Just started it myself. Pretty nice so far. I didn’t know what I was doing at all at first, but my beavers managed to survive through several droughts and badtides despite having no functional storage/sluice system. Things are running very smoothly now, with a large 3-deep reservoir that’s enough to carry me through almost any crisis. Beaver happiness is about +40 and there’s still much to do.
The water management is indeed nice. But I really crave some ONI-style (Oxygen Not Included) automation now so I don’t have to manually manage sluice heights. I’d really like to see analog gates and arithmetic functions supported by their power transmission system. I.e., sums, differences, thresholding, etc. using blocks that take in a power axle and output one at a different speed. Or maybe some other mechanical transmission like a lever (or even water?). I shouldn’t have to handhold my dams at this point.