Power unit rename - beaver power

Comments: 21

• 24 Sep
  Pete

  1BP would be equal to 1 Beaver in the Wheel.

• 24 Sep
  James Lauzun

  This is such a great opportunity for world building. I see it's unlikely to happen; I can understand why the devs would say this as there's other, actual things to fix and create.
  
  But a change like this is how the game can keep a player in the post apocalypse context. There's no such thing as a horse. The concept of HP is lost, except for the bits of strap metal with HP stamped into it.
  
  The only world these beavers know, is a world where beaver power BP is the main measurement of energy.

• 05 Oct
  Raja

  Do the devs have any reason to stick to HP instead of BP? I personally think BP would be cool.

• 05 Oct
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "You should change hp (horsepower) to bp (beaverpower)" (suggested by Nikola on 2021-10-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 07 Oct
  Luke Merged

  I think since the beavers build all the power creating stuff, it should be called BP for beaver power instead of HP for horse power. Real Civil Engineer will be very happy!

• 08 Oct
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Change HP to BP" (suggested by Luke on 2021-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 09 Oct
  Stephan Müller Merged

  hp should be bp (beaver power instead of horse power)

• 10 Oct
  Jdog Merged

  Energy should be measured in BP (beaver power) instead of horse power for obvious reasons.

• 10 Oct
  SoNickRND

  Does beavers do metrics or imperial? THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! (I prefer beavtrics)

• 11 Oct
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "beaver power" (suggested by Stephan Müller on 2021-10-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Oct
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Beaver Power" (suggested by Jdog on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Oct
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  edited title for better navigation

• 20 Oct
  Jamie

  This makes so much sense and it's kinda said it hasn't been made a thing yet. Real Civil Engineer (the guy I learned about Timberborn through) on YouTube mentions this a lot as something that would be cool to add in

• 25 Oct
  Josh Merged

  Change the unit of measurement to Beaver Power (BP)
  
  I saw the Horse Power unit of measurement in the game and immediately thought it should be changed to Beaver Power (BP)
  
  Can this be upvoted and get the Dev's attention and bring Beaver Power (BP) to the Game?

• 25 Oct
  SirMichael Admin

  "Beaver Power (BP) Power measurement rename." (suggested by Josh on 2021-10-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 01 Nov
  mjevans

  According to Wikipedia, "Two common definitions used today are the mechanical horsepower (or imperial horsepower), which is about 745.7 watts and the metric horsepower, which is approximately 735.5 watts. "
  
  However the beaver's power is more Torque, which is a Newton-metre or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule ; 1hp ~= 745.6998715823 J/s
  
  Beaver Wheel ~= 40HP ~= 30KJ/s
  Water Wheel ~= 180HP ~= 135KJ/s
  LumberMill ~= 50HP ~= 37.3KJ/s
  GearFactory ~= 120HP ~= 89.5KJ/s
  
  Though the current numbers seem gamified, so the metric numbers might just be the exact same but relabeled KJ/s (though it'd be good for later water flow based adjustment to created power to use believably close numbers).

• 06 Nov
  Duff

  Huge opportunity missed by not using Beaver Power as a basic unit of measure.

• 11 Nov
  B. Hisambard Prunel Merged

  I mean it's the obvious thing to use Beaver-Hand (the means) | Beaver-Head (the numbers) | Beaver-Hequivalent (the cringe ;) ) | … Power, what is "horse" even supposed to mean?
  
  
  Edit for reference: BHP, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#Brake_horsepower

• 13 Nov
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  "Missed opportunity - BHP instead of "horse(?!)" power" (suggested by B. Hisambard Prunel on 2021-11-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 15 Nov
  Julian Prein

  I also really want to have BP instead of HP but I completely disagree with the 1 BP= 1 Beaver in the wheel. It would be more sensible to use the power a beaver can produce outside of a mechanical contraption (wheels similar to those of the beavers were also used by humans in early cranes to lift things above their normal capabilities). Therefore, the power numbers could stay the same, and the change to BP would still make sense.

• 22 Nov
  Quantum

  when are horses getting added to the game? Hopefully someone out there is smart enough to make a mod that can change a H to a B