I really like it. It's pretty soothing and beautiful graphics. Definitely echo that it is a very slow game right now. Rewards you for patience and not going hyper-growth. You will run out of food fast if you're not careful

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You gotta have so many houses it’s crazy

Put in a few hours over the last few days and think it's a great start. A few things that took me like 4 unsuccessful playthroughs to realize (albeit anecdotally):

1) the backyard industry (exists - which I didn't realize at first

) is pretty important. I read somewhere that your burgage plots should be about the size of the logging camp. I tried that and it seems about right. If you use that size, you only have to build 3 burgage plots to house your initial settlers. You just have to add the second house "upgrade"

2) get some planks ASAP and upgrade your hitching post to get a 2nd ox. Makes building and timber hauling (also build this first or you will get yourself stuck with nothing else to build) much easier. I also get to about 40-50 planks and then re-assign that worker to other tasks

3) farming is for later in the game. I was so worried about food I kept building farms but they're actually pretty inefficient for feeding your people initially.

4) upgrade your burgages to level 2 when you can - this starts to generate "passive" regional wealth which can be used for trading

5) the trading post is more beneficial than I thought at first. Although, they did a patch and made this much more expensive. Pick a few items that you have a decent amount of and won't use (tools, is a good one) and trade most of them away. This opens up options to trade in additional resources that are tougher to get.

6) I also didn't notice that collecting herbs was an upgrade on the gathering hut (which I should have since that's a Banished mechanism) but don't forget to do that or your people will get sick.

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Posted by beerJeep

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Posted on 5/15/24 at 2:45 pm to TFS4E

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the backyard industry (exists - which I didn't realize at first ) is pretty important. I read somewhere that your burgage plots should be about the size of the logging camp. I tried that and it seems about right. If you use that size, you only have to build 3 burgage plots to house your initial settlers. You just have to add the second house "upgrade"

You should 100% spend your starting money on 2 veggie plots (make them long and narrow with a burgage that supports 2 families, not just 1) and an extra hitching post/ox.

THE EXTRA OX AT THE START IS A NON-NEGOTIABLE. It will make things run soooooo much smoother on the front end.

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2) get some planks ASAP and upgrade your hitching post to get a 2nd ox. Makes building and timber hauling (also build this first or you will get yourself stuck with nothing else to build) much easier. I also get to about 40-50 planks and then re-assign that worker to other tasks

You waiting too long, baw! You should have the 2nd ox before you even place down any houses.

And 40-50 planks? shite baw. I never have more than 10 saved. Have a burgage set on making the wooden gear to trade.

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3) farming is for later in the game. I was so worried about food I kept building farms but they're actually pretty inefficient for feeding your people initially.

I stopped farming all together. Deep mine on iron + tool manufacturing trade and buy all the grain I need to make bread and sell the extra bread for profit.