Suggestions for improving Timberborn – Bugs and Suggestions

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29 votes

Place Timberborn saves in Library, not Documents on macOS

I just noticed that Timberborn put its saves in a folder in my Documents folder. This is not conventional on macOS — the Documents folder should be reserved for files ...

Suggested by: Kevin (27 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 11 Apr • Comments: 4

Under consideration macOS Suggestion

20 votes

Edge scrolling on MacBook Pro (with notch)

Edge scrolling for top edge doesn't work as expected on my MacBook Pro (2021) with notch. The full screen mode adds a black bar up top (which the mouse could go). ...

Suggested by: Art (10 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 13 Mar • Comments: 7

Under consideration Bug macOS

10 votes

Music Volume

The music volume setting resets when changing output device. The slider shows the value it was set at (in my case, 0%) but the music still plays after switching ...

Suggested by: Doun (13 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 10 Mar • Comments: 2

Under consideration Audio Bug macOS

9 votes

Lag on new game after Update 1

Hey, i'm experiencing weird things with game on speed 2-3. After 'update 1' I started new map and the game became very laggy, dropping to 1-4 fps, with Ultra or low ...

Suggested by: Sev (27 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 12 Nov, '25 • Comments: 1

Under consideration macOS Performance

8 votes

game will not start on apple silicon

When the game launches, the screen goes black and I get a spinning beach ball. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game via steam with no luck. Thanks ...

Suggested by: Charlie (21 Feb, '22) • Upvoted: 16 Jan, '25 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Bug macOS

7 votes

Add MacOS trackpad better support

Now we can use trackpad's two-finger swipe as scrolling wheel, which is considered as a default configuration. The ideal operation way should be: two-finger ...

Suggested by: Alex Liang (09 Feb, '24) • Upvoted: 03 May • Comments: 1

Under consideration macOS

7 votes

[BUG] Not working with Mac OS Sonoma

Hi Team, After updating Mac to Sonoma, game is not working it is crashing while trying to launch the game

Suggested by: Vinay (30 Sep, '23) • Upvoted: 20 Dec, '24 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Crash macOS

5 votes

Optimisation for Mac.

The game starts fine but slows to unplayable levels after about 40 beavers on my M1 MacBook.

Suggested by: Daniel (03 Dec, '22) • Upvoted: 01 Mar, '24 • Comments: 4

Done macOS

5 votes

Mac unresponsive clicks

Quite often I have to click on an item/menu multiple times for it to register.

Suggested by: Ashley Clarke (18 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 04 Apr, '24 • Comments: 2

Under consideration Bug macOS

5 votes

Optimisation for Mac

I played the game on a Macbook Pro 13-inch M2 Edition. The game is very very very poorly optimized if felt. After you go to a sizable population like 100 or 140, the ...

Suggested by: Eikiyo (12 Aug, '23) • Upvoted: 29 Dec, '25 • Comments: 1

Under consideration macOS Performance

4 votes

Timberborn update 6 crashes immediately on startup from steam, MacOS

Running on up to date steam on MacOS catalina. Problem not present in earlier versions of game. Game does not even load, crashes on executable load. No timberborn ...

Suggested by: Ian M (13 Oct, '24) • Upvoted: 10 Jul, '25 • Comments: 12

Done Crash macOS

3 votes

Missing In-Game Icons and Texts on macOS Ventura

Since the upgrade to macOS Ventura, some of the in-game icons and texts are not showing. The affected icons and texts aren't consistent. (i.e. sometimes dynamite icon ...

Suggested by: Rian (02 Nov, '22) • Upvoted: 21 Dec, '22 • Comments: 7

Done Bug macOS UI

3 votes

Arrow and WASD keys fail after screen switch

On mac, if I'm in the game and use ctrl-left arrow to switch screens back to my main view (check on emails, texts, etc) and then use ctrl-right arrow to go back, ...

Suggested by: Chet McDoniel (04 Jan, '22) • Upvoted: 06 Jan, '23 • Comments: 2

Under consideration Bug macOS

3 votes

Zoom

Controls in macOS are broken. Zoom very often turns into a field shift or stops working and zooming out the map becomes impossible. Continuously enlarging the image ...

Suggested by: yoPS (04 May, '24) • Upvoted: 28 Mar, '25 • Comments: 1

Under consideration Bug macOS

3 votes

Very glitchy on M1 MacBook Pro

Like it is freezing every few seconds for a millisecond whenever my beaver population gets beyond approx 40.

Suggested by: Daniel (07 Aug, '22) • Upvoted: 12 Nov, '25 • Comments: 0

Under consideration macOS Performance

2 votes

Audio failure after output-device-change

On macOS when you switch or connect an audio-device (or only the music, I'm not sure) stops for a short while. After reloading, the failure is to 100% fixed.

Suggested by: Comic-Star_55 (20 May, '25) • Upvoted: 23 May, '25 • Comments: 0

Under consideration macOS

2 votes

Runs on Efficiency cores on Mac OS Apple Silicon

Hi everyone, I have observed, that Timberborn runs exclusively on the efficiency cores on MacOS apple silicon. Its not that clear in the image but in btop its ...

Suggested by: David (20 May, '25) • Upvoted: 16 Jul, '25 • Comments: 0

Under consideration macOS Performance

2 votes

Mac problems - keyboard and mouse stop working, now game won't load

New to Timberborn, Mac Sonoma 14.5 on Steam. Keyboard inputs can drop out. I can carry on with mouse input only, but really had to save and restart. Well it's in ...

Suggested by: 2Niels (22 Jul, '24) • Upvoted: 30 Jul, '25 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Bug macOS

2 votes

Reproducible WASD key failure on MacOS

WASD keys stop working when hiding different foreground app with command-H. Using command-TAB to switch away and back fixes the issue. To reproduce: 1. Run on ...

Suggested by: David Brandon (17 Oct, '22) • Upvoted: 07 Feb, '23 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Bug macOS

2 votes

BUG mac sleep freeze

if i close lid and computer falls asleep on 2019 mac book pro running 10.15.7, newest steam, non-experimental release (v0.1.5.2-773c83b-sm), the game upon reopening ...

Suggested by: j (06 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 12 Aug, '23 • Comments: 0

Under consideration Bug macOS

2 votes

(BUG) Mac-Loading and Main Menu Glitched

On changing the resolution from "Low" to "Medium" and fiddling with the resolution slider the loading and main menu are made of shreds from random pieces of other ...

Suggested by: RBLXMN 508 (04 Jul, '22) • Upvoted: 14 Jul, '22 • Comments: 0