Timberborn on macOS

[mechanistry]

Hi everybeaver,

The purpose of this thread is collect all information related to macOS support in Timberborn in one place. If you do not find an answer to your question or something doesn't work, please reply here or start a new discussion with "macOS" in its title.

Does Timberborn support macOS?

YES. Please refer to the game’s minimum requirements for details.

Does Timberborn natively support M1 / Apple Silicon?

YES. Starting December 1, 2021, the game runs in native mode (without Rosetta). This applies to the main branch and the experimental branch.

Does Timberborn support traditional / Intel Apple hardware?

YES.

The game freezes during launch, what should I do?

Some players reported that the game stops during launch. We are working on a permanent fix with Steam and our game engine. In the meantime, after clicking Play to start the game in your Steam client, try to select “Play macOS workaround”. Let us know if it solves your problem.

Finally

If you are happy with how the game works on your macOS hardware, don’t forget to comment below! (and include your specs)

[Liringlas]

Worked well on my Intel Macbook. Slows down after a while but i don't have a graphic card so to be expected!

[tomhughesnice]

I just bought this game and playing the new "Update 2" build. Using a 2021 Macbook pro with M1 Pro I am finding this game generally runs well. But, there is loads of stuttering in the gameplay seemingly at random times.

Hopefully this is something you can fix soon?

[MC Muumio]

Just started playing on a 14" M1 MBP, very happy with performance on max settings (no idea about resolution, haven't touched it I think, fullscreen) but then I haven't gotten a colony to hundreds of beavers yet. Only stuttering I notice is during auto save.

[☠☣QueenKitty☣☠]

works fine on the steam deck altho missing achievements

[独行]

I would love to have a resource recovery system
Hello, played more than 40 hours, currently encountered a waste of resources, in a map of the transformation of the game, the resources can not be reused is very difficult, a large body of the building once the demolition of a little resources, which makes me very incomprehensible, even if a building demolition should also have half of the resources recovery, the waste of resources so that many ideas to achieve very slow, the way the display of resources is not possible Horizontal display of resources remaining how much, vertical display will take up a small number of screens.

[thatmicraftplayr]

I bought the game and as soon as I loaded the game up it gave me an "uh oh a bug" page. I tried using the experimental branch i also tried using the mac workaround and Safe mod (I'm using an m1 macbook pro 2020) macos venturra

[eddynamique]

Hi,
I'm using a MBP 15 2017, 2,9GHz i7, 16GB of memory and a Radeon Pro 560 4 GB.
My game is about 60 pop. I got a few crashes during the game, but not too often. Now it's consistently crashing 2-3 minutes after the game is loaded.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks

[CR]

Hello,
I'm using an Apple Mini M1 with 8GB RAM and Ventura 13.0.1.

Timberborn works pretty fine until I reach a population of about 170-180 - suddenly the FPS drops to 3-4/sec using double speed. Even when I'm switching to "normal" speed it works only with 50-70 FPS/sec for a couple of minutes. Every 1-2 minutes the FPS go down to a single digit for a couple of seconds, rising to 50-70 FPS for 1-2 minutes, and going down again.

Tried different parts of the colony, different day times ... couldn't find a specific spot where the FPS go down.

Maybe the devs can fix it?

Nevertheless, I REALLY LOVE THIS GAME! :)

BR

[Hatchman]

Hi

I'm using a 2016 macbook pro with Monterey 12.6

I hadn't played for a couple of months, and a couple of days ago I launched the experimental branch having just updated it, and it wouldn't load, I tried again, and it loaded, so I started a new game and it ran for about a minute then my computer crashed, the same happened 3 times in the last couple of days. It also crashed at some point while loading at leas 5 times. This was all after the update to fix 'game-breaking' bugs. Please fix this, because I love this game and really want to be able to carry on playing

[CR]

Publicado originalmente por CR:

Hello,
I'm using an Apple Mini M1 with 8GB RAM and Ventura 13.0.1.

Timberborn works pretty fine until I reach a population of about 170-180 - suddenly the FPS drops to 3-4/sec using double speed. Even when I'm switching to "normal" speed it works only with 50-70 FPS/sec for a couple of minutes. Every 1-2 minutes the FPS go down to a single digit for a couple of seconds, rising to 50-70 FPS for 1-2 minutes, and going down again.

Tried different parts of the colony, different day times ... couldn't find a specific spot where the FPS go down.

Maybe the devs can fix it?

Nevertheless, I REALLY LOVE THIS GAME! :)

BR

Hey DEVs,

even after the update, I still have MASSIVE issues regarding the FPS in my colony. It seemed to work better after the update but playing for 10-15 minutes, the FPS decreased to 5-10. :-/ I don't expect to have 60+ FPS but about 30 FPS on a stable niveau would be nice. :)

BR

[pukoh]

Runs fine on my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) Apple M1 Max 32GB.

[kensaro]

I had the freeze issue rarely, Mostly played the standard one, but since upgrading to 12.6.2 this morning it freezes every time, regardless if it's the regular or the workaround.

[kensaro]

Publicado originalmente por kensaro:

I had the freeze issue rarely, Mostly played the standard one, but since upgrading to 12.6.2 this morning it freezes every time, regardless if it's the regular or the workaround.

Okay, a reinstall and a reboot of the machine seems to have fixed it.

[咔咔丶]

Publicado originalmente por 麻匪:

Publicado originalmente por 小徐同学A:

虽然很想了解，但是奈何看不太懂

就是mac运行下的bug反馈贴而已，但一般也没啥人用mac打游戏吧.;.:DaughterHappy:

有比如我就是 哈哈哈

[thebenegesserit]

Works like a charm on my new iMac. Thank you so, so, so much for making this game available for Mac users! :)