turn off the water

[happydeidara]

Tell me how to turn on the water during a drought, I can’t survive the drought, I don’t want to start all over again

They said that you can edit the notepad, or maybe it’s possible somehow in editor mode, or a console command. survive the drought for once.

[Walker Boh]

You need to stockpile water in barrels. It's very easy to do.

[Arcadaeus]

You can deactivate drought and badwater in custom difficulty at the start.
I dont know how to change settings in a running game

in custom maps
You can let water flow during drought with a water reservoir
And ONLY during drought if you use negative watersources and a water reservoir
Example: my map weirdwater valley/ badwater river turns water river during drought

[ChanceGateau]

Drying out, killing your beavers is sometimes the consequence of the early game, and I can imagine it's frustrating for new players. I can tell you this: I failed the first couple of times I played the game, it took a bit of figuring stuff out before the beavers would survive. I found if you follow the tutorial missions, and with enough alacrity, then you survive well enough as it will teach you a good order in which to place your first buildings.

The fundamental thing is having suffient water storage; as mentioned above. I generally start with between 8-10 small barrels and I typically build them before I even get houses. I will often have the builders focus on 4-5 of them (by upping the construction priority), then put the priority on the farm to get that done, then get back to the barrels. You cannot ignore any of the basics; food or water, or even research. If you do, you won't have enough time to start a tree farm before you run out of trees, and you'll have to wait a long while. One way to make your start easier is to edit the map, place more oaks near your home site, that way, you can relax the pace just a bit and not be so stressed about wood in the short-term.

The short-term discomfort the beavers have from sleeping on the ground; not to mention the "happiness debuff" is nothing compared to them dying because I focused on the wrong thing.

[EleventhStar]

if you want to cheat: press alt+shift+z, click on a water storage and the click the button to fill it's inventory.

[Trixi]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

if you want to cheat: press alt+shift+z, click on a water storage and the click the button to fill it's inventory.

The button is hardcoded to the key next to the x. In US/International keyboard layout it's indeed z, however on a German keyboard layout its y

[H. Guderian]

Depending how much water you have left, you can make a new district (free) send over tons of excess beavers to die (like the kids!) and extend what water you have left that way until the drought is over.

[LordChaos]

Build water towers and make sure you have water pumps. Connect your housing using pipes and your city should be fine. Water towers should give you enough water when your city's water pumps cant get enough water. If you notice that your city's water is this, this might mean you have some water pollution so make sure you build some water treatment plants. Keep in mind that dirty energy such as coal powerplants and gas powerplants will pollute water, same as dirty industry buildings. Hope this helps.

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by LordChaos:

Hope this helps.

It might, if I knew what game you were playing.

[NiceGuy]

Originally posted by LordChaos:

Build water towers and make sure you have water pumps. Connect your housing using pipes and your city should be fine. Water towers should give you enough water when your city's water pumps cant get enough water. If you notice that your city's water is this, this might mean you have some water pollution so make sure you build some water treatment plants. Keep in mind that dirty energy such as coal powerplants and gas powerplants will pollute water, same as dirty industry buildings. Hope this helps.

Just forget the whole answer it's the wrong game, this is Timberborn not City Skylines or Sim City.

[EmptyK]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

if you want to cheat: press alt+shift+z, click on a water storage and the click the button to fill it's inventory.

There should also be a button to skip to the next season, which will end the drought/badtide immediately.

[Yahweh's Grace]

Beavers build dams to stockpile water. Learn to beaver.

[ChanceGateau]

Originally posted by Xii:

Learn to beaver.

Sounds an awful like "git gud", not exactly helpful.

[LordChaos]

Real Advice: Allows have a stockpile of water and food, and keep a good eye on your population. If you plop down a few houses is fine, but if you have around ten small houses or five large ones, you'll have a population of beavers that will eat all your resources pretty quickly. You can pause houses thankfully so you dont need to worry about ruining your housing layout in the future.

I would recommend trying to find ways to defeat a drought and badtide events. Dont worry about it right away as its likely you wont have everything unlocked. Design aqueducts to carry water sources to your settlements, and redirect badtide events away from your crops. Water evaporates but if your water source is two blocks deep it wont evaporate as quickly.

[NiceGuy]

Originally posted by EmptyK:

There should also be a button to skip to the next season, which will end the drought/badtide immediately.

As the whole sense and main mechanic of this game is to survive these seasons by building dams, channels, flood gates and stockpiles it's just stupid to demand a simple skip button for the seasons.
No matter if you like the idea or not but learn to play the game and don't demand to eliminate the core game feature just because you are lazy.
If this is not to your liking this is just the wrong game for you, sorry.

[EmptyK]

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

Originally posted by EmptyK:

There should also be a button to skip to the next season, which will end the drought/badtide immediately.

As the whole sense and main mechanic of this game is to survive these seasons by building dams, channels, flood gates and stockpiles it's just stupid to demand a simple skip button for the seasons.
No matter if you like the idea or not but learn to play the game and don't demand to eliminate the core game feature just because you are lazy.
If this is not to your liking this is just the wrong game for you, sorry.

I'm not demanding that there's a button for that. I'm telling you there is in the developer controls.

Additionally, if you don't want to play with droughts or badtides, you can turn them off when starting a new game. The developers already implemented an easy mode. Not everybody plays the same way, and in a singleplayer game telling others how they should or shouldn't play is ridiculous.