Suggestions for improving Timberborn – Bugs and Suggestions
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How to report problems with in-game text or a translation?
We're asking you to post your bug reports exclusively in English but Timberborn is available in 15 languages. When reporting problems with in-game text and ...
Windmills aren't mills, they're turbines
Mills mill things. Turbines produce power. They should be renamed.
EN - Water pump vs mechancial water pump naming confusion, two possible solutions.
While "Water pump" is technically a correct name for both buildings, they are two different buildings with different use cases. The similar names thus cause some ...
Beaver homes tutorial, rephrase suggestion
The last paragraph reads: "Beavers will not reproduce unless there are empty slots for kits."
Rephrase to: "Beavers will not reproduce, unless there is vacant ...
Minor word change
Change description from "High Power Shaft" to "Elevated Power Shaft". It's a better representation of the object. The current description makes it sound a bit like ...
Inconsistent resource sorting order - sort alphabetically by active language, not English
It seems like resource lists are sometimes sorted based on English names (e.g. storage contents) and sometimes based on the names from the user's locale (e.g. ...
Rename broken teeth to blunt teeth to sound less dramatic
Broken teeth are obviously not a surgical emergency but can be easily fixed by every beaver himself. Therefore, I suggest renaming it simply to blunt teeth. This ...
The Waterfalls map is currently called "Watefalls".
The Waterfalls map is currently called "Watefalls". I don't care either way you want to spell it. I just wanted to inform you that it is misspelled, it you wanted it ...
Capacity text needs a space after the colon
See the attached image. The number crowds the text right now; adding a space after the colon would help.
Fixing Lantern Description
A minor nitpick of course. The lantern description says:
"Nocturnal by nature, modern beavers do feel a little anxious when it's dark."
If beavers are ...
It's not "changeable", it's "variable". Also, more weather rpediction options.
First off: keep it up! The game is really fun to explore despite its lack of contentm i haven't gotten bored yet (50 hours on record so far). The description of the ...
Gatherer flag description should be updated to include chestnuts
The gatherer flag building right now only has a description for gathering berries, while chestnuts are also a possibility
Automation: Rename Off/On to Signal Active/Inactive or Signal Enabled/Disabled or Signal True/False
Request to rename Off/On labels to something more descriptive, such as Signal Active/Inactive, Signal Enabled/Disabled, or Signal True/False, particularly on items ...
Suggestion: Maybe add tooltip/rephrase text for Prioritize By Haulers
Seeing this discord entry today --
jcheung: prioritize by hauler on storage is prioritize consumption
-- reminded me to make this suggestion.
I thought for ...
rename Disposal Facility to Golem Disposal Facility
please rename Disposal Facility to Golem Disposal Facility so this is more in line with the other Golem facilities
Translation and text notes for U3 and U4
[Hydroponic garden] - description says "cultivates plants" but mushrooms are not plants.
Suggestion EN: "plants and mushrooms", "crops"
Suggestion RU: "растения и ...
Inclusive language
For example, in the fluff text for the Geothermal Generator, it says “It’s unmanned mostly because of the smell”. Please changed “unmanned” to “unstaffed” or ...
Traditional Chinese Translation
The translation of chestnut is translated as "horse chestnut" which is not a eatable chestnut. The correct translation should be 栗子
U5 Control Tower Description Contains a Typo
The control tower flavor text is "A bot must obey orders given it by beaver beings except where beavers are no more." There should be a "to" after "given"
Suggestion for funny beaver one-liner
"The hoomans slept 8 hours a day? No wonder they went extinct!"
Misspelled "no good selected"
On the notice board it says "no good selected" when it should be "no goods selected" :)
Stream Gage (Not Gauge)
The US Geological Survey prefers the spelling Stream Gage instead of Gauge. I am a stream ecologist so you can trust that. Based on a quick Google search I see the ...
[BUG] when and only when loading the latest save, the tip is always in English
I'm creating a translation mod, and it's been working fine, but lately there's been a couple of inconsistencies, This bug is one of them.
When loading the latest ...
Change name of vertical power shaft
Change the name of vertical power shaft to solid power shaft.
Thank you
Resource Counter "fill rate" in description overlooked?
I saw in another suggestion (https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/697575/resource-counter-option-fill-rate-should-be-called-relative-value) that the fill ...
Typo in "Swimming Pool"
(EN) The Swimming Pool building's name in the menu is not capitalized correctly, and says "Swimming pool" instead.
Double and Triple Dynamite Flavor Text
There is a flavor text for the normal dynamite (x1), but none for the double or triple variants. This isn't that needed because they just explode, but it would be a ...
Rename Manage settlement (panel group) to Manage colony
The collective noun for Beavers is a colony, which is just too easy to use as it also applies to hoomans.
Add Information
You should add the information that the pumps stop pumping at 100% bad water. In addition, there should be a possibility to convert the water later on. I usually play ...
[BUG] Text box too small after line break
Only half the text of second line is shown. (See picture). Expand text box properly after line break.
(English) Typo in small warehouse flavour text
The flavour text for the small warehouse is signed "Ma 'Ngonel" instead of "Ma' Ngonel" (as seen in the blueberry and lodge flavour texts)
Put information on the reason for having workers within the district.
I didn't understand the reason for having beavers inside the main structure of the district for a long time, after a long time without understanding, I googled it and ...
Minor Bug - Double Shower (Iron Teeth)
Double shower does not say unique to this faction, not sure if that was intentional but the Folktails is a single shower