You know what makes efficient power shafts? LODGES! Yes, they transfer power. Yes, through the roofs too. And much less planks needed. Just build a stack of lodges and put batteries on top. Still needs a staircase, but leaves some extra options to engineer a multi-purpose skyscraper
Just so you know, if you have the aesthetics covering all your houses, when the beavers go to bed they get exposure through the night and maximises how high their bars fill, rather than them just running past a couple of times a day
He literally said so himself in the last timberborn season re-release. So he knows this, but being Matt, forgot. Lol. I think the content creator brain rot is getting to him guys.
@@SmokeandSpirit Aye, he's just running the base game. Might have a couple of mods, but no experimental just yet. I think he was waiting for the full release and next season since he already started this season before it was available.
@@SmokeandSpirit I assume he's on the regular branch because the devs... experiment on experimental. In the U5 experimental playthrough I have seen, several espisodes were spent on "devs changed how irrigation works, have to change everything" ... "nevermind, they changed it again, have another episode of saving our food supply!" U6 seems less problematic right now, but you never know.
Oof a furry commenting in a place full of young kids The self admission of being a wolf, aka an animal that is a predator, likes the deep woods, and grooms. OOFERAMA
Not necessary. He just needs to stop leaving 12 jobs open with no beavers to fill them. There's a stat on the 3rd row of the upper left corner UI and he constantly ignores it while trying to manage job assignments. That's it, just high proritize everything 🤦♂
I think that would be more of a mod thing. Matt’s the only one in the entire fandom that would have reason to use such a feature. Not really an efficient use of time for the developers, architect move.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 He would be far from the only one benefiting from it. Quite a lot of players would want this feature to put lodges close to work locations
@@flyingpenguin5919 Yes. And it can just be useful for memorization of 'which beaver is working what" as well. ...And EVERYBODY who uses custom beaver names definitely wants this. For many reasons ranging to "oh, it's cute, I gave him the same job as my friend he's named after" to, well, the wheel of shame. XD
Update 6/Experimental is so much different/better that it deserves its own series. If you choose to complete this series on update 5 then you can replace the stairs with power shafts working backwards after you have finished building everything else.
the only issue I see is he would have to manually delete stairs, add the power shaft, wait for it to be built, delete stairs... it would be teadious and take forever...
You should probably switch it over to experimental, that way you can be a test engineer. As for the aqueduct, make it a 90 degree angle. It’ll be a hell of a lot easier to route the power shafts.
Ironically , Matt trying to be engineer and put the roof on the ground for the utility of efficient welbeing points. Ends up being an archetek Also Matt, tries to engineer a battery , ends up so archetek
1.) Build floodgates along all the directions the main water source can flow, that way you can fully control where it goes and when. *Bad Tide coming?* Direct it off the map and block everything else. *Wet Season?* Way off the map is blocked so all the water flows through the map. *Drought coming?* Block everything for the last day or so and store water like a reservoir. 2.) Continue the "Poo Water Deflection Dam" to direct it off the map as well. 3.) Look to making a ground level dam and reservoir for most of the map, greenifying as much as possible.
Matt: shaming a ''pseudo' architect elevates that beaver above all other beavers to shamed: forever named and immortalised in Timberborners' hall of shamedom - a valhalla for architects everywhere.
For power skyscrapers I use a 3x3, where nothing goes through the center until the very top, with a double helix (one for power and another on top for path). You may expand later but you can put 4 batteries on top and still have near top access. It's click and mentally efficient once you know what you're doing, only the top is tricky but way better than deleting the path for power each time.
About medium water tank - I have been often forgetting about assigning them, I really do recommend You to assign them for designed liquid right after placing them, before they get builded. If You are playing mostly on maximum speed, it can really save some time and give You more water, faster. It's really useful on hard difficulty
If you don’t move to Exp, you can use houses to transfer your power. If you stack the houses as high as you can, and place your battery on top, then you can just connect your power line to the base house.
Love your channel! Here's a tip if you build single platforms over the path near the houses you can put decorations on them including the different types of roofs so when they walk under it they get the buffs. Keep up the good videos 👍🏻
I would definitely go experimental. If you don't, you'll have to build a spiral power tower to get to your batteries, which is _super_ annoying. Plus you can get sluice gates so you don't have to micromanage your flood gates. "...that would use twice as much stuff, Pythagoras and all that..." Doesn't apply. You can only build in four directions, not effectively infinite directions. You're trying to make a path that stuff (water) can traverse. It, therefore, takes exactly the same number of blocks no matter how you do it. If you want to convince yourself of this, pull up any map. Plan out a path in dams or whatever (pause the game, you don't want to build these) that goes five down and five over. This takes 9 blocks (five for the down, four for across). If you do it diagonally, it _also_ takes 9 blocks. Pythagoras doesn't help you here because you are building in blocks, not actual straight lines.
Little thing I learned today. They’re building a gravity battery tower in Switzerland using cranes and cement blocks. Who ever designed it must totally play this game.
I did the thing with deleting the stairs on the way down from the battery tower in my playthrough. took ages longer than i thought and you kind of had to micro manage it allot so beavers didn't get stuck. . And I had many more builders than you. Experimental is the way to go i reckon. or the thing with lodges as power shafts. Cheers mate. loving the play through.
Matt should build the stairs and shafts in a double helix. Stairs go up one way and shafts go up next to them the opposite way. Then they both double back, stairs over shafts, shafts over stairs.
MATT. Houses transfer power. Build a lot of house straight up to transfer power up!! Also the bigger windmills are taller so they will be producing power even when the smaller ones don’t. So they make more power and more often!! Please safe the next big update for next season!
I would maybe consider researching explosives, then you could modify the GigaDam, reservoir whatever, so water would reach farmlands better even when water is lower. Also, explosives could be used to make a gap in the poocano, to direct badwater, without building levees all around. Another suggestion, for speeding up mega or giga projects, is to build a couple of storage piles next to your project site. They can be small, but set to "obtain", and haulers will move the materials closer. When the haulers are doing all the hauling, builders can focus on the building.
Next season might be neat to build a community around a huge central courtyard for all the statues and activities to push up productivity perks for everyone
MODS!!! - Ahem... Use mods. They're perfect for what your doing. There's ladders, so you don't need a thousand stairs and a thousand extra platforms. There is an extended shafts that includes many different power shafts including vertical power shafts. There are even FLYWHEELS - which can hold more energy the the Gravity Battery. Great Episode, keep up the Great Work!!!
Timberborners is a Block Based game. As i saw your staircase Solution for the skyscraper, i remembered that i recently recreated Leonardi da Vinci‘s double spiral staircase in Minecraft (in a 3x3 Block hole). I know it may Sounds a Bit crazy but i thought it would be interesting to See this thing actually work in Timberborners. A 3x3 block space should be enough for 2 staircases, and really easy to build it.
* I have a really good idea for your next skyscraper! 😮💡 It Might be a Bit overengineered, but the my idea of a double- spiral staircase is actually very Useful and saves a lot of recources and building. The Double Spiral staircase is able to do multitasking! 1.st spiral staircase: gearshifts from the top to the bottom (Power supply to the bottom).💪⚡️💪 2nd Staircase: Scaffolding for the beavers used for building/maintanance. Its very Space efficient (3x3 blocks area) and it should be very easy to free Trapped Beavers (during the constitution), because you just have to build in the middle hole a Brunch of 1 block high Platform (+paths on top of them) and every Story can be accessed very easily by your beavers. 🦫🚧🔨 What do you think about this idea? And would you ever try to build such an overengineered thing?
21:12 You have 3 houses next to your center, that you could build more house on and next to. If you build on top and have them face the other way there is already a path to attach to.
i sense an obsession with stairs, especially stairs to get to levels where you already are.. we need a couch at that contemplation spot to talk about our inner architects..
Run a smaller aquaduct from the farming plateau spring to the end of the map towards the Tower of Power, you can store water if you want, use it for power during bad tides, and you'll have a use for the former plateau as a reservoir. Also, next update will have more efficient options for aquaducts.
I build a central apartment complex by stacking large houses on top of each other and connecting them with platforms and stairs (like two rows of 3-5 with a row of platforms between them) you can then build things like shrubs, statues, etc strategically at the entrances/exits; monuments can be arranged so that they cover the whole complex and the buildings can be capped by rooves. This way everyone gets all the bonuses.
You should for sure do experimental, sluices and the new platforms can make real aqueducts WAY more fun. JC the Beard has some good videos if you’re looking to navigate the experimental branch, it helped me a lot!! (not an ad just one engineer helping another)
the gravity battery tower could've been built so much more efficiently with a "spiral" staircase to the top... I think an architect imposter took RCE's job
Whenever I have a building that needs to be constantly running on power I build it a battery. Since the battery is just used when there is no wind and that it charges completely during the night, a 1 or 2 floor drop is more than enough most of the time.
I vote you go experimental. The latest update shows the progress of buildings as they're constructed! Also, I tried damming up the waterfall area on this map, but the water still drained through during a drought. I'd love to see if you're able to dam some of that area up.
Just make the aquaduct open completely to the bottom. Two rows of levees thus guving you storage as well durring droughts to keep the surrounding areas green and save a ton on resources in the long run. Or possibly use platforms as it doesnt specify that levees have to be placed on the ground. Just throw platforms up to the level you want the aquaduct and then levee the final block high for the floor. Should work.
I have tried that and it does not work. Levees, dams and floodgates can not be placed above platforms, because the water flow mechanics don't understand how to allow that.
buildings transfer power, this includes upwards, if you just stack a bunch of houses/lodges or something in the corner where it would connect all the batteries together it should work. but also, not opposed to you switching to experimental.
Might I suggest watching Biffa's episode of Teamberborn where he builds his Power Towers? They're more compact and they have the power shafts built under the scaffolding. I've got 5 Power Towers in my build of this map. They work great!
15:05 Welcome back to timberborner, where you gotta remember to plan ahead of time so you dont end up in a tedious build project that will tkae 3 hours to buuuiiild...
With Update 6 you can build a "preasure tank". Try to do that on the poocano source and see if with a pipe upwards and then vertical with power weels work for you :) Could work very well.
@RCE I do believe the Shamming wheel mod still works... doesn't it? This should be always included on the modpacks for your series... with all those pesky architects going undercover, blending with the upstanding beavers.
To save on resources and space, you build 2 extra medium water tanks and delete all the small ones. Then you should be able to turn the large water pump off during droughts to keep the land green
You can start building the horizontal shafts on the other side of the tower where you don't have a path going. You'll only need to build the elevation shafts and the final curves afterwards.
In my game, I have 4 batteries set on a single triple over a cliff and that is enough for powering most of my buildings for a week. I added 3 windmills to help off set the usage during the drought so now I don't need to worry at all.
Gravity batteries have a limit of storage which is equivalent to twice the height of the highest platform, so you essentially are architecting that tower
I had a max height tower for grav batteries in my last colony and I built it up all the way with stairs only. Then I built the batteries and after that I removed the stairs one after another and slowly replaced the walkway with the power shafts cuz the beavers wouldn't have to get up again anyway^^
If you want the power shaft to follow the path back down that's going to include a mad amount of build micromanaging and 1-3 pieces planned at a time then built. You'd easily take 5 episodes to accomplish that. Just switch to experimental. You basically made it a necessity now.
Me too. Standart tactic: Built a nice and easy tower of nothing but housing and maybe a roof etrrace every now and then (with an overhang so i can build housing on top of the roof terrace). I also like to add my hospital right next to it which is essentially the same as the housing block just with med beds. Then only add a nice storehouse for food and a large tank for water right next to the tower to shorten walking distances.
What I find interesting is that beavers in real life are primarily nocturnal so I think it would be cool if this game makes a faction that works mainly during the night with the day and night cycle switched, or making it so that in each faction there are beavers that are nocturnal or they adding a night shift which can affect wellness score with like loud noise if some work areas that are active are near homes
There is a height limit, and I built my battery at the limit. The power takes a very long distance to get the power down to the ground, as you can only go one step down at a time and is the reason it isn't built yet in my game. deleting the path and building on your way back down will take a lot of extra logs due to the extra distance, but it does save on space.
Wow editor I freaking lost ot when you brought that mutated beaver in! Hahah Well done! And well done Matt for having awesome editors. Also, you are pretty cool too. Its great to see that engineers hate architects on a global scale
So Matt... Because the Timberborner world is composed of squares and things can't move diagonally across the squares, Pythagoras doesn't apply. It's "manhattan geometry" (also known as taxi-cab geometry). You can check. It is exactly the same number of squares to go on each leg of the triangle as it is to squiggle along the diagonal.
The important thing is that you ended the drought with more water than you started. Also a thirst-ravaged agricultural sector, but you can't have it all.
You know what makes efficient power shafts? LODGES!
Yes, they transfer power. Yes, through the roofs too. And much less planks needed.
Just build a stack of lodges and put batteries on top. Still needs a staircase, but leaves some extra options to engineer a multi-purpose skyscraper
Bump
There are even 1x2 houses Matt could replace the scaffoldings where no path is on with them…
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@@AlchemistCH genius
Didn't know this but would be a brilliantly double-functioning building
Just so you know, if you have the aesthetics covering all your houses, when the beavers go to bed they get exposure through the night and maximises how high their bars fill, rather than them just running past a couple of times a day
I agree because just putting the roofs beside the paths feel like an architect move
So this one is a little cheating maybe, but try the roofs ON the houses perhaps?
Or any building. I like how he puts the roofs on the ground, right next to various buildings in need of a roof
This comment is here so Matt stops being a knob
He literally said so himself in the last timberborn season re-release. So he knows this, but being Matt, forgot. Lol. I think the content creator brain rot is getting to him guys.
If it doesn't cause any major issues, I also agree with just jumping up to Experimental.
Backups are always wise.
experimental has a lot of mods on steam already, including Tobbert's ladder mod, I highly recommend it.
Yeah, but it's seems a bit unstable if you try too many mods. I get instant crashes if I put too many mods on. Ladder by itself should be safe though.
I literally thought he was playing the experimental branch this whole time. Is he only on vanilla for the patreon naming mod?
@@SmokeandSpirit Aye, he's just running the base game. Might have a couple of mods, but no experimental just yet.
I think he was waiting for the full release and next season since he already started this season before it was available.
@@SmokeandSpirit I assume he's on the regular branch because the devs... experiment on experimental. In the U5 experimental playthrough I have seen, several espisodes were spent on "devs changed how irrigation works, have to change everything" ... "nevermind, they changed it again, have another episode of saving our food supply!"
U6 seems less problematic right now, but you never know.
I can't wait until Matt finds out that he architected the gravity batteries.
Do they carry energy between them like buildings?
@@manelneedsaname1773 Yes.
Now he just needs to put a windmill up there with the batteries
If he power shafts from the top down it will totally work though.
@@Zileas01 oh he did? I did realize the batteries were wrong hahah. With priority cant you build it backward?
The best thing about watching these videos is seeing how long it takes Matt to realize his mistakes.
Yes
The editors know how to trigger us 😂
Ikr
Oof a furry commenting in a place full of young kids
The self admission of being a wolf, aka an animal that is a predator, likes the deep woods, and grooms. OOFERAMA
You should ask the dev to add the "assign" specific beaver to a task" feature. Would help a lot with those wheels of shame...
Shame. Shame. Shame
Not necessary. He just needs to stop leaving 12 jobs open with no beavers to fill them. There's a stat on the 3rd row of the upper left corner UI and he constantly ignores it while trying to manage job assignments. That's it, just high proritize everything 🤦♂
I think that would be more of a mod thing. Matt’s the only one in the entire fandom that would have reason to use such a feature. Not really an efficient use of time for the developers, architect move.
@@cathygrandstaff1957 He would be far from the only one benefiting from it. Quite a lot of players would want this feature to put lodges close to work locations
@@flyingpenguin5919 Yes. And it can just be useful for memorization of 'which beaver is working what" as well.
...And EVERYBODY who uses custom beaver names definitely wants this. For many reasons ranging to "oh, it's cute, I gave him the same job as my friend he's named after" to, well, the wheel of shame. XD
6:23 "we have all these windmills. they create wind." editors, you've been sleeping on that one, eh? ;)
"Wind flows"
lol
Give them editors a ration cut - oh wait, already done long time ago^^
I call them windmines they mine wind
came in here to drop the same gem, lol kudos. 💎
Update 6/Experimental is so much different/better that it deserves its own series. If you choose to complete this series on update 5 then you can replace the stairs with power shafts working backwards after you have finished building everything else.
the only issue I see is he would have to manually delete stairs, add the power shaft, wait for it to be built, delete stairs... it would be teadious and take forever...
That tower is so incredibly inefficient... Matt once again showing that he is a secret architect...
Curious accusations
Beautiful things are made by architects. Not fair to attack them, honestly.
@@HashknightGamingYou must be new here😂.
Matt is not an architect! He is an engineer!!!
So dislike video like me
The inefficiency is so beautiful. My inner architect is shedding a tear of joy.
I'm keen to see a Timberborn with the new mechanics, so I'd be up for this moving to experimental branch
Yeah I can't wait to finish my map run for streaming. I really can't wait to have fun streaming the experimental update.
You should probably switch it over to experimental, that way you can be a test engineer. As for the aqueduct, make it a 90 degree angle. It’ll be a hell of a lot easier to route the power shafts.
Definitely one 90 degree turn. Since there are only 90 degree angles in this game, Pythagoras doesn't really come into play.
@@Dfarrey was about to say that too
@@Dfarrey yep it's Manhattan distance.
Also PI=3
The arbitrary placement of roofs is really great deconstructionist architecture! You're quite the talented architect Matt! 😁👍
Ironically , Matt trying to be engineer and put the roof on the ground for the utility of efficient welbeing points.
Ends up being an archetek
Also Matt, tries to engineer a battery , ends up so archetek
You can use small house to transport power up and side ways
1.) Build floodgates along all the directions the main water source can flow, that way you can fully control where it goes and when.
*Bad Tide coming?* Direct it off the map and block everything else.
*Wet Season?* Way off the map is blocked so all the water flows through the map.
*Drought coming?* Block everything for the last day or so and store water like a reservoir.
2.) Continue the "Poo Water Deflection Dam" to direct it off the map as well.
3.) Look to making a ground level dam and reservoir for most of the map, greenifying as much as possible.
Matt: shaming a ''pseudo' architect elevates that beaver above all other beavers to shamed: forever named and immortalised in Timberborners' hall of shamedom - a valhalla for architects everywhere.
For power skyscrapers I use a 3x3, where nothing goes through the center until the very top, with a double helix (one for power and another on top for path).
You may expand later but you can put 4 batteries on top and still have near top access. It's click and mentally efficient once you know what you're doing, only the top is tricky but way better than deleting the path for power each time.
That sounds like what Biffa did in his series and I followed that same design. It works great!
How tall did you make it? Because surely there's a limit at which the height of the batteries no longer matters to efficiency.
"We have all these windmills, they create wind" is something an architect would say...
About medium water tank - I have been often forgetting about assigning them, I really do recommend You to assign them for designed liquid right after placing them, before they get builded. If You are playing mostly on maximum speed, it can really save some time and give You more water, faster. It's really useful on hard difficulty
If you don’t move to Exp, you can use houses to transfer your power. If you stack the houses as high as you can, and place your battery on top, then you can just connect your power line to the base house.
Love your channel! Here's a tip if you build single platforms over the path near the houses you can put decorations on them including the different types of roofs so when they walk under it they get the buffs. Keep up the good videos 👍🏻
Definitely go experimental. I’m loving the update personally, and the vertical power shafts are just so convenient.
"Thankfully, look who's died" 😂
I would definitely go experimental. If you don't, you'll have to build a spiral power tower to get to your batteries, which is _super_ annoying. Plus you can get sluice gates so you don't have to micromanage your flood gates.
"...that would use twice as much stuff, Pythagoras and all that..."
Doesn't apply. You can only build in four directions, not effectively infinite directions. You're trying to make a path that stuff (water) can traverse. It, therefore, takes exactly the same number of blocks no matter how you do it. If you want to convince yourself of this, pull up any map. Plan out a path in dams or whatever (pause the game, you don't want to build these) that goes five down and five over. This takes 9 blocks (five for the down, four for across). If you do it diagonally, it _also_ takes 9 blocks. Pythagoras doesn't help you here because you are building in blocks, not actual straight lines.
Since edges are watertight in this game it actually does help
Little thing I learned today. They’re building a gravity battery tower in Switzerland using cranes and cement blocks. Who ever designed it must totally play this game.
I did the thing with deleting the stairs on the way down from the battery tower in my playthrough. took ages longer than i thought and you kind of had to micro manage it allot so beavers didn't get stuck. . And I had many more builders than you. Experimental is the way to go i reckon. or the thing with lodges as power shafts. Cheers mate. loving the play through.
Matt should build the stairs and shafts in a double helix. Stairs go up one way and shafts go up next to them the opposite way. Then they both double back, stairs over shafts, shafts over stairs.
MATT. Houses transfer power. Build a lot of house straight up to transfer power up!!
Also the bigger windmills are taller so they will be producing power even when the smaller ones don’t. So they make more power and more often!!
Please safe the next big update for next season!
13:35 The missing payoff for the Thus Spake Zarathustra ascent is killing me.
I would maybe consider researching explosives, then you could modify the GigaDam, reservoir whatever, so water would reach farmlands better even when water is lower. Also, explosives could be used to make a gap in the poocano, to direct badwater, without building levees all around.
Another suggestion, for speeding up mega or giga projects, is to build a couple of storage piles next to your project site. They can be small, but set to "obtain", and haulers will move the materials closer. When the haulers are doing all the hauling, builders can focus on the building.
Next season might be neat to build a community around a huge central courtyard for all the statues and activities to push up productivity perks for everyone
You could improve the power tower by exploding holes into the ground.
Improve is a strong word considering how tall it already is
MODS!!! - Ahem...
Use mods. They're perfect for what your doing. There's ladders, so you don't need a thousand stairs and a thousand extra platforms. There is an extended shafts that includes many different power shafts including vertical power shafts. There are even FLYWHEELS - which can hold more energy the the Gravity Battery. Great Episode, keep up the Great Work!!!
Yes! Use experimental branch for the vertical shafts and better aqueducts!
Timberborners is a Block Based game. As i saw your staircase Solution for the skyscraper, i remembered that i recently recreated Leonardi da Vinci‘s double spiral staircase in Minecraft (in a 3x3 Block hole). I know it may Sounds a Bit crazy but i thought it would be interesting to See this thing actually work in Timberborners. A 3x3 block space should be enough for 2 staircases, and really easy to build it.
* I have a really good idea for your next skyscraper! 😮💡
It Might be a Bit overengineered, but the my idea of a double- spiral staircase is actually very Useful and saves a lot of recources and building.
The Double Spiral staircase is able to do multitasking!
1.st spiral staircase: gearshifts from the top to the bottom (Power supply to the bottom).💪⚡️💪
2nd Staircase:
Scaffolding for the beavers used for building/maintanance. Its very Space efficient (3x3 blocks area) and it should be very easy to free Trapped Beavers (during the constitution), because you just have to build in the middle hole a Brunch of 1 block high Platform (+paths on top of them) and every Story can be accessed very easily by your beavers. 🦫🚧🔨
What do you think about this idea? And would you ever try to build such an overengineered thing?
The song at the beginning will give me nightmares 😅
Don't complain, it may get you sent to the shaming wheel!
yes please. experimental mode is cool. lots of fun things to play with
21:12 You have 3 houses next to your center, that you could build more house on and next to. If you build on top and have them face the other way there is already a path to attach to.
11:00 two by one's and they hang of the Edge. I can't be the only one thinking that xD.
i sense an obsession with stairs, especially stairs to get to levels where you already are.. we need a couch at that contemplation spot to talk about our inner architects..
Run a smaller aquaduct from the farming plateau spring to the end of the map towards the Tower of Power, you can store water if you want, use it for power during bad tides, and you'll have a use for the former plateau as a reservoir. Also, next update will have more efficient options for aquaducts.
You absolute architect! Folktales use beaver lodges to make towers.
I build a central apartment complex by stacking large houses on top of each other and connecting them with platforms and stairs (like two rows of 3-5 with a row of platforms between them) you can then build things like shrubs, statues, etc strategically at the entrances/exits; monuments can be arranged so that they cover the whole complex and the buildings can be capped by rooves. This way everyone gets all the bonuses.
You should for sure do experimental, sluices and the new platforms can make real aqueducts WAY more fun. JC the Beard has some good videos if you’re looking to navigate the experimental branch, it helped me a lot!! (not an ad just one engineer helping another)
I just love when RCE plays with his log and gets his beaver wet for us.
My favorite series is back with another episode
I look forward to Fridays all week for these videos. :)
You could just use water wheel also. You set up a small industry along riverside that could power observatory.
the gravity battery tower could've been built so much more efficiently with a "spiral" staircase to the top... I think an architect imposter took RCE's job
It's becoming more and more apparent that RCE himself is the architect imposter!
Those Beavers are absolute units
Whenever I have a building that needs to be constantly running on power I build it a battery. Since the battery is just used when there is no wind and that it charges completely during the night, a 1 or 2 floor drop is more than enough most of the time.
I am so addicted to watching this series. it Boggles my mind.
0:25 Hello fellow engineers and welcome back to megapump
I vote you go experimental. The latest update shows the progress of buildings as they're constructed! Also, I tried damming up the waterfall area on this map, but the water still drained through during a drought. I'd love to see if you're able to dam some of that area up.
for your gravity battery, once you get dynamite, you can blast downward as low as you can go to increase the distance that the gravity battery works.
Definitely play in experimental. Just be sure to make world backups. Also, I love this series! And hi from KS, US.
😎🤙
Just make the aquaduct open completely to the bottom. Two rows of levees thus guving you storage as well durring droughts to keep the surrounding areas green and save a ton on resources in the long run. Or possibly use platforms as it doesnt specify that levees have to be placed on the ground. Just throw platforms up to the level you want the aquaduct and then levee the final block high for the floor. Should work.
I have tried that and it does not work. Levees, dams and floodgates can not be placed above platforms, because the water flow mechanics don't understand how to allow that.
I see that Matt is doing a Biffa with his Battery Skyscraper. Definitely turn on experimental mode too!
its the Giga Pumping Dam of all engineering
I suggest you download the ladder mod, it's great for projects like this.
buildings transfer power, this includes upwards, if you just stack a bunch of houses/lodges or something in the corner where it would connect all the batteries together it should work. but also, not opposed to you switching to experimental.
I love listening to civi's try to understand electricity.. 6:24 what do the windmills do again?
Might I suggest watching Biffa's episode of Teamberborn where he builds his Power Towers? They're more compact and they have the power shafts built under the scaffolding. I've got 5 Power Towers in my build of this map. They work great!
15:05 Welcome back to timberborner, where you gotta remember to plan ahead of time so you dont end up in a tedious build project that will tkae 3 hours to buuuiiild...
With Update 6 you can build a "preasure tank". Try to do that on the poocano source and see if with a pipe upwards and then vertical with power weels work for you :) Could work very well.
@RCE I do believe the Shamming wheel mod still works... doesn't it? This should be always included on the modpacks for your series... with all those pesky architects going undercover, blending with the upstanding beavers.
I always try to use water dumps to expand my usable land, might be a good idea for the dried up lakes
Solid theme song this episode.
Experimental mode for sure, I would love to see those components
Just put a mod for the power shafts. A quality of life like that wouldn't be a problem
To save on resources and space, you build 2 extra medium water tanks and delete all the small ones. Then you should be able to turn the large water pump off during droughts to keep the land green
You can start building the horizontal shafts on the other side of the tower where you don't have a path going. You'll only need to build the elevation shafts and the final curves afterwards.
15:35 first architectural thoughts of Matt
new remix for the intro, cool
Did not expect to see a bunch of beavers building the Tower of Babble today, but here we are
you could try to replace stairs with shafts top to bottom. this way, the paths are actually useful as well.
Id love to see this transfer to experimental mode. The water must be engineered properly, unlike the power tower of shame lol.
In my game, I have 4 batteries set on a single triple over a cliff and that is enough for powering most of my buildings for a week. I added 3 windmills to help off set the usage during the drought so now I don't need to worry at all.
Gravity batteries have a limit of storage which is equivalent to twice the height of the highest platform, so you essentially are architecting that tower
About the diagonal thing, in a square grid, the cell distance between points along a diagonal is exactly the same as if you went in a big L.
I'd love to see this moved to the experimental branch, really wanna see a proper aqueduct
4min and seeing this while playing timberborn perfect timing
Use the experimental mode. You could make the aqueduct with like a diagonal but leaving a lot of space between each curve
I had a max height tower for grav batteries in my last colony and I built it up all the way with stairs only. Then I built the batteries and after that I removed the stairs one after another and slowly replaced the walkway with the power shafts cuz the beavers wouldn't have to get up again anyway^^
If you want the power shaft to follow the path back down that's going to include a mad amount of build micromanaging and 1-3 pieces planned at a time then built. You'd easily take 5 episodes to accomplish that. Just switch to experimental. You basically made it a necessity now.
matt I am in love with your song at start.
The legend of Archie Teght continues! 😅😅😅😅😅
Just at the start of the video, I'm curious to see what Mat does for a skyscraper. I usually make housing towers for the Folktales myself.
Me too. Standart tactic: Built a nice and easy tower of nothing but housing and maybe a roof etrrace every now and then (with an overhang so i can build housing on top of the roof terrace). I also like to add my hospital right next to it which is essentially the same as the housing block just with med beds. Then only add a nice storehouse for food and a large tank for water right next to the tower to shorten walking distances.
Thank you for bringing joy into my life. Sincerely.
I'd say go experimental.
When staying on this version: extend the power tower by another 4 platforms, and use the extension to bring power up.
Definitely upgrade to the experimental branch. Those aqueducts are amazing, and would be way better than a super massive wall of levees 😂
Fyi there is a curved stair item you can use to make the climb up better without having to extend 13:52
there's gonna be a lot of trapped beavers i bet.
and i'm here for it.
What I find interesting is that beavers in real life are primarily nocturnal so I think it would be cool if this game makes a faction that works mainly during the night with the day and night cycle switched, or making it so that in each faction there are beavers that are nocturnal or they adding a night shift which can affect wellness score with like loud noise if some work areas that are active are near homes
There is a height limit, and I built my battery at the limit. The power takes a very long distance to get the power down to the ground, as you can only go one step down at a time and is the reason it isn't built yet in my game. deleting the path and building on your way back down will take a lot of extra logs due to the extra distance, but it does save on space.
damn Matt, double the resources bc of Pythagorean Theorem is such a peak engineering thing to say
Wow editor I freaking lost ot when you brought that mutated beaver in! Hahah
Well done!
And well done Matt for having awesome editors.
Also, you are pretty cool too. Its great to see that engineers hate architects on a global scale
So Matt... Because the Timberborner world is composed of squares and things can't move diagonally across the squares, Pythagoras doesn't apply. It's "manhattan geometry" (also known as taxi-cab geometry). You can check. It is exactly the same number of squares to go on each leg of the triangle as it is to squiggle along the diagonal.
The important thing is that you ended the drought with more water than you started.
Also a thirst-ravaged agricultural sector, but you can't have it all.
I wonder if you can cheat the power storage by placing the deep dynamite charges under the counter weights?
Yes