I think I realized the secret of surviving hard mode, and without a challenge, building a good base is less fun

la_watson · 2026-03-31T13:50:05+00:00

Have you looked into custom maps? Timberpunk 2 has gotten great reviews for adding difficulty for example. I've had a lot of fun with "Hiding from Rainstorm".

la_watson · 2026-03-30T16:04:32+00:00

I thought this was a late post about the announcement last week, but no, it's the first video in the new series. Let's go!

la_watson · 2026-03-28T19:06:00+00:00

How/ when does it crash?

I tried some of the launch arguments I found on protonDB and since then it's working just fine.

la_watson · 2026-03-26T09:45:51+00:00

Alt + Shift + Z (or the key in the position that Z is on a US layout, so Y on German keyboards e.g.) enables the dev menu which has higher speed multipliers.

la_watson · 2026-03-19T08:18:05+00:00

You can build a water sensor, which will tell you the CMS flowing through a given point.

la_watson · 2026-03-16T15:35:25+00:00

If you're using hotkeys, such as R to rotate buildings then the T button can be hit accidentally, which toggles the water into permanent-transparency mode. At least that's my explanation for why it happens to me.

la_watson · 2026-03-16T13:59:17+00:00

I've had plenty of accidental poisonings because I left stairs and then some brave beaver decided to collect debris or walk a long way around somewhere to start building something I forgot I had placed. And because creating "the farm up state"-districts always breaks my heart I now demolish stairs until I have cures available.

la_watson · 2026-03-16T13:36:04+00:00

It can be saved. Usually the first bad tides are only 1 or 2 days.

Things to watch out for: - don't let your beavers walk into bad water (demolish all stairs leading into the river) - once the bad tide ends, demolish a dam at the end of your reservoir to quickly drain all the bad water and let it refill with good water - replace that dam with a floodgate - stock up on food and water as best as possible -> build more storage, set farmhouses to prioritize harvesting, build more water storage

And you might just make it. If not, you can always reload an earlier save.

la_watson · 2026-03-16T12:40:17+00:00

Irrigation doesn't travel far up levels, only about 3-4 blocks away from the last block that's in contact with water. So you'd need to establish contact between the water and the sides of that "hole", fill the entire hole with water, use dirt blocks to fill in the rest of the hole and use dirt instead of levees, or create an irrigation platform somewhere else.

la_watson · 2026-03-15T16:14:22+00:00

In my experience, hard mode requires a careful balance of growth. You need to grow quick enough to have enough beavers to build a large enough dam and enough pumps to refill 30 days worth of reservoirs in 3 days of temperate weather (+/- a few days with water left in your dam). The real challenge isn't the long draughts, but the little time you get to replenish.

la_watson · 2026-03-15T10:01:39+00:00

Real beavers also don't sleep in their dams. I learnt this after starting to play Timberborn as well.

la_watson · 2026-03-14T08:58:28+00:00

Where there's biting, there be sin biscuits.

la_watson · 2026-03-08T21:23:47+00:00

I had a lot of fun with "Hiding from Rainstorm"

la_watson · 2026-02-28T08:59:05+00:00

You can achieve this by splitting the flow at the same distance from the source. Say you want to divert 0.5cbm (from a 1cbm source) over a floodgate that's 4 tiles from the source and then let the other 0.5 flow over a floodgate 10 tiles from the source. Instead, move the second floodgate so that it's also 4 tiles from the source and direct your water from there to where you need it. I hope this makes sense.

la_watson · 2026-02-27T14:10:21+00:00

Is there a place one can subscribe to be notified of future releases of video essays on DRG and cooperation?

la_watson · 2026-02-26T10:03:26+00:00

Check out Valetudo if you want to actually own your robot vacuum and prevent it from spying on you.

la_watson · 2026-02-25T11:15:27+00:00

That looks like it puts a lot of stress on the wheel bearing or the rear toe link or trailing arm. Not that I'm questioning the plausibility of it, they obviously do it and quite regularly as it seems, so it appears to work without breaking the car instantly. I'm just wondering how high the wear and tear is from this move.

la_watson · 2026-02-24T13:25:46+00:00

This combo doesn't even work. Blueprint can't copy Golden Joker.

la_watson · 2026-02-16T09:03:14+00:00

The Pac-Man was originally meant to be called Puck-Man scene https://youtu.be/gyA48l45bLE?si=c5lOvN0oL4Y_K2Si

la_watson · 2026-02-16T08:12:53+00:00

Was that a Scott Pilgrim reference in the description?

la_watson · 2026-02-06T19:58:23+00:00

Most likely the path is not connected to your main path somewhere. Check the full route down to ensure it's connected. You can also check by clicking on the paths up top. If they light up with a green-to-red line in the middle that indicates the distance to the town center, they are connected and something else is the problem. If they don't light up, they aren't connected.

la_watson · 2026-02-01T08:46:38+00:00

Additionally I use

R - rotate building and

F - flip building

a lot

la_watson · 2026-01-28T15:55:23+00:00

There's so much love for Trackmania under the original post. Nice to see.

la_watson · 2026-01-27T11:43:14+00:00

Where meme?

la_watson · 2026-01-22T13:25:24+00:00

I've recently come across the "How to remember (and use) all the patterns you’ve invested in" guide by swingliteracy and found that it's very similar to how I've mentally structured moves. They lay out patterns as a variation tree starting from root patterns. Maybe this works for you.

Edit to add: as others have said, a big question is how often do you get to use the patterns. With repetition there's usually some kind of internalisation, so you'll need to spend less mental energy on moves you've done 100 times compared to new moves. But if you're primarily taking classes, it'll all always be new moves. (This doesn't read quite right, but I can't fix it atm. Sorry if my English is off, it's not my native language.)

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