For all you sick "I don't play games in early access" psychopaths who haven't been enjoying this gorgeous beaver colony builder since 2021 already, please be aware that Timberborn just dropped 1.0.

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Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Welp, I guess the weekend's starting early, and may possibly extend a fair bit into next week.
What do you know, the beavers built a dam.
The devs certainly went all in with the new automation system.

So, uh… I could use this to tell my Home Assistant to trigger the fire alarm if the beavers' reservoir dam goes dry.

You may deliver your Jurassic Park quotes now.

Actually, since Timberborn is moddable with Harmony, I could absolutely write a mod that provides full Home Assistant integration, so Timberborn simply appears as a device in HAss with all the in-game automations automatically registered as sensors.

I'm sure I'll think of a practical use case for it eventually.

@bodil I think the obvious practical use case here is you can leave the game instance running 24/7 and control it from every screen in your house and beyond, with appropriate alerts for any problems in real time.
@djspiewak That would make sense except that I played this particular game to its win condition in less than a day.
@bodil what the fuck lmao
@bodil what..the.. now I‘m curious!
@bodil whoa. I thought that was Terra Nil. Looks exactly the same 😬
@listrophy If so, only because I've zoomed out so far it may accidentally seem to be isometric.
@bodil regardless, this looks exactly like my jam. Thanks for posting!