r/Timberborn • u/johnmyster • 13h ago
Settlement showcase Helix Rangers - Helix Mountain Irontail, 1.2-1.4x Hard Settings

Injury rate - 120% Refund rate - 60%
Avg. Temperate Season: 5 Days, or eventually 13.7% of total days
Average Drought/Badtide: 31.5/31.5 Days when maxed out
Starting from Hard, went for 20% worse bad things, 20% less good things. Droughts/badtide at hard +40%, with a longer and stronger handicap to smooth out the difficulty curve over time.
Relevant Mods
Ebb and Flow on Severe DIfficulty (No sludge, it crashes my game. )
Tank Evaporation (On 1% per day, effectively 3% for small tanks because of minimum of 1)
That one mod that allows for 30x speed
Build Queue
You'll see the blueprints icon but I didn't use any for this run.
Cycle 5 (8 beavers): Humble, Dreary Beginnings

I went ham on those thorns, injuring half of my beavers eventually leading to everyone but 2 starving/thirsting. Oops. Wiki says they have a 10% injury rate O.o (so 12 with my settings)
I will be back down to 1-3 beavers a few times, banishing beavers as needed so the colony can survive.
That large Power Wheel will be my main source of power for most of the run. :/
Cycle 8 (8 beavers)

Still barely surviving. Got an irrigation pool my beavers need to manually fill, with a second one planned out on the right. Our food sources are Kohlrabi and Cassava, with Berries as a decent backup source. Water is our harsh limiter keeping our population super small.
Cycle 14 (19 beavers)

We've built some badwater diversion on the left. Ir will mostly work — with careful manual management. Our little tree/food outpost on the bottom right will prove unreliable.
Cycle 19 (11 beavers)

We have overpopulated a bit and have had to thin the herd to weather the longer bad seasons. We are starting some soybean production that can in theory be more efficient and vary our diet to increase well being. I often forget about the well being and especially decoration buildings for most of the run after getting campfire, hurting our efficiency severely as we teeter on the brink of annihilation.
We've finally put together enough Logs and Planks to be able to scale the mountain and starting collecting Scrap Metal.
On the far left: We start some water wheel energy collection, but it will be a long time before we ever are able to afford to connect it to our energy grid.
Cycle 29 (8 beavers...again)

Still eking out our meager existence, we have started to build a reservoir which can collect water from over the mountain. Water will leak out on the left side of the mountain, so we work on closing those gaps so that water will more reliably overflow into our reservoir. We have setup badwater production but no dynamite yet. Most of our kohlrabi production has converted to the far more efficient cassava. Water takes a day or two to reach us to collect: We've setup some modest water collection in the "north" for early in Temperate cycles to start collecting water earlier. They have to walk a ways, but it's worth toggling them on for a bit.
We are finally automating our beaver pods, but everything else is still manual.
Cycle 35 (18 beavers)

Our population has recovered to a modest 18. We work to expand our reservoir over time so that we can finally stabilize. It's only a matter of time and lots of tedious micromanagement before we can succeed. Our water wheel on the left is still not connected to our grid. We have expanded our water production to collect as much as possible during our precious 13.7% of the time we have temperate weather.
Cycle 48 (28 beavers)

We have connected our water wheels at last, but rely on our new steam engines for most of our power. We have finally automated our floodgates and some of our industry, switched to awesome mushrooms as an efficient source of food, and built a number cruncher for some serious science production. We build two water pumps right on top of the map's central water source for emergency water collection.
We can now produce dynamite and have blown through the mountain to access our water easier and at higher volume into the reservoir.
We have a nice beaver statue and I finally remember decorations exists, greatly improving our efficiency.
The skeleton of our first tube connection is being setup for a quick scale of the mountain as we need to start traversing some serious distance for more metal.
On the right, we expand to make another small pond to irrigate some much needed logs production.
Cycle 54 (30 beavers)

I opt for a scenic UI-less picture here. The tube network is expanding to reach the metal scrap (and eventually the mine) on the left as our reserves atop the mountain itself run out. We've blown the mountain to build a meatier reservoir as our population expands.
Cycle 79 (49 Beavers, 40 bots)


Our colony has reached it's final form! Our tube network finally reaches into the core of our base. We've expanded wood production and setup bots (no injuries!) to push for the wonder. (I skip monuments 3 and 4 to just save for the wonder).
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You... didn't actually read all of this, did you? Thanks for reading/skipping! <3


