3D water physics and more - Timberborn Update 6 brings big changes 

Technically, they should, but it's fine, because by the time you have enough resources to do that, it's already "far enough" into the game. In other games, you'll have researched hydroponics or something like that by then. If anything, We should get "sun lamps" or something like that and still let us make the farm under our cities. I've been wanting to do that for so long. Or even like, put grass/dirt on top of houses and plant some food on the roofs, kind of like, roof gardens... like they have in some places.

Hopefully the devs address this in the future. For now we can just set our own rules, I know I will.

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One way valves you say? ::Homer Simpson noises:: My builds always devolve into> >before bad tide: big dam/reservoir with a single wide full height outlet abusing the 2.2 flow rate of a tile edge to ensure a constant flow of exactly 2.2 units of water flow(or 4.4/6.6, you get the idea) out into the irrigation network till the dam was empty or otherwise, and taking off as much power as I could/needed in the meen time. That slowly evolved to completely defeating the "anti perpetual motion" mechanics, and would be pumping the spent water back into the dam and the only loss was evaporation/direct use or overfilling. >After bad tide: All the above except the perpetual motion machine went in-front of the dam inlet to power the pumps that filter and feed the dam, that outlets back to the filters again resulting in once again only clean water loss being evaporation, direct use, or overfilling the reservoir. What it is looking like after 3d water: a couple of those sluice gates and the filtering is set on the inlet side(hell of a lot cheaper/easier then a mechanical pump), wonder what the flow rate is on a sluice gate?, I beleave they said they abandoned the anti perpetual motion "solution" that initially implemented(the resistance each wheel added or whatever), and pumps are 2 blocks longer now, took two of the three usable levels from a water pimp to power itself with the last layer being your over unity take off, if nothing else changed two more water layers makes it two layers to power the pumps and three to take off and be industrious little beavers with.

And while they are at it, they could finally have the sun move independently of the camera.

I think it is tempered somewhat by the cost of the overhangs - you would need a pretty solid economy before you could cover your crops that way. Personally I think I would like the reverse: buildings underneath and crops on the roof tops. I wondering if at some point we'll have the ability to place soil or farmable plots on top of solid structures.

@@ZeddTheBuilder I think that would be the best solution. Require sunlight for crops for realism, but give us planters to place on rooftops. Maybe add a crop that doesn't require sunlight, like mushrooms.

id see this as an oversight and id put money on them doing a patch to kill the carrots if they are in daytime shadow all the time.

@@FlyingFox86it’s a good thing that mushrooms are already in the game then

Plates are not going to work, as they let water through, if it rises from below. So you have to put levees on the platforms.

@harry68784 - Good news! They just patched that on experimental. Impermeable floors are now solid from top and bottom.

You could just make a little thing like he did in the video here with the aquaponics farm. Have a little sluice pond and have your pumps off of that.

@@adamt195yeah but that’s the easy solution lol

Put your pump next to the reservoir and have a sluice at the bottom feed a small pool for the pump to utilize.

I just did a quick test and yes you can. Once sealed, water will fill the pipe and can go upwards at pipe bends. It acted similar to the pipe example near the end of this video.

@@ZeddTheBuilder Great! Thanks for confirming. That means you can build some really high water reservoirs without having to build the reservoir around the source blocks or using pumps.

im using it to great success on the map with all the craters and large pools to prevent bad tides from affecting the main water source by diverting it upwards and away

I have a scrap metal mine completely submerged in a lake with a tunnel up to the surface.

I just wrote it off as a minor speach impediment. It really should be said like loose with a leading S.

That’s a mispronunciation on my part that made it through my post editing 😨

Thanks, to me it sounded like he was saying 'sleuth gate'

Heck you can prob even have whole underwater cities and farms. Get like a bioshock beaver community going.

You can use levees or most other solid buildings.

You can most certainly build tunnels now. I have a mine that's completely under a lake with dry tunnels going down to it.

@@mephInc that is true actually! Didn't think of that. still would like placeable tunnel structures though:)

@@abyssal_phoenix Yeah, it is kinda poopy that tunnels have to be 3 wide but they do work. You can also build pipes and push water uphill ;)

Don't even need a water pump, just use a sluice gate.

​@@justinwhite2725 Yes but you can also pump water uphill using pipes as well

Thank you. They added these and I could swear I already had them lol

Certainly not. I have around 500 beavers and 250 bots and the pathing crawls when trying to add new routes. Same with time of day changes.

You can

Yes you can! If you combine platforms and overhangs you can making dams that hang over other parts of your city.

It's available to play on the experimental branch, no specific release time yet as far as I know

If you hold down the control key on your keyboard while you are building it will insert the building prebuilt! It works for resources like food and trees too. I always forget and end up having to delete the preview

@@ZeddTheBuilder thank you so much!! And thank you for the upload as well, i learned what the first option of the sluice was about as well as how to pronounce that word lol

No worries! I think my pronunciation was a bit off in the video: I think its supposed to be more like “sloos”, similar to “loose”

It's a very inquisitive gate! I didn't realize until after publishing that its pronounced "sloos"

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