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TL;DR

Put in an object or two that'll show The Engineer lying back and relaxing when used.

What?

Add something like a hammock to string between two poles or a deck chair that can be put down anywhere. If the player presses Enter next to it, The Engineer will lie back in it, relaxing and just watching their factory work. Or sleeping with their helmet over their eyes, if it's at night. Pressing Enter again, will have them standing up and walking around again.

Nothing practical, just for the cosmetic fit of things.

Why?

The Lazy Bastard achievement icon has The Engineer lying back relaxing. Why not have a way to do it in the game in the spirit of the achievement? Hell, while you're using it, it could disable manual crafting, as if to enforce "This is your time off!".

it could also speed up the game while engineer sleeps.
could be very usefull, instead of having the game run in background and waiting for stuff to finish.

ciqa wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 11:40 am it could also speed up the game while engineer sleeps.
could be very usefull, instead of having the game run in background and waiting for stuff to finish.

To my knowledge the genre already has a problem with people treating production delays as things that have to be accepted rather than mitigated through factory design (e.g. increased production rates, production in advance).

Putting something in the game to deliberately enable that mindset is probably a very bad idea.

Edit: added in some words ('with people') that I accidentally cut out from the original post.

I would even settle for an idle animation that kicks in only once you've been standing in place for some amount of time. I want to even more fully embody the art for the lazy bastard achievement - kick back and let the bots do it!! It's a ridiculous feature but I've really wanted something like this, just for that tiny bit of roleplay and immersion.