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This video features gameplay from the city-building game Timberborn, where the creator continues developing their large-scale beaver colony known as "Timber Borders." The focus is on managing resources and infrastructure during and after a drought. Key activities include replacing dams with more controllable sluice gates to manage water levels, expanding the industrial "shaft" area, addressing construction pathing issues that lead to trapped beavers, increasing treated plank production by adding a new wood workshop and routing power, planning new planting areas using floating forester huts and irrigation barriers to combat pollution, expanding housing to accommodate the growing population, and progressing on a long-distance hyper tube route to access new scrap metal resources. The session highlights challenges with water management (flooding), resource bottlenecks (treated planks, scrap metal), and the often humorous consequences of beaver AI pathfinding during complex builds.
Timberborn Gameplay: Expanding the Shaft and Managing Resources
0:00:30 Industrial Area Overview: The creator reviews the progress on the industrial "shaft" area and plans to add well-being buildings like wind tunnels and mud baths.
0:01:15 Fixing Planting Errors: Initial focus is on correcting previous planting mistakes and clearing leftover dynamite near the top reservoir.
0:01:39 Drought Management & Sluice Gates: The ongoing drought severely lowers water levels. Dams are replaced with adjustable sluice gates (0:01:56) to better control water retention and potentially store more water upstream.
0:03:04 Water Flow vs. Power: Adjusting sluice gate levels impacts downstream water flow, potentially reducing power generation from water wheels, but engine power is becoming primary (0:03:24).
0:03:50 Failed Water Recycling Idea: An idea to use a deep water pump to recycle water back upstream fails as the pump isn't long enough (0:03:59).
0:05:19 Resource Bottlenecks: The colony is low on metal blocks and gears (0:05:21), largely due to the high demands of the "Earth Repopulator" project and other constructions. Treated planks are also identified as a constraint (0:05:31).
0:05:42 Construction Access Challenges: Devising pathing solutions (platforms, stairs) to allow beavers to build the outer walls of the tall industrial shaft structure (0:05:56).
0:07:02 Beaver Trapping Incident #1: Beavers get trapped during construction due to building sequences, requiring demolition and rescue (0:07:05 - Cooper Mop & Neurosurgeon).
0:08:50 Reservoir Deepening: Dynamite is used to deepen a lower reservoir to increase water storage capacity (0:08:54), making planting viable there.
0:09:42 Pollution Control Planning: To plant near polluted water downstream, the creator plans to use Irrigation Barriers (unlocked at 0:09:56) to prevent contamination spread.
0:10:39 Treated Plank Production Boost: A second Wood Workshop is planned (0:12:04) to increase treated plank output, requiring complex power shaft routing (0:12:24) to connect it to the network.
0:13:57 Scrap Metal Depletion: The colony is rapidly consuming scrap metal; plans are made to access a new deposit via a hyper tube connection (0:14:20).
0:14:43 Hyper Tube Construction Issues: Progress on the hyper tube to the scrap metal ruins is stalled due to a blockage requiring power shaft rerouting (0:15:25). The correct path is laid out (0:15:34).
0:16:15 Drought Ends & Wind Tunnel Built: The drought ends, water returns, and the first wind tunnel is completed but requires power connection (0:16:34).
0:17:06 Housing Expansion: With 5 homeless beavers (0:17:09), new housing is added, including compact Row Houses (unlocked at 0:18:25), requiring intricate platform and stair designs (0:18:47).
0:19:42 Doubled Plank Production: The second wood workshop is operational (0:19:44), doubling potential treated plank production.
0:20:15 Floating Forester Huts: Planning commences for planting the large upper area, using elevated Forester Huts on platforms (0:20:58) to allow trees (Oaks) to grow underneath, maximizing space.
0:21:53 Sluice Gate Flooding Issues: The new sluice gates cause downstream flooding (0:21:53, 0:25:12), requiring repeated lowering of the target water level (0:21:57, 0:25:21, 0:26:12) to find a stable setting (0.5 seems to work 0:26:18).
0:22:25 Log Shortage & Lumberjack Reactivation: The colony runs low on logs, requiring lumberjack posts to be reactivated (0:22:31).
0:24:34 Beaver Trapping Incident #2: Another beaver (Audible Insomnia) gets trapped during Forester Hut construction (0:24:37) and is rescued (0:24:51).
0:27:36 Beaver Trapping Incident #3 (The Culling): A third beaver (Super Magical Girl Nana) gets trapped while building berry bushes (0:27:39). The creator humorously decides not to save them, calling it a "culling" (0:27:51).
0:28:05 Planting Progress: Beavers begin planting Oaks and Blueberries in the newly planned areas (0:28:02, 0:28:08).