Timberborn reveals new storage system in update 3 Patch Notes

Timberborn update 3 is now live and available for those who choose to play update 3. This update addresses many issues players have been experiencing regarding storage, incorrect warnings, and gameplay crashes. This update also features recyclable buildings, beaver bots, unique factions and updates to the UI, general gameplay, and additional bug fixes.

Details of the update were obtained from an official Timberborn post, and we’ve included everything you need to know below. Be sure to check out our Latest News section for more great content!

Patch Notes for Update 3

Please note that saves created on Update 2 and before are incompatible with the new game version because of the reworked storage system added in Update 3.

However, there is a separate branch for Update 2. This way, you can continue your U2 playthrough as long as you’re okay with not having access to the U3 features.

New storage system

The warehouses have been redesigned to work similarly to how many players already used them in the late game – but better! The new system helps you avoid a situation where they get clogged up by an overproduced good and can’t take another (for example, with golem heads taking up the room you need for food). It makes it easier to manage resources across the colony, and see what is stored, where, and how much room is left for each good.

While reworking the storage system, they have updated all related buildings functionally and visually, added a few additional ones, and completely changed how the goods are presented within the UI and in the game world! All boxed goods have received unique crates, and the resources stored in piles and tanks are now easily recognizable when stored or transported.

Warehouses no longer accept all goods at the same time. The player picks a single good that will be stored in a separate warehouse. You can change your selection anytime, but before beavers start bringing the new resource, they will remove the old one.
The new system also applies to all piles and tanks. These buildings are now universal, allowing you to choose what should be stored inside (including many goods that used to be stored in warehouses).
Warehouses are now wallless, exposing the stored goods as stacks of crates. The number of crates indicates the warehouse’s occupancy.
Crates and barrels carried by beavers or stored in warehouses are now painted with a different color and an icon depending on the resource.
Warehouse, pile, and tank entrances are now decorated with banners representing the goods stored inside.
Piles are no longer good-specific, as you can pick what’s stored inside. Goods stored in Piles are Logs, Dirt, Planks, Treated Planks, Scrap Metal, and Metal Blocks.
Tanks are no longer good-specific, as you can pick what’s stored inside. Goods stored in Tanks are Water, Biofuel, Catalyst, Maple Syrup, and Medicine.

New building: Small Warehouse (3 logs; capacity: 30; Solid) – a cute 1×1 cube to fill all these random empty tiles!
Updated building: Medium Warehouse (15 logs; capacity: 200; Solid).
Updated building: Large Warehouse (250 SP to unlock; 60 logs, 80 planks; capacity: 1200; Solid) – also now has a new, cuboid shape.
New building: Small Pile (Folktails-only; 3 logs; capacity: 20).
New building: Small Industrial Pile (Iron Teeth-only; 4 logs; capacity: 20; Solid).
Updated building: Large Pile (Folktails-only; 6 logs; Solid; capacity: 180). Yes, it can now be placed on top of platforms and other buildings.
Updated building: Large Industrial Pile (Iron Teeth-only; 12 logs; capacity: 180; Solid).
Replaced Underground Warehouse with Underground Pile (1800 capacity, 20 Logs, 80 Planks, 40 Gears; ground-only). The new building is also Folktails-exclusive, but it is used to store large amounts of Pile-specific materials such as logs.
Updated building: Small Tank (15 logs; capacity: 30); it is now also a 1×1 building.
Updated building: Medium Tank (120 SP to unlock; 30 planks, 20 gears; capacity: 300); it is now a 2×2 building without that weird L-shaped entrance.
Updated building: Large Tank (600 SP to unlock; 80 planks, 60 gears, 30 metal blocks; capacity: 1200).
All warehouses, tanks, and piles now feature an Accept/Obtain/Empty toggle.
If set to “Accept,” the storage simply accepts the selected good. This is the default setting.
If set to “Obtain,” the colony’s haulers will do their best to actively fill the storage by picking up the selected goods from other warehouses and transferring it here. This happens on top of the normal “Accept” behavior. This button is hidden if there are no Hauling Posts in a district.
If set to “Empty,” the storage no longer accepts goods. Its inventory will be cleared up and moved elsewhere.
Removed the often-misunderstood “Desired” setting and the “Distribute goods between warehouses when idle” checkbox – under the new system, they became obsolete.
Removed the “Storage is full” status. It is no longer possible for one resource to clog up a warehouse meant for multiple goods, and so full storage is no longer a critical problem requiring the player’s attention.
Each good’s tooltip in the top bar now contains information on that good’s exact numbers and where it can be stored.
Added an occupancy indicator next to each good listed in the top left of the screen. One of the benefits of the new storage system is that it is now possible to calculate a reliable occupancy rate.
Added a storage overlay to the game. Hold Tab or toggle it using a button under the season forecast to instantly see all your warehouses, piles, and tanks, what goods are inside, and how filled each storage is.

Recyclable buildings

You can now recover materials from the buildings you remove! With Timberborn’s focus on verticality and limited space, the player sometimes needs to delete a portion of their settlement to fix something, and losing all resources in the process feels bad. As an added benefit, this also means you can treat your buildings as emergency sources of goods that are urgently needed elsewhere.

Added the ability to recover materials from deleted buildings. After deleting a building, rubble piles spawn in its place (or on adjacent tiles if there’s no room available). Your builders will need to bring the recovered materials (Rubble) to storage before using them.
If you delete an unfinished building, all materials are recovered. If you delete a finished building, you get a portion of the building costs back and all of the inventory contents.
Units can pass through the rubble, and you can build on it – but if it’s anything other than a path, the rubble will move to the next free tile.
When you hit DEL, a confirmation prompt appears with a breakdown of materials to be recovered. You can bypass that with Shift+DEL.
Default difficulty presets have different resource recovery percentages. On Easy, you get 90% resources back. On Medium and Hard, 75% will be recovered.
While setting up the custom difficulty for a new game, it is possible to adjust the percentage of resources recovered from deleted buildings.

Beavers bots

The golems are dead. Long live the bots!

Renamed golems to bots as that seems more appropriate in the world of beaver engineers.
Redesigned the models and animations for all bots.
Renamed Cogheads to Ironbots.
Renamed Barrelbots to Timberbots.

Migrations and Settlement Panel

After Update 2, the Settlement Panel, especially the Migrations tab, still needed a few tweaks.

The game no longer pauses after opening the Settlement Panel.
District Centers picked for migration are now connected to each other with Big Blue Arrows visible in the in-game world.
After reopening the Settlement Panel, the recently opened tab is restored.
Made several tweaks to the migration UI, including a fancy district highlight that should help you organize the migrations more smoothly.

Unique factions

We’ve got the first of many changes aimed at making the in-game factions more unique.

Updated the Inventor’s Hut model for Iron Teeth.
Updated the texture of Iron Teeth dirt paths.

Built-in screenshot tool

We’re doing our part in the eternal war against screenshots taken with a phone.

Added the Screenshot tool. F10 saves a screenshot in the current resolution, Ctrl+F10 saves an upscaled screenshot (for example, in 4K instead of Full HD).
Screenshots are stored in the Screenshots folder (by default: C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Timberborn\Screenshots). Please note that screenshots are not synchronized with the cloud because of their size.

UI

Large Science Points and resource numbers (1000+) displayed in the top bar are now shortened (69420 becomes 69.4k, for example). The numbers are rounded down to minimize confusion, and you can hover over them to see the exact numbers.
Recipes, prioritized resources etc. are now picked using dropdown lists.
In Settings, you can now lock the in-game cursor to a single monitor.
Updated the Wellbeing/Settlement Panel button.
The SP unlock cost is now green if you have sufficient SP numbers.
Updated the Priority panel for demolishing to be consistent with the construction and workplace priorities.
Buildings in the Settlement Panel are now sorted alphabetically based on the translated names – except for warehouses, which are sorted by type and capacity
Made several other tweaks to the UI.

Audio

Updated selection sounds for the following buildings: Aquatic Farmhouse, Breeding Pod, District Center, Engine, Farmhouse, Floodgate, Gatherer Flag, Large Windmill, Lido, Lumberjack Flag, Observatory, Scavenger Flag, Shrine, Small Windmill, Smelter, Stream Gauge, Water Dump.

Misc.

Hidden some beaver secrets in the game. Who will find them first?
Slightly improved game loading times.
Made some minor GPU-related optimizations.
When attempting to load an incompatible savefile, you will no longer be able to load it anyway.
When attempting to load a broken savefile, the game will crash much sooner (and not after a minute or so of anxious waiting).
Fixed resources in Iron Teeth’s Industrial Piles poking through the floors.
Updated the default worker number for Builders’ Hut to 4/4, up from 2/4, to match the building’s late-game use.
The game no longer supports raw .json files. We moved to the .timber format a good while ago but if you used some very old maps that were never updated, they will be affected.
Idle workers of all professions will help empty warehouses and drop-off points.
It is now possible to adjust the maximum worker number in paused buildings.
With old external Mechanistry forums about to close, we’ve updated the “Go to feedback site” button to redirect to our Feature Upvote site instead.

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug with bots assigning themselves to Dirt Excavators and quitting right after discovering how dangerous that job is.
Fixed the collider for Power Wheel.
Restored the misplaced “Prioritize by haulers” button on Breeding Pods.
Fixed the range preview not showing up when placing a new District Center.
Fixed several small translation errors, including the Japanese text that was displayed vertically.
Fixed the incorrect recipe diagram in the Engine’s panel.
It is no longer possible to enter spaces and other invalid symbols in the “Minimum” field in the Migration panel.
Fixed the incorrect “Entrance Blocked” warning.
Fixed the incorrect warning for Barriers set to be demolished.
Alerts in the bottom left corner will now correctly update when the game is paused.
Windows key is no longer read as Ctrl on Windows.
Fixed a bug with buildings not behaving correctly after deleting their parent District Center.
Fixed a rare crash caused by beavers dying while the selected building’s settings were being modified
Increased the Minimum relative terrain height for the brushes in the map editor from 0 to 1. Yay, now they always do something!