RCE, what you may wish to do is have a couple of hauler posts and/or builder post that are set to "low" or "very low" priority to act as population sinks. So when you don't have jobs up, these buildings will soak the additional pops and release them when you DO have more jobs available.

Hey Matt, they're called Turdbines.

A) youll need a few more Decontamination Pods B) you need to move the Decontamination pods closer to the town center C) you need food and water nearby the Decontamination pods These 3 things will GREATLY increase the effectiveness of the pods by drastically reducing the travel time when they get hungry or thirsty. Otherwise it takes ages as they get hungey and thirsty faster and walk slower.

1:47 You balk at the price of a bridge!? Who are you, and what have you done with Matt? I bet you're the editors, you escaped the basement and kidnapped him!

He still does the Stairs down approch of building in poowater...ahhh. You know Matt you can build down from up above, no matter how tall the plattfrom is. Hope Matt also remembers that he can put plattforms above the powerconnections.

The -10 well-being absolutely affects their lifespan, and since they refuse to work, they're worse than dead until they get well in terms of econ. You can save most of 'em with the decon pods, but it is much, much better to not let them get sick in the first place by building platforms.

Instead of trying to brute force it... put some small water tanks near the water pumpers and set the tanks to "Supply" and prioritize it by haulers. Then change the setting on the 4 medium water tanks to "Obtain" and again prioritize by Haulers. You can then unprioritize haulers at the water pumps, this will make the pumpers carry their product to the near by Supply tanks and Haulers will haul the water from Supply to Obtain tanks. You can also use these Supply and Obtain settings on other storages to increase productivity by having the Haulers focus on moving from small supply storages to your main large storage area set to obtain. Oh also having a Hauling Post near/between the production areas and main storage helps reduce their travel time and allows them to focus on things in their hauling posts area rather than traveling all over in chaos. Its not much but every little bit of efficiency adds up over time and makes life so much easier.

We need a t-shirt that says 'Engineers don't mention incidents™; this is no exception'

17:21 matt is the best manager ever, high prioritize everything (that means nothing has priority)

maybe it's just me, but I would build decontamination pods closer to where the beavers normally interact, i.e. nearer to town, so if you have someone moving at a snails pace super slow it doesn't take forever to get all the way to the decontamination area then whoops I'm hungry now gotta go back.

Gotta love how he puts platforms for the shafts in the fresh water, but insists on building under badwater.

For suspension bridges, their best uses to cross really deep gaps, but they are deceptively useful. A 3 tile bridge can cross a 3 tile gap even if it looks like its short a little bit. And you can build them from either end, meaning you can cross a 6 tile gap using two 3 tile bridges without anything underneath them or having access to the other side by just having the 2 support sections be on their side of the wall and the suspended ends connecting. Of course you do need that extra tile of space as they can't get on the bridge from the side at all. If you want to cross something like a 10 or so tile gap using 3 tile bridges, you will need to place one bridge in the center by building one bridge first, then stacking 1 tile of platforms to build a 2nd one on, and then you can flip the 3rd. tit looks kind of ugly but it works, and you can then cross that gap without having ever set foot on the other side be before

Matt: "Hello fellow engineers..." Me: *Not even an engineer*: "He's talking to me! 😮"

Matt with 25 job vacancies: "Why am I having to high prioritise everything?" You have 50% more jobs than you have beavers to do them. Also 1700 power, you can get that from 4/5 large water wheels in series with a restricted width river, which would have been much much cheaper than spamming the small ones.

You should propably provide some basic services such as living quarters and a small water and food storage next to the decondamination pods so contaminated beavers wont have to go back and forth and will heal faster.

I definitely think you should add roofs to your buildings... I mean, designing a house with a flat roof is literally what an architect would do... 😬

0:00 Matt: perfect build! 12:00 Matt: how did this happen?!? 😂

If working on underwater builds in badwater, you can build next to the project with platforms, and they will build down without going in the badwater. Also, gonna want some small food and water storage near the de-con chamber

3:00 build the scaffolding on top of the shafts. You can always build down and the double platforms will clear the vertical shafts. It’s slightly slower, but no one gets contaminated.

2:30 “Turdbine” was right there…

Mat really need to build a gravity battery

Build a small barracks and some food & water storage near the decontamination pods

Thanks to RCE, I have memorised the name of this game wrongly. Spiff did the same with Reanu Keeves

You should think about terrafor😢😢ming the mountains near your base to give you more place to build/farm on. There's too many inefficiency in the pathing and storages that's hampering your growth and sustainability. You may want to look into food situation too. Running out of food usually means either you don't have enough stored or you're not producing any. Since the majority of your higher quality food requires power, you should pause the industry during drought so they have something to eat instead of draining the power for construction. Also contaminated beavers won't work so you are losing workers everytime you put a beaver in bad water.

have the decontamination pods near beaver houses . so that they don't die of old age or hunger while traveling to pods . as when contaminated they get -50% life expectancy and less movement speed

It helps to put food and water near the pods, the contaminated beavers move rather slowly.

The music at the start goes hard! 👌

Matt laughing at the Structural engineer who became sick because of Matt's terrible choices.

I love the dichotomy of these videos. Start of the video? Supreme confidence. Middle? Absolute panic. End? Undeniable certainty.

It's always a hoot to watch several beavers simultaneously working on your shaft. That thing is massive!

You should check the quote on the badwater dome. You won't be disappointed!

So the contamination does still indirectly kill the beavers faster. That -10 to well being is enough to decrease their expected lifespan/ meaning they do die younger if contaminated.

15:50 VERY efficient coffee removal.

I think you need another district at this point, the commute to the polluted zone is too long, or at least move the pods to the main settlement.

Having extra storage near by the buildings for the haulers to take from is actually really helpful, the beavers continue to do their job, and the haulers keep everything stocked.

19:10 storing foods and drinks close to the homes is pretty essential. Just make sure to set the further storage to "distribute"

wanna make an omelet, ya gotta break some eggs. "The Incident" was unavoidable

perhaps building your power trains on top of wooden platforms instead of beaver corpses would save some trouble. i also always put a small water tank and warehouse with food in faraway areas so they don't run all the way back.

We will be hearing about "The Incident" until season 20

“Principle of the dong” -RCE 2024

Matt u should build some food and water storage closer to the badwater area so that they can spend more time healing instead of walking

Matt: *already skating on thin ice trying to balance food, water, and logs with 56 beavers.* Also Matt: “should we get robot beavers in here now that everything is solid”

16:12 Anyone else noticed the efficient shape?

I love that the editor put in the *sound* of the “Nice” tongue-click when Matt noticed he had 69 scrap metal. 🤣😂🤣🤦🏼‍♂️ It kinda made my brain happy lol

Matt’s videos are so funny. It starts out with a this is a how to success tutorial, then goes to an OH NO WHAT DID I DO WRONG, and finished with a I CANNOT BE STOPPED. 😂

I have to chuckle at the powerplant. 'Mad power at 1700 hp!' By channeling water, I get more than that from three water wheels.

Matt was improving, but he is going back to his old self. Just keep upping priority!

I can’t put the why into words but this is honestly my favorite series on UKposts, RCE thank you man, I’m having a hard time enjoying anything in life right now and your videos are helping an insane amount.

"welcome back to timber--borners" the most classic line of timberborner history.

Give the beavers 100% well being and green up the map.

Why didn't build the Decontamination near the main settlement? The time it takes them to reach it would reduced by a huge margin which would allow them to complete healing. Also the Beaver that died in old age had a shortened lifespan due to be afflicted which reduced their stats meaning the blood is still in your hands.

I gasp every time I get the notification that a new episode is out! I LOVE TIMBERBORNERS!!!!

That was the strongest coffee removal!

The developer announced they'll add at least 10 more priority options to the buildings. They mentioned some players only take the next highest priority instead of having more beavers or reducing the priority of some buildings for a slight automation.

One of my favorite series, excited to see it become a big city

Matt, if you had kept that water inlet 1 block depth you could keep that reservatory 1 block high during the dry season, because this way you whould pump 1 block from that reservatory but when its level gets equalts to the inlet it should stop to be pumped even if you keep pumping the main reservatory

Bro that long walk to the decontamination pods, lmao

Bahahahaha....how appropriate, I finally made an episode (@19:04) and I LOVE Coffee!!!

season 7 episode 12!!! wow Matt you are beaver king! keep the videos coming I love watching this series.

RCE: One thing I did for the contaminated was to build a small water tank and food warehouse so they don't have to walk so far to eat and drink. I tried placing small housing but it doesn't mean they'll use it.

I wonder if the powershaft could connect to the second level of one of those building or comeing down to the first level in the corner by the gear building from the second level for a strighter path.

One thing you could do to improve efficiency is wherever you have a distant work area, station some food and water there. Likewise the decontamination pods should be as near as possible to where the beavers sleep, and there should be food and water nearby too. That way you don't waste time with unnecessary travel, so things get done faster.

Matt, a tip for priorities: put your haulers, builders and research on low prio. They speed stuff up, but you can do without them. High prio water and food so you never run out of the essentials

Have a look at the description of the badwater discharge when its built... Not description but the weird quote thingys

all week waited for that video! :) THANK YOU

I'd like to see the beavers as happy as possible

I've been waiting for the perfect time to watch this!

I’ve been waiting all week for this to be posted 😃

Water, wood and farmers always get maximum priority. Everything producing advanced food get high priority, as well as District carriers. Normal carriers get low priority. This way you can always be sure to have enough ressources in a emergency to build up.

*Makes beavers work in unsafe conditions like an architect.* "How have I messed up so badly already?"

Max well being should be next mission… this series is my fav

Love the series. Have you figured out the forester near your water source yet? You need to mark some trees for planting! Also, you should check out some more mods. Ladders and vertical shafts are game changers, side platforms can be really useful in some situations, and I love that the ferris wheel takes the wellbeing points up to 69 😉

I love eastenders intro for a game about wood

I love the "haha, I shouldnt laugh, hahaha"

The Eastenders intro killed me!

The mountain inbetween your wheat plantation and water, dynamite it to leveled ground and grow trees on that spot! If robot factories are planned you'll need at ton of basic materials like wood 😉 Remember that you have access to x3 dynamite depth

Yay! Love Timberborn series

Cant wait to see what RCE does with the gravity batteries! Tower of power incoming!!

The best part of Friday is here!

You gotta work on logistics by building small buffer storages for in-/output next to producers and utilize jobs priorities. Without those efficiency will always suffer and micromanagement would be required.

So...the biggest thing I think you should do to improve things here is that you need to stop focusing everything in the center of town. You need to start thinking in terms of hubs. If one area is going to have a lot of activity then it needs food and water supplies near it. As it stands you have food and water monopolized in the center of town. Contaminated beavers have -70% walking speed so it takes them almost twice as long to get anywhere, especially with the decontamination pods being on the other side of civilization...that's risking a huge disease outbreak. If you create a lot more breeding pods (and reset all priorities to zero) you can have builders and haulers be the ones who are essentially the "unemployed" beavers (basically the ones who aren't doing a specific task). I recently started playing The Universim and the logic of workers works similarly in that game. Any adult that is not assigned to a specialty job is classified as a "Laborer" and they are required for all your construction work.

You should put a barracks and food storage near the decontamination things

I always hear welcome back to timberboners

Once again, the Timberborner's perfectly engineered theme fills me with engineering energy

Appreciate how Matt is wondering what everybody is doing while neglecting to see that the info in top left is showing how has a shortage of over 20 beavers. (20+ more jobs than population)

Day 155 of me asking Matt to continue playing Minecraft

9:25 Yeah... None of the civ engineers are sick, because of the incident, there is none around anymore... :/

add more homes to increase your workforce for your next projects. add more food production and water storage. and maybe reward them with a dance hall so they can party after work.

This episode is a fine example of why districts are still very important.

damn i love this series

Next episode you should stabilize the job market.

6:49 I think you should change chanel depth to only 1 block. Because now when big reservoir will be drain by 2 levels then smaller on also will be empty. With 1 depth channel you could fill smaller one but draining will only take the top level

-Put roof on houses ! -Build pods near housing !

Build a dam to flood the area next to the coffee maker for some aqua crops since they all need one depth.

Watching this while making my own bad water

first time he didnt see THE STRONGEST SHAPE.

For fun, I've gone to sandbox mode games with the drought lengths ramped to 35-42 days, depending on the map... You can make this a LOT more painful for those beavers.

Some good thinking here: you don't have to waste time putting out all the little fires when you can just let them combine into one giant fire!

Fun fact: you can build platforms *over* power shafts. If you lay them down in the badwater first, you can build power shafts underneath from the safety of a nice dry pier!

You and Biffa should do a collaboration