If you're here after the recent Update 7, I've got 44 MORE Tips for you after you finish this video! Plenty about the new ziplines, tubeways, and tunnels. : ) Check it out: https://youtu.be/ALOnGvsGHk0

Coming from oxygen not included: this game is way easier in many many ways, but I do wish the tutorial covered that beavers can swim, I know it seems obvious but I’m DENSE AS A ROCK

"It's not the kind of game where [...] one item makes everything easier"
Sluice gate: "Top o'the morning to ya"

Roads can be built underwater, and beavers will use them to swim to their destination provided they have stairs connecting back out at the shore.  Beavers LIKE swimming, so using underwater roads across rivers not only saves materials compared to bridges, it also gives them a wellness boost.

Just be careful around bad tides.  You can eventually have a backup bridge to provide a emergency dry path, and disconnect the swimming roads by deleting a road tile if necessary.

The adult tree repopulate is a nice tips. No wonder sometimes there're tree seedlings that I didn't intend to plant

Another good tip, build your decorations so they cover your homes, beavers sleeping will max out their need for it well sleeping, you can also utilize this vertically, a shrub 2-3 buildings high will still provide the bonus to the homes at the bottom. This can get you to pretty high wellbeing scores pretty early with very little resource invesments.
My ironteeth initial home build usually consists of 6 homes at the bottom, with 2 in the top middle area, i put roofing on the top middle homes, then a clock and statues on said roofing, then have a shrub, lamp, bust, and braiser setup around the lower level under the platforms that covers all the homes (usually 2 of each is enough to cover the entire 8 homes) and then usually put in 4 rooftop terrace on the other spots up there, but theres tons of ways to utilize decorations around homes.
This way its very easy to at least get all the aesthetics covered very easily, which is 9 well being on its own, then if you eventually tie in the awe statues to also overlap with the homes it goes much higher.

300 Hrs into Timberborn & its only today I learn I can connect my windmills from below. Everyone can learn something from this Video. :)

An extra tip for Folktails: Timberbots make great builders! If you have a hauling post and a builder post both staffed by robots, and then deliver fuel and construction supplies to the places where you are building, then the builders will never need to go home and can stay on site until the structure is completed even when building on a remote corner of the map. This is much more efficient than live beavers (who need to sleep) and the Iron Teeth's Ironbots (who need to recharge from the power grid)

When I transitioned from medium to hard difficulty I realized why I didn't have to use half the buildings. It's so satisfying to finally have a water supply last those 25 day drought. And being more in drought than not was a good challenge. Don't think I can go back to normal

#53 is WILD I've been playing this game for over a year and I had NO IDEA!
Thanks!

For folktails, I prioritize shelter after all the needs are running for the population growth. For Iron Teeth, I can defer them for as long as I want lol

My number 1 tip, that you have not already covered is to build a single small wood storage.  They are super cheap and beavers can only pick up rubble if there is a storage. In a wood shortage the ability to recover resources from non-essential buildings can be a game saver.

They take logs to build, so once you have run out it is too late to build one.

Number 25 at 8:19 is a game changer, literally. Thanks.

I am also surprised at the lack of chasing beaver jokes

42: Building power transfer is useful, but if you are planning out a large number of buildings which may be more than your resources can currently handle, it can be a good idea to power each of them individually so that the buildings become usable when built rather than waiting for all intermediate buildings to be finished.
A prime example is large windmills - those things are annoying to make, but if you plan out individual power connections for them, build that then put in the plans for the windmills, you start getting more and more power as each one is constructed, regardless of which one the beavers build first.

56: Because of the infinite downwards build, if you are constructing something tall like a big reservoir from above you can speed it up massively by building a long bridge along the side or directly over a length of it, even if the bridge doesn't connect to anything at the end. Instead of building one column at a time so they can advance along the top, they can build 7 columns at a time using the bridge as "scaffolding". I don't think I've ever used bridges for their purpose of being an actual bridge.

57: 2 wide is ok, 3 wide may be a better choice due to letting you use symmetry easier, and there are some interesting unplanned things you can do with 3-wide terrain such as: dynamite the pathway and rebuild it with platforms to form an irrigation channel, blow up a section of it to stick an underground pile and access stairway directly underneath the path covering it up with overhangs, or making power cross the buildings by going up and over the path, or down and under it (with a 2-wide path there is not enough room to that in a straight line - the path needs to be the one to go over or under the power connection, or the power connection needs to form a unsightly twisty U-shape changing direction and height at the same time.

I didn't realize the pumps stop by themselves during a bad tide; I was turning them off manually. 😂

The Sluice was the best upgrade, redirecting the bad water off the map was a game changer., but the game now also has bad lag, didn't happen before, update 6

As a returning player these tips are really good. I learned a lot. Thanks

The folktails motto thing at the end cracked me up! Thanks for that. And thanks for the whole video, very helpful!

Just got into Timberborn and was so pumped to find this video. Then I quickly realized I watched almost the whole thing in individual shorts on your channel 😂