Suggestions for improving Timberborn β Bugs and Suggestions
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Feedback Archieve (2021-2022)
The major issue I see is there is no way to focus certain items of growth, or to automatically undo what the drought causes. Multiple playthroughs I find that once my ...
Multi-building selection, layout copy-paste feature
1. Allow to select multiple buildings by dragging. There is a building demolition function to make it easier to stop or delete at once, but this only demolishes it. ...
Stairs, Ladders & Elevator - Other options to connect floors.
While there were similar suggestion, none perfectly fit what I'd like to ask in a single post.
Just a few new parts,
1- New Stairs and Ladder.
1.1- Curving ...
Badtides become tedious
In the mid to late game badtides become nearly identical to droughts with the added tedium of opening and closing floodgates (to direct bad water away from fields and ...
Quality of Life requests
There are currently three mods that I hope you would add into the normal gameplay:
1) Curved staircases, because the straight stairs require bulky and awkward ...
Do not add Steam Workshop support, find a solution that works on all platforms!
I just saw the new announcement on Discord and I have to say that this is a terrible idea. You sell your game on three platforms. Steam is just one of them. You say ...
Remove badwater
it sucks and I hate it
Feedback: Badwater
I want to give a feedback to the badwater feature, I'm not sure if there is a better place than this forum.
As much as I like Timberborn, I'm not that satisfied ...
Things that would be nice to have in the next update (major or minor)
Having a 'Canteen' that stores all consumable food and drink for beavers to gather and have a meal would be nice. Alternatively, modify the camps and rooftop terraces ...
Feedback on badwater
I've been playing Timberborn excessively for a very long time and understand the considerations to add gameplay depth with this new fluid. I was curious and worried ...
Midgame ends up with too much waiting
Now that sluices are in the game, badwater can be fully get rid of permanently. This then means that the player can focus on all other beaver needs. This is where a ...
Badwater is a bad
Okay... This badwater thing is bad. I hate it. This marks the final point for me with Timberborn. If I can't downgrade to Update 4 I'll delete the game.
:}
This is the best Game Ever
Quality of Life Ideas
Hello, I love this game, its soothing after a hard day. I have a couple things that I would love to see in the gam.
1) Being able to sticky certain pieces of ...
Bot faction \ bots only game mode
I had this idea while checking how the Bots work and thought of a new game faction/new game mode that would be very, VERY interesting and future proof in case any new ...
Tutorial is worthless
Absolutely no description as to what units are, what they do, how to build things, how to assign workers, etc. It just says "Plant two lumberjack flags" and then all ...
Folktail permaculture and cleaner energy
Hello wonderful creators of Timberborn,
I would like to suggest integrating permaculture principles to folktail food production e.g certain decorative flowers to ...
Update 5 10/12/23 hotfix issues
In the new hotfix for Update 5, there was tweaks to the water physics that stop the contamination through dams, levees, and floodgates. I understand you also made ...
Map: Pressure Feedback
Hey,
I have been playing the new map Pressure on Hard mode (which i usually play on). Really love the little challenges the map offers, but I have a few suggestions ...
epic game
epic game 10/10
I hate this game now
The introduction of badtides, and the removal of water towers has made this game a chore and not a relaxing and enjoyable experience. I think you have ruined your ...
Use of world and space
Love the game, but I think there are a few too many one building solutions that don't make you use and change the environment around you. Building reservoirs and the ...
Famines, Earthquakes, and Beaver Factions
A famine would be interesting to have so 3/4 of all food sources donβt produce food, or 1/2 or 3/4 of stored food spoils. Maybe over population can happen at any ...
The platforms are too strong
Hello,
The platforms of update 6 are really great because they finally allow you to layer more buildings, more possibilities and more imagination.
However, I ...
A few suggestions from a fan
1: An economy tab would be nice. Something showing how much food/water/wood has been used on average in the last few days.
2: bad tides are very difficult to ...
Droughts/Badtides are too hard to recover from
After 300 hours I've noticed it's reeeally an uphill battle after a drought, and now especially after a badtide. All of your beavers are too busy running over to the ...
You guys rock
****ing top notch stuff
Refine the endgame, tweak costs, explicit goals
When creating games, Irrational Games developers mentioned "the purpose of a game is to create an economy, where you invest costs and see returns." In essence, this ...
Badtide needs some help
Started a game on normal with the badtides, there's no easy way to figure out how to help the beavers if they are infected and it really slows the game down after the ...
DEATH, DOOM, AND DECAY! Or could we get a bit more challenge, please?
As fun as this game is, I think it could do with some more challenges. I mostly play on hard/custom, and once things are stable, the game gets stale from a lack of ...
Update 6 - New wonders are lame - how to fix it
New wonders are lame. They do not bring anything new to the game. I just built one... by turning on 'run in background' and leaving the game running for around 1.5 ...
More Visual Variety
Just some more visual variety in general; I like the decorations but I think maybe deciding an architecture style/color palette for certain districts could be cool- ...
Priority tools, Settings
1. Mark an area and set new Prio 1 to 5
1.1. for different types destruction, building, workers... (fast remove an area like many single tiles)
1.2. Add a ...
Bee hive tool tip does not indicate negative effects
I was pretty astounded when I looked at my objectives and saw fully HALF of my poor beavers were stung. Worse when I found out their tiny faces swell up D: I've since ...
2 suggestions for water control
1. A passive(or active) water filter. Any water that passes through it will be filtered. A passive water filter may block the badwater but allow the normal water to ...
I didn't like the new update at all!
For example, I don't care that when you wake up, some kind of delusion comes that all the water is poisoned and destroys everything you did for several hours!
I will ...
Rubble piles
They're everywhere and take too long to clear up! I end up deleting all of them one by one.
Suggestion: Terrain resource, mines and advanced transport systems
First of all, thank you for an amazing game β Timberborn is one of my favorite city builders. The way beavers move, build, store resources and reshape land feels ...
You All Are Awesome
I have been on so many software launches that I cannot count. This game has become a minor hobby of mine. Thank you so much for your hard work. Everyone in your ...
variable water flow / god worship / difficulty mode or setting
While the fixed water flow creates predictability for a while, I actually think a mode or option to have a variable flow rate would create a little more chaos, this ...
Mushrooms and Damp-paw Faction
Fungi:
Three types of mushroom that can be farmed or potentially grown in the wild in response to certain effects, such as flooded alder or dry maple.
1. Eating ...
Better gameplay feedback loop - advisor or guide to push player, beaver desires
After playing this game for a while, I do enjoy it, but its missing some gameplay feedback loops. After following the tutorial and building the basics, there really ...
TO ADDICTING
RCE played this game and i dont typically like "resource management" games, but he made it look fun. turns out this game is so addicting that I have been ignoring my ...
Several improvements that would be nice to see in the game
1. Aqueducts... I have tried to construct a metal platform and add either an terrain or wood dam block on top of it and have surprisingly failed. But it would have ...
Was new Races still being Considered? small beavers?
I remember in early beta days you guys were brainstorming races. Are there still going to be new ones in future updates?
I love the idea of another animal race ...
1,0 Experimental Updated UI Feels Out of Character
The bottom left hand corner of the screen now uses overly modern (read: flavorless and off-putting) design. It looks completely out of place with our current UI ...
List of things that would save me having to Google and check Reddit feeds
Appreciate gameplay is deliberately encouraging independent exploration of the game. Few things I had to search for and would be handy tutorials: 1. what to do with ...
Make completing scenarios a little bit more fun
The typical pipeline of every scenario (at least for me) is as follows: establish self-sustanable beaver colony, play a little bit with terraformation to make your ...
A couple thoughts I think are cool (trains, gondolas, spirituality and districts)
My first thought it expanding on districts. I love the game so far but I think that it would be cool to add more focus on districts.
Idea 1: Give the iron teeth ...