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Timberborn

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Simulation
Developer: Mechanistry
Release Date: 2022

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'Timberborn' Early Access Update #7 Coming In May, Adds New Faction-Specific Transit Infrastructure - Trailer

by Rainier on April 10, 2025 @ 4:56 p.m. PDT

Timberborn is a beaver city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, and river control (with dams and dynamite!).

Humans are gone. Will your society of lumberpunk beavers do better?

Mankind turned Earth into a wasteland and perished, but some species survived and evolved. Choose one of the unique beaver families and see how long your colony can last!

Endure catastrophic droughts thanks to millennia of experience in water engineering. Beavers of the future redirect rivers, put up dams and dig canals with explosives. But be careful, uncontrolled flooding is as deadly as a dynamite blast!

Turn timber into sophisticated machinery, buildings, and monuments. Wood is the core resource in Timberborn, but the most advanced structures require metal. To find it, send your scavengers to the ruins of the old world.

Create a thriving beaver settlement using a modular, vertical architecture system. Here, space isn't infinite, so stack lodges and workshops on top of each other, cover hills with fields, and set up a power grid for your growing population.

Timberborn developer Mechanistry revealed the release date for the citybuilder’s next content update. 

As Timberborn winds its way towards 1.0, its two beaver factions receive unique public transit tools to support the ever-growing colonies of their lumberpunk dreams! 

In Timberborn Update 7, the post-apocalyptic beavers bring the wonders of modular urban transit to their settlements. Folktails hop onto ziplines and traverse the wasteland high above the ground while the Iron Teeth speed around through the water-sealed tubeways. 

And since all beavers are master terraformers, in Update 7, they go beyond building simple dams. By putting up the dirt in layers, they now can build hanging gardens, grow plants on their roofs, and even create tunnels and artificial caves.

Timberborn Update 7: Ziplines & Tubeways is coming to Steam on May 8th, 2025.

New Features

  • Ziplines | Extra-fast travel above terrain, connecting Stations with two-way networks high above your settlement. Folktail faction-specific. 
  • Tubeways | Much faster travel built using modular segments that adapt their shape as new lines are connected. Tubeways can travel skyward, and under water and badwater. Iron Teeth faction-specific.
  • 3D Terrain and Tunnels | Beavers learned how to dig tunnels, and the terrain blocks now go on all solid surfaces! Roofs, platforms, and overhangs allow the cultivation of crops and forestry on them, enabling the creation of caves and hanging gardens, all viewable with the improved layer tool. 
  • Modding Improvements and more | Mechanistry continues to make modding Timberborn easier and more approachable for community members. Update 7 also rebalances the game and adds several Quality-of-Life features such as area selection measurement. 

Build a prosperous city with efficient production chains and beaverish nighttime activities. Follow the lives of individually simulated inhabitants throughout their day and celebrate when the next generation is born!

Satisfy the needs of your colonists to extend their lifespan and make them happier. An evolved beaver's lifestyle is not just "work, sleep and chomp on wood". Balanced diet, decorations, temples, even carousels – you take care of it all.

Unlock additional beaver families, each with unique style and traits. While one species might be okay working long shifts, another would rather focus on increasing the population – so choose what fits your playstyle.

Play on one of the included maps or create your own and share it with the community! With green hills of different height, ruins scattered in the desert, and twisting rivers you will build dams on, each map poses a different challenge.

Timberborn is coming to PC (Steam/GOG/Epic Games Store) in 2024.


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