Timberborn Update 5: Episode 1: Bad Water Rising

[@DisTurbedSimulations]

Great start, this looks like a challenging map. I'd start to think about how you're going to protect the colony from the bad tides and also how to flush through the contaminated water after a bad tide. Also using water wheels on the bad water side of the river will give you access to power all the time.

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thanks. It's definitely one of the more challenging starting areas that I've played. I'm hoping to get the top channel set up with floodgates to allow us to divert the bad water past the settlement (and hopefully I'll be able to get that done befor ethe first bad tide!). I also want to get power set up - I hadn't even considered that the bad water runs constantly so would be perfect for power generation until another commenter mentioned it!

[@DisTurbedSimulations]

@@StormhavenGaming all sounds good, looking forwards to seeing you tackle this. Really enjoyed your last series

[@greatfiredragon]

I'm really glad to see new season of Timberborn^^ Thank you ❤

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thank you! I'm looking forward to playing around with all the new things!

[@laughingvampire7555]

30:58 Flip the U of the river. You can use that channel to divert all the water, not just the bad water but here is the key, build an aqueduct to divert the water from the bad source outside of the map cutting the river in half. So what you would be doing is flipping the U of the river. Now the levees block all the effects of the bad water, so you could make the aqueduct surrounding all the map to have power source in ALL seasons.

[@Kimchi947]

Oh my goodness I just thought of this channel as soon as I saw the update 😂😂😂 Keep up the good work like always

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thank you! This map is interesting, definitely. Smaller than I'm used to as well.

[@matthewpokora336]

Never watched this game before but its been on my wishlist for ages and i have nearly 1k hours on rimworld. Think ill get on well with this. Great video 👍

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thanks very much. It's definitely worth playing, in my opinion. And the new Bad Water mechanics are a big change.

[@hhound4283]

One of the first maps I ever played, killed two colonies before I figured what works so I'm really interested to see how this plays out with bad water "droughts"

[@StormhavenGaming]

It's definitely one of the tougher starting locations. Hopefully, I'll be able to get the floodgate situation sorted quickly, before we get one of those droughts.

[@urkerab]

I remember this map before badwater, those stairs use to give you an easy dam. I wonder what actually happens if you build your first dam there... Not that it matters now you've built your dam, but I believe you can actually pump bad water, but obviously the extra filtering needed reduces efficiency. They're not called water dumps any more, maybe that will help prevent you from confusing them! You probably only need floodgates on the diversion channel, as once you lower the water level it won't flow over the dams anyway.

[@StormhavenGaming]

I know that pumping bad water is useful later, because there is a bunch of stuff that can be done with it, and I think that there may be dedicated bad water pumps too. It would have been much easier before the bad water, yeah! getting staight down to that section of the river would have allowed a massive reservoir all the way around the peninsula (if that's the right word). Oh, yes! "Fluid dumps" now! I want to use floodgates leading into the lower section to allow me to let water through from the upper section in case things get desperate!

[@zero-_-604]

I'm late to the comment section, i took a two week vacation to middle of nowhere to disconnect, So I'll be playing catch up today!! I'll reserve the rest of my comments till i get caught up! Sucks this round is with no mods, but now we all have to wait for updated mods anyways! lol Looking forward to the dirty dirty water. :D

[@StormhavenGaming]

I hope the disconnect helped. And I hope you enjoy this playthrough, despite the lack of mods.

[@fredberry1342]

Thanks for the video.

[@StormhavenGaming]

You're welcome!

[@AriaMoor]

EP1 is at 5th place in the playlist ^^

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thank you! I shall change it.

[@fredberry1342]

I also think that maybe you should move your dam down past your trees

[@StormhavenGaming]

I'm saying nothing except "spoilers"!

[@laughingvampire7555]

badwater only makes the game more annoying, because now you have less land available. but is easily solvable, all you have to do is redirect all the badwater cracks outside the map. and when you have access to dynamite build a power generation system because those things flow all the time, even in droughts. and for regular water sources you need to add a sort of lock gate to allow good water pass and redirect bad tides. when I asked for new season to the devs I was thinking in something like winter, wolf raiders.

[@StormhavenGaming]

It certainly makes it more challenging. I've not played enough to be annoyed by it yet, but I'm sure that day will come! I hadn't thought about using it for power. Interesting! Additional seasons could be good though. Water freezing in winter, crops not growing outside of greenhouses perhaps.