Population Performance Profiler

See exactly what's slowing your colony. A late-game Timberborn save can crawl, and the game gives you no way to tell why. This mod adds a live in-game overlay that measures your simulation cost and breaks it down into the heaviest systems, beaver behaviors, and workplace jobs — so you can find the real bottleneck instead of guessing. It's a pure diagnostics tool. It's read-only: it never changes your save, your settings, or the game install. Remove it and it leaves no trace. What it shows ms/tick — the cost of one simulation tick; the number to watch and compare before/after a change. FPS and frame breakdown — how much of each frame the simulation eats, with the measured CPU / GPU split. Frame-time & ms/tick graphs — fps guide lines that snap to your framerate, a stutter timeline, and the worst recent hitches with their likely cause. Bottlenecks verdict — CPU / GPU / frame-cap / GC — so you know whether lowering graphics will even help (usually it won't). Sim breakdown — share of each tick spent on beaver AI decisions (and your biggest workplace job), water, and walker movement. Colony scale, memory & allocation rate, plus a live "what are my beavers doing" activity mix. Optional CSV logging for spreadsheet analysis (off by default). A note on pathfinding Timberborn doesn't have a single "pathfinding" cost you can meter — the work of beavers finding routes is part of their AI decisions, and the work of walking them is the walker-movement figure. This mod shows both, so you see your real logistics load instead of chasing a number that doesn't exist. Using it The panel appears at the top when you load a save. Drag the title bar to move it, click ▾ to collapse it; your layout persists. Toggle sections under Settings → Mod Settings, and rebind the Ctrl+P toggle under Settings → Controls. Requirements Both are small, standard mods — install them too: Harmony Mod Settings (eMka. ModSettings)