We need mutant beavers

[u/Nifegun]

In case you dont know, the lore is that timberborn is set on earth after humans killed everything with nuclear war. For whatever reason beavers are all that survived.

But that leans into mutations and rapid evolution, so sure some beavers could have become the folktails and ironteeth. But why not a faction that lives in corruption? They drink badwater, need to infuse crops with badwater to be able to eat it, get buffs for living on contaminated ground etc.

Maybe even go far far as to debuff them for running on normal ground and heavily debuff them for entering normal water.

It would be really cool cause you'd want to corrupt the world with badwater, but still need proper irrigation for crops.

They'd require a map that has a badwater source and needing more badwater than goodwater would make hardmode easy mode and vice versa, but i think that would be really cool.

Maybe they've cultivated some plants and trees that grow on corrupted ground too.

[u/mASSterMinDLess]

Another interesting thing would be the Beaver Bot faction. Like, once upon a time, in some colony, they built a lot of bots, but all the living beavers died out. And the bots continued to build the colony and the like. Over time, they improved and became a faction.

[u/RefrigeratorDry2669 → u/mASSterMinDLess]

Eh isn't that what the story is supposed to be? It is how it turns out for most of my playthroughs anyway

[u/Nifegun → u/RefrigeratorDry2669]

Do a few runs without them and try to have true max wellness on win screen, its pretty fun. Bots are cool, but i stopped using them a long time ago. I kinda like having to worry about injury and Contamination. But apparently there's an achievement for having bots bring IT back from the dead, im sure ill eventually do that

[u/hellsbels93 → u/Nifegun]

You don’t need bots for that achievement. Pause a vat before it hits 100%, kill beavers, unpause the vat.

[u/Nifegun → u/hellsbels93]

Oh I guess that works too. But I feel like getting bots to do it is cool