Faction Idea - Broadfeet

16 votes

Expert swimmers and well suited to aquatic life. Many of their unique buildings can be built underwater but are not solid.

- Underwater pump - Water pump that must be placed in water to work. Replaces water pump.
- Log Trove - A two story log pile that has two entrances, one at the top and one at the bottom. Must be placed in water. Replaces log pile.
- Diving Board - A stair substitute that can only be placed in water. Allows beavers to exit and leave the water at that point. Extends down as far as it can.
- Aquatic Farmhouse - An Aquatic farm house that can be placed underwater. Replaces Aquatic Farmhouse. Starts with it unlocked and regular farmhouse locked.
- Sealed Quarters - Housing for 3 beavers.
- Sealed Manor - Housing for 5 beavers.
- Hydrofalls - Replaces windmills (Large and small). Acts as a dam and generates power when water flows through.

- Paths underwater count as 0.75 distance instead of 1.
- No babies in droughts, but high pop growth in wet times. House capacity.

Under consideration Faction Suggestion Suggested by: Dubey (12 Mar, '22) • Upvoted: 02 Jan, '24 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

12 Mar, '22
Dubey
The idea behind this faction is that they trade the ability to build vertically with the ability to have a functioning city in their reservoirs.
They have an added challenge with their food production as they must subsist on berries longer than most factions due to lacking carrots.
To compensate they have a much easier time dealing with rivers in the early game as they can place a diving board right from the start. This allows them to build into the river and dam it up very easily using houses.
25 Apr, '22
gecko
This, but perhaps also implement it so that in water beavers do not need to have stairs/ramps in order to access height levels..? (they are after all very good swimmers)
Furthermore the idea of housing in/under water is exciting, given that this is how beavers (normally) live :)
A way of having say a housing block act also as a dam or levee, and have industry buildings that require burning fuel as floating buildings or rafts/barges
02 Jan, '24
Iyaargh
To me this idea is very similar to https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/334751/faction-idea-atlanteans. Maybe the two suggestions should be merged ?