Veldpeak Rifts (256 x 256)

[unkempt cypress]

An already rugged landscape, further deformed by earthquakes and landslides.
https://mod.io/g/timberborn/m/veldpeak-rifts-256-x-256

Verticality is about building up high? Sure, but that's only the "Timber" in Timberborn. So what about the "born", meaning stream?
Held back by high mountains, the streams in Veldpeak reach only some parts of the map and much of the water drains unused into deep rifts.
So be creative and let the water run high. ^^

These are some of the mechanics:

• Hold back some water at lower levels:
  You can build your first little dam in one of the cracks and keep some moisture with little effort. But simple dams alone aren't high enough to create reasonable reservoirs here.
• Let the beavers and their buckets do some of the vertical work:
  You can use some of the cracks above the starting area as irrigation ditches once you've researched the water dump.
• Overflow obstacles to irrigate larger parts of the map:
  You can dam the main river near the source and divert it in other directions.
• Use the landscape for reservoirs:
  Once you have the water flowing where you want it, you can fill up the larger rifts for the long droughts coming.
• Turn the river itself into deep reservoirs:
  You may consider flooding your initial farmland and relocating your beavers to higher ground.
• And, of course:
  Build dams, platforms and bridges to cross the rivers, rifts, and cracks, and find suitable places to build batteries.

[ruby oracle]

this one does standout among the others in the category
its actually the first big map that makes me want to play on it

[unkempt cypress]

awww, thank you =)
I'd appreciate also any comments if you do play it

[ruby oracle]

im afraid playing it will have to wait a little, as today i got a funny idea for my second submission, wanna do it before the deadline

[unkempt cypress]

sure! good luck for your submissions!

[ruby oracle]

the fact that there is no waterpath here feels very inuntended
went all the way here to stop flooding of the top lake and didnt notice that there is no path here

[ruby oracle]

@unkempt cypress

[unkempt cypress]

thx for pinging, didn't notice ^^

you're so right, that's unintended, don't know how that slipped

sry for the frustration. I'm gonna fix that in a next version

aside from that, how's it going?

[unkempt cypress]

fix is live now. thank you!

[ruby oracle]

decent
migrated from the main river to that lake at the top.
allot of free flat farmlands. its easy there.
solved flooding with floodgates triggers mod.

there was this rift near the starting point, that i feel is intended to move the water right from thr river
but it requires builing quite a dam to make water flow there, so i kinda abandoned the thing

i can articulate 2 problems
first is my main problem with big maps is still there - i interact with 20% of the map and its enought to progress fairly far

second is that to impact how water flows (say move it along that rift near the start, so i can consider land around that rift settlable) it would take quite a megaproject, to the point that such projects feel... idk out of scale with my settlement and generaly astetically bad, like building that 5 block tall dam to make water flow into that rift makes it feel that im doing something wrong
almost as if im ruining something, while not creating anything beatiful
but as you got from description, its very subjective

mind checking my map as well?
https://discord.com/channels/558398674389172225/1141834374975856800

[unkempt cypress]

I wondered if it might be too easy actually

what difficulty mode are you playing it?

[ruby oracle]

normal

[unkempt cypress]

I've played a few cycles in. I haven't figured out yet how I want to direct the water ^^

it's not as trivial because you can't just count the height of something like preformed beds

[unkempt cypress]

I think I had mostly hard mode in mind when creating it. the top lake wouldn't last too long then and you would be forced to do a little mega project... ^^

[ruby oracle]

and yeah once you get to manage that top lake near the start
which is easy, just a few small dams
and it gives allooot of easy to exploit land

so that is my experience with that, now the big question is did it align with your vision or not

[ruby oracle]

idk
normal feels the most natural dificulty to me
i guess i will try it at hard

[ruby oracle]

is it actually hard to make desigions there?
i intedned there to be an okasional :thonk: about the actions, but not analysis paralysis

[unkempt cypress]

there's some truth to that. also water wheels seem kinda useless in hard mode, that kinda takes something away. but I like the challenge and play mostly hard mode, so that might have been a bias in my vision of the map ^^

[unkempt cypress]

: D hm, I was like: where exactly would I build the dam - I want the flow to hold enough water but also the farmable land big enough. but it's definitely also me, I tend to overthink...

and I haven't played that much into the map yet

[ruby oracle]

yeah
im waterwheel fan, they feel as an interesting layer bcs they make you consider placement of the wheel, powertransmition and industry allot

especially considering that i want my settlement to be at least a little aestetically pleasing to myself

[unkempt cypress]

so true. that's what I miss a bit in hard

but I love creating huge water reservoirs under time pressure ^^

[ruby oracle]

well my screenshots on the page might hold some answers
but i can totaly share that desire to find solutions yourself

[unkempt cypress]

I followed your advice and wanted to try on my own first ; ) I'll definitely have a look later on

[ruby oracle]

okay
will be waiting for feedback