negative beavers counts: unemployed, homeless, etc

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• 04 Jan
  elfegehenne

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  today 04 january 2026 i begin a game and see a never seen bug (for me) ; all the beavers are sleeping in house but some of them are count as homeless. French version on steam.
  Pardon me ; after one night sleeping at home they are OK.
  I dont know how to destroy this comment.

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• 14 Nov, '21
  Kaylee Hirsch Merged

  I made several quick redistricting changes while paused while building a dam quite far downstream from the rest of my city, and I managed to end up with a visual bug displaying a negative number of unemployed beavers for the resultant district.
  
  The beavers themselves seem suspiciously positive about the whole situation, and continue to work without complaint.
  
  The negative number disappeared as soon as I unpaused.

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• 18 Aug, '22
  Andrew Merged

  It's reporting a negative number of homeless beavers.

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• 20 Aug, '22
  Hai Merged

  See http://hai.rout0r.org/temp/timberborn_savegame.zip - "A".
  There are -1 homeless in District 14.
  I don't know what happened. I was just transferring some beavers from District 12 to District 14.
  Maybe it's some kind of timing issue where a beaver grew up at a bad time or so.
  I haven't seen a negative number appear like that before.
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• 22 Aug, '22
  Gin Fuyou System Merged

  "Bug in beta (savegame present): -1 homeless in a district" (suggested by Hai on 2022-08-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 06 Sep, '22
  Gin Fuyou System Merged

  "Negative Population bug" (suggested by Julie E on 2022-09-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 17 Sep, '22
  Darwin Merged

  One of my neighbourhoods has 13 beavers but 15 occupied beds for a homeless count of -2 !
  
  Examining the houses I find 13 adults and 2 children, so the issue seems to be due to the children in this district not being counted in the UI.

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• 18 Sep, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Negative number of unemployed beavers after redistricting" (suggested by Kaylee Hirsch on 2021-11-14), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 18 Sep, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "More occupied beds than beavers" (suggested by Darwin on 2022-09-17), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 24 Nov, '22
  Toon Kramer Merged

  A beaver died and now i have -1 unemployed beavers and -1 homeless beavers. This happend when I loaded up my safe file. I was playing on experimental

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• 25 Nov, '22
  Jcheung Admin Merged

  can you send your save in?
  does it persist through another exit and reload?

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• 20 Dec, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "-1 unemployed beavers" (suggested by Toon Kramer on 2022-11-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 01 Jan, '23
  Gagabou Merged

  Replicated 01/01/2023.
  Removing a district center and replacing it turned the number of homeless to Negative x Population in district.
  (Only managed to get it when on pause)
  Resolves itself* after a few seconds when games is unpaused.
  
  Should be repeatable.
  
  That's one way to do it; no clue if that is the only way to "get" negative pop numbers.
  
  Edit: "Resolves itself" means, negative homeless slowly "trickles" into "Positive" housed as "new available beds" trickle in from district updating after unpausing.
  Slowly = ~1-2 seconds on 3x speed, didn't test other time speeds.

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• 21 Mar, '23
  Tuesday Fallers Merged

  Someone died of old age, and I ended up with negative one (-1) beavers sleeping under the stars, and negative one (-1) beavers who don't have a job.

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• 28 Mar, '23
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Bug in sleeper/worker count" (suggested by Tuesday Fallers on 2023-03-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 17 Nov, '23
  Mazianni Merged

  When automatic migration occurs, negative homeless are applied to the origin district and positive homeless are applied to the destination district. This is a race condition because, after a period of time, the homeless will be assigned to available housing.

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• 17 Nov, '23
  Mazianni Merged

  This is district 2 showing negative two homeless beavers. Globally it shows zero beavers, and as the previous screen shows, it shows positive two homeless in district 1 even though there are available beds.
  
  The automatic migration is happening because (as shown in the previous screen), I have set District 2 to migrate beavers to District 1 when there are more than 20 beavers (and when District 1 is below the required 100 beavers...)
  
  I've watched this happen three times. It (fairly quickly) resolves itself, but it's a race condition (related to beaver migration) that's causing a temporary visual bug.
  
  See also https://discord.com/channels/558398674389172225/723435908862443592/1175158845501362308

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• 03 Feb, '24
  zehndi77

  Still happening, with the new Update 5.

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• 03 Feb, '24
  Gin Fuyou Admin

  Yep, apparently there is no quick fix for it, but it shouldn't persist.

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• 09 Mar, '24
  Gus Merged

  Housing registered homeless beaver with 150+ free beds in one district and -1 homeless beaver in another

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• 16 Mar, '24
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Bug Fix: Housing" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-03-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 25 Aug, '24
  Andrew Fergusson

  I've got negative rough sleeping in my game running v0.5.9.1-33dabbc-sm. Can provide a save file. Moderators can see my email to ask for it.

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• 16 Sep, '24
  Gerard Vega

  I have two districts in my game. I got a negative homeless number on my first district and it also says I have one more occupied bed than I have beavers available in the district. In my other district, I have the opposite problem with it saying I have one more beaver than I have occupied beds and 1 homeless beaver.

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• 19 Jul, '25
  MyLifeAsAm Merged

  Also encountered this bug, had -1 homeless & 10 free beds in one of my districts.
  Pretty sure the situation it occured under was the same as the one Mazianni described.

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• 02 Jan
  James Merged

  I Don't know how this happend it may be the speed at witch i was running because I don't want to want an enternity for my wonders to finish or it could to beavers died at exact same time

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• 02 Jan
  Gin Fuyou System

  "-1 at the beavers homeless" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-01-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 02 Jan
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Bug: -1 homeless, negative beaver numbers" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2022-08-18), including upvotes (11) and comments (7), was merged into this suggestion.

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