A new medieval city builder....

[General Maximus]

Tropico is completely different. While Tropico can be easy or hard depending upon situation, this game is very hard (at least for me). One wrong move and everything is gone.

[snuggans]

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built too many houses and accepted too many nomads and now i'm running out of food

[DarthLazy]

Snuggans if I were you I would shut that quarry and fisheries down and surround the whole main town with farms.

[General Maximus]

That's a big number of houses. This is where the chain starvation starts, because even if you demolish the houses their inhabitants might be working to produce food. Once they die of cold, the food they produce dies with 'em.

[Manco]

My little town.

All stone houses, roads are being upgraded, food is relatively stable at 20-30k with about 350 people.

There's a quarry to the west and a bunch of farms to the south that you can't see

[Raradir]

I don't know if this is just me, but this game sucks soooooo much of my time away from me, like last night, I thought I'd play for like an hour after writing some of my essay for Uni, next thing I know its 1 in the morning lol

[General Maximus]

Can someone help me on how to build 'colony' villages around my main town?

I am playing on a large map, and I thought it is time to populate it, and workers need homes near jobs or they walk too far to work, which requires building of small 'colonies' around my main city. Since this game was impossible for me as the uncurable chain starving began not long after beginning, I am playing with a hack that freezes resources...which I will turn off once the colony gets running up.

What buildings should I build to start a colony somewhere? I've built some houses, farms and a ranch. Are the people living near farms going to take the food directly from the farm, or do I need to put a storage barn? Do these small, semi-isolated villages need their own woodcutter, blacksmith, herbalist and tailor?

Also, after putting the barn in the colony, will the farmers living there focus on putting their harvest in that barn, or walk all the way to the main town to do it? Will the people use the neighbouring barn for their meals and clothes, or they too will walk back and forth to the town? Will the people from main town march into the far-away colony to dump their goods?

And overall, how many people should be living in a colony town, and in how many houses?

[snuggans]

What buildings should I build to start a colony somewhere? I've built some houses, farms and a ranch. Are the people living near farms going to take the food directly from the farm, or do I need to put a storage barn? Do these small, semi-isolated villages need their own woodcutter, blacksmith, herbalist and tailor?

if there is no marketplace, the people will go to the nearest storage barn so yes you will need to build barns. the colony villages don't necessarily need their own woodcutter/herbalist/tailor/blacksmith but they will need what those buildings produce, otherwise your worker will just walk back to the main village to get it. only marketplace vendors will gather these things from other barns and marketplaces in the area, so you can have more than one central point where workers can gather things for their homes.

Also, after putting the barn in the colony, will the farmers living there focus on putting their harvest in that barn, or walk all the way to the main town to do it?

depends on the location of the barn. when a worker can't carry any more in their inventory they will walk to the nearest barn or stockpile to drop it off. so yes if you put a barn in the colony they will use that. some exceptions can include buildings like hunter cabins since they have a wide radius where the worker paths. if the worker's inventory becomes full and there happens to be another barn that's closer than the one you put in the colony, they will walk to that one instead.

Will the people use the neighbouring barn for their meals and clothes, or they too will walk back and forth to the town?

as long as that barn has all the goods they require they won't walk back to the town.

Will the people from main town march into the far-away colony to dump their goods?

again depends on the location of barns and stockpiles. they will walk to the nearest one when they are done gathering or when they are carrying too much.

And overall, how many people should be living in a colony town, and in how many houses?

depends on how much production you've got going in that colony. if you've got a lot of production you're going to need more people living nearby, otherwise people from the main town will start walking over to fill in.

[General Maximus]

if there is no marketplace, the people will go to the nearest storage barn so yes you will need to build barns. the colony villages don't necessarily need their own woodcutter/herbalist/tailor/blacksmith but they will need what those buildings produce, otherwise your worker will just walk back to the main village to get it. only marketplace vendors will gather these things from other barns and marketplaces in the area, so you can have more than one central point where workers can gather things for their homes.

depends on the location of the barn. when a worker can't carry any more in their inventory they will walk to the nearest barn or stockpile to drop it off. so yes if you put a barn in the colony they will use that. some exceptions can include buildings like hunter cabins since they have a wide radius where the worker paths. if the worker's inventory becomes full and there happens to be another barn that's closer than the one you put in the colony, they will walk to that one instead.

as long as that barn has all the goods they require they won't walk back to the town.

again depends on the location of barns and stockpiles. they will walk to the nearest one when they are done gathering or when they are carrying too much.

depends on how much production you've got going in that colony. if you've got a lot of production you're going to need more people living nearby, otherwise people from the main town will start walking over to fill in.

Great, this was very helpful. Thank you, mate.

But since this game doesn't model the flow of goods (mining colony exporting iron to the hometown, in return of grain to feed miners, for example), the 'colonies' I am thinking about and planning to build are nothing but a bunch of wooden houses, sitting around a barn, with a woodcutter and forester nearby, along with the a gatherer and a farm/ranch. Basically, a tiny self-sustaining community similar to the one we get during the start at easy difficulty.

Would that kind of setup work?

I'm afraid there will be visitors from hometown walking to snatch food from the colony in when food is low, or the colony villagers going on long-distance hikes to the main town to grab iron tools...but I think grabbing iron tools would be acceptable.

[saxdude]

Is this moddable?

[SLN445]

With the release of the Steam workshop for this game and thus tons of modding options, anyone having another go at this game?

Sorry for the necro

[Raradir]

With the release of the Steam workshop for this game and thus tons of modding options, anyone having another go at this game?

Sorry for the necro

I certainly will, it would be nice if people created new buildings for the game, or more skins for the current ones

[SLN445]

looks like there are a few new interesting buildings, cant wait to see what people come up with.

[Manco]

Great, I quit playing because at a certain time you've got that "been there, done that" feeling regarding everything survival related, but there wasn't enough basic city-building options; and it seems the early mods are already starting to address that.
Gonna give it a few months to let the mod scene mature, maybe get some overhauls or compilations going but this could seriously start scratching that Caesar III/Pharaoh itch.

edit: looking at what a guy named red-ketchup is making I won't need to wait months, rather days.

[Tankfriend]

It's 50% off on Steam right now, by the way. For anyone reading this, interested and not having it yet.

[eXistenZ]

that colonial charter turbo looks nice, but i probably still wont start it back up. You could quickly figure out the optimum (or at least very efficient) build, and from then there was little to do or happen, even with speed 10.

[Kjertesvein]

As a member of a site dedicated to modding I decided to test out this 3 week old modding project called Colonial Charter 1.0.

The first thing I noticed was that Banished was still the good old lovable game with the calm music, but with quite a lot more options as to what to build. From 27 buildings to 47 buildings, 52 if you include the upgrades. That's not counting the cosmetics and fences! Fences that limits your citizens to actually use the tunnels rather than walk across the mountain like Vanilla was like! More animals, more items, more crops. If you want to try modding and want the Stainless Steel/Darthmod of Banished then this is the mod. It's a very young modding community and the tools are very restrictive, but the mod have charmed me to clocked in twice as many hours into this mod as I did with vanilla.

You're still right eXistenZ. The game is hard coded so that random events is the only thing to negativly effect your city late game. Perhaps as the community grows, more modders will mean better mods. The thing about Colonial Charter is that there is basically double the content, so to get to late game is more complex. It took me 150 freaking days to get 2 lamas.

tl;dr Are the modding tolls limited? Yes. Do I recommend Colonial Charter? Yes. Here is a soon to be outdated preview of 1.0. The 1.1 is scheduled to come soon. I heard rumors that they will be implementing whales and more control over the resources.

​~Wille

[eXistenZ]

Yeah Quill18 did a stream on it today, and it looked really nice. Especially the larger variation. Who knows, maybe on a calm day I might try it. the game is certainly very nice for being made by one person, and now with a gog sale going on and modds being released, it isnt a bad buy, I certainly had my hours of fun with it.

[Kjertesvein]

Hello All.

Just thought id mention a few new features from the many that are coming in the next version to be released soon.

• We have redesigned the way "Alcohol" such as Ale and Wine works, instead of the tavern being the building where these items are produced, we have an upcoming location that will cater for the needs of consuming alcohol and pipe tobacco etc. We have also added a new type of building for making a new assortment of alcohol items (this was in fact a building purchased with donations from kind people and we have redesigned it to fit the mod theme, it is just lovely - thank you to those wonderful people!). The tavern as we know it now will be re-purposed... you will have to see but we think you will enjoy the new system as it adds more flexibility and variety.
  
• There are more decorative items coming.
  
• We have a very special and unique building type coming, I am sure it will make a wonderful decorative addition to any town and it is very useful.
  
• We have developed a new type of fuel, that somehow works with certain organics. We even worked out how to make it stack on a stockpile similar to how firewood does.
  
• There are some exotic new food types that are very interesting and have nothing to do with pastures, orchards or crops.
  
• There are new orchard/crops coming. We particularly enjoy how a new orchard looks, it is unlike anything Banished has to date. We have made the trees individually plantable because they will be a beautiful addition to any town.
  
• There are new recipes at existing buildings, some of which require new crops.
  
• The traders will be balanced significantly.
  
• There are multiple new product chains, I wont tell you what they are but not every advanced building is going to need ropes in the future
  
• Some of the existing buildings from the mod as you know it now have had an aesthetic makeover.

This is just an example of the new content coming in the next release, we wouldnt want to spoil you by telling you too much!

Also we should say I dont think we can answer any questions about this information, the release is very close so you will just have to see for yourself.

Well, thats about all we will say for now. Hope you enjoy it when it is released and please come visit to share some pictures of your lovely towns!

~ Shock

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This mod deserves all the attention it can get.

​~Wille