Let's start a new HARD MODE playthrough with the Emberpelts Faction Mod! Timberborn Emberpelts Ep01

[@tuomopoika]

I feel the game needs also a faction that thrives from bad water. Crops that need polluted dirt, bonus from contamination ect

[@CaTastrophy427]

Faction gets easier as difficulty gets higher. It's been tossed around as an idea in the discord server MANY times.

[@tuomopoika]

Yeah probably not easy to make it balanced. Would need specific maps at least where bad water is scarce.

[@Dalton325]

This is cool. I like the faction from the live streams. I like this new (to me) map. It’s cool the water will be harder to get, because it’s mixed and should come in slower. That bad water stream behind the colony is completely blocked. It’s already flooded enough to fill that lake with bad water. It could make it to the colony if you don’t take out some of those blockages behind you. Can’t wait to see more.

[@PauxloE]

Thanks - while I've seen a few Emberpelts videos, your's was the first one which actually explained the concept. → 38:50 "I think most of these crops will survive about two days" - The problem with getting out all the good water out of your irrigation channel is that then the bad water will be left over, killing the crops. (Didn't happen here, I guess there was not enough bad water). → Medium-term, you likely should get more water pumps in the main river instead of your side channel (that one should eventually have fluid dumps instead to be filled with good water).

[@daanjvanos]

Awesome! Map looks great! Maybe if you put the waterpumps on the other side, you dont change the contamination for your crops and you will regain some irrigation for your canola! Looking foward to this series! Oh, before i forget, numbercruncher?

[@brandyw.8034]

He should put the contamination pump where his water pumps are.

[@joshuakrumholtz]

Still don't know a damn thing about this beaver game but I've swallowed the pill. Well. Wood chip, I guess. Let's go.

[@Drexos17]

The game is worth way more than what they charge. Lots of fun

[@bubbles69138]

interesting start... I usually keep the blockades, get a pump to get good water, then I dump it into the blocked area for clean water.. extends the growing area alot :D slower on the start.. but helps long run :D Don't forget to get tree's going quick ;)

[@SnyperMK2000JclL]

I love how balanced this race feels... its easy compared to the Water Beavers but still has some challenges with the variations on crops, crop timers, resources and production lines... all while still feeling very "Vanilla" but seperate enough from "Vanilla" to pose some challenges, Like the massive phobia of water and the odd production chains that start as one thing early game and slowly evolves up into something else as you progress further.

[@Drexos17]

Horseshoe lake aka an oxbow. This is a very nice map. Love that you took a suggestion instead of the basic maps youve beaten before

[@betabry42]

I'm paranoid about the blockages in that bad-water channel behind you. It looks like a prime spot for an incident due to splash-over. But also excited for an Emberpelt series and that's a very cool map.

[@JCTheBeard]

We're going to see about fixing that soon!

[@katrpotatr3320]

Yay Emberpelts! I love the colour scheme of this faction too! 🙂 I noticed at 37:13ish that there is a makeshift reservoir to the left that still had water in it 1.5 days into the drought. I also noticed that the main river took almost a full day to dry up, so it might be worth putting some pumps into it as well. I know tree resources are starting to get tight, so that'll be a challenge all on it's own to decide what gets built first. Water management is going to be such a fun challenge! 😀

[@JCTheBeard]

We definitely need to get planting soon. We'll see what transpires next episode!

[@T3xasCarter]

This is going to be a great series. I just downloaded this mod myself after watching your live streams.

[@dragade101]

Short term goals: 1) Seems like the main river needs to be damned to the same height as your U's off split. This will need to be changed for a badtide. 2) Going for an early fluid dump where you have access to the lower plateau is probably even a higher priority. This will be a sustainable tree farm without needing stairs. (The fluid dump is at grade with your main colony. The lower grade could be a 2x3 or 3x3 watering ‘hole’, using the cliff side and levees to contain the water.) (Naturally since this fluid dump is the only source for watering your tree farm, it should have a dedicated tank storage for it. Pausing this dump allows you to really ration this water for your beavers when bad things happen - in part cause how long a tree can be living without needing active water.)

[@JCTheBeard]

Yes, and yes. We'll do what we can next episode!

[@Da6moose6]

Excited for a new series

[@AnOtterNamedMoMo]

I'm curious as to how water management will turn out in this series. I've been enjoying the livestreams with this faction, so this is just gonna be great to have more emberpelts

[@JCTheBeard]

It's going to be a challenge because we won't have 100% pure clean water for a LONG while. The best we can get here is maybe 60-70% purity, so our water pumps are going to be substantially slower. I neglected to mention that in the video, but it needs to be said

[@GwionWilliams]

The interesting thing about Emberpelts is that they make lots of juice, which they can drink instead of water. So they're actually pretty well suited to just pumping up water and dumping it into irrigation holes. Once established, they can handle low water fairly well.

[@hallohoegaathet7182]

40:33 cool that you can see the badwater concentration rise by the pumps because there the water irrigates less.

[@davidwhite3337]

Very interesting to see what these new beavers have to offer & do.

[@jamesmcdonald3054]

One trick for surviving the early game on hard mode is to use the tiny warehouses as bridges to access more lumber, such as that oak grove. Running out of logs can be a death sentence if you don't have all your infrastructure built.

[@beendiggin]

Loving the Emberpelts! Bobingabout has surpassed himself. Looking forward to the series.

[@jessetheunending9357]

🔥

[@DavidZetaKrone]

This should be interesting! You're starting the exact playthough I've been failing repeatedly for a week!

[@JCTheBeard]

Well, here's hoping both go better

[@LikeEmmaWithaT]

OooOooo I'm super excited about this playthrough. I have not had the time/attention to watch the livestream vods to see what this faction can do

[@Redneck353]

43:42 WB Hard mode 1000 island let's Goooo !!!!!! ( lapan told me all early game and midgame stuff is working, only thing lift is minor issues on late game stuff and the wonder no done yet)

[@sidmcmillan926]

map choice looks good 👍

[@sangdragonj]

Isn't the risk to pump during drought not to dry your farm but to increase bad water concentration and contaminate your farm? If yes, it should be better to pump at the begining of the drought when each unit of water only increase the ratio by very few rather than later when the evaporation decuple the impact of clean water extratction on the ratio. (if there is 30/70 units of bad water/clean water, you can extract 40 and still be at 50%, if you wait for it to evaporate until 15/45 you can only extract 30 to keep it at 50%) I don't play the game so i assume a lot about the rules right now but i think it make sense.

[@JCTheBeard]

You're absolutely correct. We're going to address it next episode

[@AtticusG3]

@15:29 the bad water creeping into the dry pond

[@sidmcmillan926]

Awesome! an Emberpelts VOD Series! sweet ... 💓🔥🦫

[@Left_to_Drift]

since we start in the lowlands i would love to see a bunch of water canals, even if they kinda suck for evaporation theres so much water on this map. once you move up and farming is normal it wont matter as much

[@josephturcotte7036]

Put dams across the river to hold more water and get to the trees

[@crowaust]

it appeared that the water wasn't entering the dams at the beginning of the new cycle, maybe instead of platforms to cross dams/levees will be better to cause a little back pressure?

[@Yalsof]

I'm glad I'm not the only that saw that. He's going to have to either remove a dam, or dam across the river to get water back into the horseshoe. Levees would cause flooding if there weren't enough dams to prevent upstream flooding

[@brucerients4381]

I was watching that too during the outro. Maybe a floodgate on the upstream side and dam on the downstream side so you can fill and hold the water as needed.

[@kurtonela]

NUMBERCRUNCHER WHEN????

[@seawolf2830]

I want to lobby again for apocalypse mode with emberpelts! I feel like without needing to rush metal as much for power and the folk tail food it'll be a fun successful watch.

[@DisTurbedSimulations]

This is a great, but challenging map, i had a ton of fun on it

[@tokiroux8331]

great lookin map omg

[@pedropauloribeiro2091]

Timberborn is a great example of a game that should have more integration between devs and moders. Clearly the mods are making the game smoother and logical. We need more energy options, stairs, buildings and more materiais and mechanics. We have a shit ton of food options but they are useless because in the end only bots matter. Watching videos from this faction is a breath of fresh air.

[@JCTheBeard]

I'd love to see more variety and improvements too, but: It's worth noting that there were some popular mods that eventually have resulted in similar ideas making it into the base game in some form. Vertical/modular powershafts existed first as a mod, and the new overhangs in Update 6 have a spiritual predecessor in the "side platforms" mod I used in the Update 4 playthroughs.

[@pedropauloribeiro2091]

@@JCTheBeard I agree with you! but everytime i play timberborn it fells like something is missing, you can imagine something but you can`t create. I know that with time things will be fantastic it`s just boring to wait i guess.

[@Devilish_Fun]

[@wrenchdoozer]

24:20 - I think that feature is asking you to make Kowloon Walled City. 😉

[@JCTheBeard]

Perhaps...

[@mikeriley2475]

If your water is delicately balanced with Clean/contaminated. Should you be pumping the clean water out close to your farming area? wouldn't that increase the Toxicity down stream? What if you did an Apocalypse Mode with the Emberpelts? I subbed to the emberpelts and the map and started playing. There are 3 key badwater sources. The one above the oak trees across the river, the 2 behind your district center to the right (on the cliff top) and one just on the edge of the clean water on the right side. If you can block them one bad water source at a time it will quickly purify your main water source!

[@JCTheBeard]

I do think Apocalypse Mode would be a LOT easier with these guys. That might be next... We'll fix the pumping issue next episode!

[@berzurkfury]

An update just yesterday, moved the Phoenix essence to its own building

[@kurtonela]

This might be a good map to try no ladder challenge tbh, it seems intended for difficulty

[@JCTheBeard]

It probably would work well on this one. Whether or not we end up doing that, I'm not sure

[@samueltheblonde]

I would suggest putting the water pumps in the river... putting the pumps in the reservoir will only leave the badwater in. Do you have the badwater pumps?

[@tomc4524]

Will pumping clean water out of the horseshoe increase the toxicity ?

[@JCTheBeard]

It will. We'll address that next video

[@thomasfplm]

9:18 Can't you move the district center closer to it? 31:04 You might not want to pump from here. You are increasing the contamination.

[@keode]

I noticed that if he pumped too much water out of his little bend, the concentration would increase and kill his crops. I was kinda hoping because it would have been pretty funny 😅

[@tiffanysabine]

what if you pump up water and then dumped it in the shoehorse would it then be clean water? the waterpump filters out the badwater right...

[@GaryRiffel]

🦫🔥

[@jessetheunending9357]

[@JCTheBeard]

Numbercruncher... eventually

[@zachariahrich3354]

We have been spoiled to longer videos lol

[@JCTheBeard]

Absolutely. The length of this video used to be normal! LOL

[@sidmcmillan926]

water 💧 bad 😠 fire 🔥 good 🤗

[@walkir2662]

22:39 - the decontamination pod gives wet fur? Ouch...

[@JCTheBeard]

You REALLY don't want to get these beavers wet or contaminated...

[@Redneck353]

Are the Emper pumps sucking out at 100% even if the water is partially contaminated?

[@JCTheBeard]

They *shouldn't* be...

[@KunalVaidya]

was update 7 beta not available or not yet stable enough to start a series ? its available for testing right?

[@JCTheBeard]

Nobody has access to update 7 yet. We don't know when it will be available

[@KunalVaidya]

@@JCTheBeard ohh, :( they need to release to a selected elite group of gamers like yourself

[@wolfsgames5004]

Don’t build platforms to cross, build something to hold the water 💧

[@tokiroux8331]

i tried this faction one time but too many missing item from 0.6 in my opinion a the time i tried

[@fromashes7818]

Aesthetic with ADHD is hard. Bc planning and ADHD don't need very well. It's not impossible, but you really gotta try to focus on doing it in a coherent fashion instead of "if it fits it ships" way... Which is me...

[@timcotrell9753]

[@walkir2662]

... > speed is painful to look at. Also, no scientist in the middle of the first draught? Death by not getting a forester in time incoming... Not having any fire as basic need can't help, but is minor in comparison

[@mgstech9645]

👍

[@NoodleKeeper]

No in Episode 1? So disappointing.

[@shidharthamondal2084]

why are YOU not making dams to cross the River and talk less DO MORE