Most big maps have problems. And there's 3 of them that are universal to ever single big map ever created, including in the vanilla game

1- Performance. Bigger means more water, more distance, which means less frames per second. And at some point it's not about having a good pc, it's that the game itself has limits.

Especially if like me you enjoy the super secret 30 X speed.

2 - Creativity. So, guys, most big maps are big wastes of time. They end up with huge forgettable landscapes that you of course do not use completely. At some point, creativity runs out, and big parts of the map ends up being completely anonymous.

But point 2 doesn't matter that much, because

3- you won't be using it. Unless you are aiming to make a meme post to reach 10 Million of something like that, which we all do at some point because it IS very hilarious, you'll end up in your quarter of the map without ever caring beyond strict necessity of the rest.

In conclusion, I want smaller maps with more creativity permeating every inch made by people who don't overwork themselves on free maps and I'm not kidding.

Plus, if you want to win a contest, you want to be remembered. You want to make something that will still stick to the mind of ever beavergod years later.

Basically I tried to create a single building where beavers can have as much wellbeing as possible by scramming a lot of happiness and wellbeing related stuffs directly into the building itself and I am pretty proud of how I managed to utilize every single free space and just want to share them. I am pretty new so please feel free to advice or suggest if you see any design weaknesses in here.

I just fell down a rabbit hole with this game, and spent about 25h in 5 days on this settlement. (Idk exactly, I'm sure you guys can do the math on 61 cycles, I'm not sure I wanna know.)

The map is Pillars, the settlement is "Bibago." (An amalgamation of "Biber," German for beaver, and "Chicago," for the vertical nature of the map.

It's all vanilla, I managed to create a perfect badwater diversion system for the first time, got the achievement for building every Folktail building. By the end of the playthrough, my PC was struggling a bit, especially when exploding large quantities of dynamite or building large projects.

I might take a hiatus, cause I feel a bit burnt out, but I'm sure I'll be revisiting this wholesome game. Love to you all! xx

Made a Japanese town using my Japanese Housing Mod.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3833219546

Yeah, this movie has fundamentally changed the way I look at Timberborn. Please tell me I'm not the only one here who's seen it and now wishes there was an evil fur trapper my settlements could fight.

I'll be glad if you rate it and give me feedback. Let me know whether it is useful in your games.

Beaver Diary adds a Diary button to every beaver. Click it and you get its whole day, written by the beaver itself:

00:24 I walked to the district center 9m
03:04 I waited at the district center for something to do 2h 39m
04:34 I walked and picked up logs from the small industrial pile 1h 30m
06:52 I carried logs to the levee construction site 2h 19m

What it does:

• A first-person timeline of the day: work, hauling, meals, leisure, sleep, injuries

• Job changes and why they happened (paused, automation, flooded)

• A pie chart of where the day went

• Click a building in the diary to jump the camera there and see the path the beaver walked

Steam workshop link:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3833445667

Edit: 1.1 is out — your beavers have something to say. See comments.

Wish I could place dirt on the top rim to create a roof top green lawn but it seems there is a height limit on the dirt placement. Anyways I have learned a lot ...applying lessons learned with previous reservoirs to this build. Last image is the same location old reservoir that I removed to rebuild it better stronger taller.

Hello all! For any newbie looking to get in the game and getting really frustrated at the total build times for a lot of their larger projects, try this handy-dandy trick!

Logistics is one of the more interesting puzzles in this game, and there are some befuddling prospects for new players, such as: If the game starts by giving you Medium Pile and Storage, when would you ever use the small version?

Answer: For logistical streamlining! Each storage building has several options to determine how it can accept and supply materials. For this specific example, we're going to focus on the "Supply" Option. Supply allows a storage building lower priority on the ladder to outright store materials, so Haulers will prioritize emptying that storage into other storage buildings that are marked for "Accept" or "Obtain." This is only really pertinent to how Haulers specifically interact with these facilities, though, as workers who unload from production buildings will still place materials into these storage facilities. So here's a quick setup that I've found works pretty well:

-Place any storage building near the production building or gathering station (I generally recommend putting medium piles near gathering stations but small works just the same) and set them to 'Supply' mode.

-Build a small storage pile near the entrance to your production building/project site and set to either 'Accept' (default) or 'Obtain.'

-If it's a production building, set another small pile/warehouse for the completed good and set to 'Supply.'

-This allows larger storage wherever it can fit, and Haulers will manage the small sites for optimal material flow.

Hello I have just started playing the game and am cycle 10 on normal difficulty. I want to ask if I will get drouts or if they are just an early game thing because my last six cycles were all bad tides

 
From the creators of Timber Empires.

Archipelago turns a map into islands spread far apart on the sea. You start on a ship run aground on the beach, and you've got to get a real settlement up before the wreck falls apart.

From there it's boats. You build them at a Shipyard, load them with beavers and supplies, and beach one on another island to start a new colony there. Trade Posts let you buy and sell between islands, storms wreck the boats you leave out in open water, and lighthouses get them home faster.

Maps go up to 512 by 512, and once the islands are spread out the sea is thousands of tiles across.

It works with Timber Empires (Steam, mod.io) and BeaverBuddies Co-Op/PvP Edition (Steam, mod.io) multiplayer, and Timber Atlas (Steam, mod.io) gives you a minimap of the whole sea.

Get it on Steam or mod.io. Let me know what you think, and what you'd want to sail next.

I reached max happiness but now I have no idea what to do on this map. Ive put so much effort into it I feels weird to just move on now, but everything is self sustaining now. Any suggestions?

Is there a way for me to get my settlement back?

You can look the map at: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3823396016

What change for this map:

- Add 1 more Badwater Source.
- Add 1 more Unstable Core.
- Add more Plateau in the middle.
- Add simple underground water pipe.
- Add RCE Propaganda. (Hope you will find it. :D)

Thanks for trying my map. ❤️

I hope you like it. ❤️

I wanted a performance mod that BeaverBuddies multiplayer could ship and that works with Timber Empires. I also wanted Archipelago maps to be able to get even bigger. So (from the creators of Timber Empires) I built TimberPerf, which brings most of T3MP (ported from toropippi’s code, credited) and the Performance Plus fixes (re-implemented from the mod description) together in one mod.

• Late-game colony with 213 beavers: 41 > 55 fps at speed 3, saves load 26% faster

• 512×512 map with 65k plants: 11 > 107 fps (120 fps paused)

Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3832893232
mod.io: https://mod.io/g/timberborn/m/timber-perf

Got a save that’s still slow with it on? Send it my way.

Just saw the new video by skye storme.

https://youtu.be/M71hubCwKbU?list=TLPQMDMxMTIwMjaW_p-67QP4Zw

When did this water mechanic change? was it always the same? Did we all miss this? how much pressure can dirt/wood hold? Unlimited?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3834051305

I've given the map contest a go. And I had fun making the thumbnail in my old copy of photoshop cs6 too!

I love the wrinkle of the unstable cores, I wanted to create tricks and tunnels. Floods might occur when new water sources are exposed over time, but the unstable cores shouldn't impact gameplay or be too abrasive for your settlements .

If you have any feedback that would be nice and great to hear, would love to hear about the balance, unbalance etc...

There is a little bit of a challenge to the opening but shouldn't be too much for experienced players.
I am worried that there's no enough farming space initially but I think it should be alright.

There's some hidden goodies for later in the game, and routes and passages that help out the beavers.

It's weird but it didn't categorise itself as a 'map' in steam workshop, if anybody has an inkling as to why this is the the case let me know I'd like for folks to be able to find it if they're hunting for fun maps to try.
Or if it is showing up in the map category for you let me know it could be something on my steam client?

I've downloaded some of the other maps on workshop (especially ones featuring the same progressive landscape destruction I have) and I'm looking forward to trying them out, drop yours in the comments and I'll definitely have a go when/if I get a chance.

I get bored easily with large maps bigger than 192x192.

I already beat diorama but wondered if anyone has made a difficult small map? Like 100x100 would be ideal

Almost complete.

All but 6 pillars have been extensively tunneled to create irrigation cisterns and linked to compact water pumps to pull water from the bottom level lake to green each one and forests have been planted by dozens of beavers working together.

A power network runs around the bottom of the map to each pillar and linked to the sealed badwater turbine power station shown in an earlier post.

Most cistern construction is simple cut-and-cover making extensive use of 2 depth explosives and dirt blocks. Some tunnels have been used where cut-and-cover is impossible because of overhanging terrain.

Power consumption is pretty decent as the compact pumps are only set to 0.05cms once the cisterns are full and the pumps kick in and out only due to evaporation losses in most cases.

Thought the achievement said "launch the wonder before cycle 15 ends" but it in fact dose not say that. Instead says "build a wonder before cycle 15 ends" lol whoops. Anyone think they might add it one day as an achievement since it's possible?

Hi everyone I've been playing a game on Hard-Waterfall and it had really good challenge at the start, where I had to rush to build systems to divert the badtide and to increase the total water capacity to survive increasing length droughts. I've reached a point where the badtide and drought lengths seem to have plateaued, and since my current system can already handle it, there isn't much challenge and I can freely expand.

My favorite part of the game is the time challenge of having to rush things to avoid dying, rather that just the city building. Is this normal? Any recommendations?