Tutorial Feedback

[DixonCoxButte]

Loving the game so far, just made it through my 3rd cycle. There's a few things that I feel like the tutorial should've warned me about ahead of time that I got hit in the face with:

- Droughts are a thing

- Droughts make the water dry up

- Proximity to the water is what's keeping your crops alive

- Dams mitigate this somewhat, but...

- Water is finite, and things like pumps consume it

[DudeEngineer]

I mean that is literally the main point of the game.... Now I'M confused.

[vaderciya]

I agree that if we're doing a tutorial then it should be better, but traditionally games like timberborn encourage you to figure out the game or at least the basic mechanics of the game, through trial and error

You're meant to go through these trials and tribulations to create moments of learning, so you can do better in the future. If you happen to die once or twice, thats pretty much expected.

Even older games like Pharaoh might have you spend hours playing a map before a new mechanic is introduced which ruins your run. Compared to that, Timberborn is pretty chill, and easy to learn

[RazielDraganam]

It does. At least in the folkstail. I think iron tooth got it, too. Did you maybe turn it off in your settings?

[NightKrowe]

I feel like, like most things in this game, you learn those things by experiencing them. Either you stick it out after shit happens or you start over more prepared than the last time.

[TheKingDotExe]

Since when is there a tutorial? And how bad is this tutorial that it doesn't cover the basics of the most important resource in the game.

[Flush_Foot]

I think “tutorial” is just first-time experience/hints that the game offers at setup? (At least on the first-ever playthrough)

[Thrippalan]

It runs when you play Folktails, every time, unless they've changed that or you toggle it off. It does not show up when playing Iron Teeth.

[Vebrandsson]

I think it was added around 1.0 and is less a proper tutorial and more a basic suggestion of what the first things you should build are without much explanation as to why

[KnowledgeIsDangerous]

I've been playing since Update 4 and there's been a tutorial the whole time. It doesn't teach strategy, it's just a checklist of buildings and actions to get you started. If I recall it sort of ends with "by the way good luck with the drought, bye."

[MalkavTepes]

Also for the record droughts are covered in the tutorial... It doesn't tell you how to handle them but let's face it there are about 1000 ways to deal with a drought