Timberborn Update 5: Episode 2: Badtide!

[@DisTurbedSimulations]

32:40 at least it wasn't coffee. Great progress today

[@StormhavenGaming]

Coffee!? I'm not a monster... Thanks!

[@nino7028]

You can let the bad tide flow backwards next to the source with levees and floodgates. Make a box around the source and open floodgates that go off the map and close the floodgate that go into your river. This changes your bad tide into a drought.

[@StormhavenGaming]

That's a good idea, but I would like to be able to use that section of the river for power eventually. With the spillway, it will keep that power being generated. That has given me an idea for the other badwater spring though...

[@Soriels7399]

18:57 Something new is that platforms can go over shrubs, medical beds, beaver statues, decontamination pods, and other similar items.

[@StormhavenGaming]

Oh yes! I'd forgotten that. Thank you!

[@urkerab]

Weren't they always able to go over medical beds?

[@Soriels7399]

@@urkerab Moat likely but I didn't remember that.

[@RBAWintrow]

Thank you for making this series!

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@jennieswensson463]

Just a thought...rather than trekking to the top of the hill to access badwater power you could just use the contaminated river that runs beside the village. Just for power , of course, NO lidos or paddling allowed. That would give you full power during normal time, reduced power during drought and bad tides time (as you have diverted the upper sources) but still consistent power. The top of the hill would be a good pure badwater source for the pump to get badwater for explosives (and extract etc later). So glad you got the flood gates in in time...well done 👍👍👍👍

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thank you! I do want to add power wheels at the bottom there, definitely, but I also want to redirect the flow of the bad water at some point to keep it away from my beavers as much as possible. So that flow will change eventually.

[@greatfiredragon]

We're enjoying your letsplays as much as you're enjoting playing^^ Thank you for the second episode! 😙

[@StormhavenGaming]

Thank you very much. I'm very glad that you enjoy them. More coming soon!

[@Kimchi947]

It’s quite funny seeing other KZbinr wishing for a bad tide while you had one on the second episode 😂😂😂

[@StormhavenGaming]

I guess I'm just lucky that way..?😂

[@urkerab]

So good to see priorities used correctly. Well, until you accidentally set the hauling post to maximum workplace priority instead of construction priority, which admittedly you did notice soon after. The beavers were able to build those three levees from the side; in theory you could have prioritised the other levees to get at least two of them built without having to trek up the stairs. The beavers started working on the far floodgate because that was the one you'd placed first. I would have built a dam for that "spilled" area and then a dam after it to protect both areas from bad water. (Although maybe you could build a dam close to where the bad water joins the main stream?) For the path up to the bad tide I think I can see a few handy intermediate terrain blocks you can take advantage of to reduce your need for platforms.

[@StormhavenGaming]

I may have finally figured the priorities out! Yeah, they had much better reach than I thought they would have. I should have planned it a bit more carefully to maximise their effectiveness, I suppose. I do plann to come around the bend in the river there and put in a third dam to stop more badwater coming around during the droughts and provide a little more fertile land. Yeah, that hill climb shouldn't be too bad. I just need to plan carefully!

[@jasonjazzz5]

those 6 levees almost bit ya in the ass to put those double floodgates on the very edge like that

[@StormhavenGaming]

It was a little close, certainly! But I, like always, knew exactly what I was doing...

[@cartoonkitteh]

Half a cup of tea?! Unacceptable!

[@StormhavenGaming]

I know! The shame...

[@1981dasimpson]

bad water runs all the time so one side of the map has water or bad water flowing so anywere along that side of map you be able to have a power wheel i would of thoght

[@StormhavenGaming]

There will always be some flow right at the bottom edge of the map (well, until I start playing around with the Bad Water spring) so power wheels down there are definitely on the cards.

[@1981dasimpson]

@@StormhavenGaming yup and you already have steps to put them in

[@RBAWintrow]

episode 1 is not in the playlist. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5bTkJyMfZisp68

[@StormhavenGaming]

Should now be resolved. Thanks!