what if idle workers (defined that way because their last order was to build, gather, or repair) automagically would start repairing buildings?

[LienRag]

At minimum we should have units assigned to repair a building then automatically repair other nearby buildings once they finish, like builder do build other buildings once they finish the one that they are assigned to. Or a stance that makes units repair automatically any damaged building nearby.

Repairing palisades is a real chore right now because of the lack of such mechanisms.

[Classic-Burger]

Similar to the behavior(stances) of military units but focused on civilians.

Repair.

Gather.

Build

 

[Outis]

15 hours ago, Classic-Burger said:

Similar to the behavior(stances) of military units but focused on civilians.

Repair.

Gather.

Build

 

I think Starcraft 2 had something similar where you could set workers to auto-repair.

[ffm2]

I'm not really sure about this ... but wasn't it like this in some alpha very long time ago? Or maybe as in you repair something and if that's finished and something is nearby and can be repaired too the unit switches to this one... Or I mix it up with some other game.

[Atrik]

3 minutes ago, ffm2 said:

I'm not really sure about this ... but wasn't it like this in some alpha very long time ago? Or maybe as in you repair something and if that's finished and something is nearby and can be repaired too the unit switches to this one... Or I mix it up with some other game.

No, I feel like I remember this too. I think even when you were building something, workers would go repair nearby building once done too. Not so long ago then, I joined in a26.

[Player of 0AD]

For me it's good how it is currently. The advantage is that units will be shown as idle after repairing, instead of doing more repairing. Repairing can be a waste of time.

[chrstgtr]

1 hour ago, Player of 0AD said:

For me it's good how it is currently.

Shocker.
 

Although I agree it’s a waste of time I could care less how this function works 

[ffm2]

4 minutes ago, chrstgtr said:

Although I agree it’s a waste of time I could care less how this function works

+1 Can be beneficial if you repair one siege and the other is damaged too, but if storehouses get repaired it's waste of time. But having one or two units in this repair mode would be kind of nice in general. But if it matters to you setting the repair in queue is also not too much apm intensive.