Depending on your difficulty you need to factor in the downtime (during dry season) of the sources. Folktails; Iron Teeth; A beaver-operated backup source of power. During drought, water will evaporate/dissipate. So your Workers of the HoulerPost at District1 will carry the Water to the Tank beside the Crossing. Power wheel: 50hp, takes 3 tiles, 16. ago. Turn without a drop, 12 wheels. You can help the Timberborn Wiki by expanding this article. Also, iron teeth big water wheels are more efficient than compact water wheels. 18 votes, 15 comments. [Power] Power Wheel Vs Water Wheel Vs Engine hp per Tile and Upkeep upvotes. So here is a screenshot that illustrates the 'waterfall floodgate' technique. Work hard, work hard! This article is a stub. The two water tanks on the right is my water pump district; you can just see the edge of my logging district peaking out in the bottom right corner; the center is my potato and carrot growing center; I'm currently in the middle of updating my industrial section at the top of the hill and you can see both my chestnut and maple districts on the. However, they are just as useless if there's no wind at all. Wind speed is global to your entire map (currently. Place 20+ Pumps at the bottom bucket. I have played the demo a few times and, honestly, I prefer the power wheel over the water wheel. The input is entirely worth the output as long as you don't half ass it. 5x speed. Ressources in the beginning are crucial and very limited. You get about 350 HP per wheel and the only limit to output is space. And you can drop it only so many times before your pumps cant reach. Completely blocking the river with water wheels will maximize your power output; provided you don’t allow the water to. Power Wheel • Water Wheel • Windmill • Large Windmill • Compact Water Wheel • Large Water Wheel • Engine • Gravity Battery. Fixed the collider for Power Wheel. ago. Unlock the Gear Workshop with Science points. You need water to have flow from a higher point. some tips: Build as many pumps as you need to reach the height you want. Maybe late game. So one can open sluice gates, stop pumps if water level gets low. When the water wheels stop, the power wheels automatically demand labor. #2. 10 + 9 waterpump layout, reason will be explained. A screenshot may help. Gravity batteries tied in to the power grid system are the stopgap tool for having power during wind droughts (or regular droughts if you use water wheels). 6 beaver wheels per water wheel. Also, water evaporates at 0. #6. The large water wheel is technically a 2 block deep waterwheel, but you don't need to put it in 2 blocks deep. When water passes a waterfall (a difference of +0. You can place water wheels right next to the waterfalls (this provides more power). Also, it costs more than the power wheel to build and you can use the logs to build extra houses or dams in the early game. A canal of 2 flow sources 1 CMS (width 2), depth of 1, water height 0. Then open one floodgate by a sliver every daytime (close during night-time to conserve water, since your beavers are sleeping and don't need the power). If the water wheels were boosted significantly, then I would reconsider, but their current stats makes them terrible. Battle-tested for 500 cycles. Place 15-20 Water Dumps on your top bucket. The large water wheel is a bigger and more efficient version of the. There are a number of power options available to your beavers, including: Water Wheel (180 hp) - available straight from the get go, this power source enables you to harness the power of flowing water. You can still connect power to the shore like that. 0 tile. Water wheels are 180hp. Yes distribution posts are the only way for beavers to transfer water. That’s 3. 2) every block can hold 5 units of water, the diameter of the tunnel is 10 (2 width, 5 in height), idk where the last 3 water went to. Timberborn > General Discussions > Topic Details. Playing as Iron Teeth, I spanned half the river (between 4-6 wide), blocking the flow through the other half and forcing it down there, and on average my small water wheels produced more. Timberborn Water Dump Guide. One gear shop with 3 power wheels will produce as much (or more) gears as 2 shops with one power wheel each. Otherwise there needs to be an automatic (wind-powered) pump that can move water into a reservoir and then use that to turn a waterwheel on demand. You can connect the one side to your lumbermill, and at the other side, if there is space, you can attached a 2nd waterwheel to your excisting waterwheel. Turn timber into sophisticated machinery – from water wheels and sawmills to engines and mechanized pumps. Yes! I haven't experimented very much yet, but it seems like a one-width gap will only consistently power water wheels that are in narrow rivers downstream. The large water wheel is unlocked with 200 science points. Like, at least 3-4 tile deep if you're tapping water from them. ziplip Jan 8, 2022 @ 10:42pm. Pumped water energy storage would be more in line with the game. The official subreddit of Timberborn, a city-building game featuring ingenious beavers, dams, vertical architecture, and deadly droughts. Priscilla Nov 28, 2021 @ 1:03am. what i propose, is adding the concept of "breakdowns", when mechanical buildings (factories, energy producers) degrade when exposed to badwater. One thing I did discover while trying to run the utilities under the town is that it has destroyed the efficiency of my water wheel setup. On normal mode, they are solid but still tend to clutter your croplands. 6 rows (18 wheels): 1650. And it's water that's key. This is also needed to keep your crops watered. #4. #3. Wood is the core resource in Timberborn, but the most advanced structures require metal. A technique essential to hard mode survival. Then jump to big windmills. Levee (Solid) - Blocks water. A version exists for both the Folktails and Iron Teeth factions. This is part 7 of a challenging new series in the awesome beaver city building game TIMBERBORN on Hard Mode. The Water Dump takes two tiles. Timberborn Dam Types. After that the Workers of the Crossing will quickly carry it to the other side. Let's say with 15 beavers and expecting a 5 day drought, have at least 15 x 2 x 5 = 150 food and water at the start of the drought if you haven't made a dam section yet. 3600hp = 72 beaver wheels. Terrain Block. TL:DR; Increasing the CMS of the channel by building deeper below the waterwheel does increase power, so if the water can only be contained in for example an 10 deep channel that will produce about 5 times the maximum power of a 2 deep channel (despite the water wheel only being at the surface). Turbine: 1x2x2 solid, generates power based on water flow through it - essentially an even more compact water wheel, but works when fully submerged and generates slightly more power. Welcome back to Timberborn! In this episode we finish our river water wheels and start to work on a couple of ways to hold more water for the dry season. Edit. Delete the gear connecting to the waterwheel and build it again - that's what fixed a similar issue for me once. In my experience, a water district isn't worth it because of how heavy it is compared to how much beavers need it. Make water wheels more expensive, but create much more power. It would be 100 times better if i could have a single water lane + water wheel rather than 2 water wheels combined. It definitely took a while to get the last two cubes. . Tip : dragging dynamite and other similar stuff from the access point's end gives you the max reachable by default. Strategy []. As always, make sure that the door is connected to a path and in range of your District. Water dumps have hauler priority set. Timberborn has received a new update today, April 12, 2023, and here is the complete list of changes and fixes. 9 so the pumps won't stop pumping. An example of this is a power wheel directly attached to a lumber mill. You have 8 lines of whater wheels which gradually slow it down without any means to increase the speed again; the water pours quickly in gets heavily slowed down and can't escape as quickly. These advanced tips and tricks will help you take your Timberborn colony to the next level. They work during droughts, so the more and longer droughts you have the more they are appealing compared to water wheels. CthulhuReturns • 2 yr. Most resources are renewable and can be generated quickly and. The water will still build up to almost to full. The amount of water passing is the same at every point in the system. Remember to check "prioritize this building for haulers". (When there is water) Reply More posts. Ack, great point. Water can freely flow between tiles where there's a difference in the height of the water. First wet season flooded 40% of start area. It is possible to fit in more gravity batteries, but the. Thanks! paddyfaddy3 • 2 yr. As volume is calculated by width*length*height, with an effective maximum height of 3. Edit. #3. Water can freely flow between tiles where there's a difference in the height of the water. They are a beaver faction focused on metal usage and expensive housing. r/Dyson_Sphere_Program. The idea is to force the water through the wheel. The official subreddit of Timberborn, a city-building game featuring ingenious beavers, dams, vertical architecture, and deadly droughts. Showing 1 - 4 of 4 comments. At that 3. On the Plains map, using Folktails, I always try to build a reservoir along the river that. Makes sense, thanks for the quick response. However, it can be a difficult power supply to use depending on your usage of dams and levees. Sorry don't have access to the game right now to try myself! No, they stop spinning if they’re submerged more than 2. Second: Don't be afraid to throw it its entire own district with a bunch of beavers. FullQueueDeveloper • 8 mo. Let's play with our beavers!⬇ Links & More ⬇- - - - - - - - - - Twitter — Livestream — Merch — bizarre is that it never overfills. Image Source: Mechanistry. The large water wheel is a bigger and more efficient version of the compact water wheel. In addition, the following buildings are unique to the Iron. You would just need to measure the number of pumps requiered to use up all water from a single source of water to estimate the max population per map. 6hp per beaver) A little less efficient than the running wheel but this is much cooler ;) You need at least 18 pumps and 18 dumps other wise there is not enough force to power all the wheels. Water Wheels are buildings that use the water flow to generate. python_product • 2 yr. The more water that goes through the wheel, the more power it generates. 2) Log /per hour to generate 400 hp /per hour. 2 as it enters the channel. Remember that you can attach image files to your suggestions. Unlimited powaaaaaahhhh! (Water pump/water dump water wheel power loop) I'm not sure how economical this really is, but I have too many beavers sitting on their beaver asses doing nothing. Build a complete dam across a river and you'll be able to save some water for a Drought. Welcome back to Timberborn with Blitz! Controlling Mother Nature has never been so easy before, especially when Beavers are only really good at making dams!B. In my experience, each district needs it's own way to get drinking water. Blocks water based on how you adjust it. They can be connected to a power shaft and power a building like any other power source. If you half the river width furth down (5 blocks) theb the speed must double to 2 m per second so that the volume of water passing is the same (10 in both. 1. Important statistics. You can help the Timberborn Wiki by expanding this article. As long as a beaver is assigned to both, the power wheel and lumber mill, and it is also during working hours, the power grid. In the picture I have 14 wheels which produce 2520hp (46. The Al water wheel hangs below and to the side of the axel. It will operate from 1. The Tutorial recommends constructing 6 Lodges for a max population of 18, and I often build 6 or 7 very early, to give my guys time to breed, since there's a lag of 5 days from birth to being able to work. 1. Bends in the river also affect things, of course. You need a platform to put the the power rod onto. place levee in front of these but pause to build when progress is around 90% until cycle 2 dry season starts. The idea is to force the water through the wheel. If we are using maple trees that's 3 trees per day, maples take 24 days to mature. For hard mode and beyond with the Ironteeth, the dry season is so long it is basically impossible to have a source of renewable power and requires vast amounts of logs, which is obtainable, but I was wondering whether it is worth it to create an artificial source of water to move water wheels consistently, but the cost of beavers it too high for it to be worth it,. A wide water wheel has a braking effect in terms of upstream water depth of 0. 2) Water 1 - Water is life and fortunately you can build dam blocks right from the start, so the first thing you should do when starting is dam the nearest river asap and also try and get floodgates 2 sooner, rather than later. patternsWater slows down on the inside of a meander (river bend), and speeds up on the outside of the bend. A power grid can be as small as 50 hp . We could have 3 "tiers" of water lifting mechanisms, a slow-small-cheap shaduf, a bigger foot-powered water wheel, and a endgame noria, requiring power but being able to lift water higer (maybe 2-3h) but taking equally impressive ammounts of power. 4. 2. Originally posted by krunjar: In this edition, the developers behind busy beaver city builder Timberborn tell us about how the game's unique irrigation systems were designed using hybrid 2D and 3D simulation to inform how water interacts with land. It looks like you already know you can blow up some ground under the water, so get creative in manipulating the waterfall height. Beaver societiesControl one of two beaver factions:. New building: Dirt Excavator (2000 SP; 100 Treated Planks, 100 Gears, 50 Metal; 4 workers – Golems only; powered). Some buildings need to be connected to a power source, and you can check the optimal amount of power by hovering your cursor over the selected workshop. Gin Fuyou Admin. Next time try daming upstream (with levees not dams) so you can slowly release water through the drought. Also, it costs more than the power wheel to build and you can use the logs to build extra houses or dams in the early game. Tip : dragging dynamite and other similar stuff from the access point's end gives you the max reachable by default. Making sure successive bodies lower solved my issue, but I don't know if it's the same thing causing yours. The water itself moves and fills up space in a naturalistic way, clearly influenced by blocks that constitute the. Check your efficiency and power demand/supply by clicking on a gear shop. Timberborn is now available in Early Access via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. Then you can build stairs and platforms to the bottom of a river, walk there freely, and block the entire breadth of the river with water wheels, thus giving water no choice but to go through them. It generates Power from flowing water. So built the lower dam near the lake in wet season. The drop changes the flow rate to the. #11. Water Wheels are buildings that use the water flow to generate power. So, here is the thing. 30 Logs, 15 Planks. If you get an alert sign on the left bottom side of the screen that a building lacks power, you need to build a water wheel, power wheel, or windmill. 0, 2. There are times when the current isn't as strong and the wheels stop spinning. Power Wheel • Water Wheel • Windmill. Engines are Power buildings that exclusive to the Iron Teeth faction. From in game testing I've found that at max power it's output is 1 tile wide by 0. Explosives Factory: 400 SP. In this edition, the developers behind busy beaver city builder Timberborn tell us about how the game's unique irrigation systems were designed using hybrid 2D and 3D simulation to inform how water. The water wheel is placed next to the dam and when there is no current during the dry season the wheel doesn't stop spinning. Critters have very little space to move (Improving FPS) , and new critters are added to the ranch using my 'Mechanical Incubation and Delivery System'. Promethian. Timberborn > Bugs & Fixes > Topic Details. water tanks, which have to be in the center of your colony. #1. The only* consistent, constant energy source in the game is the Irontooth engine. Presenting - The Power Farm. I've come up with a water power generator which requires 36 beavers to operate +18 haulers. Gin Fuyou Admin. Yea some items have restrictions because a building has height as well. There's no great way to split this evenly, unfortunately. There are some design issues currently. Dimensions. Wood workshop: 2 (will produce 33% excess treated planks) Smelter: 2. If yo. Engine: 200hp, takes 9 tiles, 22. Water evaporates at around 0. 9, but the power is still consumed, and the animation continues. The water wheels create resistance, so if there is a water wheel with open space next to it, you'll see that some of the water will divert around it. Keep playing with the water mechanics. I usually have about 1/3 power from hamster wheels, 1/3 from water wheels, and 2/3 from windmills. For a water wheel to work properly, make sure it has good water flow and try to avoid partially bl…The Large Water Wheel is a water building unique to the Iron Teeth. For example on Plains there is 7 water sources, but at most you will have 4 tiles worth of flow. What works best for me is building a bunch of levees at the "front. Basically, instead of three across, try building three wheels in tandem and Leeves on either side to narrow the water path. Dimensions – 3×2, Height: 4. An example of this is a power wheel directly attached to a lumber mill. I’d recommend looking. During day, the battery will be providing the 100 missing power, but during the night, when workers stop working, those 500 power wheels will be recharging the battery at a rate of 500 hp per hour. #5. The best placement in a river is one in front of the other with the river blocked up to 1 wheel wide and a drop-off/deeper area on the water exit side of the wheel to drain it faster, or a wider river on the other side, same thing to drain it faster. This is slightly misleading. So, let's say you have 2 water wheels that provide 500 power during normal season, and you have industries that need 600 power to operate. Also, water level before wheel is little higher than after it so 8-10 consecutive wheels can even lead to flooding at the beginning of the line while having 0. 15 tiles deep at 1 cms. patterns Water slows down on the inside of a meander (river bend), and speeds up on the outside of the bend. The structures that can generate power in Timberborn are, naturally, found in the Power tab. There are a number of power options available to your beavers, including: Water Wheel (180 hp) - available straight from the get go, this power source enables you to. The wheel needs two blocks of depth from the level at which the land supports are. level 1. Hillbilly_Dave. This issue seemed to. Wood is the core resource in Timberborn, but the most advanced structures require metal. Wheel seems to observe CMS as the average along the wheel length, so a large water wheel measures along 5 tiles. So it has to be regularly checking to see if more water is needed to fill the output. Decent, but it might work better if you have one wheel on each side of the shaft. Paper Mill: 250 SP. This is slightly misleading. Thank you! Christopherus3 • 2 yr. One is connected to a gristmill and a lumber mill and the other is connected to a cog factory. Power wheels are much better than waterwheels early game. You might wanna add levees as people have suggested. 5, but if the water level at marker 2 gets too low, then they open the floodgate completely to prevent marker 2 from drying out. $309. 3 per tile. I've been trying to figure it out on my own, but I'm just running in circles and I'm tired of wasting time on the issue. So the opposite is true too if you plan well and force a lot of water through a small area with a good out flow you can get a lot of water power out of it. Beavers can run through water with stairs and roads. Then, you get the chance to play with the Iron Teeth faction once you achieve a Wellbeing score of 15—which isn’t extremely difficult, but just enough to make you work for it. Timberborn How to Power Your Colony Efficiently. Timberborn Power Sources. 14 Mar, '22 Zoltan . In my experience, each district needs it's own way to get drinking water. Phosphonothioic Oct 11, 2021 @ 2:24pm. Replace the platforms with dams or levees. As your population grows, you can consider adding more power wheels or use water wheels. In my current game, my 2x2 water wheel setup was producing ~640-680hp, which was significantly more than the 500hp I'd get from my ten hamster wheels, freeing up a good 16% of my workforce for other jobs. Altaica Jan 22, 2022 @ 4:07am. With this design I could be relatively confident that even in the longest of droughts I would have a predictable and steady flow rate to power water wheels and fill my irrigation canals. Faster speed than 2x, so I don't have to wait around to see how water flows on larger maps. Dams that create power but also hold back water in the dry season. I did have to lose 1 width for the axle that was not over land (the levees split the water flow). But it's a plus everyone will gladly take. realized I couldn't make it without the Gears. 2. I'll have to do a test myself with one single water wheel setup I got producing over 300HP, on a map with multiple rivers. And let the water flow out at 2. So deeper dams store better. This video guide will cover the advanced strategies I have learn. Gravity batteries tied in to the power grid system are the stopgap tool for having power during wind droughts (or regular droughts if you use water wheels). If the wind was blowing it was at least 20% production. 5 rows: 1400. As you might expect, the Water Dump needs a lot of Water to fill up a hole in the ground. I've come up with a water power generator which requires 36 beavers to operate +18 haulers. #1. The windmill needs a square of space in its upper portion to properly rotate with the wind, your waterwheel would block it. As for the battery - I think it is a neat identity of that tribe to not have 100% uptime on energy, and that being reserved to the iron beavers (with the engine). I built a second row of 3 next to it and the total power was 550 hp. 17 Sep 18, 2021 @ 6:38am. Work hard, work hard! This article is a stub. Water Wheels. 62000 hph Gravity Battery. There are times when the current isn't as strong and the wheels stop spinning. Keeping the water moving in a straight line is also important, curves slow it down. Scissor Steps 17" Wide 4 Step 33" Quadruple. 1) 2x1x1 entrance on the wide part contrary to Mini Lodge. Yes, however in order for it to be power positive, you need the water to pass enough water wheels that covet the cost of the pumps, any additional you can fit in will be free energy. The efficiency of the Iron Teeth only comes in form of a better pop per housing footprint, a deeper water pumping station and the engine, using only wood (a very easily renewable resource even during droughts) to produce a steady power supply (albeit with the downside of having one beaver to supply the wood there) against the Folktails. 2 cms output should mean that the wheel has 2. Spam water wheels first. Lumberpunk. While the Water Wheel offers a good amount of power, it works when you have water flowing, making it almost useless. For a given water (source) strength, there is a fixed power per block of moving water. the wide river is being pushed up into the lower wheel. oh snap thats a lot of potatoes. This is definitely good advice, if you can also ensure that most, if not all water flows through this point then you can maximise the pressure and therefore the power output. A natural dam block, for when you don't want a full height barrier block. Power. 26K Members. with a max height of 6, with a maximum power output of 100mw until either they run out or the primary power generation kicks up enough to take over again. 10 Metal Blocks. 07 tiles deep with a flow rate of 1 cms. Water wheels provide more power but. that means 139200 power units (2160 power x 16 wheels x 5 levels - 48. They need to produce something like 1k of power and consume wood only when operated (to preserve wood during nighttime) to be considered as an option (compared running wheels). Waterwheel's are resource and labor cheap, and they're the most reliable but only when water is flowing. I was in shock how did they die so quickly, in an attempt not to lose the last few I shut down industry, research, everything but food and water. The waterwheels have resistance so the water will take the path of least resistance and just flow around it instead of under it, 2 things you can do is use a bunch of the smaller wheels, or force the water under the wheel by building levees to force the water to do what you want. And a building does not need 100% horsepower to operate. A good way I work with this fact is to try to count the number of source blocks and assure that your water passage is at least as wide. Perhaps a second, researchable pump building could be added, one which requires some power, but which can pump into pipes (that are similar. Amount of power. Updated the Diorama map to remove a visual glitch causing water to clip through the terrain. The upper metal platform has 28 batteries, 24 of which hold 58,000 HPH each, with 4 additional ones used as power connections holding 6,000 HPH each. Stardust-Conqueror. The river is running and the water wheel down stream is working just fine. It's a 1 block wide empty space (filled with platforms only so the beavers could walk past it during the build). over farms -Mega-bridges across the map -Land/water landscaping project e. Turn timber into sophisticated machinery – from water wheels and sawmills to engines and mechanized pumps. Work hard, work hard! This article is a stub. When he was trying to figure it out, it wasn't exactly apparent which little blue arrow was power. 5% excess paper). Then the addition of burning 24 wood per day only adds an additional 150 hp. The official subreddit of Timberborn, a city-building game featuring ingenious beavers, dams, vertical architecture, and deadly droughts. 4 rows: 1110. Windmill (120 power) and large windmill (300 power) are exclusive to the Folktail faction. Time lapse: 6-7 hours. 3. At the outlet end of the trough are two dam (not levee) blocks. It's usually best to save 500 research points for triple floodgates instead of unlocking the other options. Water Wheels are buildings that use the water flow to generate power. To clarify: if you have a 12 width river that is exclusively dams, so water would fill and flow over the entire 12 squares evenly, then the speed is slowed by the blocking of water in an otherwise unobstructed river flow. It generates power from flowing water. So if you place the support on a river bank, the river needs to be 2 deep where the large water wheel goes. In the wet season, the rest of the water just flows out of the dam through regular dam blocks at the top, and even just some gaps cause I was getting lazy. Rather than city-building alone, Timberborn’s colony management elements lean survival sim, requiring players to take care of food and water through farming and constructing water wheels, all. some water will flood cycle 2 day 1 , so timing is the key. 1) Don't panic. - For early buildings, make sure to start with one lumber mill and one fermenter (to make fermented cassava) powered by a single power wheel. Beaver wheels are excluded because beavers need to eat and sleep some time. It is possible to build water wheels further up and lead the electricity to upper area which is generally dry unless you play around with water quite a bit. I do know that waterwheels do not allow platforms on top. The compact water wheel is unlocked at the start of the game and is the only power generation option to the Iron Teeth at the beginning along with the Power Wheel. Why does my large windmill put out so little power?This is part 28 of a challenging new series in the awesome beaver city building game TIMBERBORN on Hard Mode. Has power attachments on top and bottom too, so can be stacked for even more power generation. Same here! Oscillating even lead to flooding water pumps and beavers unneccesary dieing of thirst :' (. The longer you make it between each drop, the fewer pumps you can use before the water overflows. 15 can receive 17 wheels before overflowing on the sides and impacting the water flow for a total power of 3060 HP (180hp/cms) Perpetual Motion Power Generator for Timberborn. Water wheel (180 power) – This is placed on. It dies in fact stop pumping water when the level hits 0. ACP Oct 11, 2021 @ 1:18pm. Even in hard mod you can use water wheel to pump water in an upper area. You will probably also want/need at least one water tank (15 logs each) and a farm (25 logs). 00. Wood is the core resource in Timberborn, but the most advanced structures require metal. 5 blocks. Has power attachments on top and bottom too, so can be stacked for even more power generation. g. 26K subscribers in the Timberborn community. I suspect the last few water wheels will hardly produce any power anyways. At this point, with all of the wheels affecting the water flow, the fluctuation was fairly high and the total power oscillated between 1580-1710. When you pick the Large water wheel tool for building, your mouse cursor is basically the "X" point. The efficiency of the Iron Teeth only comes in form of a better pop per housing footprint, a deeper water pumping station and the engine, using only wood (a very easily renewable resource even during droughts) to produce a steady power supply (albeit with the downside of having one beaver to supply the wood there) against the Folktails. Several options here are already unlocked by default:. These windmills are placed on land and are very good for late-game runs. © Valve Corporation. Can I survive the terrifying droughts and engi. You can make reservoirs as deep as you want, but there's no way to fully empty and fill at will a reservoir >3 blocks. There's no great way to split this evenly, unfortunately. 16. Floodgates are better as you can manually control the water level at 0. I suspect the last few water wheels will hardly produce any power anyways. 2 water wheels wide looks like the sweet spot, but my map is far from optimized. The devs haven't made a good way to do that yet unfortunately. They. In this episode of Timberborn Let's Play with the Folktails, we update our the water wheel waterfalls to improve our power production and we start a new colo. Should help channel the water in a single direction instead of it spilling to the sides. The drop engages the 'waterfall' flow rate which is just enough to fill a two wide channel and turn power wheels. 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