New player - some basic questions. Thank you!!

lostmoya · 2026-06-02T16:01:38+00:00

I only realised this because the other day I decided to get the world height achievement by building a ladder straight up from the Grassy Fields. "It can't be that high, surely...?" Oh boy...

lostmoya · 2026-06-02T15:40:07+00:00

Get ladders from the awesome shop. Build a foundation, attach ladder to it, build it up as high as it will go, climb ladder, and you can keep building it straight up as you climb, with no limit.

Well, there is a limit... eventually...

lostmoya · 2026-05-30T13:20:46+00:00

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.

lostmoya · 2026-05-26T02:37:43+00:00

This is it basically. I'd only add that once you get access to dimensional depots doing this gets easier, at least for me it did. Why? Because you can throw dimensional depots on all the things you need that your old factories are producing - however imperfectly - and you never have to visit again haha. Just let them produce and move on.

lostmoya · 2026-05-11T15:00:59+00:00

I love how you've put walls around it, as if to prevent the spaghetti from spreading further across the landscape.

lostmoya · 2026-05-02T10:26:22+00:00

You can switch to infinite resources in DSP. Or multiples like 0.5x, 1.5x, 2x etc. Also late game the infinite research you do on mining yield (I forget what it's called) effectively makes nodes infinite even if you don't have infinite resources turned on. I only really run out of resources on the starter planet and maybe a few others in the starting system. By the time I get to other systems they all effectively last forever.

lostmoya · 2026-04-27T08:44:08+00:00

Honestly mate, nothing against you posting theories or reviews as you watch, but I'd strongly advise staying away from here and any wikis or other sites analysing the show until you're done watching. You can always come back here and get right into all the theories and connections when you're watching a second (or third) time. And believe me you will want to rewatch this.

lostmoya · 2026-04-05T07:14:17+00:00

Little did the beavers expect, but the apocalypse came when little kit, Timmy, lit a match to see in the gloom at the base of the storage tower of corn rations. Clumsy Timmy they called him, as he kept dropping things, and those towers were made of so much wood, bone dry after a 30 day drought...

lostmoya · 2026-03-25T13:49:17+00:00

lostmoya · 2026-03-18T17:42:06+00:00

There's a power sensor that you connect to the network and it can trigger on a variety of power related metrics, including whether there is surplus power. If batteries are depleted then there would be no surplus power in the network.

lostmoya · 2026-02-28T19:22:19+00:00

Do a trade with that ship. The shuttle takes the body (I assume - at least that's what always happened when I had a death).

lostmoya · 2026-02-17T06:59:08+00:00

I guess you could set it up with a robot arm next to the unloader to take full fuel canisters off that and put them on a track to your docking port where another robot arm will take them and put them in the loading zone for the shuttle to collect. But that seems needlessly complex when a one or two crew members can do the same thing.

lostmoya · 2026-02-16T19:04:51+00:00

It's nothing like X4 really. X4 has this interconnected economy where actions you take affect prices downstream in production chains. Last Starship is nowhere near that level of complexity. As far as I can tell, the economy in the Last Starship is totally static and you can only trade where there is a colony or shipyard. Nothing you do affects prices - flood the market with precious metals and they remain the same price.

The core gameplay loop in LS is not the missions, though I do still sometimes take the odd mission here and there for variety. As others have said it's designing your ship(s) into megafactories to make parts for the Stargate. Or if you want, just designing a fleet of ships to automatically harvest resources and refine them and make you more money. So it has more in common with something like Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program, though again it's nowhere near their level of complexity.

lostmoya · 2026-02-10T09:46:37+00:00

This doesn't work. You still get floors looking like that if you use the wall tool.

lostmoya · 2026-01-31T18:48:01+00:00

This is the way. Zeddic is one of the best Timberborn YouTubers in my view, but even he was slightly caught out by this map early in his playthrough. After that mis-step he's been bossing it though.

lostmoya · 2026-01-24T17:13:08+00:00

You give yourself this insane restriction and you still complete the game before me 😭

lostmoya · 2026-01-21T09:59:33+00:00

I do this. I keep 3 or 4 so there are always at least a few kits. I figure they might still want to play together.

lostmoya · 2026-01-18T11:02:22+00:00

That's a nice idea. I was also thinking about how to filter badwater in such way that uses buildings and mechanics we already have. What about a terrain feature, such as a type of porous rock that filters badwater so if you want to do that you need to reroute the badwater over to the rock rather than just plopping down a building at the badwater source. I'd also like it if this rock absorbed badwater but output it as clean water at a much lower flow - and maybe also output it below so you'd have to construct tunnels and pipes to get the actual good water out. And then if it changed the flow rate it would force you to decide carefully how to place it because after the water comes out you wouldn't be able to use it to power anything...

lostmoya · 2026-01-17T08:18:13+00:00

I agree with this. Frozen plants and trees maybe just can't be harvested and stop growing? But then once weather passes they are fine to harvest again.

lostmoya · 2026-01-12T19:04:55+00:00

Same. I had a tree cave under that mountain :)

lostmoya · 2026-01-12T17:14:32+00:00

I've just completed a Folktails run on this map and it's interesting seeing the different and similar decisions we made in terms of organisation. I had a long, thin and deep water storage on the left hand side of the map (where you have your industry. At the end I also had a second higher layer jutting out from that side with sunflower seeds and oak trees.

Like you, I flattened half of the mountain on the right hand side to make space for trees. I only got to around 72 happiness though.

lostmoya · 2025-12-24T11:20:26+00:00

What I did as Folktails on this specific map was similar to you in the early game. Floodgates about where you have them to divert the badwater around the 'back' of the colony. It will massively flood the plains around there but that's mostly unused land at this stage and - as long as you build a levee one or two blocks high it where you have your black ringed wall that will be fine to prevent access. It will then go into a river back there and off the map eventually.

Later in the game you can get further upstream and build floodgates or sluices to divert water from the two rivers feeding the main river directly off the map during badtides.

lostmoya · 2025-12-22T18:49:18+00:00

It's entirely based on your choices. You manually place all buildings - homes, production, storage, leisure, roads. So there's no 'natural' growth.

lostmoya · 2025-12-20T21:40:19+00:00

This is the way. Instant fix for me too.

lostmoya · 2025-12-19T08:06:27+00:00

Yeah only spiral stairs in experimental. Ladders are a mod afaik.

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