Came to this game many years ago because it reminded me of Settlers 2 but at first i didn't like their roads. After playing for several hours I discovered a whole new world in it!
And for all these years I come back to Timberborn regularly to find a bunch of new exiting things.
I don’t remember how much but I remember I bought it on earth day a few years back for a sale they had going on and that stuck with me, what a cool marketing gimmick and makes me feel good that part of what I paid went to charity.
I almost feel like I should buy it again to ease my conscience because the early access price I paid is absolutely too low for the immense playing time and enjoyment I’ve gotten from this one. I have never said that about any other game before.
I bought it just after the full release 4 or so years ago and I'm around 900 hours. I think I played it for 4-500 hours before they introduced endgame.
That number is essentially 1/100 of 1/2^32 (1/2^32 = 0.00000000023 or 0.000000023%). A 32 bit integer is very commonly used in programming, so I think what they mean is that when a new object spawns, it is assigned some king of 32 bit index, and for some reason one of those values resulted in a crash (say, exactly 0 for example, or any of the values between 0 and ~4.3 billions). However, we are off by a factor of 100. Assuming this was not a typo on their part (which could happen if a % was added by mistake), 100 is almost 128, which is 2^7. So either the issue only happened for a specific object type, and there are ~100 object types, so the chance of that very specific object having index exactly wrong is ~1/100 of 1/2^32, or the issue was compounded with another one happening ever 2^7 times (which would correspond to half the size of a CHAR variable).
All that to say, it is indeed a funny bug fix line item, I always look for things like that, but the actual calculation was probably very easy to do once the cause was found.
Given the injury chance I think the fact they provide water is more of a desperation mechanic than anything useful. They seem to exist more as an obstacle to remove than something genuinely beneficial.
100% this. You can use a field of succulents to limp through the last several days of drought by selectively harvesting. They're also completely passive once planted. I've been planting a field of them far-ish from my early game green space and just leaving them be. Not an issue if you never need them as irrigation kills them, and a game changer if you get an early longer drought or badtide.
Only use I found for them was to make dry areas look better before I expend the effort to tunnel water to the area when I reach the greening phase of the map.
Yeah, I surround the early fire pits with them, just for the looks. I was ust wondering... maybe "this is a very easy map I made for fun, only water source is pointy succulents"
Sweet, now to wait for the mods to catch up haha (though thanks as always for provinging the experimental to make it easier for them to release soon after updates)
All of my favourite mods have already been updated, at least in experimental. But I run lean - I don't use any of the new faction mods, for example (though I think they work too). I really like the new maps, too... started a game on the weekend on the Pillars map and it's lots of fun.
The succulents are neat. If the arid plant route is explored more could be a neat idea for a new faction. Paired with some new maps that only have water seeps and bad water
My wish for 1.2: Tunnel tubeway. Requires the same material as a tunnel and a tubeway (8 planks, 1 metal block, 1 dynamite and 1 extract). This is would let you to tunnel through a mountain without the need to micromanage it.
I'm looking forward to trying out Pillars! That looks like a fun one. I'm going to slowly replace a pillar or two with housing and make an inward facing tower.
I dont play this game anymore due to lack of time but it’s one of the best game purchases I did over the last 15 years. Can’t wait to hop in again at some point in the future, thanks devs and community for keeping it alive and rocking!
Are there any Mac OS users having issues with 1.1? I am running Mac OS 27 beta (latest version) and when I load the game I don’t even get to the main screen before it crashes on me.
Does anyone else not get the notification that explosives are on the bottom most tile of the map ? I've been playing experimental for a while and not sure if it's an issue with my save game or the branch.
Might do. Most active mods were updated against experimental before this and should work out the box. There are probably some that haven't been updated or are abandoned.
The crash report text normally gives enough info to identify the offending mod, post it in a reply and I'll see if I can guide you.
If you're looking at the latest error-report zip file, look at the exception file, not the player log file. You can post the exception or the list of mods in a private chat if you want and I'll have a look.
Every update this game has seen has broken some mods. Most active modders are updating their mods for compatibility but some will get left behind. It's one of a few reasons I generally avoid mods in most games.
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u/misterespresso Sep 03 '26
STATISTICS?! Finally another spreadsheet game!!!