Hello, Timberborn community!

We want to tell you that you’re awesome. Thanks to the sales of Timberborn and Timberborn OST at the Earth Appreciation sale, we’ve just donated $29.724,28 to save foxes, raccoon dogs, and other animals in need taken care of by the Viva! Foundation in Poland. Thank you!

It’s a perfect moment to announce a very special community project. See, we know that our players enjoy listening to the Timberborn soundtrack composed by Zofia Domaradzka. They also record the game-related songs on their own. So… why not both?!



Watch the video above and join us in recording “The Shores of Beaver Bay” - a beaver version of a 19th-century sea shanty! The music was arranged by Zofia Domaradzka, we have the community members on the verses, and we’re inviting you to join the chorus. Some of the devs will be there, too!

The deadline for submissions is May 13, 2022. For other key information as well as the early mix of the song feat. our player DerHouy, please watch the video above. There's also a FAQ section below.

We hope you'll join us and we'll make "The Shores of Beaver Bay" the summer hit 2022 deserves!
~Team Timberborn


No, we're not adding warships to the game but hey, it's a sea shanty!


What is this about?
We’re recording a Timberborn-themed rendition of “The Shores of Botany Bay”, a traditional Irish shanty from the 19th century.

Is this official? Who’s doing that?
Yes. The music was arranged by Zofia Domaradzka. The song features guitar and mandolin performance by Krzysiek Łochowicz and violin performance by Magdalena Szczebiot - Murawska. The lyrics and main vocals are provided by community members Synthron and DerHouy, and the chorus is open to everyone. Some of the Timberborn devs will also join the chorus (yikes!).

What do I need to do?
Watch the video above. After Miami finishes his part, DerHouy takes over to help you with singing. Put on the headphones, get yourself comfortable, prepare your mic and recording software, and sing along! If you record that on the video, it will help us make a cool video for the final montage.

What are the lyrics?
Here are the lyrics for the chorus (they’re also in the video description and in the video itself).

Good morning little beavers, good morning happy life,
Let’s build a big and mighty dam before the drought arrives!
With plenty trees for chopping, we'll block the water's way
in the riverbed, keeping this land wet, living here in Beaver Bay!

What if I can't sing this?
You can! The more participants we have, the more harmonical the song gets, with the voices blending into one big, impressive chorus. Do not worry about your pitch, tone or perfect pronunciation. It’s about us all coming together to have fun!

How and when do I send my contribution?
We have a submission form for that. The deadline for submissions is Friday, May 13, 2022.

Please note that:

• there's some selection process - we're not going to be very restrictive but if a recording has a very bad sound quality or we get too many submissions to handle, it may be rejected
  
• if selected, you will be asked to digitally sign a copyright transfer contract with us - if you fail to do that, we legally can't use your contribution.

What’s the deal with that copyright transfer contract? How do I sign this?
If your entry is selected, we'll e-mail you to ask for details to be used in the contract (real name, address, and ID number). You'll then receive a contract to sign via DocuSign. If you haven't signed anything via DocuSign before, they will need to verify your identity in a video call first. This requires downloading a mobile app.

Here is the contract that we’ll need to sign with you if you want to review that in advance. We're sorry for all the hassle but Polish copyright laws oblige us to sign a contract.

How do you want to use the song after the final mix?
We’ll put together a final montage with a video to unveil that at a special occasion. And who knows, perhaps it will not be the last you hear of that song.

I have another question.
Feel free to ask that on our Discord!

Hello everyone!

The experimental Timberborn update has just been pushed to the main branch. Before we dive into the full patch notes, let’s talk about what’s going to happen a bit later today.

World’s Earth Day is just two days away and today at 7 PM CEST (10 AM PT), a very special Steam sale event begins. Earth Appreciation Festival is a collection of 100 released and upcoming games that showcase the beauty of nature and our home planet, or warn us all about what can happen due to climate change, lack of sustainability, conflicts, and other perils. We'll add the link once the sale is live.

This event has been organized by us so it won’t surprise you that Timberborn and its OST are present with a 20% discount. What’s important is we’ll donate 15% of all our revenue during the sale to Viva!, a trustworthy animal welfare organization from Poland (KRS number 0000135274).



One of the initiatives we’ll support this way will be an expansion of a fox asylum located in Korabiewice, Poland, where foxes and raccoon dogs saved from fur farms find peace and security. Beavers building a shelter for foxes - how cool is that! :3

To celebrate, our game designer Jon has recorded a special Earth Day-themed Timberborn challenge. Can they turn the entire map green again? Find out on our YouTube channel at 7 PM CEST (10 AM PT)!



And if you’d rather watch some hot live action, watch the mighty Sean “Day9” Plott take on Timberborn on Twitch today at 10 PM CEST (1 PM PT)!

Alright, onto the meaty part. The experimental update has gone through several iterations and has now been deployed to the main branch of the game. As a reminder: this is not Update 2. Our major futuristic patch is still in the works and we hope to start unwrapping things soon-ish.


We’ve made a series of tweaks to the lighting to diversify how the game looks depending on the time of day, whether the drought is in progress, and so on. To get an idea of what to expect, watch the video above but please note that it was recorded before several tweaks to the fog etc.

• Added dawn and dusk to the day/night cycle, each with unique lighting effects.
  
• Adjusted the lighting’s colors and intensity across the day.
  
• Added variable length to in-game shadows – it changes depending on the time of day.
  
• Added unique fog effects to droughts and temperate seasons, most visible during dusk and dawn.
  
• Added a new skybox that gradually transitions between day and night.

Per popular request, we’ve added a panel that lists all beavers and buildings in one place (in six tabs). This allows you to control the colony, and that includes setting the newly added job priorities! You can browse global or, which probably makes more sense, district-based lists.

• Added job prioritization. Similarly to building prioritization, there are five priority levels, which affect where your beavers go to work first.
  
• Added population panel to the game. It contains data split into six tabs: Characters, Housing, Workplaces, Storage, Power, Attractions.
  
• The population panel is accessed with a new button in the upper left corner or with a hotkey (“G”). While the panel is open, the game is paused.
  
• Using the panel you can pause buildings, change their recipes, mark the building as a priority for the haulers etc. Most importantly, you can pick a job priority for the building.
  
• Clicking an object on the list shows its location in the game. Each tab contains information about currently active status effects such as “Building paused”.
  
• The panel also displays data such as workplace productivity and how attractive your colony’s attractions actually are.
  
• The upper left panel now contains only key information such as population count.
  
• As part of panel-related changes, we added clickable district indicators in individual building and beaver panels.

Beaverome wasn’t built in a day, and neither will be your settlement here. This brand new map challenges you to follow the steps of the beaver pioneers who transformed seven water-filled craters into the heart of the modern beaver civilization.

• Beaverome (192x192) is now a part of the built-in map roster.
  
• With this map, we’re trying a more challenge-like approach. The available areas are narrow and the slopes steep, and it’s not that easy to find a strong water current – but hey, at least there’s enough to drink for everyone, right?

The map co-created with the community and used in our city-building contest turned out to be so popular we wanted it permanently in the game! To ensure smooth gameplay, however, we made a series of changes to the map, including moving the mountain.

• Helix Mountain (256x256) is now a part of the built-in map roster.
  
• The map underwent significant changes, including moving the mountain closer to the map’s center. The mountain is also larger, which makes creating your settlements a bit harder, as the water takes longer to flow down.

We have added two new faction-specific decorations.

• New building: Wind Gauge (Folktails) helps you measure wind speed.
  
• New building: Bell (Iron Teeth) signals the start and end of the workday.

We have realized that the number of gears needed to grow your colony is too dam high.

• Wood Workshop: Gears cost reduced from 50 to 40.
  
• Mud Bath: Gears cost reduced from 50 to 40.
  
• Mine: Gears cost reduced from 500 to 350.
  
• Efficient Mine: Gears cost reduced from 600 to 450.

After you launch the game for the first time after the update, you will be prompted to pick your preferred language. As a reminder, Timberborn is now available in 12 languages: English, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

• All models in the game have had their models updated to reduce the number of polygons and improve the game’s performance.
  
• Updated all flag models with cute little lamps. We’re doing the below just for consistency’s sake. Totally.

• Windmill, Large Windmill: Shafts can be connected from any side now.
  
• Added missing flavor texts to buildings and resources.
  
• Resources have received updated panels to better communicate what, when, and how they yield.
  
• Many panels are now available during the construction stage. Most importantly, the warehouse inventory panel – you can micro your warehouses right after placing them!
  
• Builders now use the Working Speed bonus to put up constructions faster.
  
• Added the names of new team members to in-game credits.
  
• You can now hear them… those little, jumping, green frogs.

• Beehives no longer work underwater.
  
• Crops affected by the Beehive are now correctly highlighted.
  
• Fixed the torches not lighting up in the Temple.
  
• Fixed a bug with water becoming too bright at the deepest levels.
  
• Underwater buildings and plants are now correctly highlighted when selected.
  
• Fixed the collider in Mechanical Water Pump.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed building a Mine in the middle of two adjacent Underground Ruins.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented beavers from using books directly from the Printing Press.
  
• Fixed a bug with stock counts in the district distribution panel calculated differently than in the top panel.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed Farmers, Gatherers, Lumberjacks and Tappers to pick up goods not belonging to their workplace.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where Smelter’s worker would not sit in the door when there was nothing to do.
  
• Fixed the camera switching places when the game was paused or unpaused with a beaver selected inside the building. Uh-oh.
  
• Fixed a bug where moving a cursor slooowly over buttons broke their highlighting and the ability to click them.
  
• Fixed a bug with attractions not accounting for Power Efficiency.
  
• Fixed a bug with hot single beavers in your area not pairing with each other in Lodges.
  
• Fixed a bug forcing children to grow up only in the morning.
  
• Fixed a bug with water not being hidden after selecting a construction site.
  
• Fixed a crash when trying to connect two districts.

Surprise! We have added two new faction-specific decorations.

• New building: Wind Gauge (Folktails) helps you measure wind speed.
  
• New building: Bell (Iron Teeth) signals the start and end of the workday.

Having reviewed the player feedback, we realized that the experimental irrigation changes, while helpful, created a different set of issues. We’re working on another iteration of the fix but for now, we’ve reverted the irrigation mechanics to the pre-Experimental state.

• Reverted changes to irrigation mechanics.
  
• Reverted changes to Irrigation Tower. One Tile, One Dump is back on the menu, boys.

• Builders now use the Working Speed bonus to put up constructions faster.
  
• Added the names of new team members to in-game credits.

• Fixed the mismatched Harvesting and Planting icons.

Hello everyone!

This update is a little different. The war is raging in Ukraine – that’s right behind the borders of our studio’s country of Poland. Everyone deserves life in peace, and we’re still shocked by the horror happening right there, in the heart of 21st century Europe.

We’re just a studio making a game about beavers but we want to stress the fact that Ukraine is a sovereign country with its own rich culture. That’s why today, we’re adding Ukrainian to the pool of available in-game languages, along with a little nod to our neighbours’ beautiful folklore.

Ukraine needs more than gestures, though. To support victims of the Russian invasion, at the end of February we donated $50.000 to Polska Akcja Humanitarna (Polish Humanitarian Action). We encourage you to contribute too.



While this update is now live on the main branch, the new content such as the settlement panel and the new day/night cycle remains on Experimental Branch only as we continue iterating on it.

Timberborn is now officially supported in 12 languages. You can change the language in the game’s settings.

• Timberborn is now available in Ukrainian.

We’ve added an additional crop your farmers can grow.

• New crop: Sunflowers. Sunflowers yield seeds that are eaten raw.

• Updated the skybox to reduce banding.

• Removing trees (High priority) is now correctly prioritized over building (Low priority).
  
• Fixed a crash on macOS.

Hello everyone!

Timberborn comes with 9 maps (with two more already on the Experimental Branch) but with the magic of Map Editor, there’s always more to get. Until we add Steam Workshop support, it requires a few additional clicks but getting the new map is as simple as downloading a file.

Right now, the go-to place for all Timberborn cartographers is this player-made collection of maps big and small (and medium). Other than that, you can check the Map section of the mod repository you already know, browse our forums, subreddit, and/or the dedicated channel on Timberborn Discord.

Download the map file from the repository of your choice and copy it to the Maps folder located in C:\Documents\Timberborn\Maps. Start a new game and pick the map normally – it will have a [Custom] prefix in its name. You can use both new (.timber) and old (.json) custom map files.

For this showcase, we chose 10+1 amazing maps. Each uses a very different layout and was designed around a specific experience. All maps we picked were created or adjusted after the release of Update 1 in December, which means they feature Undergrounds Ruins and are Mine-compatible.




Mulien’s creation tasks the player with reaching the source of life-giving water located at the end of a very narrow map. This challenge is not for the faint of heart: your starving colony has to beat several “stages” before getting there. “Quest…” is one of the coolest challenge maps we’ve seen created for Timberborn, and Mulien has recently modified it to add Update 1 content.




Creating this map took Oombalol a lot of time – not just because of all the small details but also due to the carefully planned out water flow. Here, it changes direction back and forth over the course of the game, so account for it as you make plans for a drought. By the way, if you enjoy the intricate map design like this, check the author’s pre-Update 1 creation, Pinewood Hills.




At a first glance, surviving on this map may seem like an impossible task – your beavers begin trapped in a small area cut off by high walls. Can you get them out before the resources run out? And once you do, will it even get easier? The margin for error is small in the beginning but once your beavers put their paws on the upper level, you’ll find some relief… for a moment.




Timberborn’s water physics is put to a good test here as the map was designed to mimic how real-life ecosystems form. Water sources are located at higher elevations, surrounded by thick forests, and the cascading waters spread out, “eroding” the terrain to create a large riverbed in the map’s centre. Just be careful – the metal sources are scarce in the wilderness like this!




This is just one of the many maps our players have crafted based on real-life locations - in this case, a famous canyon on the Colorado River. For dramatization purposes, we took the screenshot during drought but when the river is there, the large flat areas make for well-irrigated future fields where early power management is easier thanks to strong water currents.




We love all these wacky, unpredictable maps… but why not create an in-game chessboard that serves as a training tool? This flat creation allows you to experiment with the concept of artificial rivers that can keep the drought at bay even in Hard Mode. When this unique setup is properly adapted, you get a bidirectional river that continuously powers up water wheels and even makes the water management semi-automatic. Now, that’s the clever use of game mechanics.




Wonderlust’s author calls it a beginner-friendly map, and having several water sources right behind the hill helps indeed. The challenge is still there, however, as you need to be careful about where you put your first fields and water wheels. The starting area’s elevation results in tighter green areas and limits the access to the riverbank, at least until Stairs™ are discovered.




Can you tell which rather popular game served as a base for this map? By the way, it was really difficult to pick a creation from sukunabikona to feature. This author’s other amazing maps include areas from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, renditions of real-life areas such as Hiroshima City and Taipei Basin, or even a “reversed” version of the basic Plains map. Respect!




Beavers who land on this walled-off map sit on a ticking time bomb – except that bomb is actually the ever-increasing water level. This leads to a great twist – you are actually looking forward to the upcoming droughts as they give you some breathing room. Just don’t even think of blowing up a hole in the outer wall to escape. We’re not in a certain critically acclaimed Jim Carrey movie.




The paradise in question is waiting at the hill looming above the town - and if you get your beavers up there, the reward will be grand. We love the simple premise behind this map – and even though the goal is clear, each player may come up with a different approach.




The final creation is more of a save-map hybrid because the area has some structures prebuilt. Your beavers (Folktails only!) begin stranded in a dry wasteland where the only water sources belong to the titular mad King Ludwig. While he’s chilling there in his mud bath behind the ruin-filled moat, your colony desperately searches the desert for leftover resources and abandoned workshops. If you’re quick enough, you’ll build bridges over the moat to put an end to Ludwig’s tyrannical reign.

As you can see, there’s a lot our players can do with the map editor and Timberborn’s mechanics – and there are so many maps deserving a spotlight. After you go through the entire repository, let us know about the best maps you’ve found… or made!

PS Don't miss out on the previous Community Showcase where we focused on player-made mods for the game!

Until next time!
~Team Timberborn

Hello everyone!

We’ve been keeping an eye on your feedback and today, we’ve got an update for the experimental branch to address that... and to change everyone's favourite Folktails building. Thank you for all the suggestions!


The new panel has received both functional and visual updates.

• Added a new tab that allows you to monitor the popularity of your settlement’s attractions. This data is also displayed in the attraction’s individual panel.
  
• Added workplace productivity indicators in the Workplaces tab.
  
• Updated and reorganized some of the panel’s buttons and icons.
  
• The panel now allows you to switch between districts and the global view.
  
• As part of panel related updates, we added clickable district indicators in individual building and beaver panels.
  
• Added a panel hotkey – G.

We think we’ve fixed the issue with drought being too hard on the eyes but please tell us how you find the new effects.

• Changed color of the “drought fog” to improve image clarity during drought, especially at dusk and dawn.
  
• Changed colors of the night during drought.

We’ve made some changes to make Irrigation Tower less of a meme. These changes also affect how irrigation works on the maps. While the built-in maps have been tested for that and work fine under the new behaviour, custom maps may be affected more.

• The evaporation rate now becomes faster depending on the number of tiles surrounding the water tile, maxing out at four tiles. This includes both the ground tiles and levees.
  
• The water consumption of the Irrigation Tower has been dramatically reduced.

We’re doing the below just for consistency’s sake. Totally.

• Updated all flag models with cute little lamps.

This actually went live with the initial experimental release but we’ve never mentioned that.

• Added missing flavor texts to buildings and resources.

• Fixed a bug with range lines disappearing at certain camera angles.
  
• Fixed a bug with water not being hidden after selecting a construction site.
  
• Fixed some panels not being visible in entity panel during the construction stage.

Let us know what you think!

• Fixed a bug with nasty beavers not assigning themselves to jobs properly and sometimes even crashing the game.
  
• Fixed a crash when trying to connect two districts.
  
• Beavers that die of old age no longer receive the "Stranded" status. Thank you for resuming your services, Charon.
  
• Fixed the "Pause" button not working properly in the population panel.

Big thanks to everyone who sent us the crash reports!

We appreciate all your feedback, so keep it coming. For example, please let us know how you find the new day/night visuals and the fog effects - both in the temperate weather and during the drought. Thanks!

Hello everyone!

The experimental branch is back today with some shiny new stuff. It is not Update 2 – you’ll find a status update on that at the bottom of this post. But today, we’re introducing two new maps, a brand new population panel with job prioritization, a day/night visual overhaul, and more!


If you need a refresher on how to play Experimental Branch, check this topic.


We’ve made a series of tweaks to the lighting to diversify how the game looks depending on the time of day, whether the drought is in progress, etc.

• Added dawn and dusk to the day/night cycle, each with unique lighting effects.
  
• Adjusted the lighting’s colors and intensity across the day.
  
• Added variable length to in-game shadows – it changes depending on the time of day.
  
• Added unique fog effects to droughts and temperate seasons, most visible during dusk and dawn.
  
• Updated the skybox.

Per popular request, we’ve added a panel that lists all beavers and buildings in one place (in five tabs). This allows you to control the colony, and that includes setting the newly added job priorities! You can browse global or, which probably makes more sense, district-based lists.

• Added population panel to the game. It contains data split into five tabs: Characters, Housing, Workplaces, Storage, and Power.
  
• Clicking an object on the list shows its location in the game. Each tab contains information about currently active status effects such as “Building paused”.
  
• Using the panel you can pause buildings, change their recipes, mark the building as a priority for the haulers etc. Most importantly, you can pick a job priority for the building.
  
• Added job prioritization. Similarly to building prioritization, there are five priority levels, which affect where your beavers go to work first.
  
• Added a new population panel button in the upper left corner. While the panel is open, the game is paused.
  
• Updated the upper left panel to contain only key information such as population count.

Beaverome wasn’t built in a day, and neither will be your settlement here. This brand new map challenges you to follow the steps of the beaver pioneers who transformed seven water-filled craters into the heart of the modern beaver civilization.

• Beaverome (192x192) is now a part of the built-in map roster.
  
• With this map, we’re trying a more challenge-like approach. The available areas are narrow and the slopes steep, and it’s not that easy to find a strong water current – but hey, at least there’s enough to drink for everyone, right?

The map co-created with the community and used in our city-building contest turned out to be so popular we wanted it permanently in the game! To ensure smooth gameplay, however, we made a series of changes to the map, including moving the mountain.

• Helix Mountain (256x256) is now a part of the built-in map roster.
  
• The map underwent significant changes, including moving the mountain closer to the map’s center. The mountain is also larger, which makes creating your settlements a bit harder, as the water takes longer to flow down.

We have realized that the number of gears needed to grow your colony is too dam high.

• Wood Workshop: Gears cost reduced from 50 to 40.
  
• Mud Bath: Gears cost reduced from 50 to 40.
  
• Mine: Gears cost reduced from 500 to 350.
  
• Efficient Mine: Gears cost reduced from 600 to 450.

• Windmill, Large Windmill: Shafts can be connected from any side now.
  
• Resources have received updated panels to better communicate what, when, and how they yield.
  
• Warehouse inventory panel is now available during the construction stage, so you can micro your warehouses right after placing them!

All models in the game have had their models updated to reduce the number of polygons and improve the game’s performance.

• Beehives no longer work underwater.
  
• Crops affected by the Beehive are now correctly highlighted.
  
• Fixed the torches not lighting up in the Temple.
  
• Fixed a bug with water becoming too bright at the deepest levels.
  
• Underwater buildings and plants are now correctly highlighted when selected.
  
• Fixed the collider in Mechanical Water Pump.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed building a Mine in the middle of two adjacent Underground Ruins.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented beavers from using books directly from the Printing Press.
  
• Fixed a bug with stock counts in the district distribution panel calculated differently than in the top panel.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed Farmers, Gatherers, Lumberjacks and Tappers to pick up goods not belonging to their workplace.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where Smelter’s worker would not sit in the door when there was nothing to do.
  
• Fixed the camera switching places when the game was paused or unpaused with a beaver selected inside the building. Uh-oh.
  
• Fixed a bug where moving a cursor slooowly over buttons broke their highlighting and the ability to click them.
  
• Fixed a bug with attractions not accounting for Power Efficiency.
  
• Fixed a bug with hot single beavers in your area not pairing with each other in Lodges.
  
• Fixed a bug forcing children to grow up only in the morning.

It is coming but we’d like to ask you for your patience. This year’s beginning has been very busy for us because Mechanistry is growing. Last month, we were joined by a new game designer, Adrian. As of March, the team also includes assistant Olga, 2D artist Tomek, and 3D artist Bartek – and a few more new faces are coming. Please give them all a warm welcome, for example on our Discord.

We’re still a small indie company, though. The hiring process is one of the reasons why we’re having a smaller patch today, and Update 2 needs more time in the oven. Another is that we want to make that “futuristic” feature really cool. This resulted in expanding its scope beyond what we originally planned – which we can only do because the studio is growing.

We’ll let you know as soon as we can share more details. For now, we hope you’ll enjoy what we’ve just pushed to the experimental branch. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

~Team Timberborn, Now Chonkier Than Ever

Hello everyone!

There are many ways to play Timberborn but for some crafty beavers, that’s not enough. Even though we don’t officially support mods (yet), quite a few have been made. Today, we want to showcase seven of our favourites – perfect to spice things up while you’re waiting for Update 2.

But first, some fine print. Right now, Timberborn Early Access is meant to be played without any mods. We appreciate all the hard work behind them but mods are 100% player-made and may break your game. Use them at your own risk and, at the very least, back up your regular saves.

Here are some cool mods to consider, ranging from nifty QoL features to true game-changers! To install a mod, follow the instructions available on its page. We suggest you take things slow and not install all interesting mods at once.




While regular Timberborn gameplay allows you to build truly great cities, fair progress takes time and even at the easiest difficulty, things may get out of hand. This mod unlocks all structures right away and makes building instant and free. It also copies some Map Editor features into the regular game, which allows you to spawn ruins and resources, and even re-shape the terrain.




The ability to prioritize jobs is, well, one of the priority player requests for us. This mod helps with that already. It allows you to control which jobs the beavers pick up (or switch to), for example when you need rapid redeployment ahead of the drought. It also integrates with the in-game building priority tool so you can select priorities for multiple buildings at once.




This one also assists in running large settlements, especially if you tend to group specialized buildings together. Draggable Utils adds a selection tool that pauses/unpauses buildings en masse. You can also use it to order emptying storage and to pick the top targets for your haulers.




When we were adding Platforms to the game, another option we considered was something similar to what Elec prepared here. With this mod, two unlockable variants of a new structure are added, allowing you to place Arch (4x1, 5x1). It is a bridge-like Solid building that can be built over other objects, which means you can create more condensed multi-level structures.




In-game districts have several advantages, one of them being the significant performance gain. However, if you’re confident in your rig’s capabilities (lucky you!), you may increase the district’s effective range with this mod. While changing numbers in the config file, you may also adjust pathfinding and resource gathering ranges. You can even cover the entire map with a single district.




Despite its name, this mod not only increases the maximum height available in the Map Editor but also allows you to make your creations larger. With the map measurements increased up to 1024x1024x64, you can craft king-sized lands with mighty mountains and green valleys where beavers thrive. Just know that such maps also require the mod to play.




This mod unlocks all available buildings, regardless of the faction picked. The eco-friendly Iron Teeth that use Windmills? Sure. Some unorthodox Folktails with Breeding Pods? Why not! With this mod, the initial faction choice mostly dictates which beavers will spawn because the author obviously favours Folktails here - by default, shared buildings use the Folktails variants.

There are more community mods to pick from so make sure you check the list from time to time. And if you want to break Timberborn open, make sure you join our Discord. The #modding-and-whatnot channel is there for you and it’s full of the beaver disruptors like yourself.

Until next time,
Team Timberborn