Suggestions for improving Timberborn – Bugs and Suggestions
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New resource - Coal (Charcoal)
Coal is one of the run-of-the-mill economic strategy game resources, but it has a good affinity with Timberborn setting.
First - you can produce charcoal from wood ...
Collect honey from hives. Mead.
you got bees... why not honey? use that and flour to make flapjacks of something...
also, beeswax.:)
anyway, awesome games guys!
Sand!.. Its problems and the many goodies it brings
Whenever water flows downhill it could create sand deposits in areas where water flows slower.
This means that the lower a reservoir or simmilar structure in ...
Basic mining mechanic for all beaver races
While iron would still come primarily or completely from salvage, stones could be a useful 2nd tier material for dams, levees, buildings, and decorations. These tier ...
Please don't turn all storage into 1 good per building storage
I just read the Dev blog 6 about the upcoming update 3 (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1062090/eventcomments/3497635791227923645).
I know the idea is subject to ...
Blueberries into wine.
Playing as the Folktails faction I find myself with excessive amounts of berries.
I could just remove the crop but I'd rather see an alternate use for them.
Give ...
Resource suggestion: Bamboo
Bamboo is one of the most used "wood" types in the world, so it only makes sense to i clude it in Timberborn. It could be map/climate specific or maybe even faction ...
New crop: Hemp!
Hemp is a ridiculously versatile crop that is both fast growing and edible in a pinch. Thematically it would fit perfectly into the game, as hemp nowadays is ...
Tree Tending/Fertilizing
A way to boost log ouput from trees. Beavers, possibly foresters, would 'tend' to trees, by using fertilizer/fungi or water. This could also be a use for the ...
Mineshafts, mining for ores, metals or other minerals
Certain ores for certain colonies (would probably need researched from 500 to 2000)
folktails: Copper (Could be used for: lightning rods produces energy or copper ...
Cotton, flowers crop for Dyes and colored districts.
I would like to have something that makes a district unique -
option to set a color for a district when creating a district
New crops - Cotton and flowers (flowers ...
Birch Bark Resource
Birch trees are currently the least productive trees and also have no bonus resource (experimental branch has bonus resources for all other trees).
I suggest ...
[Suggestion] Pumpkins as a Halloween update (high risk/reward crop)
Halloween is comming soon and we could use some festive update just to hint at the autumn celebrations. How? Add pumpkins, but not as another boring crop that just ...
New material - straw or reeds for thatched rooves
Many of the rooves of buildings in the game are thatched. It would be nice if the requirements to build them reflected this.
Perhaps the game could include ...
Birch Trees - Birch Beer, Birch Mint Tea, ETC
Birch trees have more use than just wood. Birch beer is a soda, and birch tea has a minty aspect to it and is healthy. To make birch beer we can use the beehives for ...
New Metal usages / metal structure changes
soo i know theres other things that uses metal and other suggestions that ask for more metal things or more things to use metal for but my idea is
metal nails - ...
Oak Galls as source of ink (e.g. for printing recipe)
Since game has introduced new common tree of oak, why not mix it together with other existing production line, printing?
Oaks are known to bear abnormal growth lumps ...
Rice
A new crop that can only be placed on tiles next to water or if you add Aqueducts/Pipelines/ect. then you can have a special irrigation tower for it (both factions) ...
Cranberry Bogs - hybrid crop options
A new crop that farmers plot at usual, but you need to flood the plot before you can harvest it.
Rubber Trees, rubber resource for water-proofing
Add Rubber trees to the game along with it's uses:
Upgrade water pump depth 3 for Folk Tail and 6 for Iron Teeth. Pumps would start with depth of 1.
Power ...
Pinecones
Pines already exist within the game, why not add Pinecones as a farmable food-source?
Add Pinecone collecting to the Gatherer Flag.
Perhaps make a final dish ...
New resource: Birch sap
sap from birch trees to be collected by tappers and made in to birch wine in new building brewery. counts as food and water.
[mod edit]: added a picture
Herbs and spices
Why let Canola oil be the only “add-on” for food? Let our little beavers grow cilantro, basil, oregano and other herbs and spices to add different effects to food.
Idea: wax and area comfort
Wax would be used in mid to late game for increasing comfort and things like "wax clock" which uses wax to time things (useful for things like timed flood gates.) ...
Nitrate, Explosives, Fertilizer
This is a suggestion that would knock out several birds with one, maybe two stones.
1. Add a new "Compost Pile" building. Simple to make, but has to be unlocked. ...
Refined Metal for Vertical Building
Currently, metal platforms can only be built on ground which limits the possibilities of builds with them. I'd like to see the ability to build metal platforms on top ...
Aquatic cultures for depths
It would be good to warn in the description that the aquatic plantations that can only be planted with a single level of depth, for the cases in which the level is ...
peat, trees rot into peat resource
The game already has a tree rotting mechanic. I suggest adding the conversion of rotten trees into peat. a black spot appears in place of the rotten tree; the beavers ...
Wine as a luxury good
Apparently maturing wine under water is a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLKiQcPTO0
Perhaps the beavers could make wine this way and consume it on the ...
Pan for gold in river
Have a building so that you can pan gold. Then you can extend the idea and have a gold smelter and a jewelry maker. But make it rare to find gold so you'll just find ...
Building preview on blocked tiles - construction blueprint and ranges when placing
I wish I could see the preview of what I intend to build even if the location is blocked by an existing item/ path
metal gears
if gears are wooden (it's made out planks) we need metal gears!
Here's a list:
5 wooden gears from 1 resource
A special type of gear
I don't have much ideas :(
Reeds for Roofs
Currently, we make roofs out of logs. We should have to farm reeds (which would make a third aquatic crop), then harvest them to make thatched our roofs.
Plants and crops that can satisfy thirst, juicy fruits, watermelons, farming water
Grow watermelons on green land. They can store water in empty.
Engineered wood, particle board, materials from pressed timber fibers
I suggest adding building blocks from compressed plants (algae, reeds)
Cheap blocks to make for simple buildings
details - ...
Additional Aquatic Crops/ Wells
I’d like to suggest some additional aquatic crops:
Water Hyacinth - would add a nice splash of decorative colour to the game with light purple flowers.
Water ...
Stone age
I think is missing some mining or crafting buildings/manifacture out of stone...it can be something like metal and add tool for agriculture/forester