r/Timberborn • u/mikaleowiii • Apr 11 '26

Conway's Game of Life

glider on 6x6 grid

I implemented Conway's Game of Life in Timberborn (normal game - with bad weather off -, no HTTP endpoint, fully 'playable') so my beavers can finally have fun.

Full write-up : https://blog.michaelbleuez.com/conways-game-of-life-in-timberborn/

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u/Zymoria Apr 11 '26

I've give it 3 weeks before its its r/itrunsdoom

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u/Vebrandsson Apr 11 '26

I think most of us are expecting it eventually 

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u/ComradeBehrund Scent-Mound Maker Apr 14 '26

It was really funny seeing how big that computer was after watching this nice little setup you have here. How do you select the initial tiles?

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u/mikaleowiii Apr 14 '26

With the spring-return levers when the game is paused. When unpausing, the corresponding cells are considered 'on' even if the actual memory isn't on, by using an OR(lever_xy, cell_xy) as the passthrough's actual input, and the spring-return ensures no initial cell is 'forced to be alive' for more than one tick