One correction to note: Thankfully it's been pointed out in the comments that I was wrong about not being able to move the village center. I don't know how I missed that but you actually can move it. My bad!
While you can move it, you wont be able to sell the original territory you started on like you can with the rest since the game considers your village center to be there, regardless of where you may move the little box and wheelbarrow.
Took me a while to figure it out too (and I've been playing since waaaaay back) The fact that you kind of have to double click after clicking the hammer icon was not obvious to me at all
Another small tip is to always make sure that you have space for a commodity in a storage building, somewhere. For example, if you're trying to trade for more tools (I always have an issue with tool supply early in the game) make sure there is a place for the trader to drop them, otherwise you'll keep waiting and wondering why they never let you buy any tools from them.
I've just started playing and two things I've learned: 1. Housing takes more space than industry. 2. You can restart on the same map by copying the map seed. Other items my wife shared with me: 1. For your starting territory look for one which includes lots of trees & berry bushes, stone and fishes (splashes in the water). 2. Try to build industrial buildings (orange circle) away from residential areas. 3. Click the telescope (top left) and select territory boundaries! Especially if you haven't build your village center yet.
So far Pastures can be placed within the woodlands without disrupting boars, high boar population needs a lot of trees so I usually have 2-3 territories connected that are just reforested woods. Being able to also use these woods as pastures is a great use of the space. You can import 20 bread early on to unlock another trade route, they will buy boar, I sometimes still use this since it is very easy to hit the trade cap for meat and as mentioned above I can get very high boar populations. Boar are used later on for a few other production chains and therefore it is good to have a surplus. Selling the surplus early on adds some extra coin.
A tip about the granary you can place it further away from food resource building coz the transporter have no problem walking but place it closer to markets. This way your market won't run out as fast
Good point that does sound like the best way! Sometimes my gathering hut or fisher's hut would run out of storage especially early on if I only had 1 or 2 villagers assigned as transporters. So I started favoring putting it closer to them.
Most of the time, I'm making central storage per market, and then second storage near resource rich zones. This way, I can manage efficient logistics and build lesser markets, simplyfing logistics. If you have a big resource node (big forest with many sawmills, practical example. I have a single big storage there with about one worker. He's supplying resource storage, where other storages adjacent to building guilds or markets walk there for resources.
Been playing Foundation on and off for 3 years and this is a fantastic tips video! So much I didn’t know about the latest version and some great early economy tips!
One point I would offer, which you didn't mention, is the resource removal tool. Based on what I've seen in other videos, it seems like a lot of people think they must clear cut forests to make room for their village features, and while that's fine if you want the production, it isn't necessary. In this game, woodlands are easily renewed with the forester, and one section of forest is often enough to manage all the timber you need, including planks and trade. Excess forest in the way of your plans can simply be removed after a short waiting period with the paintbrush. Likewise any extra stone or iron nodes in the way.
@@ThePhantomrunner Whoops thanks guys for letting me know! I don't know how I failed to realize this haha! I was at 150 plus and tried and it didn't seem like I could move it weirdly, but I just went in and successfully did so. I'm glad you actually can!
This was a great beginner's guide. I've just bought the game and have fumbled through trying to build a village twice now... and each time I stall out when I have to build the Manor. Just haven't figured out the managing of resources yet. But now I know what to focus on. Thanks.
You absolutely _can_ move the village center. You have to select it, then click on the edit button in its panel, then select it _again_ on the map. You can then move it around like any other building part. Once moved, click Apply Changes in the build panel, and it'll get moved.
If you wanna sell the meat, I wouldn't put in up in market stalls. Villagers will eat the refined food and if it runs low, they will get upset for it not being there anymore. By the time you have access to the butcher, you will likely already have a sizeable town and the one hunters hut and one butcher will not be enough to provide. If you then sell what's in the granary, it will be out even quicker. But if the villagers never had that food, they will be content as ever with the rustic food. :)
Very true! I should of been more clear about ideally not putting it in a market at first and just selling it all to make money initially. And then add it in later on to fulfill the refined food requirement for pleasing commoners when you have them.
You can set the export of a good to "only trade over a certain amount" I tend to make it 100, and have two slots in the granary for meat (200 total) then villagers never run out because of trade..
Serfs will always be content without getting refined food, it is listed as being optional. If they do get one it bumps up their happiness so you can tax them more. Commoners require 2 different types of refined food and if they do not get a required need they will start to accumulate an event. The longer they go without receiving that need the stronger a negative mood the event will stack onto that commoner. Therefore, the early game question is do you sell the meat to the trader or do you provide it to the serfs and tax them more. I can usually get meat very early and can fill both needs and export with 1 hunter and 1 (half staffed with serfs) butcher building. The key is getting a dense enough forest that spawns lots of boars so the hunter is more productive. I usually hold off on getting commoners for a VERY long time. Only when I get the church, 2 refined foods going (meat and bread), clothing production, and berry brew for a tavern. It is fine to have 1/2 refined food options for a while, the negative mood event takes a lot of time to build up to the point commoners will leave. Even if they do not get their need met all the time, whenever they do get that 2nd refined food it will clear the negative mood event even if it was at like -98. xD
@@PerfectDeath4 "Serfs will always be content without getting refined food, it is listed as being optional"..... Then how come their happiness has a -20% for not having refined food at the start of the game? the refined food is a need to upgrade from commoner to citizen yes, but the happiness impacts all, serfs included.
They should put this video in the game as tutorials. xd 8:36 This time I had one tips, Build on top of each other the same type of building so you will had less footprints in the world while adding more: 1. Size for the people inside the buildings. 2. For more gold storage. and other things. 3. Just dont use this trick for other buildings, it will give you a headache.
Finally a good Tips and Tricks Video for this game. I played like 30-40 hours since Fullrelease and didnt saw, that u can move production buildings, or even the city center. Could have save so much tools in the early game xD But sadly i still have a little problem. And maybe you can help me with that. I want to add a gate in my existing palisades. the game says "rightclick" will delete some parts, but it doenst do anything. do i really have to destroy the whole wall just to add a gate? So all my upgrades houses will shrink again? I really dont know how to upgrade to stonewalls without my housing going down the road. Good video buddy. keep on the good work
Great vid. I didnt know you could have multiple special thingy buildings at a single monument. I built both the great hall and tax office seperately. A question, do you by chance have the seed/map code of your map? That island in the river looks nice.
Butchers like to be commoners.. tax collector, priest and bailiff as well. They're my first commoners in game.. i do buy the first set of beautification as well, so the houses will upgrade when i put a commoner in them
I have a question. Looked all over the subbreddit, the steam posts, youtube videos, and cannot find anyone talking about how to do this one thing. Gold mining. I cannot figure out for the life of me how to do it. Is there a special building you need to unlock? I know you need the good smith to turn it into coins, not a problem there. I mean the physical mining. I found the iron mining pretty easily enough, but from what I can tell, you can't use that to building to mine gold. Can't find how to mind gold ore as there is no building/camp item that I've found so far that gives you that ability.
For gold mining you just click on the deposit itself and then hit the edit building hammer button to build a Gold Quarry. Also add the Crane to fulfill the resource depot requirement for it.
I keep getting a no access to refined food when I have brad an meat at a surplus. Also, i have markets spread out across the town with these goods. An tips?
I think that alert comes up even if just one villager isn't getting around a market stall with it often enough. Meaning maybe he/she is either working and or living too far away. It'd look in villager page to find out which one it is and then follow them to try and figure it out. Either adding another stall closer or changing where they live/work.
Thanks! I knew about moving the other buildings but somehow thought the village center couldn't be moved because I tried twice and must of accidently misclicked and wrongly figured it was set there. Don't know how I missed that!
another correction, and this is an annoying one, buildings do not need acces to all entry/exit points, but the sawmill is an exception, that one is the one that needs access to all
@@RoboCharged ok i worded that so wrong, english is my second language and i didn't proof read it, i clarified, as far as i know no building needs access to all points except the sawmill. i haven't tested it on all of them, but the sawmill is the only one so far, its useful to know if you want to cram some buildings together in your town.
One correction to note:
Thankfully it's been pointed out in the comments that I was wrong about not being able to move the village center. I don't know how I missed that but you actually can move it. My bad!
While you can move it, you wont be able to sell the original territory you started on like you can with the rest since the game considers your village center to be there, regardless of where you may move the little box and wheelbarrow.
Took me a while to figure it out too (and I've been playing since waaaaay back)
The fact that you kind of have to double click after clicking the hammer icon was not obvious to me at all
@@Kinzarr4ever I'm glad I'm not the only one haha! I tried several times before giving up and just must of misclicked with it being so small I guess.
@@Shaabhekh That's interesting! I've never tried to sell territory before so thanks for that.
Another small tip is to always make sure that you have space for a commodity in a storage building, somewhere. For example, if you're trying to trade for more tools (I always have an issue with tool supply early in the game) make sure there is a place for the trader to drop them, otherwise you'll keep waiting and wondering why they never let you buy any tools from them.
True nice one!
I've just started playing and two things I've learned:
1. Housing takes more space than industry.
2. You can restart on the same map by copying the map seed.
Other items my wife shared with me:
1. For your starting territory look for one which includes lots of trees & berry bushes, stone and fishes (splashes in the water).
2. Try to build industrial buildings (orange circle) away from residential areas.
3. Click the telescope (top left) and select territory boundaries! Especially if you haven't build your village center yet.
So far Pastures can be placed within the woodlands without disrupting boars, high boar population needs a lot of trees so I usually have 2-3 territories connected that are just reforested woods. Being able to also use these woods as pastures is a great use of the space.
You can import 20 bread early on to unlock another trade route, they will buy boar, I sometimes still use this since it is very easy to hit the trade cap for meat and as mentioned above I can get very high boar populations. Boar are used later on for a few other production chains and therefore it is good to have a surplus. Selling the surplus early on adds some extra coin.
Only half way through, and this is one of the best how-to videos on Foundation I have seen! Deserves 10,000X the views.
Thanks I appreciate the kind words!
A tip about the granary you can place it further away from food resource building coz the transporter have no problem walking but place it closer to markets. This way your market won't run out as fast
Good point that does sound like the best way! Sometimes my gathering hut or fisher's hut would run out of storage especially early on if I only had 1 or 2 villagers assigned as transporters. So I started favoring putting it closer to them.
Most of the time, I'm making central storage per market, and then second storage near resource rich zones. This way, I can manage efficient logistics and build lesser markets, simplyfing logistics. If you have a big resource node (big forest with many sawmills, practical example. I have a single big storage there with about one worker. He's supplying resource storage, where other storages adjacent to building guilds or markets walk there for resources.
Been playing Foundation on and off for 3 years and this is a fantastic tips video! So much I didn’t know about the latest version and some great early economy tips!
One point I would offer, which you didn't mention, is the resource removal tool. Based on what I've seen in other videos, it seems like a lot of people think they must clear cut forests to make room for their village features, and while that's fine if you want the production, it isn't necessary. In this game, woodlands are easily renewed with the forester, and one section of forest is often enough to manage all the timber you need, including planks and trade. Excess forest in the way of your plans can simply be removed after a short waiting period with the paintbrush. Likewise any extra stone or iron nodes in the way.
That's true good looking out! Yes the forester really grows trees back fast it's crazy!
Literally 60 seconds in and learnt things I didn't know after tens of hours of gameplay. 😂❤ Cheers bud 👍
you actually can move the village center, i'm not sure if you have to wait any period time, but i moved mine when i had around 200 population
You can move them as early as 10 villager lol,just click edit building and double click to move 😊
@@ThePhantomrunner i figured, i just didnt even think about the idea of moving it until i had hit 200 and was redesigning the center of town
@@ThePhantomrunner Whoops thanks guys for letting me know! I don't know how I failed to realize this haha! I was at 150 plus and tried and it didn't seem like I could move it weirdly, but I just went in and successfully did so. I'm glad you actually can!
You can move it right away!
FINALLY a tips and tricks video!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was a great beginner's guide. I've just bought the game and have fumbled through trying to build a village twice now... and each time I stall out when I have to build the Manor. Just haven't figured out the managing of resources yet. But now I know what to focus on. Thanks.
I stalled out with my first attempt as well so I know what it feels like haha. I'm happy this was useful good luck!
Pressing shift when placing multiples of the same item is the bestest tip for my sanity.
Haha indeed! I was getting so frustrated before knowing that.
Such a fun and lighthearthed game, I'm a fan!
thank you! I looked for one of these tips videos and they were all not for the 1.0 release. You had really helpful information!
Thanks for watching I'm glad it could help out!
Your build looks amazing. And great tips.
Thanks!
Bruv, I picked up like 10 things from this vid that I didn't know I needed to know.
You absolutely _can_ move the village center. You have to select it, then click on the edit button in its panel, then select it _again_ on the map. You can then move it around like any other building part. Once moved, click Apply Changes in the build panel, and it'll get moved.
If you wanna sell the meat, I wouldn't put in up in market stalls. Villagers will eat the refined food and if it runs low, they will get upset for it not being there anymore.
By the time you have access to the butcher, you will likely already have a sizeable town and the one hunters hut and one butcher will not be enough to provide.
If you then sell what's in the granary, it will be out even quicker. But if the villagers never had that food, they will be content as ever with the rustic food. :)
Very true! I should of been more clear about ideally not putting it in a market at first and just selling it all to make money initially. And then add it in later on to fulfill the refined food requirement for pleasing commoners when you have them.
You can set the export of a good to "only trade over a certain amount" I tend to make it 100, and have two slots in the granary for meat (200 total) then villagers never run out because of trade..
@@Lekkah666 Which doesn't help when you want early money from meat.
Serfs will always be content without getting refined food, it is listed as being optional. If they do get one it bumps up their happiness so you can tax them more. Commoners require 2 different types of refined food and if they do not get a required need they will start to accumulate an event. The longer they go without receiving that need the stronger a negative mood the event will stack onto that commoner.
Therefore, the early game question is do you sell the meat to the trader or do you provide it to the serfs and tax them more.
I can usually get meat very early and can fill both needs and export with 1 hunter and 1 (half staffed with serfs) butcher building. The key is getting a dense enough forest that spawns lots of boars so the hunter is more productive.
I usually hold off on getting commoners for a VERY long time. Only when I get the church, 2 refined foods going (meat and bread), clothing production, and berry brew for a tavern. It is fine to have 1/2 refined food options for a while, the negative mood event takes a lot of time to build up to the point commoners will leave.
Even if they do not get their need met all the time, whenever they do get that 2nd refined food it will clear the negative mood event even if it was at like -98. xD
@@PerfectDeath4 "Serfs will always be content without getting refined food, it is listed as being optional"..... Then how come their happiness has a -20% for not having refined food at the start of the game? the refined food is a need to upgrade from commoner to citizen yes, but the happiness impacts all, serfs included.
They should put this video in the game as tutorials. xd
8:36 This time I had one tips, Build on top of each other the same type of building so you will had less footprints in the world while adding more:
1. Size for the people inside the buildings.
2. For more gold storage. and other things.
3. Just dont use this trick for other buildings, it will give you a headache.
Good tips 👍🏼
Finally a good Tips and Tricks Video for this game. I played like 30-40 hours since Fullrelease and didnt saw, that u can move production buildings, or even the city center. Could have save so much tools in the early game xD
But sadly i still have a little problem. And maybe you can help me with that. I want to add a gate in my existing palisades. the game says "rightclick" will delete some parts, but it doenst do anything. do i really have to destroy the whole wall just to add a gate? So all my upgrades houses will shrink again? I really dont know how to upgrade to stonewalls without my housing going down the road.
Good video buddy. keep on the good work
Thank you!!
Great vid. I didnt know you could have multiple special thingy buildings at a single monument. I built both the great hall and tax office seperately.
A question, do you by chance have the seed/map code of your map? That island in the river looks nice.
Thanks ya for sure it's
51NJovFJXQLPA
Butchers like to be commoners.. tax collector, priest and bailiff as well. They're my first commoners in game.. i do buy the first set of beautification as well, so the houses will upgrade when i put a commoner in them
Thank you for this excellent video! out of interest, what is the seed for the map shown?
Thanks! The seed is...
51NJovFJXQLPA
I have a question. Looked all over the subbreddit, the steam posts, youtube videos, and cannot find anyone talking about how to do this one thing.
Gold mining.
I cannot figure out for the life of me how to do it. Is there a special building you need to unlock? I know you need the good smith to turn it into coins, not a problem there.
I mean the physical mining. I found the iron mining pretty easily enough, but from what I can tell, you can't use that to building to mine gold. Can't find how to mind gold ore as there is no building/camp item that I've found so far that gives you that ability.
For gold mining you just click on the deposit itself and then hit the edit building hammer button to build a Gold Quarry. Also add the Crane to fulfill the resource depot requirement for it.
I find it so strange that there's no day/night cycle.
Yeah I'd prefer having one at least to be optional as well.
Thanks!
I keep getting a no access to refined food when I have brad an meat at a surplus. Also, i have markets spread out across the town with these goods. An tips?
Click on a villager to see what's up.. or mayhaps the market is too far away?
I think that alert comes up even if just one villager isn't getting around a market stall with it often enough. Meaning maybe he/she is either working and or living too far away. It'd look in villager page to find out which one it is and then follow them to try and figure it out. Either adding another stall closer or changing where they live/work.
/facepalm Didn't know half this stuff... cheers dude.
nice thx
you can move village center and almost any other building on the game
Thanks! I knew about moving the other buildings but somehow thought the village center couldn't be moved because I tried twice and must of accidently misclicked and wrongly figured it was set there. Don't know how I missed that!
@@RoboCharged yeah the place you need to click for it to show the arrows are a bit iffy like on other buildings as well
Could you please share the code for your map?
Sure thing it's...
51NJovFJXQLPA
@ thanks!
@@Zigurat7 No problem!
another correction, and this is an annoying one, buildings do not need acces to all entry/exit points, but the sawmill is an exception, that one is the one that needs access to all
Thanks good to know!
@@RoboCharged ok i worded that so wrong, english is my second language and i didn't proof read it, i clarified, as far as i know no building needs access to all points except the sawmill. i haven't tested it on all of them, but the sawmill is the only one so far, its useful to know if you want to cram some buildings together in your town.
too bad this game doesnt have combat in roadmap,if it had combat it woud be perfect
Agreed I'd definitely love to have that aspect added at least as an optional way to play.
at least leave the steampage of the game
Having the name of the game in the title, thumbnail, description, and mentioning it at the beginning of the video wasn't enough?