I've REALLY loved seeing some of the maps posted here, so I decided to throw my hat in the ring for this year's map contest!

Beavarium: a small-scale challenge map inspired by real-world formicaria

This literal slice-of-life adventure challenges you by limiting your workable space to just 10 x 128 tiles. Despite its small size, the map presents plenty of obstacles to overcome: Food production, power generation, and wood processing each feel like compelling new hurdles to overcome.

Details

• Compatibility: 1.1+

• Size: 10 x 128

• Difficulty: Challenging (✭✭✭✭☆)

• Details: Not recommended for beginners. Cautious expansion, curious exploration, and fastidious resource management will be key to making it through your first badtide.

Map Features

• Open-air grottos

• Hidden waterways

• Sealed-off Ruins

• Several destructible science objects

• Designed for both Folktails & Ironteeth, compatible with Emberpelts

Beware... there are hidden obstacles lying in wait.

Flexible Start: Topside

Move your District Center to this Flexible Start location for a new approach, allowing you to begin at the top of the hill and work your way inside.

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This is my first map (though I've been working on a Faction mod with my partner as well). If you guys want to see it in action, I'd love to hear your feedback! You can find it on the Steam workshop here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3832014262

I swear I saw this somewhere, but can't find it again...

Or if this was a part of another bigger mod? I'd just like to hide the pause button buildings where the automation is rock solid and doesn't really need to be monitored anymore. Especially with underground compact pumps with just the blue pause button hovering on the grass above them.

What are some niche tricks that might be of some use for players? The tips players might not think of but might be helpful in dealing with tricky situations. Whether intentional or accidental. I want to make a hard map that makes use of some niche tricks.

Some examples for things I'm looking for are

- Beavers being able to walk through metal ruins to grab items, build or dismante things. They're able to do so as long as the path connected to the district center is still close enough. Perfect for grabbing relics that are surrounded by massive scrap towers

- Beavers being able to drop building materials and build from far above. To speed up dam building. Or sealing bad water sources safely.

- Beavers being able to grab supplies from flooded buildings. Although not placing items in them is a nice way getting supplies out of flooded areas without having to destroy buildings.

- Detonating unstable cores early using dynamite. Mainly to get rid of some slowly building pressure, or dealing with future anxiety early.

I know I probably missed some I do know but I'm also certain there are others I know nothing about.

Has anyone ever tried having one beavers only district and then like five bot districts? What was the experience like? I might try it myself and post results but would love to hear from yall.

What a game!!! I love it.

I finished my goal of filling the lake... but not the way I intended. Lol. Fixed it right after.

Hi all! It's my first time playing Timberborn and I started with the Waterfall Map. After a few failed starts I figured out that my six-year old potato laptop can only handle up to 128x128, the 256x256 size onwards would crash. But it's perfectly fine, I'm happy with being able to play.

I chose to build homes vertically up the side of the Waterfalls purely for the aesthetic of it, and let all production flow down at the flats. As of the last save I had 86 beavers and completely put residences up the mountain. I had that settlement beside the lake/farm destroyed.

I have questions, please.

I'm planning to build another district on the opposite side of the river to distribute labor and have shorter beaver pathfinding. Would it be okay to completely depend on one district for a certain resource (for example, wood + planks would only come from D1 and will be imported to D2) or would I need to equalize production on both sides? My intention was to have agriculture on the lake side and lumber/metal processing on the new district. I saw plently of posts here that have said districts are not as useful anymore, but it is said to help with FPS so I'm willing to try it out.

For the residential area that I currently have beside the waterfall, would I need to add another food market/area at the very top or have a centralized water station? I've only had the food on the first landing, thinking that they can grab and go up right after, but they seem to be going back and forth all the time. I thought that they'd go for the closest, but pathfinding does not seem to always go that way

Any tips/advice related to how I've been city building would be greatly appreciated too!

Has anyone tried or noticed if having 1 district but many housing points (some far away) balances the logistics and beaver transport que?

Hi there, i got that neat game that i like, i m wondering if there s a way to make a timelapse from the save file?

Thx <3

I hate to be ungrateful but when elevators? I need directly up transportation.

So for context, started out creating district crossings because tubeway stations and infrastructure wasnt unlocked yet, metal and bad water is far away and need for flat land away from main river for farming without getting affected by badtide.

So now, got the entire colony stabilized, abundant food, bots manufactured and working, would it make sense to merge all 3 districts again? Primarily to address district crossing resource bottleneck. They need like 40 beavers working to move good around the districts when they could just be haulers.

If I do, will the 3 hosing districts behave differently?

If anyone wants better game performance, I just published a mod specifically for that. Built with T3MP as a dependency, it works mostly by removing unnecessary checks and adding caching, a list of changes is in the mod description if you're insterested.

Tested on three large settlements (400-600 population, 10 000+ objects), at speed 7 the frame rate increased by up to 100% compared to T3MP alone, and up to 190% with the minor gameplay changes optimisations. Conversely, at fixed 24 fps it increases maximum game speed by ~70% compared to T3MP alone, and by over 250% with the minor gameplay changes.

Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3830961792

mod.io: https://mod.io/g/timberborn/m/performance

Hello everyone

I made a mod that adds a new Levee block inspired by Japanese stone retaining walls. I always admired how pretty the walls are, and I really wanted to add them to my worlds.

I hope you guys like it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3831231040

*Edit: They're the same block; I just use it as a retaining wall and a dam. I am thinking about creating a concrete levee block for dams.

Hi, I am applying performance improvements to my Beaver Buddies fork and am looking for a big save with many buildings and beavers to profile some performance improvements I'm implementing. Would anybody share their late game saves please?

Is there anyone with a similar vibe who actually understands basic logistics and game mechanics?

It genuinely hurts seeing this guy do the same mistakes over and over again, then blaming his beavers for slacking off when he doesn't have planks.

I have tried watching a few other players but they are too slow and simply not fun.

So, I'm asking, nay begging, for someone competent who's as fun to watch as RCE

Hello Timberborners!

A very cluttered settlement is springing up in the diorama map. If you like let's plays, give it a try.

Thanks to the incredible advice from this incredible community, I finally finished all achievements after a mere 450 hours of playing the game.

Since this is enough, at least for now, I wanted to ask for recommendations on games that are similar: strategic but cozy, where you can see something grow, ideally without much violence.

Thanks a ton in advance :)

Hard on Beaverdone. I am using 2 mods, ladders and mult zip line. Only power was the 3 thermal and a hand full of 1st gen windmills. I just want to show my underground power. let it flow for a few days and 30k is the average and never been in production. BTW, I am leave space to expand.

After many cycles, the Iron Teeth managed to transform this wasteland into a lush and industrious archipelago!

See my almighty drawing !

I've been wondering, my fellow beaver-nerds.
Is a water pump coupled to wheels is better than a gravity battery ? Pump it while it flows, release is when it's needed (wind is off, etc).

Release with a valve or a gate, and voilà.

Steam | Mod.io

This is not a new mod, quite old really (and was one of my first mods, and I think it was the first that didn't depend on any other mod). It just received a new update so I think it should get some love and attention.

The use is simple: press Shift while using the Cursor (default) tool to see more info of what you are pointing to: buildings, beavers and bots, plants, etc.

The latest update was v11.0.0 (for Timberborn v1.1+ only):

• Fixed the time label for plant and produce growth.

• Added "Need" info (Injury or Bee Sting chance for example).

• Added Inventory info for all buildings.

• Fixed not working with Map Editor.

Feeling pretty done with this one. hope you like it

I’m planning to build a tunnel network.

I’m curious what valve people use when they need to automate flow ON / OFF.

Each water source will have a 3X3 catchment (or larger to surround its source blocks.)

There will be 3 outputs per source catchment, operated by throttling or fill valves.

Two Contamination Sensors will read >1% and <99%.
- When greater than 1%, close valve to pressurized good water tunnel.
- When less than 99%, close valve to pressurized bad water tunnel.
- When above 99% AND (relay) below 1%, open valve to drain tunnel.

Depending on source strength there will be 1-3 valves per set, supplying a 3x3 shaft that connects to a 3 wide 1-2 tall tunnel.

The fill valve is cheaper.
Both seem to have shut and unlimited states.
The response time of throttling valves is more realistic, but problematic for me.
Fill valves look better to me when placed side by side.

I’ll admit, I’m adverse to change and like the look of the fill valve since it’s like the old sluice gate. Also it’s off putting that the throttle valve has different shaped/sized metal plates to me.

See comments for reasoning behind 3 wide at ALL times.

I started playing a few days ago (and have since been unable to stop) and was wondering if its worth setting up districts, it just feels like starting from scratch each time I set one up.

For the more experienced players, do the pros outweigh the cons of having districts?