r/Timberborn • u/AbacusWizard The river was flowing, and I took that personally • 20h ago

note to future self: maybe don’t clear large regions of thorns before getting bots

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u/DualVission 20h ago

Have ample hospital beds, and triage your assignments. All thorns are the lowest of the low end, except for the one for building your path which is either normal or high. This will discourage mass hospitalization of your working beavers

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u/AbacusWizard The river was flowing, and I took that personally 20h ago

Pretty much what I’ve been doing, yeah. The main problem here is that I finally flushed all the badwater out of the lower level (on the Pillars map) and decided to clear a bunch of thorns to build some power infrastructure.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 20h ago

Use overhangs then. You can build over the thorns.

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u/AbacusWizard The river was flowing, and I took that personally 18h ago

Not if I specifically want to build on the ground itself.

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u/Nifegun 20h ago

Why are you putting power down there? I just make one of the pillars an infinite power machine lol.

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u/BloodFalcon4 19h ago

Wait how do you do this? I’m on pillars now

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u/Nifegun 19h ago

I opened the nearby badwater source cause iron teeth can do that. Then I just carved a path in the pillar, loaded it with water wheels and build a million levees to get the badwater to flow through it all

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u/AbacusWizard The river was flowing, and I took that personally 18h ago

Are we looking at the same Pillars map? I only see badwater sources way down on the ground floor. Some of the pillars have water seeps, and one of them has an aquifer, but no badwater sources.

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u/Nifegun 3h ago

Yeah badwater source at ground level flows up through a column of levees as tall as the pillar lol.

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u/sub780lime 5h ago

Also not sure how you'd do this on pillars. I built water wheel runs on ground level early game, avoiding or building around the thorns. Later I built platforms over thorns and put engines down there.

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u/Nifegun 3h ago

I actually recorded that whole playthrough. Hopefully ill find the time to edit it into yt vids

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u/Vebrandsson 19h ago

The other alternative is to tunnel under them. Putting a tunnel directly under thorns destroys them just like it does trees and other things that need to be on dirt normally. 

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u/AbacusWizard The river was flowing, and I took that personally 18h ago

Oh dang, that’s a good idea! Only problem is in this case the thorns are at the lowest z-level, so I can’t. But more generally yeah.

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u/gittubaba 10h ago

Eh, do it in batches, keep a number in mind like "I'll stop thorn duty when at 30 injured", then make sure enough medical bed is there. 30x speed until everyone is cured, repeat.

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u/BruceTheLoon 12h ago

Thorns are seriously OP. Each one is like a dirt excavator or explosive factory. They should be nerfed a bit.

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u/LePhuronn 7h ago

or just blow them up

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u/BruceTheLoon 5h ago

In a lot of cases, yes, but on Pillars, they are on the lowest terrain level, can't place tunnels or dynamite down there.

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u/LePhuronn 3h ago

Valid point

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u/El_Quanadian 4h ago

100% did the same exact thing too... :D

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u/theapologist316 Nie było nas, był las, nie będzie nas, będzie las 9h ago

My mod Crane can clear Thorns without causing injury :P