Expand tutorial
DEV EDIT: We expanded tutorial. But if you feel it is not enough, please visit this topic: https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/224186/further-expand-tutorial
The game is quite simple and easy to understand, but things such as the city center range drive me nuts, i was making paths and more paths and suddenly some buildings were "disconected" even tho they were visually connected with a path, but surprise, the town center "line" didn't reach.
An idea to improve this issue is to add tutorial to "expand" your range, such as trying to reach for metal pieces, which usually are out of range, forcing you to build a gate, a town center, and the "merchant" routes between districts, the one that sends items and the one that receives them.
Comments: 139
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15 Sep
Guvnoh Mergedthe process of explaining Births of beavers should be explained in the tutorial.
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16 Sep
Ashley MergedI think some helpful tips that could pop up on the screen if someone is playing easy, like if you see that a population is stagnant because there is not enough housing or leisure
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16 Sep
pmduda Admin Merged"More detailed initial tutorial" (suggested by Crane on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Sep
pmduda Admin"Expanded tutorial" (suggested by Don on 2021-09-15), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Sep
pmduda Admin"In-Depth tutorials for the power, science, and needs systems" (suggested by Fabian on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Sep
pmduda Admin"Tutorial" (suggested by get fucked on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Sep
pmduda Admin"Helpful Tips" (suggested by Ashley on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Sep
Brandon HicksAgree - just bought the game and super excited to play. All my bevers dies of starvation by day 14 because 'farm' wasn't part of the tutorial and I ran out of starting resources. also tutorial needs to highlight where items are. Clicking through 20 menus trying to find 'gathering flag'.
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16 Sep
Teddy MergedThe game has a water tutorial but not a food one I recomend one beeing added for newcomers.
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16 Sep
CraneMy submission was rolled into this one and I disagree- they're completely separate. Maybe don't be so pushy asking for feedback if it's not really wanted.
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17 Sep
pmduda Admin"Births" (suggested by Guvnoh on 2021-09-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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17 Sep
pmduda Admin"food tutorial" (suggested by Teddy on 2021-09-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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17 Sep
pmduda Admin"Tooltip tutorial paths" (suggested by Peter on 2021-09-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Sep
Cat MergedIt would help for novice/beginner player to get a better idea of how the game works. For example, indicating where the player can find the lumberjack flag, how assigning beaver works, how priorities work. The player could opt-out of course, but I feel it would make the game much more approachable to more novice players who still want a challenge (don't get me wrong!) but don't want to spend 30-45 minutes to figure out where things are.
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18 Sep
kittythiccness Mergedneed a more in-depth tutorial, after building the storage shed it kind of just sends you on your way to figure the rest of the game out... love the game though, and am awaiting future updates.
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18 Sep
Zombie MergedThe game needs more tutorials or at least instructions or point to youtube videos.
There is no way (shown/told) how to have /make more beavers.
Read up on it... (shouldn't have to ) . lodges and downtime make babies... HA.. doesn't seem to work like that.
Either make it a time thing that every 5 min real time vs population = x amount of kids or let us have some insight into how or why or when they breed.
Either Clear the stumps or make them regrow. There is way to much micro management in the game and I still haven't even built a forester.. which brings me to another pet peeve so far.
Way to many things locked off behind grind walls too early on.
Planting trees for example.. So you cut down the trees for logs, yet useless stumps remain and they don't regrow over time.
You made the game.. post a vid showing how to grow the colony
Thanks and good luck.. Not reviewing the game until it's ready -
18 Sep
JustAFriendlyDudeThe tutorial should explain the UI elements properly currently it has a lot of buttons and features which it doesn't touch. Like for example demolishing building isn't explained. And much more. The game should have a tutorial level where the UI is explained slowly and it shouldn't show stuff that useless for the player at that time (in the tutorial) after the player does some tasks it should reveal more mechanics and it should do that till the player has learned all the basics and is doing advanced stuff, after that the player should be left on his own to survive as the player should've learned everything by then and be able to manage the colony decently.
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18 Sep
Jaclyn GillierJumped into the game and had no clue what I was to do. The prompts like build path are great goals but I don't know why I need to building them and found that I was struggling to find where these prompts can be found in the tool bar. By the time night fell in the game I still had accomplished nothing, was frustrated and rage quit.
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18 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial" (suggested by Ivan Saez on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Love the game, kind of difficult even on easy" (suggested by kittythiccness on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Sep
Rah MergedThe tutorial at the moment is very barebones, i am confused on how to increase my population or generally how i should progress. Would really love an introductory mission that gives me assistance for say the first 10 days
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18 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Better/longer tutorial" (suggested by Cat on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Better tutorials" (suggested by Zombie on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Sep
PaulHave only played for 15 mins but a number of those minutes were spent trying to figure out what the Lumberjack flag is and where to find it. After that, it was unclear that to connect it to the district centre it must be contiguous with a path connected to the _door_ of the centre. The tutorial would benefit greatly from highlighting key parts of the UI, explanations describing why each tutorial step is needed (e.g. what does a "flag" do?), and clearly pointing out any nuances the player should know about (e.g. the path has to eventually connect to the door of a district centre, not just the building itself).
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18 Sep
Busy BeaverI can tell I will be able to terraform at some point, but right now I genuinely can't figure it out. Advanced tutorials (even if they're optional or hidden in the menu) would be fantastic.
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18 Sep
Dan Wilson MergedThis game is great, but it needs a better tutorial. Its very vague on HOW to do things. You're saying WHAT to do, but now HOW.
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18 Sep
Jason BergmanAgree with all of this, it was really painful to and a lot of failed games to get the information that should have been shown to us rather than text that reads "build a lumberjack flag" do what every other game does and pause the game highlight where to click to find the lumberjack flag explain why we need this flag etc. But definitely walk people through how to get more babies and what will help do that faster.
Also I have died in so many games because lack of resources, I didn't build a dam to more resources, how to stack houses and properly build stairs etc. I have only learned by restarting my game over and over, and I really feel like this is one of those games that you don't want to be doing that. -
19 Sep
xiao zhang MergedThe novice tutorial is too simple and easy to get lost in the early stages of the game. More detailed novice tutorials are needed instead of freely exploring the gameplay.
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19 Sep
DuckI had the same issue.
I was able to figure out that I needed a new district, but then when it came to setting up this new district I was completely at a loss. I didn't know what buildings were necessary and it took me quite some time to figure out that the district center jobs were builders. For some reason I hadn't figured that out from the first tutorial, so I only sent one beaver and was confused when he didn't start scavenging.
I think a second optional tutorial should pop up when you place your second district. -
19 Sep
Michelle HawardA tutorial that shows you where the different elements are or at least tells you under what menu they fall under.
Brief explanations for beginners for:
*population
*science
*assigning construction/worker priorities
*highlighting that different materials are needed for construction and are provided by different buildings and how to unlock (probably falls under science)
*explaining how to link things with power - when do you need to link, when do you not?
Game is great fun, and I love citybuilders so managed to intuit a bunch of it, but a more in depth tutorial for beginners would be good. -
19 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Fully fleshed out tutorial" (suggested by Rah on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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19 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Better Tutorial" (suggested by Dan Wilson on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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19 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Xīnshǒu jiàochéng 4 / 5000 翻译结果 Novice tutorial" (suggested by xiao zhang on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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20 Sep
pmduda Admin"new player" (suggested by Christian on 2021-09-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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20 Sep
pmduda Admin"Better tutorial? Labor page" (suggested by Zach Reising on 2021-09-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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20 Sep
pmduda Admin"what am i doing" (suggested by Jeb Sherrod on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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21 Sep
John MergedStep one in the tutorial "Build: Lumberjack Flag (0/2)"
- there's _no_ guidance on how to do that, there's no button labeled 'build', there's no highlighting in the interface and no intuitive right click, drag, click combos that work
- please elaborate or provide visual queues on what to do -
21 Sep
pmduda Admin"Tutorial Bug" (suggested by John on 2021-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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21 Sep
MirHow Building districts
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21 Sep
salFactorio-style tutorial scenarios, where its broken up into a few different maps with increasingly complex goals, would go a long way towards helping players understand the mechanics. Something like:
Map 1: Basic survival (building on what exists now, including farms, construction priorities, and population mechanics)
Map 2: Basic water mechanics & intro to dams (dams, levees, floodgates. also the fact that beavers can swim!)
Map 3: Power (power wheels, water wheels, windmills, and related buildings)
Map 4: Science (inventors & technologies, particularly focused on foresters, as they are the only long term source of wood)
Map 5: Districts (build range, creating new districts, distribution centers & dropoffs)
A player who can grasp these mechanics would have a very solid foundation to survive at least a few cycles on normal difficulty without having to restart for hours as they learn new mechanics (10 hours, for me) -
21 Sep
John Mergedtook me a fat minute to figure out the basics, the game needs a better tutorial, and it would be cool to have some kind of guide throughout the game too. other than that the games amazing, i cant wait to see some new structures and how it turns out!
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21 Sep
Kevin MergedI may be dumb but i'v played bansihed, frostpunk and all other famous building games and tho i did appreciate the little help i got when i started but it ended with the water pump, i do not mind to get a little more help! I did plant crops but they did not grow and i did not know i needed a grill to prep the potato with i did not get any anyways, so as i said i may be dumb but it is players like me who might need the little extra to get going to enjoy the game :D
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21 Sep
pmduda Admin"more direction" (suggested by John on 2021-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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21 Sep
pmduda Admin"Beginners Guide" (suggested by Kevin on 2021-09-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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22 Sep
Nope MergedAdd instructions to the "What every new settlement needs" dialog to indicate how tf you mark trees.
Also suggest adding instructions to help find the lumberjack flag & build path options, since they're buried in one of 19 submenus. -
22 Sep
HighflEye MergedPlease build up your tutorial to every aspect playable.
Your game is intuitiv for players with expirience, but to understand every mechanic, a complete tutorial is pretty nice -
22 Sep
BulletMagnetEd MergedI think the tutorial needs some more material because a lot of the game mechanics aren't well explained. I love this game so far, but expanding your base beyond the immediate vicinity isn't well explained.
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22 Sep
RichEasy quality if life change, don’t allow me to build paths if it’s out if range of my builders/center.
Allow stairs to stack on, or replace paths
I think this comes from being a bit of a preplanner.
What would also be cool is to allow for a “renovation.” Currently the business I work for is redoing our main campus. How cool would it be for you to upgrade say ‘Large Warehouse’ to ‘Underground Storage’ you’d save resources (maybe like 30%) but would come at the cost of needing to destroy surrounding buildings, disable its use etc.
So if you plan ahead you won’t fill up a warehouse with bread, build buildings touching each other. It gives something to repeating a map “what if I would have planned for that small warehouse to be upgraded to underground storage when I had the science available” -
23 Sep
Whisperskeep MergedAdd more to the tutorial. No idea how to assign workers, get science points, or where my beavers went. I had food, but no one wanted to harvest it. They all left 1 baby beaver behind.
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23 Sep
Lisa522The existing tutorial doesn't teach you anything. You still have to figure out everything on your own. Some things are not clear - such as setting up the power, dams, breeding, etc. A much more comprehensive tutorial is needed.
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23 Sep
benjamin Mergedthe game needs a longer tutorial for new players and also would be nice to include quests to have things to work towards
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23 Sep
TiryMaybe this "tutotial improvment" could be smartly merged with the "campaign mode" or "story telling" suggested in other posts. Indeed there could be wonderful stories or game goals about beavers, the way they have to survive, be happy, expand, conquer new districts, climb mountains, build over water, irrigate, use waterways....
It would be a great way to learn how to use waterways, transportation facilities, districts, power management.... -
23 Sep
ZaryloI think the tutorial is fine as it is.
Here is what I love about it:
1. You can ignore it completely.
2. It does not block your personal progress. You are not prevented from building advanced stuff without having finished it. Great!
3. It gives basic hints about what you probably want to do and then leaves you to explore the game on your own with nothing but a "good luck!". Perfect!
Nowadays overbearing tuotorials to complex games are the number one turnoff.
The player has to learn this things on his own without being forced into it.
A tutorial isn't supposed to make sure the player survives his first drought,
Allow the player to not know anything, and if he is confused give him an option to voluntarily read on it in a ingame wiki style help section.
Some UI elements could be improved but, this isn't because of a lack of tutorial. -
23 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"How do you mark trees?" (suggested by Nope on 2021-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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23 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial" (suggested by HighflEye on 2021-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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23 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial is light on material" (suggested by BulletMagnetEd on 2021-09-22), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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23 Sep
pmduda Admin"Add more to the tutorial" (suggested by Whisperskeep on 2021-09-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Sep
Ness Morris MergedThe tutorial should suggest the importance of planting a lot of food and having a lot of water storage. On normal difficulty, the first drought will likely kill the beaver in charge of the water pump, and with no obvious way to reassign beavers already assigned to other jobs, beavers will continue to die of thirst even when the drought ends.
The unforgiving difficulty is at odds with the cute aesthetic of the game and is extremely frustrating. Players shouldn't have to start over multiple times in order to learn basic gameplay mechanics necessary for a functioning village. -
24 Sep
Lima MergedExplain how to use power, science, and metal.
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24 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"needs more" (suggested by benjamin on 2021-09-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Sep
Petr MergedI wish there was some kind of initial explanation of the gameplay.
Also there is no storytelling about the animals - why should i care about them withough a propper background :) -
24 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Make a longer tutorial!" (suggested by Lima on 2021-09-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Better tutorial" (suggested by Ness Morris on 2021-09-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Sep
javid Mergedbetter tutorial explaining current of water and districts.
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25 Sep
Amanda MergedThere needs to be a tutorial on how to connect the water, irrigation and gears. Its frustrating
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25 Sep
RemSteale MergedSome idea of what foods to work on, it's pretty obvious berries wont cut it and you cant seem to force your gatherers to go and get them from too far away even if you have a path, you need to start growing crops and master placement of gathering flags and it's definitely not very well explained. Dead Beavers......
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25 Sep
OneButtonGaming MergedDidn't understand at all how to create new beavers, only realised when I added more houses that a child appeared. Would be nice for the tutorial to cover that.
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25 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Add onboarding/ education" (suggested by Petr on 2021-09-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Instructions" (suggested by javid on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Sep
KitsunePls, add a better tutorial: about basic mechanics: f.e. like in Pharaoh first map/mission is like a tutorial: what residents need, maybe further buildings are unavailable at first steps to show what player should build at first; more useful descriptions for buildings (where it should be built and what materials are needed). F.e. I didn't understand right away, where I should build a double lodge. For now I also don't understand how district exchange works. Seems that devs and QA are great, but too many questions for GD... sorry, but for new players, it's a bad work
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25 Sep
Charles Klem Cox MergedFor someone who enjoys these types of games little direction is needed, but for someone playing one for the first time, the tutorial barely covers anything.
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25 Sep
Old Curmudgeon MergedI built a Distribution center, but could not select a drop off point in the new District. I would like to see a better explanation of how to do this, or at least an error message to tell me what I'm doing incorrectly.
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial on gear/water" (suggested by Amanda on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial Improvement" (suggested by RemSteale on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial - Add information for how to increase beaver headcount" (suggested by OneButtonGaming on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial depth" (suggested by Charles Klem Cox on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Sharing between Districts" (suggested by Old Curmudgeon on 2021-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Jack Moellering MergedI had several failed tries since I was waiting to get my economy stable before any dam building projects. It should have been obvious because, well, BEAVER.
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26 Sep
robert shoup Mergedneed more in-game tutorials and buildings, Great job sofar
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Mention in the tutorial that dams can preserve ground moisture and pumpable water." (suggested by Jack Moellering on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"more plz" (suggested by robert shoup on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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26 Sep
Cayden Gibson MergedThe game was great, I just has a little trouble with the tutorial, I think it should be more direct and show you what you need to do, and guide you more, but without restricting you to just the tutorial.
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26 Sep
Nico Mergedthe tutorial is really too summery, it lacks a lot of information on the mechanics of the game
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26 Sep
FirguenQA MergedI think the tutorial should be improved to help new players get feelings of success earlier and to lessen confusion. Crucial things to add to the tutorial would be time management, just to show where to pause and the game and remind the player that pausing while thinking/reading the building is encouraged. On my first play with the tutorial my beavers died of thirst, because it took me a while to figure out how to cut trees and how the log posts work.
Another thing is to add the farming step in the tutorial. I had collected all my berries at the point where i had finished watering and housing and build a power source for plank production. So my beavers started dying of hunger too at that point.
At this point (day 13 in game) i wanted to just start the game over. After these failures i would know better time management and how to handle all these situations. -
26 Sep
Ky MergedI am glad I had friends to help me because the tutorial was completely unhelpful. It should really go a bit longer and have you make an inventor's hut, a water wheel, a farm, and a forester. You could definitely give a little time in between some of those still.
It would also help GREATLY to show where the things are in the menu you are looking for. It took me a couple in-game days to find where to put down the flags for lumber gatherers. -
27 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Better Tutorial" (suggested by Cayden Gibson on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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27 Sep
BrentI spent 20 minutes being like "what the heck is a lumber flag?". Would suggest you change the copy in the tutorial from "build a lumber flag" to "build a lumber flag by opening the wood menu with the icon as shown"
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27 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Improve the tutorial by completing it" (suggested by Nico on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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27 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Improving the Tutorial (Time management & Farming)" (suggested by FirguenQA on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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27 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Please improve the tutorial" (suggested by Ky on 2021-09-26), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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27 Sep
Andrew Thomas MergedIt would be nice if there were some arrows showing what menus the different buildings I am supposed to build first are located
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27 Sep
Colin MergedFirst game with "tutorial" and my population died of thirst before I was even able to figure out the UI.
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28 Sep
Mike MergedTutorial gets you progressing science, then next minute you have starving beavers because they ran out of berries to harvest. Punishing players for following the tutorial is a bit rough...
Maybe get them to build a farmhouse and explain that as a step before building a power source, lumbermill and science lab? -
28 Sep
Firehawk242Explaining how dams work is an absolute must. I flailed around for a bit because I didn't realize just how powerful even single level dams were at first, instead trying to rush irrigation to buy time for me to get a four level dam working, only to find out the bigger dam wasn't even necessary in the first place. (Well, kinda, I did end up needing the bigger dam for later, longer droughts, but that's not the point.)
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28 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Some UI help" (suggested by Andrew Thomas on 2021-09-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Population died of thirst" (suggested by Colin on 2021-09-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial - Farming" (suggested by Mike on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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28 Sep
Johnny MergedIt seems the game needs to be more intuitive. Ive played hundreds of video games, both computer and console based. It shouldnt be this difficult for me to learn how to play the game. The tutorial tells you what to do, but not how to do it.
I feel like i wasted my money buying what i hoped would be a fun game, but instead was frustrating and puzzling. -
28 Sep
Sean E RapinTutorial should take you all the way through the first drought, maybe even past it. Struggled through trial and error after losing all the beavers in my first game. Also think it should include district expansion as the first time I tried to do that I completely wiped out my colony.
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28 Sep
Jordan MergedYour game is currently booming with people who are obsessed with this genre.
For someone who isn't a big fan of the genre but thought your concept was great, LEAVING THE UI TO BE EXPLORED WITHOUT DIRECTION IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO GET PEOPLE INVESTED.
Why should anyone have to check FOURTEEN ICONS in order to find where the lumberjack flag is?
Why on earth do you have destroy building icon before any of the actual building icons?
Why aren't building icons clearly distinguished and easily categorised?
WHY ISN'T THERE A GENERAL BUILDING ICON?
Why are you committed to one direction when placing paths?
I have played a mere 1 hour of the game so far, and the promise is all there to see, it's just really fucking annoying to try and see how good it is. -
29 Sep
Aisha B Cozad MergedFirst, the game is really fun, and of course, the beavers are adorable. However, I'm now finding myself having established a pretty stable district, but not really sure how to get water to the interior sections of the land mass. I mean I can guess how it's supposed to work with blowing things up, but it would be helpful to have a tutorial on those aspects of the game.
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29 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"I couldnt figure out how to actually play even with the "tutorial" on." (suggested by Johnny on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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29 Sep
Gin Fuyou@ Johnny
Either you just haven't played any colony builder games, or I just don't believe you. Aside of a few details game works with "classic" mechanics like dozens of similar games. -
29 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Dear god make the tutorial better." (suggested by Jordan on 2021-09-28), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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29 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial on Landscaping" (suggested by Aisha B Cozad on 2021-09-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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29 Sep
Thomas MergedBasic tutorial or opt-in tooltips to give a bit more of a heads up on what to do or the basic systems at play in the game. Figuring it out is fun but opening it and going 'oh... what now' is a bit weird. Would prefer a little more advice to help me figure it out on my own without having to go onto youtube and look up a guide or something. Otherwise good stuff :3
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29 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"A tutorial" (suggested by Thomas on 2021-09-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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30 Sep
AckwardNinja MergedMy first time playing I got stuck with very little wood because I didn't realise I needed to rush to get the forester unlocked in order to get more wood. Was super slow expanding after 2 cyles and a some time googling to find I needed a forester ASAP. Probably would be best to start it unlocked or teach people to research things in the quick how-to of the game
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30 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial Should cover research and forester" (suggested by AckwardNinja on 2021-09-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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30 Sep
Gin Fuyou Admin"Mehr informationen im Tutorial" (suggested by Auer on 2021-09-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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01 Oct
Timo MergedInteressting ... but i think we need a better Tutorial here ... there so much Things to know .... I hope it will bekomm a beter Tutorial to check out whats goin on. :)
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02 Oct
PhanTomFoolery MergedI think there needs to be a lot more detail put into the tutorial- things like how beavers reproduce, why/how to build dams, everything. The details are so sparse that the first stage (build some forester flags) DOESNT TELL YOU HOW TO BUILD FORESTER FLAGS. Please improve.
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02 Oct
chance Mergedfor the tutorial at the start of the game, maybe have a button that jumps to where things are eg where lumber flags are
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02 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"Interessting" (suggested by Timo on 2021-10-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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02 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"the tutorial is bad" (suggested by s on 2021-10-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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02 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"FAR MORE TUTORIAL" (suggested by PhanTomFoolery on 2021-10-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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02 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"needs tutorial explaining game concepts" (suggested by b on 2021-10-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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03 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"jump to quest" (suggested by chance on 2021-10-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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05 Oct
Stormy Sto HelitYes please, please, please.
I'm loving this game, but I feel like I'm stumbling around in the dark - I'm discovering things by accident, trying workarounds that surely aren't the best way to do things, and feeling like I'm not getting the best experience that the game can offer. -
05 Oct
pmduda Admin"No Clarity and slow" (suggested by Thomas on 2021-09-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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06 Oct
Jeff MergedFirstly, AWESOME Game. I found the tutorial a little light. When the drought came, i was unaware.
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06 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"Tutorial needs a little polishing" (suggested by Jeff on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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06 Oct
Laura MergedAfter the brief tutorial, I was left a bit bewildered by such a large amount of options. My beavers died very quickly because although I had made fields, I had no farmhouse. This may not be a problem for folks who play a lot of these sort of games, but for people who are new to the genre (cuteness on this level attracts a lot more casual gamers), a bit more of a push would be appreciated. Even something small like, "Most of the resources in the game require more than one building to be gathered. Be aware of supply chains and specialization!" would help immensely in letting us know what we need to keep our poor beavers alive.
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07 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"More Extensive Tutorial" (suggested by Laura on 2021-10-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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07 Oct
Aude Lété MergedThe tutorial gives the very basics and doesn't show where the player needs to click so it is a LOT of time spent searching for the key words given in the "tutorial". Also, not everyone being expert in construction games, it would be nice if there was a little something about how the beavers work, what can be done with them... In essence, please be more explicit and explanatory =)
I discovered this game thanks to Kripparian on twitch and straight away thought I'd give it a go, which I did, but it isn't very clear and it makes things unnecessarily difficult, something I did not think would happen. I'm very happy though, and I'm going to keep on playing because I love the idea of beavers creating their own civilisation (that's just awesome! thanks a lot for that!!), keep up the great work guys! -
07 Oct
SirMichael Admin"make a more thorough tutorial please" (suggested by Aude Lété on 2021-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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07 Oct
naribadd to the tutorial: how to plant new trees. omg. I almost rage quit the game not knowing this.
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08 Oct
Michael MergedPlz make the tutorial longer, maybe to the second district we have to build
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09 Oct
Laura MergedThis might just be me and my ferocious denseness, but a tutorial about how dams work would have saved me some poor beaver lives. The horror. The ~h o r r o r~
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09 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"Second District" (suggested by Michael on 2021-10-08), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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09 Oct
A Z-GDiscovered this game after watching Ray__C's sponsored stream. Understand that you want us to 'learn for ourselves', but aspects like "how to build a dam" and "why you want to scrap metal" aren't covered off in the basic tutorial. Would also like to see an option to be able to skip parts of a tutorial as well.
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10 Oct
ZoLatKamSuggestion: The tutorial for planting carrots could be a more clear that one needs to plant "60 individual plots", rather than planting "60 carrots".
Reason: In my first ever game, I figured I could plant 30 plots, wait for them to be harvested and then the next 30 would fulfill the requirement. This was not the case and since the tutorial will not progress to the next part until the current part has been completed, everyone died of starvation.
Notes: The game is definitely very interesting and I will not make the above mistake again.
Imho, adding a space and 4 letters, making the tutorial read "plant 60 carrot plots" instead of "plant 60 carrots", will increase clarity and reduce the potential for other new players to make this same mistake. :) -
11 Oct
terryclothI don't know if it's random or what but immediately after the tutorial was a dry season that the tutorial ensured none of my beavers would survive because it only had me build two water barrels and nothing resembling a dam.
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11 Oct
JessiI wish there was a short explanation on everything to do with water. How to maintain some water during droughts, how to make more land fertile etc.
I actually only played the tutorial to learn how the vertical building and water stuff works (I like figuring out the other stuff myself. Usually not that difficult if you play a lot of city builders). Sadly, none of them were explained. I figured out the building after a few failed attempts, but didn't understand the water stuff completely yet, after watching some videos that gave some vague hints, plus some trial & error. -
11 Oct
Gin Fuyou Admin"How to Build a Dam Tutorial" (suggested by Laura on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Oct
AviDoing the tutorial on 'normal' mode didn't even get me through the 1st cycle. There is some unbalanced thing going on there.
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23 Oct
mjevansThe 2021-October tutorial barely gets a player through the first drought (normal, recommended map, initial beaver class).
The Factorio Tutorial / Demo suggestion above is a good idea too.
To really improve the tutorial would take a few additional changes in the game; that just about everyone wants anyway.
* Configure buildings _before_ built as well. So that they can be placed and setup and then the player can move on to the next thing.
* (Optional, but strongly desired / recommended by me) A jobs priority system so that placement groups can be (planned) managed instead of micro-managed.
The tutorial could explain tools for construction priority and while items are being built roll-up the task into a progress bar.
It could then let the player move on to the next task while, E.G. 60+ carrot crops get planted or a building built to do that.
A research hut could be queued to be built, and the sawmill and water wheel put into the list easily in advance while the lodges are built. -
07 Nov
Kaminskii_RUHey there! I am Russian, so down there can be mistakes. If some1 have a need, find me in Steam, friend code 95731261. Let's rock.
2 days ago have played on the Canyon map, easy difficulty. Reached 250+ beavers, got every monument, built all the three twice, 12 or 13 lvl of happiness.
At my opinion, player should have a example of "this thing works like this". I figured out the point of the dam through "let's play" on YouTube. Day before, city suffered 70% loss of population on "normal" at the 2nd drought. I just got out of the water. I thought, I need to migrate to the next point of map, where the drought can't dry out the water. Then I got confused at the district mechanics (rss transfer) and closed the game. Now I know, that migration isn't the answer cuz 12+ days drought can kill any water spot.
I think, short (1-3 min long) clips should solve the problem. Use subtitles or speech and explain.
Thank you for the Game! Challenge even at easy -
07 Nov
Kaminskii_RUAlso, I want the dev group to explain the work of 4 beavers, which working at District center (DC next). I can add
-the builder's building, where the beavers can help building processes;
-the loader's (or hauler's or carrier's), who has +100% bonus to the weight of the carried staff;
-the carriers between the DC.
If beaver is working at DC, he can build, carry, carry and build.
But, sometimes I saw that if beaver is working as the lumberjack, he also help others to carry smth, if there is no tree to cut. So, I got a question of the priorities of employed beavers. Unemployed beavers do nothing or go resting.
And, I think, there should be information about "1 tile of water dries out at X day(s). If it is 2 tiles depth, it dries out at X days. If there are 2 tiles of water (left and right), it dries out slower, and it takes X days".
Again, 10q for the Game. Today or tomorrow gonna try the Iron Teeth