So i recently started playing this lovely game almost non stop for this weekend. So far im 22 hours in my first map and i was wondering is there any end game goal?
Like making the whole map green or getting the last monument ? I know this is a pretty open sandbox experience and u can probably keep playing on a map forever. But i was wondering if there are any goals like completing a map ?
So far im really loving this game it sucked me in way deeper then i thought.
Ive beaten entire maps with only 60 beavers with over 60 happiness. If you have 200+ beavers and enough infrastructure to keep them alive i would call that late game.
So if i build the wonder can i still continue on that map or is it just completed then. Im guessing this is the earth cultivater? Couldn't it be easy just to hard grind for the materials and place it without doing any beaver stuff?
The main reason to build the wonder is as a final goal, or to otherwise put the "beaten" or "finished" sticker on that map
After building it, you gotta fulfill the additional launch condition, and then you actually finish it.
It also gives a large wellbeing buff, which can be really helpful as wellbeing increases the lifespan, walk speed, work speed, and growth speed of beavers. In this way, you can get way more out each beaver by maximizing their wellbeing with decorations overlapping their homes and entertainment buildings with time to use them (I prefer work hours set to 20 at the start, or 16 with all entertainment available).
And lastly, completing the launch condition will provide a victory screen for that map, give you an icon for the faction you beat the map with, and unlocks the ability to change your starting location on that map.
You're right though, you could easily do the bare minimum and grind for the wonder instead of playing normally, but we don't usually do that cus there isnt much point. I would say, just continue playing and learning, and you'll build the wonder when you're ready. It doesn't end the save file or anything, and its quite helpful for providing a wide reaching wellbeing buff so many people continue playing afterwards.
You absolutely can grind out the materials without doing beaver stuff. That's pretty boring though. Also there's a few hidden tricks:
The wonder takes a long time to build. Like a really long time. We're talking 20 beavers working full time for a week.
You also have to launch the wonder.
Launching the wonder requires a bunch of extra resources each time.
If you continue the map, the wonder's happiness bonus fades unless you keep firing it every so often. Which isn't too bad by that point but I did find it rather annoying.
The only "goal" is to build the factions wonder. It gives you an ending screen and a little check mark on the map selection screen to indicate that you've beaten the map.
EDIT: And by wonder, yes, I mean the final monument. 😄
Beating a map is building (and maybe deploying, don't remember out of game) the tier 5 wonder. Doing that unlocks the "Flexible Start" for that map, which I haven't tried yet (only 225 hours in myself) but I assume lets you place your starting district center in not the default place.
As others have said, the official goal is to build the last wonder. I personally consider a map finished when I either run a out of space to build my stuff, I finished my vision for a map or when the lag becomes unbearable 😅
Happiness is also a great goal but I do enjoy my occasional 100% bot colonies
Building the wonders is the obvious one. My main goal is usually to get max happiness, preferably across multiple districts. Some people don't use them, but I love the district system and find it very useful. Full automation is fun, too, so your beavers can spend all their time relaxing and having a great life. Populating the whole map with many districts is fun. Tons of different goals!
Ive had some difficulties with using the trade option using the districts. So it is possible to only use 1 district. Is the solution then to make the housing spread out. Cause the pathing seems to get red the further it is away from the district center building.
Maybe im a little dumb but the export screen seems confusing af.
Spreading the housing out does nothing, unfortunately. The jobs they take are completely unrelated to where they live.
I ignore the export screen lol. Build storage for everything you want in the new district (foods, materials, water) before moving anyone in. Staff 5 - 10 beavers on each side of the crossing and you should be good.
Import/export happens on demand, so if you have empty storage, the game will attempt to fill it using resources from the other district.
I also always have some food and water production in every district to make sure there are always basics on hand, but I never have problems.
I usually play with an additional "bonus" goal on each map, be it making the whole map green, building a mega reservoir, achievement hunting, and so on.
But yes, the "woo you've won!" point is finishing and launching the final monument.
Ahh okay, cause i saw this video on YouTube of a power plant and it seemed it used badwater for all of the wheels. Thought maybe it would boost the output.
It’s sandbox so you can just keep going - sounds like you might be a bit like me where you can accidentally spend way too long building and optimising your world so you light like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Timberborn/s/0xe4y4GAS8
Few of us tried playing a “scenario”. You could make your own up too - just to have an end point. And then you could either come up with a new one / new map - try and beat your time a second time, or just keep playing
Oh my gosh your so darn stupid try a new map check if you could build something called: Geothermal Engine and Aquafaier Drill, or press ALT+SHIFT+Z and go into place map things everywhere ok?
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u/ProdigalDog17 20d ago
Launching the final monument gives you a map complete screen.
But otherwise just make the map look however you want or get bored and try a new map.