Timberborn 1.0 Secretly Turns Your Beaver Colony Into A Factorio Sim
The beloved beaver city-builder just left early access, and it brought a massive, highly explosive secret feature along with it.
If there is one thing more terrifying than a beaver with a chainsaw, it is a beaver with a degree in electrical engineering.
The highly acclaimed city-builder Timberborn has finally chewed its way out of early access after 4 years. While players were fully expecting the 1.0 launch to bring new maps and some fresh environmental hazards, developer Mechanistry managed to keep one massive, game-changing feature a complete secret until today.
Automation is officially here, and it completely changes how you play the game. Factorio lovers, stick around, you’ll love this.
WELCOME TO FACTORIO, BUT WET
The massive 1.0 update introduces twenty brand-new buildings designed entirely around logic and automation. If you have ever lost your mind wiring up complex conveyor belts in other factory games, you are going to feel right at home.
Your furry little architects now have access to levers, logic relays, flow sensors, power meters, and weather stations. You can even build detonators to trigger explosives. Giving beavers high explosives is exactly the kind of chaos this game needed.
According to the developers, you can use these new nodes to completely automate your city defenses. You can program your floodgates to automatically slam shut the absolute second a tide of toxic “badwater” approaches your colony. You can also set up systems that automatically pause your production lines if raw materials start running low, saving you from a colony-ending drought.
Unlike the rocky launches of live-service titles like Highguard, Timberborn is entering its 1.0 era as a beautifully polished, feature complete masterpiece. The game currently holds a very high 95% “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating on Steam across nearly 40,000 reviews.
If you have been waiting for the game to finally leave early access, now is the perfect time to jump in. Timberborn is currently running a 20% launch discount on Steam to celebrate the milestone.
Grab your hardhat. It is time to start wiring up those floodgates.
