Transforming a barren wasteland into a THRIVING NATURAL PARADISE! Terra Nil!

[@guilhermebassous5533]

Environmental engineer here, that IS engineering. My program was born within our civil engineering program and brought in some disciplines from chemical engineering and chemistry. Our focus was on soil (drainage, pollution and stability) and industrial waste / sewage treatment. Other schools in my country (Brazil) focus on water management, forestry, mining, and energy. All our geology and soil disciplines come from civil engineering.

[@pinaz993]

Did you do any study on terraforming? It's a little sci-fi, but there are parts of the world such techniques might be useful for.

[@guilhermebassous5533]

@@pinaz993 not as in techniques to perform it, but the processes which have led a biome to exist that way, for example. Even that level of scale and complexity is very hard to fully comprehend, let alone replicate. It is very much sci-fi. Even recuperating a partially degraded environment can be an impossible task within a lifetime.

[@mariohenrique3234]

It's nice to meet another environmental engineer, at the school where I graduated the focus was in the sanitary area, but we did studied techniques of ground recovery as well as a part of the graduation. I am also brazilian by the way.

[@darkSorceror]

Yah, even without being an engineer of any type, this game really does seem like fixing the planet using the power of engineering

[@danielduncan6806]

@@pinaz993 Yeah, like the Amazon rainforest, if they keep cutting it down/burning it. I find it odd, I have a difficult time believing they teach *_anything_* about the environment in Brazil. That said, if the rest of the world were more responsible stewards we wouldn't have to rely on the Amazon so much.

[@HarryPotter-uv8yp]

“Damn you brown square” has the same energy as that line of dirt you leave behind when you try to sweep stuff into a dust pan. Looks like a fun game!

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

"It's like we were never here." I don't know. You left behind a big green mess. People are going to notice.

[@Mcdouble123]

Are you sure there are even people there?

[@The1stCheeseLord]

@@Mcdouble123 tbh. It took awhile for us to be here soo...some. smart organisms will go "holy shit there was a ship here

[@naveenvenkateshk]

Which people??

[@LordJuztice]

@@Mcdouble123 There were geese, bears, deer and other animals which would had a harder time surviving in a barren land than humans so yeah, more plausible that humans would survived those conditions than those animals. I did skip a little bit so I'm just assuming he didn't spawn those animals and that they just came forward by themselves as they saw the greenery.

[@Azothify]

@Daniel Marinho was there? I don't recall reading that in any textbook or religious thing... Ever. Where's your data coming from? If you're talking about about what killed the dinosaurs. They died due to the sudden climate shift that froze most of the northern and southern hemispheres while around the equator was relatively sustainable. At no point since life started on this planet has there been a zero-sum extinction event. So please, back up your words with actual fact rather than spout nonsense like it's truth. Many things died, but many others survived, adapted, and evolved. Even those dinosaurs that survived became something we all eat commonly (chicken) it's just after the ice age evolution benefited mammals with live births due to the ability to self regulate their temperature over other things that were specialized to live in specific climates. But please, please show me what evidence you have because I'm bored and would 'love' to educate someone in fact.

[@woodster7059]

"You start off with an apocalyptic, barren wasteland." **Milton Keynes**

[@kacperkmita2691]

I felt that on a personal level as i was laying in bed in that very apocalyptic, barren wasteland

[@duvagr007]

Or New Jersey for those of us on the other side of the pond.

[@TheSengga]

Is it really that bad? Honestly the only thing I know about it is that red bull f1 team has there facilities there.

[@bleulim1859]

@@TheSengga please go there and u will see

[@mathumilan]

I think he meant Milton Keynes as in when it began

[@WillFuqua1987]

"Hydroponium? Sounds like the Latin name for a seahorse" Killed me.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Rip

[@arya7095]

Lol hydro-pony

[@cherrie_31415]

Sounds like an interesting musical instrument to me.

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

that would be Hippocampus it's also a part of the brain that looks like a seahorse

[@gregoryolenovich6440]

That shit was soooo clever. I really enjoyed it

[@soupwizard]

12:48 Placement of the desiccator is definitely important - on my first play through of Terra Nil I managed to burn down my entire map and lose the game

[@2ndbrain909]

That happened to me too the first time I played. Although I played around the time it came out. So placement of buildings was even more important back then. A much steeper difficulty baseline imo. I’m glad they changed it so more people can get into the game. It’s quickly becoming one of my favorite games. I hope you enjoyed playing it btw.

[@2ndbrain909]

@@WackoMcGoose Ahh I see. I'm really glad they're are making it more playable. I hope I can introduce my friends to the game. But I'll have to play the full version when it comes out and maybe wait for some patches first. By any chance though do you know if there is a discord for the game yet?

[@dukeoog5466]

@@2ndbrain909 extractors or whatever are there to split the land, no rng just more thinking

[@Maddinhpws]

@@WackoMcGoose I remember the last level being complete fucking bullshit. It had nothing to do with reclaiming a wasteland anymore and much more with creating an entire new area. You had to make your own mountains and your own rivers for everything and in the end it looked like cancer.

[@risocleidepereira6475]

i think that this is not how you save the world

[@herrdoktorjohan]

Fun video of an interesting looking game, though I'm disappointed that you didn't try to find out if reclaiming land in the strongest shape would be more efficient or not.

[@danielseager-smithdanzo2345]

Just hoping no one destroys the perfect number of likes

[@midne0927]

Hehehehe

[@SilverMe2004]

pentagons are the bestagons

[@mr.paperbag771]

@@SilverMe2004 Hexagon is the bestagon

[@SilverMe2004]

@@mr.paperbag771 no 6sided pentagons are better then 5 sided hexagons. Oh wait!

[@brucewaynereal1]

try playing eco, it's a survival game but everything you do has an impact on the world

[@duythuchoang5095]

Huh, like how does it actually impact. That kind of game is new to me, can you explain it more

[@Soken50]

@@duythuchoang5095 clear cutting affects biome, temperature, species population and spread, hunting can make species extinct, industry produces greenhouse gasses and toxic blocs that pollute the land and water, too much greenhouse gasses raises the temperature, affects biomes and raises the sea level, in short everything you do destroys the world and you have technologies to minimise or reverse the impacts, but you have to be a little quick and dirty if you want to go up the technological ladder fast enough to avert the asteroid apocalypse. The game is amazing, can be played solo or multiplayer and the game adjusts the multipliers to keep the difficulty balanced with the number of players.

[@brucewaynereal1]

@@duythuchoang5095 what he said

[@duythuchoang5095]

@@Soken50 very diverse and realistic. Sadly I won't be able to plqy it now or in near future because I don't have a PC :(((

[@Poatatero]

Eco is amazing

[@2ndbrain909]

I remember playing this game when it first came out. I loved it then and I love it now, I’m so impressed with how much it’s improved. I’m really glad you played it too. I wouldn’t mind seeing a series of this.

[@Egg-Thor]

This is it. This is the game. This is the entire series. Congrats.

[@RavnicaRaven]

Peace Love and Plants, you could have been like Mumbo Jumbo

[@pushimka]

you like hermitcraft?

[@Egerit100]

@@pushimka a lot of ppl do

[@shaquilleoatmeal8461]

@@pushimka who doesnt?

[@pushimka]

idk lol just thought it was cool

[@nickwolters896]

How dumbo is mumbo jumbo 'Grian'

[@ApexBovine]

Sneaky lil Owen Wilson at 9:41 for the wow XD this is why I’m subscribed.

[@harisu3702]

yoo i saw that aswell lmaoo

[@HO-bk7kf]

@@harisu3702 ylooo same here poogggg

[@raycodeprime6474]

Man, I love the new design for the Arboretum, very aerodynamic 9:41

[@arandombard1197]

The attention to satisfaction is impressive. Making sure that every single building is picked up and not a single thing is left behind, on top of every square being made green by the end for that 100% feeling, is the detail that makes this game good.

[@yfeboanvakenss8841]

"Peace, love and- Plants,he's gonna say plants - Ecology" Dammit!

[@Fyreflier]

well his base didn't look sus so we'll let him off for now

[@NicPTheMeme]

At least he doesn't use high explosives to kill the wildlife tbh

[@nicholasavasthi9879]

The accent too…

[@tbbt1215]

Weather is definitely important as rain comes in and fills in all the empty spots with grassland even if it isn’t scrubbed, btw the best order is to do the weather before the clean up

[@2ndbrain909]

Is that advice applicable to just this version? Because when the game first came out, it used to be the opposite. (Back when I played the game)

[@tbbt1215]

@@2ndbrain909 i made this comment before watching the whole video assuming that he didn’t do the weather as it was described as an award instead of something that might be useful for finishing the game and, I was too lazy to delete/ edit the comment. I think this advice is still applicable to the game, since without the rain you may run out of leaves effectively putting you at a game over. And also, in the video you see that he cleaned up with the loading dock a turbine that produced power that he needed for the humidity pylon.

[@2ndbrain909]

@@tbbt1215 Ahh I see, alright thank you. Have a nice day.

[@christophersolares7998]

I'm a budding engineer just out of high school and going into uni, you inspire me greatly, thank you for your channel

[@kaleotter]

Why isnt the fallout 4 uk mod set in Milton Keynes? Heck, you could set it before the bombs dropped and no one would ever notice.

[@Mike-oc6vs]

This reminds me of the time I terraformed planets in Spore. These are so stratifying to do and hopefully we can do more of this in real life.

[@Pok-qq9lt]

i miss this

[@Lex_Koncord]

"Build an airship on the wetlands sounds like a bad idea as an engineer" Meanwhile in Cape Canaveral in the wetlands of Florida...

[@MikuJess]

Haven't been able to play this on my tablet/pc since they switched from pixel art to 3D, it's fun seeing all the neat changes.

[@zioming]

I still have version 0.4 of this on my PC. I see they've simplified some things. Deconstructing water pumps used to remove the water source, drying up the river, and there was no silo chaining back then. Everything was done by boat, so you had to plan ahead a lot more.

[@zioming]

I see it's now called Terra Nil Prototype

[@4llg00dth1ng5]

Wow, the visual update is really stunning, I loved playing the game back during the Game Jam

[@akoskovacs9720]

I think that the teletubbies was a bad choice for "natural and lovely"

[@corbin4360]

Wow I didn't even think of chaining the silos together, that's way easier than what I did (excavating new riverbeds everywhere)

[@MrVilniusNastavnik]

Industrial Automation Engineer, and die hard greenie here. My entire field is about making dirty industry more efficient and environmentally friendly. It also makes workers redundant.. but its a small price to pay for nature.

[@FutureSurvivalGear]

I’m a boiler engineer and it’s fascinating the things people don’t know till a new machine is put somewhere.

[@D_4_N_]

big fan of leaving nothing but greenery behind. nice touch.

[@Cecylovesyou]

this made me so happy, seeing the land recover and new life appear, ah... i wish it was like this in real life

[@IGNACIO_MARIN]

Staring across this barren wasteland I feel new life will be born beneath the bloodstained sand

[@korticus]

I could honestly sit around and watch this for hours. It's like visual ASMR

[@skyking109]

RCE is just so wholesome. I love it.

[@silentislandtempest5825]

I hate that I randomly stumbled upon your channel here because I got this demo and really liked it, and now I have to wait for the full game for who knows how long. And your content is really good to boot so thank you.

[@CuriousWanderer_]

Mumbo Jumbo will be delighted with this Peace, Love and Plants- Ecology~

[@minette36]

So glad someone made this comment, that's exactly what I was thinking!

[@haydenrogers3486]

The intro was the best depiction of a Barren wasteland.

[@Curiacity]

NATURE IS HEALING is all I could think in the first few placements of those greeneries

[@mtgstudios1556]

I really like your engineering content. I thought about being a civil engineer at one point, but opted for computer science instead. I love the content on the channel.

[@dragoncrew434]

I love how Milton Keynes was the city for baren waste land

[@justynalewczuk9278]

The way he showed Milton Keynes as the barren wasteland ☠️

[@Verrisin]

those turbines produce RIDICULOUS amount of power... look at all that insane stuff one can power!

[@Sheashay101]

I’m now feeling motivated to go out and plant some trees and native seeds

[@seanlando2961]

Wind Turbine Tech here. Bats have very predictable high activity periods, at least in the US, so we use bat mitigation software that shutdown the turbines during those small windows.

[@chameleonfoot]

Controlled burns are so important! There’s even types of seeds that only grow after the heat of a fire!

[@peck3328]

I’m so happy this game is getting popular, I played the demo on itch when it wasn’t very popular and it was super fun.

[@artjack59]

0:21 as a brit who has driven through Milton Keynes I can confirm; it's a baron roundabout filled wasteland

[@droppedpasta]

I thought you were kidding about the bats, until I read up on it. Even when we’re trying to do things better, we still screw it up.

[@2ndbrain909]

Not really. Progress is messy and costly. That’s par for the course unfortunately. However those bats dying actually saved the lives of thousands of more bats. Because now we know they can get hurt from wind turbines. So try not to be so hard on humanity, we’re trying to improve after all. I hope you have a nice day.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Yeah...because wind turbines would've ever become so prolific that bats would've gone extinct. Some species would've adapted. Besides, nature sucks. The epiglottis. That's all one needs to know to realize nature is pure shit.

[@droppedpasta]

@Andrei Salvaleon Agreed!

[@keelekeele]

@Andrei Salvaleon nuclear energy leaves behind garbage that contaminates the earth for millions of years. i wouldnt call that safer

[@keelekeele]

@Andrei Salvaleon comparing radition from our garbage to the sun, what a joke. We have to isolate nuclear garbage so it dosnt kill everything around it and we already have way more of it, than we can store. We have NO PLACE for most of it and we have no way to seal it securly for the amount of time its needs to cool down. and were still producing more daily! if it comes into contact with water, all the water will be contaminated as well. We have 400'000'000 Kg of waste and we have no idea what to do with it. Nuclear power plants are literal bombs and some of them already exploded, not only killing thousands of birds, but thousands of humans, rabbits, worms, and basicly all lifeform. And those who havent died got their dna mutated. People had to run in, knowing they would die in minutes to try to cool the reactor. Nuclear garbage emits heat indefinetly, it will still burn and kill everything near it for MILLIONS of years. And shooting deadly material into space is moronic and reckless. Not only are you trying to kill other planets as well, theres a high chance it can backfire and drop a nuclear bomb on our heads. And how much pollution do you think a rocket to space generates? Currently, worldwide nuclear power generation produces 10,000m3 of high-level waste per year, how many rockets would that be every year?

[@ieatpancakes92]

Definitely do a series on this! I enjoy your commentary on all your videos, keep up the good work buddy!

[@lyonspride5361]

I paused to read and laughed so hard at the Owen Wilson face!

[@ninjachicken8939]

Your edit has gotten much better! Good job.

[@zaviaaaaa]

I love this game so much, I played it back when it was fresh off a game jam on itch, tbh not sure if I like the new art style as much as the old pixely look, but the gameplay seems more refined for sure, esp the 3rd phase

[@raulsantos6394]

Peace, love and ECOLOGY. Love your channel and humour mate

[@lmnotalex_3697]

Pls upload more of this is just lovely

[@blakjak6]

dude all of your videos and humor are so wholesome, i adore it.

[@bdlc9952]

this is such a relaxing game to watch it just takes away the stress as everything get planted

[@kaelaneverhart5228]

I recommend playing Sheltered it's a post apocalyptic game where you survive as a family and build your own bunker.. i guess

[@PJOZeus]

Been really enjoying these ecology based games on the channel (this and the beaver civ thing), along with just base builders in general

[@louieberg2942]

Looks cool! I do wonder how they're going to expand on this, though.

[@amirhaikal6672]

adding more biomes! and continent specefic biomes like Savvanah, artic, alpine forest, hell they could make and underwater level reseeding the zooplankton and seaweed because a large portion of our own earths oxigen does not come from tress, it comes from our oceans

[@bananaanimations2003]

With the wind turbines, ultra-violet light and brighter lights are being incorporated on wind turbines to decrease the deaths of bats and birds. It's quite interesting and I'm glad you put awareness around it!

[@ballisticm0use72]

Peace, love, and ECOLOGY we were so close!

[@kairon156]

Personally I'm a fan of wind turbines that are vertical curves rather than blades that cut through the air. Also this is my kind of game, thanks for sharing.

[@luna99nova64]

Please continue this as a series 🥰🥺🥺

[@kobaltblueknight]

This game just felt so cathartic to play. And it's good practice, for when we'll have to do that for our planet.....

[@duxtorm]

9:40 Owen Wilson as he says *wow* ...excellent

[@yuliantoadhipratama2686]

I don't know why, but it's satisfaying to watch you plays this game mate

[@brownbear992]

this my go to game for when I need to relax, I can't wait for early access to start

[@Ichi.Capeta]

This is extremely satisfying. Somehow it made me feel happy at the same time

[@Madison-iw8ix]

Forest fires actually help nature. The ash is nutritious, it clears away suffocating plants, and most animals actually get away.

[@wyattc9984]

Also many seeds can not germinate without the heat from the fire.

[@amimm7776]

Time to get the flamethrower ready

[@skaianDestiny]

There's a tree that specifically evolved to cause forest fires. Its sap is extremely flammable so much that it explodes when it catches fire, spreading the fire even more and its seeds are extremely fireproof.

[@jamesbrice3267]

@@skaianDestiny That HAS to be Australian.

[@skaianDestiny]

@@jamesbrice3267 Yep! It's the Eucalyptus tree, AKA the only food source for the Koala.

[@ericakriner3244]

As an ecologist, this video gave me a great deal of joy and smuggery

[@verriganholmes8054]

I like this! Such a cute little solarpunk game!

[@thegronken8774]

This game is probably one of my favorites you've played!

[@phofers]

23:44 He missed the perfect opportunity to say "Peace, love, and plants"

[@JustNeki]

I TOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO SAY "Peace, love, and plants" MUMBO HITTED ME HARD.

[@wishmoppp3995]

ahhh, that is so nice, i have seen a gameplay from an other KZbinr, but he played it so sloppy and left gaps inbetween the nature, so good to see some nice work, greening the wastelands!!! love

[@sydster999]

My fiancé is a wildland firefighter and he confirms that the reason North America has had so many devastating fires in recent years is because the Native Americans have been stopped from using controlled burns. Controlled burns help to keep our forests from being giant ticking time bombs. A little burning here and there to keep the forest sparse enough to not trail fire throughout the entire thing keeps the whole forest healthier!

[@joshuavista9282]

"Theres Deer ! Theres Deer" you sound like a child having fun and i love it

[@SeiUnAsciugamano]

9:40 "Wowwwww".... i saw that.

[@SpecsWitched]

A terraforming game? Interesting concept, lovely to see fresh new content

[@rawrthedinosawr9659]

wow this game has changed alot, when I last saw it it was a pixel art game and the airship was a rocket, i really do think it's a change for the better though, as the new graphics look amazing

[@maxi979]

So aparently there was an expiriment about painting black lines on turbines so that birds don't fly to them is it still happening?

[@2ndbrain909]

I’m not sure but I’ll look into it for you and get back to you on that.

[@silverdirtdraws9828]

@@2ndbrain909 so..?

[@gredystar8333]

@@silverdirtdraws9828 The only study that I managed to find that was actually tested in real turbines is one where scientist painted only one of the blades of the turbine completely black. If you want to give it a read and have access to a college email or something that grants you access without paying, the study is titled: "Paint it black: Efficacy of increased wind turbine rotor blade visibility to reduce avian fatalities." Seems to have finished in July of last year. It found a reduction in fatality rates of 70% compared to unpainted turbines. And some species of birds of prey avoided them entirely, the team found no carcasses of these birds surrounding the turbines. The conclusion does give a few warnings though. The study was conducted on just 4 wind turbines in a very specific part of Norway. But the experiment did run for a total of 7.5 years. Still, you probably need to test on a bigger sample to get concrete conclusions. additionally, there were some species of birds in the area that were excluded from the experiment, because they were just expected to collide with the towers anyway dues to their flying patterns. So its not a full solution for every species of bird. It did reduce the overall fatality rate quite a bit and seems to be an inexpensive solution if done before installing the turbine.

[@irisleaves2272]

This man is the chaotic good version of let's game it out same person different font

[@Kokuyous3ki]

Wait, you are not baffled when you see °C ? Actually surprisingly rare.

[@misterblob2]

8:53 "ooohh and a nice tree grew there" 9:01 *turns tree into rock*

[@estabonjay]

I like how I’m burning down trees in Minecraft while watching this lol

[@JazJazForever]

im from poland and the view from my balcony is beautiful

[@zelphiaellerson6283]

So glad this game helped me find your channel!

[@tordlindgren2123]

Oh, you can use a different turbine. For example the helix model. You know, for eliminating the detriments of windmills.

[@NotaVampyre111]

This is a really fun game. I'm looking forward to it's release. Dorfromantik is great too.

[@oscarmorris07]

"an apocolyptic barren wasteland" *shows a sign for milton keynes*

[@jamesbrice3267]

An insult to perfectly pristine barren wastelands.

[@strangesoren2694]

Really can't wait to see more of this one

[@omega_p]

Damn it's already been over a year since this video got released. This was the video that got me to start watching you and I gotta admit it was a fun journey. Keep up the work Matt

[@crudfingers6403]

HAHA! Milton Keynes. Just grids and roundabouts. Pinicle of beauty

[@lloa374]

At 9:40 or 9:41 if you pause it right when he clicks on the arboretum there's a face of a popular actor

[@CanadianJuiceBox]

Watching you play this game is extremely calming and satisfying after the dumpster fire youtube try playing this right before you. Keep doing great!

[@theelementalists2506]

Why does this game remind me of a creation of a minecraft world, like, from nothing into just random biomes in random places but it fits strangely well?

[@khangannguyen5256]

Terra Nil a peaceful and clam game where you regrow life to it`s former glory as nature takes care the rest once you are finish

[@lukecaspers9801]

This game looks Chill AF, adding to the wishlist

[@medicman4444]

Honestly I'm really enjoying the fact that more and more game developers are making demos finally it's like when I was younger they used to get demo discs off single levels of games to get the taste of it I'm so sick to death of buying a game for a full price that in early access and finding a load of rubbish

[@Hellooo134]

You can return them if you have less than two hours of play time and it’s within (i think) 48 hours

[@henrylim1252]

I love watching you play this game, I hope you do more of it in the future

[@Yuimiiku]

Him:Can you silo a silo? Me:use the drill Can you silo a silo That had me cracking up the whole night

[@erushi5503]

I love game videos of engineers, cause they teach you as they play

[@lka.anthems]

I want to see RCE play this again when it's released