To develop your colony you will need happy beavers (they will live longer and have more offspring) by meeting their demands for comfort, leisure, spirituality and social life. Each building has its own entrance, so you will have to position your stairs and access paths judiciously. Very practical for optimizing the distance to be covered by your beavers and thus increasing their productivity. Multi-storey buildingsĪnother special feature of the game is that you can build buildings on top of others (as long as they have the “solid” attribute) to gain floor space. In the center, the water tank to hydrate our beavers.Īs you progress, you will be able to unlock, using science points, new buildings such as irrigation towers, dynamite factories (to dig canals to bring water to places required), paddlewheels to supply power. Without the dam to hold water, the whole map would be gray (arid lands) as on the right side. To help you visualize the influence of water, lands will be displayed in green when within range of a water source and gray when not irrigated. You will therefore need to judiciously establish dams along the watercourses to retain the water at the desired level, the height being obviously managed (be careful not to flood your own village by building a dam too high). Needless to say, without water your crops and trees will not grow and your beavers will die of thirst if you do not have enough cisterns to store water. Indeed, depending on your level of difficulty, you will be regularly confronted with periods of intense droughts where the water of rivers and streams will no longer flow naturally. The game differs from other construction games by very fine management of water and by extension of the means to control its flow and storage. The industrial faction par excellence but often in contempt of the surrounding nature. The Iron Teeth, outstanding metallurgists allowing them to create machines to assist them as well as scientists mastering reproduction in incubation boxes.The Rustiqueues, very good farmers with advanced agricultural techniques (beehives to pollinate crops faster) and with underground warehouses, but needing a high level of comfort to feel good.The fictitious wood-fueled industries of Timberborn definitely seem to fit that bill. At their best, these works are thought experiments as much as they are visual styles, exploring different ways the world could work if it relied on alternative resources. So ‘lumberpunk’ is essentially using wooden engineering as the centerpiece of both the game’s aesthetic and mechanics.'Įven though it might be difficult to see the 'punk' in a pack of busy, bipedal beavers, 'steampunk,' ' cyberpunk,' and 'dieselpunk' all refer to the dominant industrial and infrastructure frameworks that shape their respective fictional societies. 'We really wanted to take that wooden engineering to the next level, having players produce wooden cogs and axles that use water wheels to power very basic machines or achieve a certain level of automation. Biegalski said 'lumberpunk' is not merely a matter of wooden architecture, but wooden ingenuity. Instead of settling for riverside lodges, players can use Timberborn's architecture system to create bustling beaver metropolises with verticality. Timberborn takes that fact and whimsically extrapolates from it, creating a world where woodcraft reigns supreme. Beavers are famous for their wood-working abilities, and their industrious natural architecture skills.

Timberborn power wheel