Timberborn: Terraforming Guide
Your survival in Timberborn hinges on how well you can control the flow of life-giving water through your city. Thanks to recurring droughts, the only thing that's guaranteed about water is that you won't have it forever. Without water, your crops will wither away, and your beavers will suffer the effects of dehydration.
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Fortunately, the game gives you plenty of tools to deal with this problem. At the start, you'll be able to dam up rivers and use Floodgates to store water for droughts. Later on, Golems and explosives let you shape the land into one that suits you better.
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At the start of the game, you're limited to using planks and logs for most of your construction. Though it means that you're limited to using floodgates and levees to control the flow of water through your settlement, a well-placed dam can hold enough water to supply your beavers with water for a few days.
You can build the following structures to control the flow of water
It's important to make sure that you don't store too much water, however. If water levels rise too high, the river can burst its banks and flood your city. Not only will this disable your buildings until the water recedes, but flooding crops will also kill the plants and ruin the harvest.Floodgates let you control how much water gets dammed up to avoid this problem.
Use Stream Gauges to determine the water level and current at a particular point to prevent overflowing.
Though it may be tempting to focus entirely on storing water in Water Tanks and dispensing it out through Irrigation
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