Engineering a MEGA DAM to survive the drought in Timberborn!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

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[@capybara9594]

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[@firozkhan-ji4hk]

Did you say "woota"

[@geraldthehamter]

rip vertically challenged engineer

[@datbanana7419]

boosh

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Given when you gave this ad spiel i legit thowt you were gonna say "This video is sponsored today by Not An Engineer" xD

[@steair]

Instead of pausing inventors huts you can set them as lowest priority jobs. That way they automatically restart science point production as soon as you have unemployed beavers, but they don't subtract workers to others (and maybe more important) buildings. If you play with working priorities you can reach a certain degree of automation, which I think every engineer should aim for :D

[@kurtb4486]

This is kind of hard to explain, but I think you are describing a flavor of labor management that I also use and love. Be very aware of what EVERYONE is doing or not doing at all times.... Don't forget to reassign your farmers between planting their first crop and first harvest & your cook can probably work quite intermittently early on as well. Don't let gatherers of any kind stand around in general. Don't make your lumberjacks travel too far to chop...don't be afraid to build gathering posts closer to resources as they clearcut. I manage my beavers so every essential job is set to very high priority and filled. All intentionally unoccupied jobs set to very low priority. Early on I use the town center builders as the labor slack monitor. They are the only jobs that are set to high priority (as opposed to very high). All beavers that aren't essential in other jobs will be builders. If someone dies doing an essential job, a builder will fill in automatically. If a beaver grows up, it will become a builder by default and be easy to reassign if desired by making any other job very high priority or adding headcount to an existing very high priority job. I remove beavers from jobs by removing headcount or lowering job priority...this will dump them into the builder pool for reassignment if desired. Once I get to the point where I want 4 builders full time, I make a builders hut and set the town center builders to very high priority and the new builders to high priority, making it the new labor balancer/spare worker pool. At some point I usually build a hauler set at normal priority as a L2 buffer. This system just REALLY helps me keep track of beavers and keeps important jobs filled.

[@hydraik]

I haven't opened up timberbourne in a few months did this come in an update?

[@steair]

@@hydraik yes :)

[@azharp2717]

Thanks

[@merfalerf2201]

@@kurtb4486 You absolute beaver whisperer.

[@forgotten2249]

It would have been more efficient to build a set of stairs down to the bottom of the river and built the levees on the bottom layer with the Floodgates on top of them. Could have done a straight line across which would have used less resources.

[@pbsixgun6]

And he also forgot he wanted to eventually go up to that next level and build stuff there....so he'll have to build platforms across again anyway....

[@jakubchudy8746]

@@pbsixgun6 he could use a bridge for that

[@alcoholdonkey]

Also the fact he's doubled up the floodgates one in front of the other instead of one for each part

[@JohnSmithYeah]

@@alcoholdonkey looking for someone to comment exactly this lol, I wanted to reach into my phone and fix it when I saw that happen.

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

@@alcoholdonkey Definitely less resources but the method he's gone for needs a floodgate connected to eachother regardless, as you can't open close them all if they aren't connected.

[@Dominator_0211]

RCE: Oh no, I deleted those levies too early. Time to build them again Also RCE: Let’s do that 3 more times

[@ljskizzle]

RCE: has a working dam with floodgates holding back water the way he intended Also RCE: deletes the dam he built 3 times

[@emmata98]

why have a floodgate, if you can deconstruct and construct levees?

[@wolfyspace3368]

@@emmata98 it takes time and resources

[@CTCver]

Just the fact that he was scared to try building floodgates on just a diagonal and for half the building of the dam he was holding back all the water with a diagonal floodgate…wow. Don’t get me started on the fact that 2 floodgates would probably release enough water. Why do you need 10 floodgates across the whole span?

[@kyltredragmire4939]

@@CTCver style points. The only reason us beause it looks nice. Wait...but that's how architects think! Oh no!

[@dylandepetro4187]

@@kyltredragmire4939 idk. To quote a lot of engineers. “If it wasn’t for budget, we would over engineer everything to last as long as possible and be as strong as possible”

[@l33tmike]

You can improve the efficiency of your log pumpers by having a hauling post and setting the water pumps as high priority - then the log pumpers don't waste time moving water from the pump to the storage - I found this essential in hard mode with the longer dry seasons and short wet seasons (that and suitable reservoirs)

[@achoacho2234]

We need more frequency on these timberborners episodes please!! Loving the series

[@AlthalusNZ]

You would have used less resources on a straight dam instead of the diagonal one. Almost twice as many resources required to go diagonally. Also use the workplace prioritizing buttons to ensure the most essential buildings are in use. It definitely reduces the micromanaging you need to do with your beavers.

[@vioflame2.082]

Nobody asked you

[@theblueberrypi6152]

*1.414

[@WJS774]

@@theblueberrypi6152 Nope. Look up the difference between Cartesian and Manhattan metrics. Diagonal uses either twice as much if you require full touching faces, or exactly the same if you allow the blocks to only touch at the corners.

[@aldreenbautista2375]

Finally, a fitting sponsor that takes care of the strongest shape.

[@RedRingOfDead]

You got a nice amount of likes mate 👌🏻.

[@BarnabyCodswallow]

LOL good call the strongest shape for sure lol Mr Rod Cock Erection aka RCE strikes again! LOL I LOVE STRONG SHAPE JOEKS

[@BarnabyCodswallow]

IM 14

[@polskiekulki5218]

@@BarnabyCodswallow ok and that dont matter

[@Wh1skyz01]

@@BarnabyCodswallow feet

[@Jack_Wolfe]

26:25 instead of wasting water letting it flow down in the dry season, you could always use a water dump. But also you dont NEED a massive river to do that. You could construct a water dump into a 2 tall 1x1 space (or longer, if you need more coverage for less workers.) put some water storage near by, and just fill up the little pool as it dries out. this should keep farms and things nearby wet without the need for a massive area of water. a 1x1 should reach 10 squares in all directions, aslong as the bottom cube of the water is touching the land you want wet. so with 20 squares between each watering storage you should be able to sustain more for longer. By pumping as much water into storage as possible. 2-3 water storage per water dump usually lasts ages. With them dotted about the place you're able to also supply drinking water to most if not all of your beavers across the place. Suggestion: set up homes near the work locations with enough for home/work to make getting to work faster and getting home faster. Essentially making suburbs. Even storage can be set up to only hold the materials and food for the local workers.

[@willhendrix86]

No Matt, When everything has the same priority they build in the order they are placed. Your placing the flood gates after the water pumps, all with normal priority so flood gates are last.

[@MiguelVicoR]

Me watching season 1 of "timberborners": Wow! this game looks great! i must try it! RCE is great at it and I'm learning alot from him!" Me watching season 4 after overdoing Timberborn: "HE IS WEAK! HE MISMANAGES HIS WORKERS! HE SQUANDERS HIS WATER AND HIS WOOD! HIS BLODLINE WONT SURVIVE THE DRY SEASON!"

[@10EightyPlays]

Yeah, that’s RCE. And Blitz, and Ctop, etc.

[@DaEpicGamer414]

yeah

[@Cyberdragunz]

I love how instead of just lowering the already built floodgates, you just demolished a chunk of your dam to let the water back through

[@GummieI]

well he needed to demolish it to make room for the next floodgate piece anyway, so not really anything wrong with it

[@kevincooney5492]

He only needed 2 flood gates to make it operational. He could have put dam pieces on top of the rest. Water would flow through the hole created by the 2 flood gates.

[@OpinionatedSkink]

@@GummieI besides the fact he didn't need more flood gates, he did the same thing he did 3 times before - he deleted an extra chunks of levee and now cannot reach the block to build the floodgate 😂 at 29:33

[@redmckenzie820]

So glad this series is back!!!

[@noot3778]

was it gone?

[@limuelamihan8189]

@@noot3778 I think it's just been too long since the last video

[@soupwizard]

22:33 Clearly the dam project needs a Project Manager beaver assigned, someone to make create planning documents and Gantt charts and ensure each step is done in the correct order. And really there should have been a design review before construction started; the engineering team would have pointed out that a horizontal (non-diagonal) dam would have been much easier and cheaper to build.

[@Michael.Deazley]

The water from the second source splits and half goes straight off the map instead of toward your reservoir

[@SomeThingOrMaybeAnother]

It doesn't matter. The wet seasons don't get short enough for it to matter. The problem is in two small reservoirs, rather than one dam at the outflow.

[@gs6905]

U do understand this is a comedy series?

[@MasterSonicKnight]

fun fact RCE won't die on timberborners when u tell him it's gonna be rly hard, he dies when he gets overconfident and does something utterly stupid that completely backfires (or when the season ends and he tsunami-es everything)

[@will2998]

You only need 1 floodgate to handle drought, Matt

[@12many4you]

Shhh. Its ok. Let it go...... there is no saving this man

[@rvlougdon9500]

And why is he building a flood gate in front of another? I'm sure it will look nice, very architectural.

[@guy_autordie]

@@rvlougdon9500 yes, it's been design by someone who don't know engineering.

[@arti6okk]

@@rvlougdon9500 no, no, it's just overengineering, nowhere near arcitecture

[@SylviaRustyFae]

One backup is none backup; two backup may as well be one backup if one fails and one backup is none backup. So therefore three backup is also none backup bcuz if two can fail, and one backup is none backup; then three can fail. Same for four... And so on and so on. Engineers know to maximimise backups in case of failure

[@ferv_idus]

Your water isn’t filling up that quickly because you need to build a hauling post, so that the pumpers can pump quicker without going back and forth between tanks and their pumper.

[@shiah]

Same for build speed, honestly

[@cspud38]

Why did you spend so many resources on that triple floodgate? I was a little nervous at first too, but once you had it built you could see that the one behind it was enough.

[@comicallylargerodent]

i think it might be so they all connect so they all go down at once, not sure tho

[@Zaros262]

It's going to look nice though. You, know. Architecture.

[@ChimPew]

Wooo 🥳! Timberborners is genuinely one of the best RCE series

[@TheDarklingWolf]

It really is my favourite now that infra is over, always looking forward to the next one!

[@lasperino5260]

True

[@hotspicylife3388]

Did anyone realize when he accidentally build the flood gate diagonally the water didn't spill over?

[@12many4you]

We all already know this from all the other times... this man has finally lost the last shred of sense

[@pldcanfly]

Yep!

[@megumaxuwu]

yes and my head hurts of that fact

[@bigmoe9856]

Yep. He was building a flood gate over a spot that was already covered by two flood gates.

[@NevinkaS]

Timberboners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@grimmpotat6911]

Yay we love TimberBoners

[@hexhexw]

That is what I was about to comment lol! 😂

[@ethanbutikofer1252]

Honestly my least favorite thing he plays but I watch it anyways cause his content is🤌

[@adhilroshan286]

Lol

[@Tchaikovskythegreat]

Yeah timberboners is the best

[@namedeleted9005]

In hard mode I've had a 30 day dry season before with a 5 day wet season after it followed by another 24 day dry season, it definitely gets pretty difficult farther on in the game

[@ryanfitzgerald2816]

Yep, his design of water storage is going to have to improve massively in this city if he's going to survive those long of time frames.

[@cjslime8847]

Yah I even had dams and the dam don’t even fill up in time

[@rustyhowe3907]

Ouch yes, I'm going through that right now on my plains map. Haven't yet tried this map but was thinking about doing so soon.

[@ryanfitzgerald2816]

@@rustyhowe3907 Just work on building some walls to raise the water level to make some holding tanks for water. Once you get to the 6th, 7th dry seasons, they'll get long enough you have to do that or you'll be dead for sure on any of the maps on hard mode.

[@rustyhowe3907]

@@ryanfitzgerald2816 Thanks for the tips my friend, managed fairly easily on the plains map for a 40 day drought with dynamite made reservoirs and a small population, but this Helix is a whole new beast so I'll be sure to follow your advice.🏆

[@1draigon]

It will affect the happiness, but before a drought (and without sufficient supplies) it’s good to increase working hours! I’ve been able to have 3 days with 21 hours in a row without a single beaver sleeping in the day

[@BornDepressed]

Your big reservoir is pretty big. I think you could pump for a couple days worth if you're in a pinch, so don't think about not pumping. Join your water sources so the closer water source gets into the river faster and goes backwards to keep your crops safe.

[@hoshiharucho7526]

Beavers can swim sooooo you can build stairs to the ground and build things in the river. Will save logs since you won't need to build unnecessary platforms.

[@romaindeslandes4458]

yeah but building stairs to the ground probably costs more than platforms

[@T_gaming28]

He's done that before

[@hoshiharucho7526]

@@romaindeslandes4458 This is true in the short term since planks would be involved but specifically in this instance he rebuilt that column of 4 leves like 5 times... at 12 logs a pieces that's hefty.

[@amanipapi]

Please keep making more of this series, i would watch it every day

[@TheRoanock]

A note on building dams, it's sometimes faster to build a staircase down into the riverbed and run a path parallel to where the damn will be. That way the beavers can access all segments of the damn at once, so multiple beavers will work on it rather than the one/two beavers working on the next block in the path that they can reach

[@tmanknoll9702]

RCE: I need to be more careful deleting things, i keep messing up ans having to rebuild levees *Waits a few seconds* RCE: *has working floodgates* Also RCE: *DELETES levees to let water through almost reflexively* RCE AGAIN: Thats all, bye guys! *ends video* - - - - - - You know, i think he is messing with us guys...

[@marxmaiale9981]

This map can be quite brutal, the water takes several days for the water to work its way down the spiral

[@bitkarek]

ya, but it takes days to dry out.

[@Taolan8472]

Yeah, and he hasnt managed the nearer water source effectively. Half of it runs right off the map. He also hasn't dammed to the waterfall to expand his local resevoir in that corner. He got lucky that he survived long enough to build the "proper" dam up at the Helix. The next step water wise is to build a levee down a layer from his helix pumps to install a second layer. They will be underwater most of the time, but when needed they can be activated.

[@jboutiet]

Seems like you'd want to get to the top of the spiral and cut some shortcuts to eliminate a loop or two.

[@Taolan8472]

@@jboutiet oh absolutely, but bewarb. The source at the base of the helix is small. Thats part of why it takes so long to fill the water.

[@TheBlackDogblkd]

some advice (i've been playing hard mode a lot and have about 20 cycles on one level): build a ton of storage and as many water pumps as you can, and set them all to high priority jobs. build a hauling post and prioritize the pumps. when the wet season starts, switch EVERYONE over to pumps and haulers. this will fill up the water tanks way faster than if the pumps were on their own with no haulers. try to keep to as few beavers as possible and expand very slowly. since you have a dam and things will stay green, the dry season can be for farming/tree cutting/building. plant lots of sunflowers as they don't die as quickly if they dry out

[@NynaAzura]

Matt, the short river leaves the map at two points, one on top of the mountain and one by your settlement. Now, I'm not an engineer (although not Not An Engineer 😉) nor am I any good at physics, but if you were to block off the first exit, you should get double the amount of water to flow next to the settlement, right? This way, you would have a bit more water in the small reservoir at the start of a drought!

[@Lorkanthal]

pretty sure the water is already spilling over his dam so doubling the input won't help much unless he builds another dam further down river increasing his reservoir size. Then maybe the increased input would be useful in filling it up faster.

[@JG-df1qd]

Check your pumpers efficiency. When they have to haul water to the barrels, they lose a lot of time. Sometimes, you pump water faster by building a haulers hut than more pumps. Just mark the pumps as priority for haulers. This also makes your other industries more productive when you pause water pumps. Edit out a typo.

[@HotAkPL]

"I'm going to be very careful about what I delete" Literally minutes afterward - *delete dam and let water flood out*

[@joewilson5814]

Super sneaky trick from someone who has played way too much of this game. On the far side of your mega dam, build a water pumping station two levels under water on double platforms and while it will mostly go unused, in a pinch it will pump out the last bit of water you have stored by the bottom levees and save your beavers. Also should have said that the log was a half-mast on the monument for vertically challenged engineer. Keep up the awesome content!

[@TotoDG]

Next time the Beavles come around, could you ask them to play 'Dam That River' by Alice in Chains?

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Not sure they do covers, but I'll ask!

[@jessegalea5524]

Or can they play born on the boyou by creedence clearwater revial

[@Decipher13]

I would think their favourite song would be “Norwegian Wood”

[@wrenchdoozer]

I've finally caught up with Timberborners™ after binge watching. I don't know if you take song requests, but if you do could you sing "Waterfalls" by TLC when you mention a waterfall in an episode? (“Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to. I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all, but I think you're moving too fast”)

[@obsgr1]

Matt's attempts at building a dam is going to be his downfall. Imagine being a Civil Engineer making the same mistakes again and again. And it looks like an architect designed it. Is Matt secretly a Real Civil Architectural Engineer?

[@kjyost]

1) You should put a dam after the fork to backfill the region with carrots 2) You have a max path length from your district centre. As such go out straight and never double back. It slows down your beavers as they travel more per job & shrinks your usable area.

[@heyapoc]

Matt!! You were staring down the answer to your debacle the whole time! I saw no water escaping the diagonally placed flood gates during the dry season!

[@RJ_Eckie]

Oh gosh I’ve finally caught up on the Timberborners playlist!!! And I’m so happy it’s still going!! Absolutely loving all of this. The addition of schmichael’s voice has given me some proper giggles. Also 100x YES on the opening songs 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 To all the people upset about the lack of efficiency: have you not watched a single RCE video before?? This man has clearly lost his marbles long ago designing poop-pipes!! Keep up the good work, friends! ❤️

[@onemanzu]

You should build a dam further down stream of your two that exist near the base. Let the rivers join and feed each other, then dam before the waterfall!

[@edopronk1303]

good idea. and that one with 1 hight flood gates instead of dam pieces, so he can top up the area to almost one, where as the dams only allow 0,5

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

RCE: Build another dam farther downstream, then water from the area that fills quickly will overflow a bit into the area that doesn’t fill quickly. Hopefully.

[@dmcpacks]

You should play on the experimental branch, there’s a lot of more stuff, robots, dirt, beaver healthcare, etc. And saves can be converted easily.

[@kyokazuto]

converted more like just copy 'em over

[@choclemur31919]

The power of boshing the like is AMAZING !!!

[@SephirothRyu]

RCE: "Unfortunately the folktails water pump only goes down 2..." Also RCE: **has never actually put a deepwater pump in water deeper than 1 in any season yet**

[@yanlucasdf]

i have a explosive idea for garantee survival would involve lots o dinamite but you see how that lkae upstream stayed wet trought the dry season in the begining of the episode, maybe if you do a bit of diggin you can garantee a wet soil for the farms and if i may, one cool project for this season could be finding a somewhat flat dry area of the map and build a farming district with astec like cannals

[@TaylorMadeOutdoors]

Just a thought, what if you used dynamite at the bottom of one of your reservoirs to make it deeper? Might not be able to pump it, but I should keep things green right?

[@stevecole90099]

I don't think water effects land on the other side of tall ground walls so if the bottom of the river is an elevation of 5 and you have a one block wide wall that goes up to an elevation of 10, it doesn't matter that the ground on the other side is at an elevation of 5, it still dries out even though water is right next to it. I think you can see this as the helix refills. The next loop around will still be dry even though water is really only like 4 or 5 blocks away.

[@GummieI]

@@stevecole90099 Also gonna take a while before he can unlock and produce dynamite anyway

[@AnimeFanPrimo]

Best series ever! Better than 99% of series on Netflix.

[@willwilliams2944]

love how he built flood gates just to destroy levees right next to it and hault progress

[@TRAILLER]

One again I salute "NotAnEngineer" the seed spreading expert. He was great at plowing.

[@RealAndySkibba]

Thank goodness. Was going through timberborn withdrawal.

[@barbarian2212]

RCE, build Hauling Posts, they can help your entire colony of Beavers increase their productivity. Without Haulers, when your Water Pumpers max out their water capacity, they themselves bring it to the Water Storage, but if Haulers are employed, the Haulers do the carrying for them, allowing your Water Pumpers to keep pumping to maximize the amount of water you have access to. Same with every resource/building, and you can set which buildings have priority to help with your needs as they arise. They also help with construction, bringing the materials to the site, but they do not actually build it. The Hauling Post also employs 10 beavers and is cheap to build, so it's a great building to have multiple of.

[@proesterchen]

Still wondering why you're bothering with a huge dam upstream rather than a much smaller dam after both sources combine.

[@12many4you]

Because that would be a sensible thing to do.....

[@romaindeslandes4458]

bc the huge damn will contain more water

[@benoitg6933]

You need huge dams for hard mode. Longest drought last for 30 days I think. But he should have built a smaller dam just upstream before the lake, that one gives you a lot of time to dam the helix

[@sparking023]

Well, if he had followed with the levee+dam combo it would make more sense since he would gain access to the next layer of the helix, so theoretically, Matt could bissect it with dams and make a series of deep reservoirs to pump the water from. But you know how it goes, the power of engineering takes over and Matt gets too ambicious

[@wabash1581]

Best thing is to fill the helix, Plug it with a dam on top right where he is building the very leaky dam floodgate thing. Then where the water collectors to pump from the helix. That wall needs built up, with the water collectors on top of that. Having tried the flood gate idea myself. There is a giant pool that needs to get filled from the helix, before it gets to the settlement. It takes so much water to fill. That by the time you need water to flow from the helix. Very little if any will get to the settlement. To be fair I died a few times trying to get my settlement to thrive on that map. Shoot, I built another district just to send the little beavers to die. I could not afford to feed them all and make it through the dry season. I still wake up in cold sweats.

[@SenseiBrute]

I think the best strategy is to focus on resources when drought stopped And then focus on building other stuffs like dam and bridges when drought started so that you can maximize all of your beavers

[@matthewwilliamson6343]

Good video everyone, I personally think that your beavers are thinking their Engineering Boss, has been replaced by An Architect 😂.

[@rustyhowe3907]

Who's AI is worse than theirs.🤣

[@bamboozledpanda1]

Love how manscaped sponsored the video it's so funny

[@qd7260]

I'm pretty sure right at the end, he just made the same mistake and the timberborners can't build the floodgates..

[@lavagolem77]

Yes, yes he did ahah

[@smokydesigns]

not only that, couldn't he just open up the gates he just built to release water instead of deleting the dam pieces? lol

[@jcrazy9008]

@@smokydesigns you mean open the thing he's been talking about opening?!?! Lol but this is why we love his vids

[@smokydesigns]

@@jcrazy9008 as the great Steve Butabi once said, " That's why we love you, and we hate you."

[@simfire687]

Timberborners is my favorite series on your channel by far as well as Planet Crafter and Cities Skylines Keep up the good work CE, your content is what all true engineers strive for

[@inverteduck]

Rce: released new vid Me: pog Rce: it's timberborners Me: MEGA POG

[@noahprange8128]

Manscaped and RCE are a sponsorship made in heaven

[@stevecole90099]

Huge problem with the flood gates idea. Once the water dries up, you would need to release enough water to fill up almost the entire area before your reservoir actually sees any water. Water won't just flow straight from the gates to the dam.

[@stevecole90099]

The best option for saving water on this map is to build another dam/gates just up from your original one where the terrain steps up one. If you dam up there it keeps that whole area full of water it gives you a lot of water to work with and helps the river return a bit quicker.

[@stevecole90099]

I think it takes 22days for a full 1:1 block of water to dry up which is why the dammed water only lasts about 11 because dams only block the water up to like .6 the height of a block level. The best bet to ensure extinction protection on this level is to dam up an area like you are trying here and then build a small district of berry, log, and water farmers about where your new water pumps are. Water 3.5 deep should take over 70days to dry up so that district should always have food and water. Then you can either migrate 🦫 to build other districts or setup a distribution post to help other districts survive the extreme droughts. Basically this district would be like a safe room or doomsday bunker only built to always be working on the essentials.

[@stevecole90099]

I think the save I'm currently playing, has a version of this district with over 10000 berries and 4000 water stored. Make sure your second district is focused on planks and gears and probably pine resin. You'll need them a ton for storage especially when you start stacking things up on platforms/metal platforms.

[@TheIronbuster]

Say, question @RCE: at the one point in front of the dam where the pumps are now, wouldn't it be better to let the water run down there? down in the valley you could then create a small canal and drive water wheels during the rainy season. and if possible, maybe build pumps there on the canal wall. you could also create a large reservoir right behind the houses of the beavers. a reservoir that would be fed by the overflowing water would also be full faster than the branch of the river below

[@choclemur31919]

I have a question why do you want to make the dam with many flood gate when you can just make one ?

[@stevecole90099]

Everyone knows engineers have one weakness, over engineering.

[@edopronk1303]

this Indeed

[@BinaryArmorOnline]

"If a job's worth doing it's worth doing properly" is probably the first actual engineer-like thing that Real Civil Engineer has ever said

[@lionllew6601]

But he did not do it properly at all. He made a total balls of it!

[@kailomonkey]

Hard mode should look like desert instead of grass. That's what it acts like. Why don't you put pumps actually on the water source! Dude! Just forget the diagonal levis.

[@romaindeslandes4458]

bc its too far it doesnt change anything if they are on the source or downstream of the source

[@kailomonkey]

But the water takes time to get down so at least when it's the wet season it will be hdrated instantly.

[@svonduhn]

The score is always filled with water even in a drought

[@eronaay]

I don't know about anyone else but my favorite faction is Iron Teeth. It's fairly easy to control birth rate. It's also easy to build fall back water storage units (not connected by paths) and have some beaver vats queued up to survive dying out during a hard mode drought that you were expecting to last 27 days.

[@Nespax1]

So this video does not show up in my subscription tab, or when I check the videos tab on the RCE channel, but only in home page. Guess it is because it literally just came out, but still strange... and I did not get the notification for it.... YT is full of architects.

[@zottelhuehs6375]

KZbin sometimes needs a minute or two

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Being subscribed doesn't mean you'll get a notification, the algorithm decides if it thinks you'll watch it first! (lame I know!)

[@MangBato]

I don't know why but this god damn series gets me hooked all the time and I still look forward to this even it gets delayed.

[@ndres6955]

Idea: When you get Dinomite try making a "shortcut" for the water from The Helix(that way the water can reach you faster)!

[@mareksowa853]

Hey, RCE, i have a 3 steps plan, that will probably help you survive. (Also, sorry if i wrote somethig wrong, i'm not speaking english everyday) Step 1: build a dam on watterfall, that's down the rivver from your base. This will make a reservoir for more water. Step 2: replace whole dam, that connect your main land with forester land, with some scafolding. This will connect two reservoirs, making more time for water to dry. Step 3: replace one of the pieces from dam, that cut branch of "the strongest shape rivver" with floodgate. This will help you at the end of dry seazon, because you can faster refill main reservoir.

[@Steveddie93]

Oh my God, I got a memoriam! Wish I lived long enough to see the colony thrive! I'm so honored to be sponsored by @Manscaped

[@takumi2023]

Would have been cheaper to use platform instead of dams and yes you only needed 1 column not two.

[@WolfRose11]

15:34 Water leaks out of corners, that column is required. 23:20 It is leaking through.

[@sangeetagrover4328]

first

[@z4clewis]

Ur first

[@12many4you]

Nope.

[@MrSlonokot]

Omg Timberborn! I didn't expect this from Real Civil Engineer! What a surprise!!!!

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@z4clewis]

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[@dddccxDC]

For season 5 matt, you will be really excited about everything that was added!!! They have dirt excovators, gravity batteries, improved beaver golems, and a lot more well being buildings :D The experimental branch has so much more to do now. You might even be able to add it to this season and see how it can help you.

[@ArAcHnId777]

17:30 we shall all 'come' together with the magic of engineering

[@jhbk5]

I had no idea that you play this game as well! It looks like I have a new playlist to binge in the background. Since I have not watched any of the other episodes in this series, I don't know if you know this. You can build roads and steps into the rivers and the beavers will use them to travel even when there is water, since they are beavers. I usually do that when building the dams. Cuts down on the build delete repeat workflow.

[@wyndhamcoffman8961]

You definitely need plenty of haulers. They are like the lifeblood of the settlement; they carry materials where they need to go, keeping your workers free to do their jobs. I should know, because I'm a hauler in real life too.

[@jakebarlow100]

Was away for the weekend and to sit down an hour before bed Sunday and find this and a tsunami video to watch before bed has made my night! Timberborners has to be my favourite current series on the channel Keep up the good work man!

[@cookiejackb]

Petition for Matt to do experimental mode on timberborn

[@nvagn]

the idea from 22:23 and 22:47 actually seems to work out at 26:16, it doesn't let the water through and would save a lot of resources, unless it worked just because there was an unbuilt flood gate, but yea

[@Blargerhonk]

Dam segments aren't the only thing that can have paths on them. Levees can as well. As can rooves.

[@curiousowl5749]

YESSS THIS TOOK SOOOO LONG IM SO HAPPY LIKE IM CRAZILY HAPPY!

[@travissouthard]

Timberborners is easily my favorite soap opera and would love to see more!

[@themultigamer5682]

29:32 *builds flood gates, deletes blocks to let water through*

[@dabuilda]

Finnaly!!! More Timberborners, well wort the wait but we need more of these guys!

[@lukethompson3997]

You should demolish the bottom of the river to make it deeper so it holds more water and will last longer during dry seasons

[@Shadow-uv4ex]

5:38 It would take a lot of explosives, but why not just make a really wide 2 block deep lake and have your main water source feeding into that? You get the volume of lots of water, but not the depth which would normally be inaccessible. Then you can have your pump stations all along that without being unable to reach the rest of the water.

[@davidwells616]

I finally bought Timberborn. I love it day one of play looks great and all your great engineering tips helped my beavers strive. Can’t wait. This and City Skyline are some of my favorites of your content.

[@BLOOP-lm1nh]

I LOVE WATCHING YOUR TIMBERBORN EPISODES

[@Adrianz_2901]

The damm of the engenier "the BEST"

[@TheBoyzzz69]

Finally 😭😭😭😭I'll watch this in 0.5x

[@ManuelSLaraBisch]

I've found it's much more reliable (but also involves more micromanagement) to pause any construction that might end up stranding beavers and then gradually unpause each bit as and when they're finished building the things beyond that point, rather than prioritising things and hoping for the best.

[@christopherg2347]

A few remarks: - I do not think that the path over a dam should be used too much. It is okay for the 1-2 that are capped with a spillway, but anything with Floodgates should probably not have a path. Floodgates will interrupt paths anyway. And if there is ever overflow, the path will be useless as well. So it is better to have a separate bridge that is higher then the dam to begin with. - There is a massive inefficiency in the way up to the dam. A few stairs could cut at least 1/4 of the distance - some carriers and a wood/plank stockpile near the damn should be able to speed up construction by a lot - you really should only be building straight dams. Trying to build the diagonal only adds headaches are wastes material. And once you no longer try to use them as paths, there is really no advantage to build them diagonal anyway. - you could double the farming reservoir capacity, simply by adding a level of levies on some of the river bank and increasing the current spillway to 2 height. This would also allow you to use any waterpumps there more efficiently. - similarly the water pump reservoir could be buffed to depth 2, so the pumps actually can work efficiently.

[@dragonson85]

timberborn it's my favorite serie of RCE. i love it

[@joaofilipesantos7410]

timberborners was so entertaining already, but hard mode timberborners is even better!!