Is Mastering Timberborn Hard Mode 100% Impossible...?

[@thejamesbrooks]

That sleep/work hours moment was hard to watch

[@jasmijnwellner6226]

Moment? It was like half the episode!

[@thejamesbrooks]

@@jasmijnwellner6226 Haha true, just the moment of watching him turn it down, and then again.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It was hard to see in the edit 😂😬

[@puraLusa]

😂 I laughed for so long...

[@Thexaios]

Beavers be like "Your illiteracy has screwed us again, Biffa!"

[@jabcmw1]

Biffa folding under pressure never gets old lol

[@marcosv.ribeiro1073]

Wasting good water without the rear floodgate, alternatively you could replace the front with double height floodgates, it would be more efficient

[@mandowarrior123]

That is correct, but he may not have finished it, there is plenty enough at his current size. He could also dam the rear next to the source and swap from 0.5 to 1 at the front which is perhaps the optimal

[@Ketraar]

Yeah the front floodgates would need to be 2 high so it can be set to below 1 for allowing water to flow just at the front and to above 1.0 (possibly even 2.0 just to be safe) so the (bad)water goes out the back.

[@zyeborm]

He doesn't need floodgates behind. Dams would do fine.

[@marcosv.ribeiro1073]

@@zyeborm dams would be great too

[@JBRam2002]

This is a new take on Hard Mode: Just set your working hours to 0 during all the droughts and bad tides. What could go wrong? :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

The beavers loved it! 😅

[@RailRide]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Until flashbacks of _* The I n c i d e n t*_ loomed before them...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

We don't talk about that

[@cylisplaysgames]

You know, in that diagonal dam, the dam that is closest to the district centre should be a levee, because the water / badwater is leaving the dam (which has an opening beside your stairs) which is causing the flooding.

[@Martinrd72]

Was going to say exactly the same thing

[@MarcusRoberto]

Biffa, you can keep the pumps running on bad water, they filter it. The amount of clean water pumped is smaller than with good water, but you can keep pumping.

[@jasonbyway]

You’re wrong it only works when it’s mixed with some freshwater. At full bad water it doesn’t pump.

[@CaTastrophy427]

only until contamination is 100%, at which point there's no clean water to filter out.

[@sofiadragon6520]

Yeah they patched that so once the pump hits full contamination there isn't any water left, just whatever that brown slop is supposed to be.

[@daffazv]

3:00 biffa, you can slightly move the ladder to the right/left of the medium warehouses and put a platform in front of the door then put a path. That way you can stack as many warehouses till the building limit reached. Love your teamberborn series as always ❤

[@lilfurbal]

The fact you actually made it through an 11 day unmanaged bad tide as your first and didn't end up running out of water or food was impressive, though it just about happened. Days are precious though, need to stop forgetting to unpause the water pumps or it could lead to quick disaster.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🫡

[@squallloire]

Biffa is such a generous Mayor, giving all his citizens 3 days off at the start of a Badtide 😂

[@squallloire]

Reminder: Forester can also replant Berries

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@Fantaman900]

Sleeping hours? Really!? Yes all the way to ZERO! Good job Biffa now your bevers are not building your design mistakes

[@ThronedEggman]

Biffa, just letting you know you actually did a good job here. Far too many players undervalue a good amount of storage for food and water, and you proved why it is crucial. Even with the mistakes you did do and also acknowledged, you had enough storage to last in essence about 19-21 days of no food income and didn't lose a single beaver! Mathtime! You set your beavers to 0h workdays one day before the badtide started, the badtide was 11 days, and there's another 3-4 days before the harvest comes in. You still had like 200 berries left when the carrots were done, so I'm fairly certain you could've survived another 3-5 days, though it would've been rough. Well done :D Ps. Although I have to say, you saying "I'm not panicking" while 100% panicking was gold xD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou for your great comment. Yes I made mistakes but first time on hard and I'm still going 👍😁👍

[@ThronedEggman]

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines who'd have thought hard would be hard? xD Quick free tip if you want; food stuffs like potatoes actually store better uncooked. A raw potato takes up just 1 space in storage, but can be made into 4 grilled potatoes. The same is true for most of the processed foods in the game, if I'm not mistaken.

[@Gnare]

4:20 - oof... all you needed to do was remove 2 bushes and make the path come in from the side.. didn't need to destroy and rebuild! :-(

[@ithenumber1]

just a few suggestions for someone playing the same map on hard mode (1st Hard mode play through) 1. your diagonal dam is leaking, please block with a levee 2. you have too many carrots, remove the lower ones and plant sunflowers, can be eaten directly, more happiness points 3. need more trees. you are using too many logs. once I got stable, I planted in the top right (there is a crater which can be filled via water dumps. loads of trees). 4. you need reservoirs or megadams, I leveed up the top part next to the water source (where you have log storage now). and pump water from there. droughts / bad tides last more than 20 days sometimes. best of luck and thanks for the content.

[@andrewjohnson6162]

You need plank and gear storage and to build a stockpile. In hard mode you need supplies ready to go for any and all projects. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail!

[@urkerab]

Demolishing the ladders created a lot of rubble which can't be collected due to the lack of plank storage.

[@ceeaybee]

Oh Biffa. The only concern during hard mode is your misuse of the working hours. Love it. :D

[@jasmijnwellner6226]

22:50 "I need to get this done" > accidentally leaves them on lowest priority

[@donnieinman8049]

I'm stunned you survived that.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Me too 😂

[@luminariel3765]

I would say get the sluice. Start making reservoirs up high in that deep channel that the water comes from to save extra water for really long bad tide and drought. Maybe even turn that small empty hole up high on that plateau above the bad water into a pond for maximum farming? You'd need the water moving things though, and i think they're expensive. Good luck and I'm excited for the next episode!

[@Vyrus_101]

You did the SLEEPING BACKWARDS! 😂 You reduced work hours to zero 🤦 but then you figured it out! Ah geez! Ah well, thanks for the entertainment, even if you stressed me out haha

[@EldGames]

One of my favorite parts of the start of hardmore is that beaver shuffle from job to job, just getting the beavers where you need them when you need them.

[@fundamentallyokay]

Good job saving the colony in the end! And yeah, I’d replace the single floodgates and top row of levees with double floodgates, so as to not waste water. And maybe a small stockpile of antidote, just in case of any… incidents :D

[@successmeditations110]

What a Calamitea!

[@jaypeeters]

Name of first video of the series: Can a Timberborn EXPERT survive hard mode... 😅 Nonetheless great entertainment value Biffa! 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

When I find the expert, I'll ask them 😅

[@roffel06]

You prepared well, stocking up on food and water like that. I thought that researching the medium tanks and building the gear supplies would take too long on hard mode but you made it work. Well done.

[@MF_Dicedealer]

Pretty sure you were decreasing working hours rather than increasing them. Around 25min

[@dontobias6042]

Yeah setting the working hours to 0 might hinder the chance to finish the build LOL

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Did you see the on screen pop up? 😅

[@squallloire]

I am LOVING these extra episodes ❤

[@MatthewSwaine]

You're going to need double floodgates up top and a 2-high blockade, as the Badtide can spew forth a lot of water at once, which can often flood higher than a 1 high block even though it is close to the edge of the map.

[@MatthewSwaine]

Also put some Floodgates on the very edge of the map to stop clean water flowing off the edge of the map during good seasons.

[@flamable_feuervieh]

I love this new colony! And you managed the Bad Tide quite good! I am actually surprised no beavers got contaminated xD

[@stewarttaylor6784]

You've got planks in the debris from the ladder demo, you need to have a storage to retrieve it. I think you actually reduced the workday!! You can either replant the berries, or rip them out to grow other crops.

[@bjorn.josmans]

Biffa don't tempt me during the exams with such good videos!

[@NethDugan]

There is a mod on steam workshop where you can automatically pause things during droughts or bad tides or whatever, makes life a ton easier.

[@moldy13]

that was a close one. nice recovery. you should now replace all your dams with floodgates. get all the water storage you can.

[@TXPhoenix79]

11:54 You have a pile of planks here from the previous ladders. The reason they are not using them is because builders only pick up from buildings or storage. You should have built a storage for planks and they would have used them right away.

[@subynut]

Oh, the Muppet Moments! The Muppet Moments!! 🤣🤣🤣 This was one entertaining episode, Biffa! Glad you managed to not kill off your colony!

[@crit-c4637]

You're going to need to keep a steady supply of newborn beavers so when the cycle of the older ones dieing off begins you'll have some young ones about to mature into adults to replace them in the workforce.

[@oasntet]

Badtides are impactful, but not much worse than a drought. In some ways, the early badtides are a relief because they're less bad than droughts. Prep for them mostly the same way you would for a drought - save up extra food and water - and the time to get back to normal is roughly the same. Just also remove access to swimming routes, though. Like, when you're worried about it wiping out your existing crops, it doesn't matter because you have something like 20 days of food saved up.

[@CO-ty7nf]

Playing the same map and I turned the hours to 24 working hours to get a job done, left it, and my beavers didn’t have time to procreate. Finally at 6 beavers left I realized my mistake and saved it. Just worry about water and food, those are the only things that are absolutely necessary for your beavers to survive. I also keep a few small water tanks and carrot warehouses set to obtain so if I screw up and have few beavers left due to bad planning they’ll still have emergency rations.

[@urkerab]

You could have used a small warehouse as a makeshift platform to connect your second large log storage.

[@jcrazy9008]

Watching him plan all this construction and seeing him take forever to firgure out they he told them not to work is hilarious 😂😂😂 i thought RCE was the chaotic brit not you too 😂😂

[@casimircreer2295]

Ahhh. Biffa, you make me scream. Add plank storage so they can clear the old debris and reuse it!! That's half your planks there

[@AdamPryce]

You were double lucky that your first bad tide didn't come for a long time AND you got sooo many days before the second came!

[@jimmymartin]

I've never been so stressed out watching a KZbin video before...excellent recovery Biffa!

[@vrsimracer]

Biffa adds a Bad Tide Bank Holiday to the calendar so all the little beavers can go and marvel at the poo water. Yes, start the Mega Dam next episode, Bad Tides and Droughts get longer quicker so better putting resources into the dam rather than more Water Butts. Gonna need loads more wood though... at least you can't die now, if (when knowing Biffa) the worst happens you can just sacrifice your adult beavers.

[@stue2298]

I started the same map on hard mod, apart from a couple of incidents running out of water losing 90% of my 70 beavers and did the opposite of biffa and left beavers working 24h and then lost 90% of my beaver again before i noticed. The setup for the bad tide was similar exept had flood gates at the rear aswell ( you will need to keep those platforms at the very rear cause the sluce gate cannot be placed at the edge of the map), then once got sluce gates replaced the flood gates with the sluces. Get the Large Water Pump as soon as you can, they pump water 5 times faster but only use 3 beavers, need sparkly planks and the tapper shack. With the science i would buy the tapper shack first/next and get that built so you get pine resin cause that can be slow to farm. As you can see you don't get long after a drought or bad tide to pump the water you need to survive.

[@derekmazeppa1160]

I learned from Skye Storm a way to automate the water source for bad tides using sluices and overhangs, practically doing what you are trying to achieve in pushing the bad tide off of the map. You place the sluices where you have the floodgates and have the overhangs be the top of the corridor in the direction you have the levees :)

[@zyeborm]

he needs a lot more tech tree before he can get to that though

[@DarkCheeld]

Looks like Biffa almost made."A very Efficient Shape." RCE would almost be proud.

[@MinecraftersVL]

Good thing they're enjoying their end without working, wish I could just live life like that

[@thelesls]

36:49 I noticed the flooded area after the dam was smaller. I think because, since the dam in the source is the same height as the terrain, probably half of the water is spilling out of the map. In the next drought you should demolish the floodgates and 1 level of levees and put the 2 levels floodgate.

[@fokeyjo]

I hadn't played this map before, so I had a go at this challenge. I did the lower dam approach, which does seem to be more faff (so good choice with that), but I was protected from badtides by cycle 4 day 2. You just have to work out what are the most important things you need first, and it takes a little practice to work it out - trying after just 2 or 3 normal mode games doesn't cut it!

[@Vyrus_101]

Biffa, be rad to see you play Planet Coaster 2!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I am aiming too, just had no time this week :-)

[@Kenobi3019]

That laugh at the intro gave me Emperor Palpatine vibes 😂 You shall be known as Darth..... Biffa haha

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@Qwyte]

roofs act differently to other decorations, a 1x1 roof would apply the bonus to your entire block.

[@brandonoverton3651]

On the bad tide diversion you should put dams at the back so you don’t lose good water during the wet season

[@tigonologdring9189]

Oh Dear... LOL Great recovery beavers!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I know, right? 😅

[@tigonologdring9189]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I won't lie, I thought you'd actually blocked off the entire water flow at first, but no, it climbs up so phew! 😎

[@Klondike1000]

It's always a rollercoaster ride watching your videos, but I love it!

[@megazetabetaful]

Survived a Bad Tide without a single Contaminated Beaver. Well done. However, you'll need to remember to close those floodgates before the badtide hits again. You're protected but still capable of human error. What I'd recommend is getting some Irragation Stakes in. This would protect your green lands from the Bad Tide and allow you to still farm and grow trees. But i think you need Pine Resin and Treated Planks for that. In my opinion, that should be your next objective, a bit more future proofing.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Great idea 👍😁

[@megazetabetaful]

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines thank you. Looking forward to your next episode of Teamberborn~

[@HeatStoker69]

Nice save! That was a relieving ending :D

[@chadmckean9026]

1:11 made that mistake more than once myself... lol this guy reducing working hours when they needed raising you should add some dams to keep good water from going over the bad water spillway, then you just need to not forget to set the 1 row of flood gates

[@0Defensor0]

I have 3 ideas/notes this time: 2:50 Put a platform in the middle, and a ladder next to it! I think you should be able to stack them as high as you need it. 6:26 That last dam needs to be a levee, otherwise that area will keep flooding. Finally, on the top you don't need 2 rows of levees, instead what you should have built are double floodgates. Right now you are wasting half of your water, even when they are open. And +1 at 16:06 Biffa... you have LADDERS! Why did you build a platform and 2 stairs instead of 2 ladders?

[@I_know_you_are_right_however]

Biffa: _IF YOU DON'T COME IN ON FRIDAY, DON'T BOTHER COMING IN ON MONDAY!!_ Beavers: _WOO HOO!!!! FOUR DAY WEEKEND!!!!_

[@Kat-fr4si]

Oh biffa , you had me on the edge of my seat

[@rubikfan1]

35:22 now all the water is going to flow out. Place damm pieced at the end. Or unlock the sluice gate. It solves everything

[@rubikfan1]

29:40 oh the comments are coming made. 😂. Bevers got a holiday during the bad tide hahah.

[@SmirlHendrix]

Use the haulers to move logs from one storage to the other nearest your big projects. Then builders just need to go a short distance.

[@harryprasetyo9237]

remember to re-plant those berries, Biffa! in case you forgot how, use forester to plant berries.

[@Wyse-Gaming]

I called it biffa 😂 I did say hard mode on the smallest map = possible short season. Then, in the next video, i commented build a whole lot of medium water tank like your life depends on it. If you can rush the medium tank by cycle 3 you are going to be alright. Cycle 5 is 50% chance of getting bad tide. So cycle 4 you should already be making a dam to avoid the bad tide. Anyway. Goodluck bouncing back biffa. It'll get longer and longer for droughts and badtide. Till you get 30 days. GGs Biffa :) Try again on diorama if you don'tmake it. 😅

[@zyeborm]

You're about to cross the threshold where it's not having droughts, drought very rapidly becomes the "normal" then you have 3 days of water. Think of it more like you have "pumping season" and "building season". You want way way more water pumpers. On the small map I had 20 pumps going with a population of 50 or so. You've got 3 days to get enough water for the next 30. During pumping season *everything* stops, everybody pumps at max rate, 16 hour work days etc. You want haulers to move the water for the pumpers so they can stay pumping. If you manage your job priorities right you can just set haulers to high during pumping season and unpause all the water pumps set at maximum priority. Then during normal season just pause the pumps and set haulers to low priority. You won't be able to store enough water in reservoirs to last 30 days until you can build mega dams to keep your crops green. So you may want to look at building 3x3 water (so 4x4 total size) irrigation boxes with fluid dumps to keep your crops green. Go a little bigger and you can put a lido in from memory. You can store a lot more water in a large tank than you can in a pretty large dam. Wouldn't suggest trying to keep the whole area you currently have filled, it'll be too much evaporation. Also when you are building far away like that when you built the dam set the nearby storage to acquire so the haulers bring logs up and the builders don't have to walk as far. The haulers move twice as much wood as a builder. Same principle for your industrial area. Put small warehouses with the supplies the buildings need, set them to acquire and your haulers will bring the materials in so the workers don't need to walk far to get the stuff. Hard mode is all about efficiency. Keep an eye on the productivity of all your buildings. You won't need floodgates on the back side of your badwater off the map bit, dam pieces will do fine there. You will eventually wind up replacing the floodgates at the front with sluices at ground level probably and just sealing up the badwater discharge path.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Great tips thankyou, that's really helpful 👍

[@mikeprior4202]

Biffa… plank storage, even a small one would allow your beavers to collect all that rubble from the first attempt to build the tower of stairs…

[@MyGaminAccount]

the panicking was real haha the definition of entertaining

[@joshfairchild]

Thought i was watching an RCE video for a minute. Such an architect move on the working hours 😂😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@marcusdirk]

Nail-biting episode: well done!

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

I swear you have the best laugh!!!😂 And no shame in calling your self a muppet! I have laughed thru this entire episode!! And I needed that laugh more than you can imagine!! More please 🤩

[@PunksterNL]

Why not just put the building projects on pause if you don't want your beavers to go there? The button is right there...

[@baldytail]

My out loud comment to myself on 29 minutes... What a Wally! Haven't used that phrase for decades but it was fitting!. Really enjoy these videos even though I don't have a PC to play this game.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅👍

[@EternalGamingNet]

The time thing feels so relatable. Mistake I've made a few times 😂

[@Ferrastar]

The editing when you accidentally reduced their working hours… 👨‍🍳 chefs kiss

[@GTX2GvO]

Put a forester near your berry area So you can replant them. Cause they won't do that naturally after dieing (from contamination)

[@lucasmandato4910]

congrats ^^ told i was sure you would've make it xD hard mode is a hell of a good teacher...xD

[@BerserkrBrys]

Hard mode is a good challenge at first but I feel it gets very frustrating later when you want to start doing bigger projects. The draughts/bad tides are just unrelenting. I suggest investing in gravity batteries and wind power early as the draughts eventually grind progress to a grueling pace. Good luck!

[@zyeborm]

better off with iron teeth and the engines on hard mode. Otherwise lots of windmills and power wheels.

[@jorybrown6714]

I did the same map on hard. Built the wonder and all with just 100 beavers. now that you got a rudimentary badtide diversion you should focus of extra water reserves. What i did was make a massive leavy at the waterfall and tnt much of the cliffside of it to store more water cause you will get up to 30 days of drought and badtides and you'll want that extra reserve for water. You'll want to be able to store up to 6000 water and highly recommend building the larger water pumps ASAP now. Because it will get worse

[@zyeborm]

on small maps fluid dumps with levees is probably more efficient. You can store a whole mess of water volume in a large tank, medium tank is not bad. But you use less wood overall building 4x4 levees and a water dump than you do building levees to hold 300 water. Moar Pumpers! On the other small map I had the entire water surface area covered in pumps (iron teeth though so no large pumps) over 20 pumps for a population of 70. The entire population was devoted to pumping for the 3 day pumping season between the 30 day droughts.

[@jorybrown6714]

@zyeborm that's one way to do it. I mentioned it because that's how I 'won' that map on hard difficulty. Larger pumps are far more efficient and you only need a few. Had multple industrial water storage and several medium ones with small ones around the map. and that whole cliffside dammed up right will keep everything hydrated throughout droughts and badtides.

[@nichole2757]

Should really be a double floodgate up top

[@niakitten2937]

There's a grace period in hardmode. I can't remember how far though, but it's guaranteed not to get a bad tide up to like, cycle 4 or 5. After that, it's fair game.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😬

[@dfol_irl8049]

No need to pause and unpause so many buildings. Really water is the only thing that will need to be paused and unpaused until sluice gates. Make hauling post lowest priority and whack it up to 10 beavers. Any extra beavers will haul. Inventor hut could be second to last priority. Also for the woodcutters, you could have one second highest priority, one normal priority, one lower etc. same with other duplicate jobs.

[@Simon.W1]

Good Video Biffa 👍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 😁

[@mortyjhones4068]

LOL, Biffa hasn't knowtised he has cut off half his water supply, yes the bad water will rush out the back of the dam but so is half his clean water. he needs to take out the single gates and put in doubles or triples for max water flow, then he can put some water wheels in and get free power for his workshops.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Don't worry, this was a temp setup to get it in as quickly as possible becaseu of the coming bad tide. As we progress and unlock metal and other items, then we can move onto sluices, and other clever stuff ;-)

[@rileywhetstone1755]

Another fun video. Thanks!

[@Zephaeria]

Well that kept me on the edge of my seat.

[@beendiggin]

good lord that was stressful, thanks : )

[@cheech-7-7-7]

Nooooo I want more New Brewberg with german buildings....nothing against your beaverfriends

[@SmirlHendrix]

You're playlist is in the wrong order so it plays the older video next. It's slowing me down binge watching!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Any better now?

[@walterverlaan1286]

Hilarious! 3 day vacation for the beavers. LMAO!

[@WillyLangley]

Nice Video!

[@pyglik2296]

21:25 Numget moment

[@kitty_girl_2023]

I'm surprised that you didn't dam the top by the water a lot sooner incase you got a badtide. Lol 😂😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Got there as soon as we could. This is hard mode after all 😉

[@allnighterowl5347]

“Oh im an idiot”…. Still didnt figure it out. HAHAHAHAHHAHA when you get wrong epiphanies.

[@harri395]

You could put damms on the back so you don't waste as much fresh water.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Eventually, but at the moment it doesn't really matter 👍

[@eldolly]

the pain of watching reducing the work hours

[@lordraven2264]

Biffa, you're your own hard mode.....lol

[@JDKempton]

Enjoy watching your building decisions, I have zero skills