The dam must grow! - Timberborn - Steeltide #4

[@BobertBaratheon]

Thanks a lot Zeddic, it’s because of your video style I now wanna make my own Timberborn KZbin videos.

[@nurmr]

9:45 The default of 5% is safer. Beavers won't get unwell as long as contamination is less than 5%, anything above and there's a risk they can become unwell is they have to walk/swim through the water.

[@mrjules1982]

Good point, but I think the volume of the reservoir behind the sluice is more than enough to dilute any of that

[@KitsuneBleu]

Chill, relaxing Zeddic & Tea on a Saturday morning. Love it!

[@WiseCypress]

You forgot RCE

[@KitsuneBleu]

@@WiseCypress No I didn't.

[@evansdmitri2161]

Youre uploaded in time. Ur calm voice really helps me to sleep

[@JakubSvojak]

I just found my new favorite creator. Your videos are awsome!

[@Rumohrz]

Well played Good content 👌

[@starfuryms582]

So for the decorations, it's actually better to concentrate them around the Barracks, rather than have them at intersections. The buff from them builds up over time, and also decays over time, so just passing through the area on their way to work only gets them a small amount, that doesn't last very long at all. Better for them to spend the entire night within the radius, then the buff will last for most or all of the day.

[@dragade101]

@19:28, you could make a 1 unit clear cut through your forest. Using platforms to bridge over the lower pathway and allow the bevers to meet up by the forester (to enter directly across from the forester). If you wanted to avoid the dynamite tech tree.

[@CellTherapyCream]

Looking good! With such a small pool in you bad tide diverter, I'd lower those percentages to lower than 5%. You might start building up some nasty water and you aren't really losing anything by lowering it. Technically 15% is poisonous.

[@nurmr]

I thought above 5% was poisonous, the default of 5% should be safe.

[@mrjules1982]

A small pool in the diverter is good, it means means there is minimum delay on the switch. The pool will very quickly be at about 100% bad water at the start of a bad tide and about 100% good water at the end of it. Any bad water that goes the regular route before the switch is triggered is then diluted in the much larger reservoir, which acts as a buffer before it reaches any beavers or fields. I think with this setup you could even set the trigger on a (far) higher percentage without running into any problems.

[@jasonjazzz5]

27:30 the source blocks start slowing down output more and more during the last day before a drought, also why you didnt capture as much water as you thought you would

[@Iron_10]

The pumps can reach 6 deep, you can make the down river damn deeper and get the water from where you moved the berries to

[@ZeddTheBuilder]

Good point! I've been toying with the idea of raising that lower dam so it was flush with the main mesa and may still do that later. I opted for the tall dam first mainly so I could keep the top mesa crops alive during droughts.

[@darthgbc363]

Use upper sluices in mega dam , set to proper level downstream, remove old gates, & add sluices everywhere.

[@Ziche10]

Hey man, a bit late commenting, but just discovered your series - very relaxing style and very practical gameplay, much unlike any of the popular timberborn streamers. Looking forward to watching more!

[@nurmr]

4:18 You sluice is set waay to high (at 0.95), it should be more like 0.65 as there's not a lot of benefit of storing an extra fraction of water downstream of the primary water storage. (There's no way that the water should have dropped 1 block in 1 day, unless the level were set incorrectly).

[@CaTastrophy427]

You're _this_ close to getting me to play Timberborn myself. It's almost exactly the kind of game I like, requiring forethought and optimization, but it does ask for a bit more real-time micromanagement than I normally want to do. Even so...

[@ZeddTheBuilder]

I don't often show it in the recordings, but you can also pause the game at any time to make changes and queue up work. I also find hard mode is a more intense version of the game. In normal or custom mode it's a more chill experience and you don't need to micromanage as much, especially with sluice gates allowing you to automate opening/closing based on water level.

[@CaTastrophy427]

@@ZeddTheBuilder I guess it's more that you have to keep tabs on multiple things as it's progressing - not the fast inputs so much as "oh I've been so focused on making the dam be built in the right order as fast as it can be that I didn't notice I'm running out of food because I set it to prioritize harvesting over replanting".

[@ryanspillane6162]

Enjoying it, needed haulers earlier, will help you get a lot more water Can you post every 3 days as every 7 is a long time between drinks :)

[@WiseCypress]

True!

[@Gustavo-vs6qy]

3 pumps and 3 haulers would be more than enough, he just keeps adding pumps when the bottleneck is logistics

[@ZeddTheBuilder]

Good callouts - I'm wasting a lot of time with the pumping beavers walk back and forth - especially with the lower dam pumps.

[@jasonjazzz5]

i always end up leaving canola until last when i play IT. since its needed to finish off 3 foods, and the grease for the bots, i always setup a large field for it later

[@WiseCypress]

Also make a large storage for it. Nor, you will end up like biffa 😂

[@nurmr]

5:40 The large water wheel isn't connected to the smelter. It shows no power draw, and the smelter shows no power supply. Shown as working correctly at 12:25.

[@sirBrouwer]

I wonder if you could use plumbing systems to pipe water up from a lower level to a higher level

[@josesaldanha2683]

👏👏👏👏

[@jimburlington8488]

An open bad water discharge can feed into a mill run regardless of the season

[@ZeddTheBuilder]

Thanks for the tip! I haven’t played the Iron Teeth for a while and haven’t used the Badwater Discharge building yet

[@Iconicallylove]

Maybe research dynamite to make the water deeper, then put a deep water pump

[@spottedot]

What’s the point of the mid-height sluice gates if you have a dam piece on top anyways? Was it just an interim piece to keep from overflowing until you were able to build the new dam pieces?

[@ZeddTheBuilder]

Yep - just an interim piece so I could optionally controller overflow from the top of the dam and force it into the river. I used a sluice gate instead of a regular dam or so I could continue to build on top of it without tearing it out.

[@Iconicallylove]

Yay new video!

[@JA-fg6pd]

Question: since you’re up on a plateau, have you considered gravity batteries for power? Love your content! We need a daily zeddic upload :)

[@ZeddTheBuilder]

Good idea - I'm thinking of putting some in once my power situation develops a bit more, maybe with some engines. Without either bad water or the engines going all the time I fear the long droughts will eat through the stored energy really quick.

[@Matsupitsu2nd]

yes new video!

[@WiseCypress]

I want @RealCivilEngineerGaming to watch your videos 😅

[@Shot_Kawla]

Right!? RCE could definitely learn a thing or two from Zeddic. 😂

[@Rattus-Norvegicus]

Skye Storme has conquered this game. Check out his latest series.

[@WiseCypress]

@@Rattus-Norvegicus I watch him regularly