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Ribbon World

"Humans before make a challenge of trying to build their economy in a thin line of restricted space to grow their colony.
Can you do the same?
The Beavers must Grow!
Inspired by the Factorio Ribbon World style gameplay."
- Map Description

So there's a ton of ways to play this. It's up to you! I've added tons of different diverging routes for water, extra spots for drainage and even added several spots of using the special overhang pieces to help you, and it's meant to be conquered! I will be honest you can survive the first bad tide on hard, but I haven't tested beyond that. The map will be hard to make it to the far side. The terrain as well as the badwater are your enemies here - just like with Factorio.

In a way if you play the Thousand Islands map it is somewhat similar with how the water and badwater mixes with each other.

Droughts are you friend, as you can traverse large areas of land without interference. Iron Mines will be more difficult to get to due to some being underwater.

So the map is the same area as 256x256 (65536 tiles).

Regardless have fun! I tried to make the resources more or less distributed fairly well but it's not perfect but you shouldn't be losing the first few cycles but isn't a cakewalk either.

I do recommend trying to get the Farmhouse and Forester ASAP!


How did I make a level larger than 256?

I'll paste what I said in the comments:


.timber maps files are actually just a zip file. You can change the extension to .zip to see there's two files that compose a map (Along with the version, map image, overlay, etc). map_metadata.json is what you see in the menu when selecting a level showing info (i.e. 1024x64) and description.

world.json is the other file you're interested in. You can change the width and height, and it also contains all of the arrays of each tile of land and water stored in the level. So for a 256x256 level, there's 65536 entries in each array. So if you want a level that's larger, make sure the array's in question (that contain numbers with spaces and colons and are stored for the land tiles and water levels) are the same as the area of the map.

I just made a 256x256 level, and changed the width and height to be 1024x64, since both equal 65536 and I didn't have to edit the arrays portion. Make sure you have it exact, otherwise the game crashes when loading the level if one tile is off.