Full HUD, Oak planting designation (8×5), Cycle 28 day 6

About this game

Developer: Mechanistry · Publisher: Mechanistry · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Timberborn's whole colony fits on one screen, and this frame shows the layering order. Across the top runs the economy as a single row of icon counters, population, food, water, wood, science, readable without opening a menu. The left edge is the colony's memory and inventory: headcounts and bed counts, a dense three-column stock list, and under it a dated event log that narrates the simulation back to the player ('Timberbot 10 was created!', 'Shozlith died of old age.'), so births, deaths and coming-of-age read as a chronicle rather than notifications. The right edge owns time: cycle and day, pause and speed controls, weather. Work happens in the middle distance, the player is mid-gesture, dragging a luminous green 8 × 5 designation rectangle over bare soil to plant oaks, and the tool explains itself in a card pinned above the bottom toolbar: what it does, which building it needs (Forester), how long the crop resists drought (15 days), its growth time and cost. Even failure is kept in the same frame, as a quiet stack of red alerts at bottom-left ('Building lacks workers (31)'). Nothing here is modal; the HUD is a frame of instruments around a world that never stops. Frame at about 0:44 in the Timberborn 1.0 Trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor at 44.2s, inspected at full resolution (1920x1080).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar detail-panel hud-overlay alert-banner grid-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Toolbar Grid List Log Resource bar Clock Toggle

Screen inventory

• top resource bar: a green 23 counter, then icon counters 8.9k, 3.8k, 2.4k, 12k, 4.4k and 440 across the top-left
• left column under the bar: population/housing rows (106 / 5 / 8; 111 beds / 2 / 0; 105 / 79 / 0; 8 / 0 / 0) above a three-column goods stock list (1.7k, 385, 38, 255, 108, 200, 70, 781, 118, 69, 3, 159 …)
• event log under the stock list, newest first: '28-6 Timberbot 10 was created!', '28-6 Shozlith died of old age.', '28-5 Titamor was born!', '28-5 Suliya was born!', '28-5 Ubuzur died of old age.', '28-4 Rangi was born!', '28-4 Valezath grew up.', '28-4 Zenqu grew up.'
• top-right cluster: 'Global view' button, 'Cycle 28, day 6' readout, pause / play / fast-forward speed controls, a weather strip, a 12h clock dial and layer/view toggle icons
• centre: a bright-green 8 × 5 planting designation grid dragged over bare soil between oak groves, its size label '8 × 5' floating at the grid's lower edge
• bottom-centre tool card for the selected planting tool: 'Oak' with an oak-leaf icon, 'Use this tool to designate an area for planting.', 'Required building: Forester', 'Drought resistance: 15 days', and a footer row '30d' / '8'
• two stacked bottom toolbars: a planting-species row (crop/leaf/tree icons, the oak icon highlighted) above the main category toolbar (cursor, housing, food, forestry, industry, water and other tool icons)
• alert stack at bottom-left, each with a red circular icon: 'Building lacks materials', 'Building lacks workers (31)', 'Construction lacks materials (2)', and a yellow 'Beaver is injured'
• the world under the HUD: a forester's lodge and log piles at lower left, a zipline tower crossing the grove, mature oaks ringing the designated plot

Top 3 colors

#302e24 20%#616947 18%#384930 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Mechanistry, Timberborn screenshot: Timberborn 1.0 Trailer + Timberborn 1.1 Feature Trailer (Steam), Mechanistry, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Mechanistry.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: frame is a scene-change survivor (candidates/v1_0016.png @ 44.2s) from the curl-shim download of the Timberborn 1.0 Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution; top resource bar, left stock/event-log column, Cycle 28 day 6 readout, Oak tool card, 8 × 5 green designation grid, dual bottom toolbars and the four-item alert stack all confirmed visible and legible; no trailer caption, watermark or logo overlays the UI

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