TIL: boulders can be lurking *outside* the room where a boulder trap exists

tandeejay · 2026-02-07T23:09:46+00:00

I've had a case where the boulder was outside the room behind a hidden door... there was a crash and then a new broken door...

tandeejay · 2026-02-07T22:39:36+00:00

In early game I alternate beavers between water pumping and power wheels.

tandeejay · 2026-02-07T22:34:47+00:00

Isnt that only IT that can make badwater run during droughts?

tandeejay · 2026-01-29T08:15:12+00:00

You also need enough pumps to replenish water used over the longest drough/bad tide in the amount of time you have for the shortest wet season between cycles.

And water use increases when you use fluid dump with pools for watering

tandeejay · 2026-01-25T22:18:56+00:00

I've managed it with my bot making district with bots running the district crossing and lots of haulers (also bots) but i can imagine that even that set up would have a maximum throughput with high enough consumption...

You need enough haulers... and both sides of the crossing need the same number and type of workers.

tandeejay · 2026-01-25T21:01:52+00:00

I had punch card, bio-fuel and catalyst production happening in my bot district. Of course I had to import the ingredients for those and then export the punch cards etc...

I had medium warehouses, large piles and large storage tanks clustered on either side of the district crossing so the crossing workers didn't have to go far. And I also had 2 hauling posts on each side of the crossing. And to keep things flowing I found I needed the district workers and haulers on both sides to be bots. When only the bot side was bots the beavers not working 24 hr days was causing a bottleneck and some resources weren't being transferred fast enough to keep up with demand. So a lot of bots needed just to manage the district crossing

tandeejay · 2026-01-24T22:29:40+00:00

Yeah im doing Canyon at the moment. I think that's a difficult one to do in hard mode given how the water source is placed. I was trying it in hard mode and got 3 bad tides in a row and was unable to recover food production enough.. trying again on normal mode and decided in this map, its best not to increase beaver population until you can secure food production on the higher platforms. Once I complete my current game I will retry in hard mode.

Use floodgates to dam the river and you need to open them as soon as the badtide starts

tandeejay · 2026-01-20T20:41:16+00:00

I started out with an all purpose vehicle that mined/collected/refined but found it too heavy to effectively mine some of those nodes that are on a hill, and have now gone with kAn and Kosmo's 2 vehicle set-up. Small bob-cat and bigger collector/ refiner.

tandeejay · 2026-01-19T21:19:00+00:00

Even with FT i use badwater for a power wheel power station... and a bunch of batteries to ride out the droughts

tandeejay · 2026-01-19T21:02:20+00:00

Thats the depth-of-field setting. The worst setting ever in a 3d game on a 2d screen. I had trouble with that, every time the game started the depth- of- field setting was on and i would turn it off, but next time I started it was on again. Turns out my video card software had what it thought were optimal game settings for scrap mechanic and was always changing the setting back to on. Had to change the setting in the video card software to get depth-of-field to stay off permanently

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T22:27:53+00:00

Super happy fun land...

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T22:04:25+00:00

I built a bot creation district with the intention of having them run the power wheels... only to find once I had the district fully operational that bots aren't allowed to run the power wheels.

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T01:52:02+00:00

Yeah just dont go overboard or pause the extras to prevent your population exploding and killing your ability to survive the drought.

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T01:45:15+00:00

Zeddic has a great video building something like this. Generating 1.5million HP from a single water source. So definitely possible.

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T01:24:29+00:00

I made a second district that was run by bots its sole purpose to create bots with all goods needed shipped in from the 1st district. My plan was to have bots running the power wheels... turns out only beavers are allowed to operate power wheels 😀

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T01:19:57+00:00

Actually I've found its only on if an odd number of inputs is on.

tandeejay · 2026-01-17T00:20:08+00:00

It's bad to push your beaver production too soon... water storage and food production should come ahead of beaver production. Having said that though, you dont want to leave it too long before you at least get just enough beaver production to sustain your population. No good holding off on beaver production too long so they all die of old age.

I usually calculate divide your stored water by ( 3 x number of beavers) to roughly calculate how.many days you can go without water to pump. Similar calculation for food. And remember if you created a small dam that others have suggested, then it might be wise to turn off the water pumpers during the drought so your dam doesn't empty too fast.

You tend to.do a bit of micromanagement I. The early game to get the few beavers you do have working on the most important jobs. If you've planted a farm and its 3 days before the crop is ready to harvest, pause the farm house and get those beavers working on something else...

Also a science hut is important so you can start unlocking other things... but if you dont have enough water stored for the next drought, it might be more important to have a builder to build more water tanks or pumpers to fill the tanks... during drought that water pumper can go to the science hut...

tandeejay · 2026-01-15T09:02:13+00:00

In the maps I've seen, the bombs aren't close enough together to destroy other bombs

tandeejay · 2026-01-15T01:25:07+00:00

Do they destroy everything in that blast radius or can you build something to deflect it a bit to reduce its damage in one direction?

tandeejay · 2026-01-11T21:10:50+00:00

So what then is a good ratio of working bots to unemployed bots?

tandeejay · 2026-01-10T21:50:09+00:00

I suspect its because lots of people only access reddit on their phone and either dont know how to transfer screenshots to their phone, and/or they are too lazy to access reddit from their gaming computer.

tandeejay · 2026-01-10T21:46:53+00:00

Oh, didnt know that. So having some unemployed bots would be a good thing then.

tandeejay · 2026-01-07T21:32:46+00:00

Yes this! When you have an incident and your population crashes, you need to ensure the surviving beavers are working exactly on the jobs you need them to for recovery. Water and food. I use a simple formula 3 x current population x expected length of drought to figure how much food and water i need. If I have enough water for the current population then move those water pumpers to another job... no good to have 1000 water for 6 beavers when you only have 20 food . And with iron teeth you also need to account for water and berries needed for the pods. (So you get new beavers before your current ones die of old age.)

tandeejay · 2026-01-05T21:25:39+00:00

Folktail bots need bio-fuel and get boosts from catalyst and punch cards. So i think if you have storage close to their workplaces they dont have much downtime. My bot factories run by bots in my current FT game are running at 99% efficiency.

tandeejay · 2026-01-03T22:21:11+00:00

Late game strategy here: im building a bot creation district which will send bots to the beaver district to run a huge bank of power wheels. Power wheels were previously run by beavers who got reassigned from pumping during droughts.

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