Timberborn: Early Game Basics

hey everybody what's going on this is bad fish long time no see i do apologize for the break in videos i started a new job so youtube's coming in a bit of fits and starts right now but anyway welcome back to gone gaming and uh today guys i wanted to show you a cool new game that just entered early access on steam yesterday i believe it's called timberborne i wanted to show you guys because it's a city builder that i've been interested in i've kind of been following it for a little while and it's based around a post-apocalyptic world and beavers believe it or not i mean you probably do believe it if you clicked on the video you're probably interested in the game anyway so i just wanted to do a little bit of the early game for you guys just kind of show you the game and some of the uh you know beginning portions to get your city set up and uh yeah just show you a cool game so we're gonna go ahead and load it into a new game we're just gonna do the base uh faction here the folk tales they're easy going but hardworking folktales are expert farmers they respect nature and it rewards them with plentiful bounties their motto comfort food and sturdy wood so they're hobbit beavers essentially that's what i'm that's the vibe i'm getting from these guys they're chilling out smoking their pipeweed and uh you know farming and eating second breakfast so we're gonna go with the folk tales and we're just gonna do a base start here right on the plains which is recommended to begin with there is a little bit of a tutorial that kind of helps you get set up with like very basic things um so we will you know basically start there and uh kind of just start the base of our little town here maybe we'll continue with the series if it uh you know get some traction but let's get into it see what's going on we're just gonna do normal and uh let's get started yeah so it's gonna load in and uh i did forget to mention this is developed by mechanistry um studios i think so they are the developer on this game and honestly i think for an early access build it's really good i've haven't had too many bugs and the simulation itself seems to be running very well and i think it's going to be one of those early access games that you're just going to kind of get more content for and kind of go from there so here we are with our little district center here uh all of our beavers just ran out they have no idea what's going on so we have this kind of cool little peninsula here you'll notice this is very green and this is not very green so basically the green part that's arable land that's where you can actually farm and obviously there's like bushes and trees and things over here everything else over here is dead so one of the main kind of gameplay loops of timber born is there's a drought that comes every couple of days every few cycles and essentially it just wipes out everything the river dries up everything's terrible and you can't grow anything so you have to get ready for that so i'm hoping to kind of run this episode to that first route get us set up and uh kind of you know hopefully survive i've had a couple death spirals when i first started because i didn't really know what i was doing there is this tutorial down here build a lumberjack flags and mark some trees in its range for cutting all buildings used by beavers must be connected to a district center by the path so connect the two as well so basically we're gonna start just by getting our our wood going here it's a beaver game so you gotta have plenty of lumber going on so we're gonna set up these lumberjack flags here and connect them with a path so kind of do do you want to uh yeah do some of that yeah some of this oh i don't like that path but whatever all right cool so we got those connected up now you do actually have to set a zone for what they can actually cut with trees uh from what i found in the beginning just get all of them in there you're gonna eventually get forestry and you're gonna be able to uh replenish trees within this arable land again uh trees do get affected by droughts but i haven't had a drought long enough to kill one so we're gonna get started there let our beavers go do their thing go do your things beavers so they're gonna go build these and some people are gonna just start working there automatically some beavers i should say cool so we got lumber going so the next move that they want you to do is a water pump now i don't know if this is the best move but this is the move i like to do because i think it looks nice so right now there's no water over here which is an issue of course but we can demolish this barrier here and eventually we will get access to different things you'll see in landscaping there's dams levees flood gates all that cool stuff so you can kind of control water uh irrigation and water also obviously very big in this game what's wrong with you oh you're not connected whoop let's fix that connect him on up get rid of these so it doesn't look ugly because i like to make any city i can look beautiful if you didn't know already go watch my city skyline stuff you'll see what i'm talking about so let's connect you here my friend and we're going to kind of shut it out this way so we just got rid of that barrier so you'll see the water starting to flow on in here and let's go ahead and put in a water tank so water tanks real fun i thought you only needed like one or two in the beginning turns out you need a whole bunch of them to actually survive that drought i was talking about so let's go ahead and throw i want to just go right ahead and make three uh that helped me get through the first round eventually you can go to like four i don't know the exact numbers of how many like tanks one pump can fill but it seemed to have worked out well for me last time so we're gonna just do that and it looks like we also need to build a gatherer's flag so the gatherer uh you know they do what it says on the tin they're gonna go gather stuff so anything within that range i'll show it to you again just so you can see it anything within that range right there that nice colorful teal um that is where they're going to be able to gather from which is basically these bushes cool let's speed up the time here let our beavers go do their thing i'll put this to high priority real quick so we can just get that built and get someone gathering food good so while they're building that i already know what the tutorial is going to tell us to do next it wants us to build storage which is a good move i don't know if it's necessary right away but you know what the tutorial tells us to do it let's do it so we're going to go ahead and kind of throw in our log storage you know what let's put it over here so it's kind of in the middle of those two and then food storage small warehouse i guess that should just go right there since our food is right there and eventually we're going to build farms maybe i'll do the farms here i don't know so let's go ahead and build that so they will go ahead and do those i don't want them to build these right away i just need one water tank for the time being okay cool so they're building that one and then they'll go build everything else and i don't think they use axes uh i think they just bite the trees down which is great i mean it makes sense they're beavers um you know who can make water pumps and things like that but for some reason don't wear clothes i don't know if they get closed later good question so they are going and doing their thing making buildings the one thing i do hope they add in the future which would be kind of cool is like some more building animations i always love that um i don't know if you guys have ever checked out the game austria but that's another early access city builder maybe i'll do a video on that someday but they have great well it's a single developer so he i believe it's a he has great building animations they're awesome so i do hope eventually something like that happens in this game if not not a big deal simulation and the game still runs great and look at those beavers go let's check them out get some nice camera angles for you guys look at those beautiful beavers all right cool so i think we have everything built so that is the end of the tutorial sweet so let's plan out our next couple moves before the drought comes so i like to do food right away so let's go ahead and build a farm um from what i've noticed one farm can you know basically handle a pretty large amount of fields like i think we'll be able to fill all of this up more or less um what i'm gonna do is actually put the farmhouse on this side and then put the orders to plant crops so that's the other thing too what i've noticed in this game is your orders for like people to actually do their job so like it's great that you have a farm house once that's built um however they won't actually do anything until you tell them to so what we're gonna do let's just do some carrots some potatoes gotta have some potatoes you can boil them mash them stick them in a stew and more carrots maybe another little potato patch or two i hope that's not too much i don't think it will be we'll find out they're still doing their thing they're going to build these eventually um i think this should be high priority all i'm doing is just going in and changing construction priority you can actually do that from the assign priority tab over here if you want um i just click into the buildings i don't know i think maybe i'm just more used to that so i'm going to build the farms there and then we need some housing so people can be happy that they live here and not miserable so let's go ahead and what i've noticed is there's two different kinds of lodges when you start one has a door there one has the door on the other side so i like to flip them and have my doors at the four corners so see that water tank is already filled up so that is why we went ahead and said we're going to have a third water tank and basically my reasoning for that is you'll see when the drought comes these guys chug through water so you want to make sure that you have enough so let's go ahead and set that to regular priority so they'll make that and our farmers are already going so that's great we're building some houses it lacks materials great not great ooh he already cut all those down good job chief this guy's doing well too and then the last thing well not the last thing i'm going to build that'd be that'd be a really disappointing city builder game if that was the last thing i'm going to build but i'm going to build a an inventor so this guy produces science points you can see the little bar up here on the top left that's your science essentially the way science works in this game for what i've seen is it's basically like any other resource you generate it as time goes on from someone doing a job in this case the inventor job and basically it'll just tally up tally up tally up and then you can use it on different things that are locked so like this cost 250 science it takes quite a while to generate that much i think this guy only does three per go and it typically i don't know how many he does in a day i feel like it's like four or five from what i've noticed could be wrong there so you know take that with a grain of salt um but you know you want to start getting that generating pretty early i feel like again not an expert in this game don't know the math behind it i just think it's neat one to show people um so the first drought should be coming pretty soon in my experience it usually comes after like six or seven days um and then you know just everything gets real gross real gross so beavers going on building we've got our nice little fields over here getting going and you can build some really cool cities in this game one thing that's real cool about it is um certain buildings are considered sturdy and if you didn't see the air quotes obviously didn't i'm not on camera there was air quotes there whatever that means so basically if they're sturdy they can hold other houses or buildings on top of them so like i think the lodges are i feel like the warehouse should be but you can get kind of vertical with it you can have suspension bridges and all that cool kind of stuff i have not gotten even close to that far i've only survived a couple of droughts so far um and one thing i learned last night i was having some issues with population not growing and i found out it's that you need to have empty slots in your housing so if you basically build just enough houses for your people you're only going to have that many people so if you build another house and then you know your population kind of disperses a little bit to where there's two people and or two beavers excuse me and a house they will um then make a baby and that baby will grow into your glorious beaver workforce so housing there's a little quick tip for you wasn't explained in the tutorial like i said it's a little bit bare bones so they're gonna finish up building all this our farms are still going strong we have three unemployed people so we can start building some more some more yobs some more jobs so let's see what we got the grill is going to be important not as important right now considering we don't have potatoes yet so from what i've seen potatoes the way they work is um they're actually a resource they'll go over here in materials first they have to get grilled at the grill to be edible which like i get it you would rather have a baked potato but like i feel like you can still eat a raw potato would it be enjoyable no but could you do it i think you could so just my two cents there on on the potatoes so we'll build that grill we don't need it right now so it will go on to low this guy is getting built now or now this guy's getting built now and then they'll build our inspector over here so that'll take care of two of our unemployed and then we'll still have one to go so just let them do all that build it all up and that one's getting built now cool so like i said they go through trees pretty quick i mean they're beavers it makes sense so you want to have that whole thing set to cut otherwise you will get into a position where you won't notice that they've run out of trees and it's just not a good time and you know these trees are growing too so they will eventually grow the forest kind of replenishes itself somewhat eventually you will clear cut it though so you will want to get a forester as soon as possible it is 60 science to get the forester so we have our science building up and running now so they will start generating science starting tomorrow and uh you know let's make our working hours just a little bit more you know we want to keep them happy but we also you know don't want to die when the drought comes which i'm surprised it hasn't by now but they're building up our grill now our potatoes are 60 ish pretty much so they will uh you know get grown and then grilled over here and turned into food and then we still have one unemployed person and i think they are going to turn into our yeah so we need planks excuse me we need planks to build the forest there so we are going to need a lumber mill and lumber mills are fun so we'll put him right by eventually i want to put our forester over here so this is going to kind of be where our wood is so lumber mills need power and power you guessed it comes from the water so we do need to build a water wheel out here and then we need to build a power connection from said water wheel to the building over here this is going to take a while to build because this is 15 planks or logs this is 50 logs so those aren't going to get built for a while oh your beavers are happier than ever you've reached a new well-being high score great job everybody glad you're so happy it keeps giving me construction lacks materials like i understand that but we are still making like lumber the issue i realized too it might be more efficient to just put both of your lumber spots right here right away and just have them clear cut from there because this guy is having to go cut trees over here and then come back and i think pretty much everything within his range is out by now too so that's probably an issue as well so he can only really cut these trees as they grow in yeah whoops well lesson learned maybe what we do is this let's just build another lumber jack place here and let's put this to high priority so they build that first and what we're gonna do is just pause that one click it off you will not start cutting trees until we actually have a forester over here replenishing our trees that sounds good and yeah i mean right now we have like a survivable little township going on a little little beaver haven going on here so eventually you know what i think i might do is try to build up onto over here um you can eventually do like landscaping and things and uh you know kind of irrigate further inland if you want with the water or even set up like multiple towns because essentially these districts here occupy or act excuse me not occupy as your like government buildings so you can put one down like all the way over here and have another little town over here i know they call them districts but i just consider them towns essentially one thing i am interested in i noticed in my playthrough i was doing by myself that this deep part of the water seems to retain some water during the drought so i do wonder if eventually you can build like stilted houses or anything over this and maybe use it to farm during the drought i don't know um probably not but you know that'd be nice if that was a thing so we are now building our water wheel that is going to take quite a little bit of time i don't know if we're going to make it to the first route since it still hasn't come yet and i feel like this is already a pretty long intro early game episode who knows maybe it'll hit right before it is going to take quite some time to actually get this built um but now they are harvesting our potatoes and you can see here um potatoes do go into the materials section over here um and then once they're grilled they go into the food section so if you just are growing potatoes and you don't have a grill uh you are sol as they say um because you can't eat those your beavers can't eat that and like they're beavers man come on they have huge giant teeth that literally gnaws through trees like look at this and they can't eat a robot i'm sorry i'm sorry i don't know why it upsets me so much okay cool so we do have a drought incoming in about three days so we will get to that maybe what i'll do is maybe i will go ahead actually you know what we want to see this water wheel built construction site is too far from builders build a new path oh that's why it's not getting built learned something new every day didn't get an update for that though interesting oh you know what i don't think they can reach it from that side we're gonna have to go like there whoops so let's go ahead and delete that path we put down if you ever want to delete things multiple things at a time there's this demolish resource tab over here uh building a resource tab i should say yes i would like to delete that because i shouldn't have put it there i should have noticed that the logs were piling up and this was not getting built cool so they will build that now and then we will hopefully get a lumber mill going and i'm already not doing the thing i said i'd do and i'm not building more houses so let's go ahead and pop in a couple houses right here we'll just do two and the only reason i'm spacing them out is for the aesthetics because i like it like that i think it's a little bit nicer than just having giant block housing um you know this isn't a communist beaver state we're not just doing giant block housing we want them to have a little bit of uh you know unique footprint unique building so now this guy is running nice very happy about that someone is working there so what they're going to do is start taking some of these logs over here and converting them into planks which then means we can build our forester and do we have enough science yes we do we have 93 signs it costs 60. yes i would like to unlock that for 60 science points and let's go ahead and we'll put him right next to that lumberjack spot right there and then i think the plan we don't need i don't know if we need these anymore let's try it out i don't think we need this path anymore let's get rid of that yep okay it's still running no one's yelling at me so i'm gonna say that is fine and then we're gonna have this guy plant all the trees he's gonna build his own forest and it's gonna look grand and i don't think we have do we have anyone working at the forester yet we'll just wait for this child to grow up i suppose i don't know how where is this child you're age five i don't know how many years you up there you go oh my god why is he oh he's green because i haven't selected i was like i don't think juvenile beavers are green and we are out of storage that's rough let's build another one uh do i want it to be closer to the farm aesthetics man it's always aesthetics and nice we don't even have to build more pathing for it and we're just going to let the drought happen which it is about to we have enough food will we have enough water we'll find out kids but buckle up so you're going to see the drought's going to come in everything's just gonna quickly die it's really abrupt like it's kind of mean almost i don't know how long this thing takes to drain i feel like that's gonna take a while maybe i should just move down there seriously this doesn't man i should just move like a hundred yards that way i'll be okay right now so all of these are gonna die none of them are even close to being grown yet so that's rough but i think we have yeah we have a good stockpile of food i think i had like 175 once and we still made it we have 75 water which is a little worrisome so the drought is going to last two days so we'll get through it and then uh hopefully by the end of this we'll make it and we won't die um let's see here do we have a forester now we do he's hanging out up there because he can't plant trees when the ground looks like that the whole earth is chapped okay cool so this does empty out but like i said this stays so i'm really wondering if eventually i can build like on the second level or something get stilted houses over here and then during the drought just utilize this as like a water source or e i don't like i don't know if farming will be worth it at all considering how long it takes like maybe carrots grow that fast off the chat but that is something to be noted very interesting that little kidney being over there all right we got one day left ladies and gents and then hopefully our beavers will make it and we will sign off on this episode i do hope you guys enjoyed it hopefully i will kind of get back into a bit of a groove uh with youtube um but yeah like i said you know subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed this or you know check out my other stuff my city skylines videos uh you know i got quite a few up there if you want to see those or if you just enjoy city builders in general and uh transportation games things like that this is the channel for you so we still have enough water here uh yeah they're gonna make it easy with water food still gonna make it easy so we survived so that is a survivable little township for that first route there um we have plenty of space for more kids which it looks like we just got another one great and yeah it looks like we got a good little start here um so like i said there's a lot to do in this game moving forward you can expand on your power system as you can see there's leisure buildings there's different decor options not a ton yet i do hope to see that increase hopefully modding is added eventually there's monuments and things like that uh you know bakeries a mill and you know all the staples of kind of like that banished city survival building game but i do think it's a fun package and i always enjoy games that have a good theme and i definitely think uh you know throwing the beavers in there is pretty fun so the drought has ended the water will come back eventually we'll wait we'll wait for that rush of water to come through and then we'll we'll call it an episode friends this is also interesting oh that could be fun later come on water where you at i hear it at least i think i hear it oh you feel like this should cause some sort of like splash over again i'm used to playing city skylines and the water in that game would just like literally take out all of these beavers right away so there we go we made it through the first route guys i hope you enjoyed it check out timberborne on steam wish list it if you're interested or go out and get it if you're eager and uh you know if you guys enjoyed this episode leave a like leave a comment let me know maybe we'll keep going with the series and uh yeah again my name's bad fish and i appreciate you watching thanks

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Length: 28min 5sec (1685 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 16 2021