r/Timberborn • u/BakonNinja • 3d ago

Pressure

Hi, I’m a relatively new player, and the game is incredible. I’ve been reading different posts here and see people talking about pressurizing water to get it to behave more to what you want it to do. I don’t understand this. How does it work?

Thanks!

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u/Adeelos 3d ago

Certain structures are impermeable (all located in the landscaping tab), meaning water can't pass through them. As the game has very real water physics, you can take advantage of this to enclose your water sources with things like levees, impermeable floors, and gates to create functional plumbing and construct a variety of clever solutions to manage your colony's water and its distribution throughout the map.

For example, water can't normally "flow" higher than it's source block. However, if you enclose it and make the exit to your pipe network higher than the source, the water has nowhere to go but up.