City builder Beaver Timberborn gears up for its first content updates.
‘Beaver city-builder remains my favorite three-word game description at, well, always, and any excuse to keep using it is fine by me. After a successful Steam Early Access debut, the developers behind Timberborn are starting to prepare for the game’s first major content updates. For now, we have fences, but more important things are being prepared.
Starting with today’s update, you can now build log fences, plank fences, and metal fences. They are all intended as decorative objects, so they will help give your buildings a more organized feel. As the developers point out in the ad, the paper mill has also been redesigned with a more symmetrical model to facilitate integration in your city.
There are some changes to the needs system here too, with more to come. The needs are now grouped together, so you will see, say, hunger and thirst grouped under the category of basic need. “Needs that were previously reserved for adults are now also available for kits,” the developers say. “What it means is that it is now possible to achieve the well-being of the 15-year-old population.”
These changes are setting the stage for “a major content update that will make good use of the updated needs system.” The developers scoff that “it will be something tasty.”
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