Banished - Nobody's Home
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- Banished is a game about building a beautiful utopia for a motley band of settlers, and then watching them slowly die out as winter sets in...
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"We may revisit this if this game receives any big updates or expansions..."
Meanwhile, the game has received no updates since late 2015. Everyone that likes the game wants to see more of it, but we're unlikely to see that happen...
its a single guy who made it ,he has most likely moved on .
@@quintonquill Yeah, it's understandable and I don't hold anything against them, it's just a pity there isn't more.
@@terrabeh Definitely -- two of the best overhaul mods are The North and Colonial Charter. Hundreds of hours of content in either one.
May not get a series but depending on how the video does maybe we get a stream or two
@@ThePiachu i agree thoroughly:}
Jon: "Everyone is sick of Squash, so we're going to have Pumpkins instead."
Does... does anyone want to tell him?
Sorry, this is your burden to bear
I more or less made this exact same comment. 😄
remember the first time i played banished. everyone died because the tavern turned out to be a massive black hole for resources so everyone just died off during winter. and the sad thing is once everyones gone the game doesnt give you a game over, your just left with an empty town with no people, time ticking on with the relaxing music.... very dark and creepy.
... Maybe if you wait long enough, some nomads could show up...?
Many A True Nerd only if you build the town hall which allows nomads to apply to settle
@@ManyATrueNerd I think you have to have a Town Hall built. It's been awhile since I have played so check that.
Back several years ago, I'm fairly sure I beat it. My population was in the thousands, which caused the savefile to not work. It ran horrifically, until it crashed, and never started up again. Clearly, that's the end.
Wow. You didn't just quite on it when a cycle of death happens? Good job mate.
At that point you're probably in a bigger town than you were Banished from
@@Enchie It wasn't my first attempt, to be sure. But I got lucky with with my early game trading, which gave me several different crops and livestock, which I could separate out so that no one disease really mattered. The general idea was to make several towns of ~250 population, and only ever make a new one once the previous ones were stable. Eventually, that gave me enough overhead that it was essentially just running on autopilot until the population killed the system.
This guy banished's
Peasants: "we are cold, hungry and homeless!"
Jon: "BUT I BUILT YOU A SCHOOL!"
If you think about it, knowledge is the REAL shelter, food, and warmth.
@@ManyATrueNerd Is this what claire tells you when you try going back into the kitchen?
"you don't need to try and cook anything, here's a book on the pre-roman trade routes of the Mediterranean sea!"
... There's definitely no book on the entirety of pre-Roman Mediterranean trade - it's simply too many civilizations, over too wide an area, and too long a history, including plenty in historical black spots. It wouldn't all fit in a book. There's no spine that could fit it all.
@@ManyATrueNerd technically a book could be entirely about it without requiring it to contain the entirety of the information, im sure it would mainly focus on the most affluent and least affluent of the major rises and falls leading up to the roman conquests. At least enough to keep you from trying to cook or start a fire for warmth :P
@@ManyATrueNerd so what you're saying is that Claire has many books to keep you out of the kitchen with.
"Banished is a game about building a beautiful utopia for a motley band of settlers, and then watching them slowly die out as winter sets in"
The Settlement of Jamestown in a nutshell!
This is a really chill and relaxing game until it's not and all you can do is see who dies last. For me it's always been the fisherman.
@@willreaver1425 I'm surprised. Usually it's a laborer because of how job/needs queueing works.
@@Baibakov88 Fishing equals food, which is why the fisherman dies last
More like Roanoke.
@@willreaver1425 Whoops, I literally was thinking backwards/first. 3 AM YouTubing, everyone.
Townspeople: _"We have so much food, we don't know what to do with it."_
1:12:20
Jon: _"Good news! I traded all our Tools, Iron and Firewood for some Pumpkin Seeds!"_
Also Jon: _"How have you all run out of Tools? Why are you all freezing to death? Why isn't anyone eating the Pumpkins!?"_
"Everyone is sick of squash, let's give them pumpkins!" Uhhh, Jon, a pumpkin is a squash. 😂
Shhh, don't squash his dreams
pumpkins and squash are like tomatoes and potatoes, or capsicums and chilies
He's from the city.
* makes a squash pie * is it though 😅
A pumpkin is a squash, but a squash isn't necessarily a pumpkin ;)
I like how Jon managed to give this perfectly normal village an underlying dystopia in the pit with all the nomads working in on the opposite side of town from all the "nice houses" being divided by a church.
Top tips! Build a boarding house first before building individual houses.
Build a tailor, log splitter, blacksmith and a hospital and have one worker do all four.
Don’t build a school house until your population is like 70/80. Also build a trading post early game.
It’s a great game!
Always build a school first. Doesn't matter if the Teacher only teaches three students their entire career, that's a net gain of 2; 3 educated workers minus the now deceased teacher. And Educated workers produce twice as much stuff as uneducated workers, so Schools are key.
Hunter, Gatherer, School, Tailor, Blacksmith, and then Quarry if I'm in desperate need of more stone, and a Mine to get me Iron and Coal to produce Steel Tools, which last longer, meaning your Educated Workers get more done, for a longer time, than your Uneducated Workers.
how do you have one worker do all 4?
@@acdcrules4eva Micro managing him/her based on the recourses that you have and what you need.
Especially in the early game micro managing crafting jobs is key. There is no use in creating more tools when you already have 100 and are short on pops. Same for clothing and herbs and fire wood.
Once you are in the mid game you will have them dedicated but you will also have more pops by then and it is needed. Also to big farming grounds is also a pitfall in the early game.
Banished is FTL, Darkest Dungeon, Rimworld level of class but more underrated than any of them.
Banished is amazing, but it does fall short of a few of these games but I would still consider it underrated. Rimworld is just top tier at the moment after the DLC just dropped
This has the atmosphere of something written by a struggling alcoholic on the east side of the Berlin Wall. I love it.
Hahaha perfect description
Went to play this and watch this on the second monitor. 10 minutes into my game a child wandered off and starved to death.
11/10
"It produces graphs! I've made the best decision!"
Says SO MUCH about Jon
If you're gonna play more of this recommend the Realistic Aging Mod.
It makes the game easier but also harder.
People live longer but also take longer to enter the workforce?
I'm pretty sure the "Age" counts Seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter = 4) not years.
@@LadyDoomsinger - That doesn't really make sense unless you think a 4 year old boy and girl can have a baby together.
@@TheMrVengeanceEh, yeah, no. Maybe not.
I love how if you hover your mouse over to a person, it’s like
Educatation: yes
Medieval CVs be like
Jon this is why I love watching you play games. "we need more wood" ... Jon builds 2 forester camps to grow and chop wood ... Jon staffs them with 3 workers out of 8 ... "lets build a bridge to cross the river and send workers to chop wood over there" ... I love watching the way you think.
Or doesn't think...
I like to imagine that Jon talks like this when playing games, even if he's not recording them.
“Everyone is sick of squash, so let’s grow pumpkins instead”.
Jon, pumpkins *are* a squash.
He's playing Banished? Oh his poor poor citizens.
To this day Banished still sticks with me because of how well it nailed seasons and the feeling of them.
Watching Jon turn from a caring god to a resource demanding tyrant was the greatest thing i've been given this year.
I love it how Jon turns off the School AS THE CHILD WAS WALKING INTO IT! Never change Jon, lol.
I enjoyed this so much as a Banished veteran. Laughing as he never built more houses and was confused as to why there weren’t babies being born, waiting for the death cycle to begin. And not doing the usual death cycle method of closing the school quickly so all the children joined the workforce.
I love watching city builders/ civilization type games. The more the merrier.
I highly recommend checking out Kingdoms and Castles. It’s a city builder with a really pretty yet simplified art style, amazing music, and a small yet hardworking team of developers who’ve been working on adding new features and improvements since it’s release.
Me: this doesn't look right.
Also me: oh right, all those mods I have.
“I could do that, but it would be a catastrophically dumb idea.”
Why should that stop you? The people demand chaos!
This is one on my favorite games!!!
Created by 1 guy, if I remember right.
Yup! He devblogged the entire thing too!
Make a perimeter of corn feelds and it can be your corn-wall
I see what you did there. If only Connor was around then he wouldn't have a population problem. ;)
I'm stumped that you haven't played this yet this is like the Holy Grail of city builders
what about life is feudal village?
The Holy Grail? Really? This game is a chronic underachiever compared to games that have come out before and since it was released... which was early 2014.
Holy Grail is not exactly right term. Banished was more like Water of Life for city builder genre. Before it the genre was almost dead. No big studio want to invest in city building game for there was a little demand for it. But after this game become popular, it inspired a lot of folks to try. I honestly think Anno wouldn't go Back from the Future without Banished :-)
Banished was a slow-selling bug salad on release. Tropico 5 came out within a couple of months. Cities Skylines and Anno 2050 were both already under development and hit the market about a year later. You fat kids and this thing where you just announce whatever factoid-oid-oids you think ought to be true and then get mad when somebody Googles it. Christ.
@@misombra man you didn't have to bring personal attacks into it. I get where you're coming from but you'll have better luck getting your point across if you stay objective and don't start calling people fat kids.
yeah, you forgot to give housing to the children of the first 4 family's , they need houses to be able to move out once they finish school, and will start making children on their own.
The sweet notification of the best TH-camr playing a great game . Keep up the good work ! I can't wait to see how you'll get them kill
Finally! I love this game. Things go wrong so fast.
Great music, too.
A good strategy for the first few years in Banished is to set up a forest industry and fishing. You also want to de-centralize a bit with storage house- basically, build a fishing dock, a storage hut right next to that dock for storing the fish (saving the fisherman walking time delivering the fish to a storage in town), and add a house by the docks where the fisherman family will live. The same goes with the forest - you want to put down a small cluster of buildings in the middle of a forest, including a forester to reforest and chop down trees for firewood, the wood cutter to make firewood, herbalist, gathering, and hunting lodge, as well as the stockpile and storage house for storing things locally. Build a few houses for the people who make a living in the forest, and clear out any stones and iron in the sphere of the forester so more trees can grow. One of these forest industries bases can maintain itself and provide firewood to the central village and fishing area, and gives you a good start for growth.
Regarding the pumpkin/squash business: It's like the difference between maize and corn. Corn is a generic term for any seed crop ( hence "acorn" refers to the seed/fruit of an oak tree) - they called maize "corn" in the American colonies because they didn't learn the local name for it ("mahiz" was the Carribean term for the food, so the Spanish adopted their spelling of it, "maize" since they had earlier contact with the Caribbean tribes than the English had with the Iroquois/Algonquin/etc. of North America) and decided "its a grain, so let's just call it a corn". Eventually the term "corn" was held on by the Americans as a way to distinguish themselves from Europeans, who had taken up the Spanish name for the food. "Squash" is the native term for the group of New World fruits that include pumpkin, butternut, etc. (all the same species, by the way, just different varietals bred for different purposes), while "pumpkin" is a bastardization of the ancient Greek word for "melon" (it actually went like this: Greek pepon -> French pompon -> British English pumpion -> North American colonists pumpkin). Again, the British colonists did not bother to learn the local terms for the fruits right away, and instead presumed it must be the pumpkins mentioned in ancient Greek writings, so they named it pumpkin. Later the native term for the fruit, squash, was also adopted, but the use of the word pumpkin continued on for the one particular varietal of the plant - the large, orange ones bred to produce seeds and thicker husks over flesh fruit.
I find this game extremely relaxing, for some reason. A favorite to play when I just need some downtime and nice music--glad to finally see it here! I rubbed my hands and said 'this should be good', because there is definitely a learning curve...
Some tips:
Build farms first, two 8x10, an 8x10 can be tended by one citizen, build early to ensure a first year harvest.
Foresters can plant, cut or both, if you have a forester set to plant with a herbalist and gatherer you can maximise their output.
Build a boarding house to avoid homelessness whilst you build new homes.
A good rule of thumb; if it's not a resource creator then it's a late game building.
Livestock are amazing, but expensive!
ha i did not expect this one, i loved this game when it came out and cant wait to watch you play :D
There is an entire, huge and sexy, Colonial DLC that really ups the challenge level, length of game, and adds a lot more buildings and jobs. Seriously improves the game on every level.
I could literally watch Jon play city builders all day. A short series would be fun I think! (although not city skylines)
My medic rescued 200 people and died as the only victim to the illness.
I installed a mod to build him a statue.
P.S: Can we have some more please?
Jon: Roots sound terrible
Carrots: Am I a joke to you?
I always start with a boardinghouse (to avoid homelessness early on, but if needed I build one or 2 wood houses), blacksmith, woodcutter, 1 crop field (food limit straight up 10000) or 2. In the Winter, they all do laboring anyway, so they do their gathering building resources in the Winter. Then when I get my food up to about 3000 (which is fairly quick because of the crop field), that's when I get my schoolhouse, forester and tailor. I find that as long as they have firewood, they don't freeze to death. I literally don't hardly build fisheries until later, because they barely generate any food. Waste of labor. Better to have a crop field with 4 people than fish which barely produce anything.
Colonial charter is a fantastic mod for this game - worth trying if you want a longer/more involved Banished experience.
Marketplaces help make a variety of food available in an area for you people to take to their houses. They are most useful as your town sprawls out as the market workers will bring all the different food from your more remote storehouses to your markets which you've ideally placed near your houses.
I love a good city builder. Am all for you playing more of this or something similar. Great to watch, especially now as I am sick. :)
14:00, Jon you are aware that a carrot is a root right?
Kennan Dunn hahaha i was thinking the same thing.
Carrot is a stem. Raddish are roots.
Aren't potatoes, as well?
@@russellsmith994 potatoes are stems too, mate.
@@russellsmith994 sweet potatoes are roots though
1:00, well, you see, Jon, they’re all witches, and the church used to banish them before they realized that they could just kill them. Yea, there is such a thing as male witches; what of it?
Happy to see Jon play Banished, its a fantastic little game that I've loved for a long time. I wished it was still getting updates :/
Have you tried the Colonial Charter mod? It adds a lot of extra depth to the base game.
@@98dizzard I haven't yet, but I've actually been looking for some good mods. Thanks for the tip!
@@kevinambler4931 The North is also an excellent overhaul mod, if you like your village to have some Nordic flavour.
"Apparently you can eat roots if you're bloody damn desperate"
Carrots be like "wtf!?"
I remember one of my first games on this on one of the harder difficulties. We didn't last more than a few years until all that was left was one lonely woman who had watched everyone around her die, and she just continued to live painfully alone for several more years until she too was claimed by the winter.
Banished: to…Somewhere
For…umm…reasons…I guess…
And, the Leprechaun did it, of course.
I love this game! Thanks for the play through, Jon.
More please i love this game and so far its been great watching you play
Firewood is definitely a first priority early game as you need to have it collected and enough to last the winter demand and also if workers are in a job such as farmers/gatherers/hunters/forestry if there is no work to do they will default to labourers work until there is the work available usually winter when it’s too cold to grow harvest etc. Also the game will default the closest adults living in a house to a workplace nearby so you will find over time that you will get hubs of farmers near fields miners near mines etc in housing however the developer of this game stated when he released the last update that the game is now complete and final so no more updates as he has moved onto other projects. The mods are definitely worth a look though Jon!
wrt What Markets do: What you'll notice early game is that your villagers take whatever they can carry out of the storage barns in huge quantities because they "might" need it in winter. Markets set per-person limits on how much food, tools and clothing each villager can take, which is really important during those times you don't have food surpluses in the thousands
One of my fav games of all time. I always do the adam and eve mod. You start with two people, man and woman, and populate from there. No seeds no animals, nada
34:48 yes Jon. You grow crops using guns. You hold them at gunpoint and threaten them to grow.
Whenever someone isn't working, like those farmers were in the first season, they just become laborers until it's time to work again.
Hi Jon, yams, beets, parsnips, turnips, rutabagas, carrots, yuca, kohlrabi, onions, garlic, horseradish, turmeric, radishes, ginger, and many others are all considered roots.
Excellent Vid! Great narrative! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Good Job!
Hot damn! This game was why I signed up for Steam.
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
John: But why are they banished?
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY DID
@@ManyATrueNerd They know what they did, and they swore never to speak of it.
Well, that first house you clicked on, there was a 17 year old married to a 13 year old and they had two kids..
@@ManyATrueNerd My understanding is that they were banished for religious reasons. Think of the French Huguenots.
@@epicurius1 Actually, in the middle ages it was quite common to marry off your daughter at around the age of 12 or 13, and it also wasn't completely unheard of for them to have kids at that age as well, since girls generally go through puberty at around that age.
Personal preference; start by building a boarding house, start up basic infastructure of gatherers, hunters and fishers for food, forester to keep logs coming in and a woodcutter. Start gathering stuff, and as resources start to come in slowly start building houses for families. Your people will only "marry and produce children" only if there's available housing. And you have to be quite careful how fast to expand because you may get exponentially more children, who don't do much useful but require food and clothing. :s
Also, this game is one of my all time favorite city builders. Crank the difficulty to max and it's game of spinning plates avoiding disasters and starvation. Every time you fix one thing, something else breaks.
So glad you are playing this. I got it about 6 months ago, played a few hours in it and then couldn't be motivated to carry on. Now I shall have a fresh look.
Oh Jon! Saying "We're Waiting on Someone who isn't a food merchant", While I'm yelling at the screen saying that he can just place an order of what he wants. LOL
every time I see this game I want to download it again
One of the most fun Banished videos I've seen. I'd love for it to be a series.
Yes! I've been waiting for you to play this
"Wesleyville Yogurt would not be the most ridiculously named village in all of Britain." - probably something like Weston-Super-Mare or so...
Jon, have you ever tried Rimworld? Its not graphically stunning, but its essentially a city builder where you build in micro-scale (as in, you build walls, furniture, and other equipment, with trading and a fairly advanced combat system thrown in. And you're trying to stop your colonists from doing insane and breaking something important.
So, since you're so into city builders, could we expect some Dwarf Fortress at some point? :D
The flames, the screaming, and destruction of a normal game of DF mixed with the chaos of a low-perception player sound either good or bad depending on your understanding of what is funny
... I think we'd find it hilarious!
I believe that game would be less of a let's play and more of watching jon suffering and trying to convince himself that "everything is fine"
I daresay when they finally release their steam version it'll be a hilarious hilarious disaster
Why the hell would you want Jon to waste his time playing that, and then for you to waste your time watching it? If you want to watch someone play Dwarf Fortress, go watch someone who would actually be able to figure out how to play it, like Quill18 or someone else.
What about he gives a shot to the noob version of DF : Rimworld . With a few mods, it could be fun . He may have played it on his channel tho but I'm not sure.
So glad to MATN play Banished. I’m honestly surprised he hadn’t before.
Banished was my favourite game for a while. I played it for a ludicrous number of hours, but never made a HUGE town, because it simply isn't that fun for me to do. Rather, I built a decent hamlet, and let it grow naturally, then left it as though this population would sit like that, in this nice little town where everyone knows everyone and gossip spreads quick, when winter sets in the snow dusts the town and the chimneys roar, the people seek warmth in their nice warm houses whilst their children play with their little wooden toys, some imported from the major cities along the river, those ones being obvious...
Meanwhile, over in the woods nearby, the local herbalist (who jokingly calls herself a witch to the children when she ventures into the town to purchase foodstuffs for the week) regularly brings in fresh herbs from the woods, carefully handpicked to treat the scurvy that stopped occurring once she arrived. She is a wise woman, and well respected, if there were anyone who was considered a leader, she would be it. This was proven when, in the smallpox outbreak of 1674 she managed to prove the effectiveness of quarantine in the new hospital...
The old man who long ago retired from his farm often grumbles about the weather in spring, about how the mountain air brings a chill that settles in his bones. His wife Margaret often says that the weather is all that keeps him going these days, the frost actually bringing him some pleasure as it brings down the fresh air from above. He may not have a lot anymore, but his four wooden walls and dim house are more than enough, and seeing his grandkids, and even one great grandkid playing in the stretching fields and prairie softens his old heart, and at the annual summer festival he often tries the local batch of mead (A hobby of the apiarist) first, as a tradition from many years ago...
This game is my RPing game, where the actual progress doesn't matter, I am sure that with mods I could make a huge city with metropolitan population... but I simply don't find that fun. Rather, telling the story of Brian the Woodcutter whose wife died tragically one cold winter leaving him and his son, aged 4 at the time to fend for themselves.
You have to build houses! Even when things seem they're going ok. People won't start having kids until they have a house they can move into.
MOAR
Cracking game, I reckon this (with a few mods) could be a contender for one of your epic birthday livestreams. A bit like the 9-hour Factorio saga.
YES!
These tutorials are nice but most of the posted videos are from people who didn't know how it works. Even this one. And this is one the better ones.
"It's safe to say everyone is sick of squash by now, so let's move over to pumpkins"
Nobody tell him... bless his heart.
Tip:
1 Don't accidentally collect resources on the other side of the river. The people will try to walk around the river to collect it, and may freeze or starve.
2 Hold Shift while building roads to build at angle.
I have plenty more tips, but . . .
It's nice to see all these games that look as though they were inspired by Dwarf Fortress in some way.
You dam good at making city builders super interesting. Plus this game seemed pretty good. Small series in the future??? Either way thank you for the hours of entertainment!
"you can eat roots if you are really desperate."
It seems like someone doesn't like to eat their carrots.
mod it up and livestream this please ;)
some of my favorites;
aging 1:1, one of the multi mod packs, like rk editors choice, mega mod, or colonial charter for many more professions, decor and many buildings, something to make resource management easier, a mod for new map types and start conditions, supermarkets, unlimited mines and quarries, flatten terrain, debug tool... there are many choices to make it more enjoyable and relaxing rabbit hole to lose a weekend in.
I'd add something for smaller barns and specialized stock yards. Makes it easier when gatherers can drop they stuff at a smaller storage where market keeper picks them up from. And maybe that busy laborers thing that lets you send otherwise idle people in forest to gather plants etc. iirc. But I agree, throw in handful of mods and the game gets even better.
Oh wow, I absolutely love this game, but I didn't expect to see it since, you know, it came out in 2014.
You come of age once you get your first Pipboy at 10.
nice to see gatherers are still super OP in this game
23:18 Wood is actually considered a NON-renewable resource because - yes, you can re-plant it and it will grow back, but - it takes a bloody long time to do so. Hence, it is a “non-renewable resource.”
Edit: Please do a series on this.
This game was pretty good, similar to life is feudal forest village. Love to see you do a video on that game and life is feudal: your own.
I never had this experience of all life ending on the beginning of the first winter. Just keep track of your stocks and everything should go well.
Sure, I had people dying and getting reduced to an amount most of the more "advanced" stuff wasn't upkeepable (that's not a word, I know, but I'm German and this makes sense :D) so I just repurposed the work force to all things essential.
I don't think this is a hard game at all. But it's really enjoyable and I love it.
Try this again! Open the chat so you see all the announcements, keep checking the houses to see when they get crowded and build new ones continuously, take a harder start to make it more exciting, get one of the popular mods to expand the game more, play nice and slow and take care of the names and families as there is so much roleplaying to do! This game was just about to open up properly if you kept up with it.
Ah I love this game, have had it for a while.
Please do a livestream of Banished, Jon. This is my favourite game of all time
i want a full series of this where either Wesleyvilloughert flourishes or dies... but dammit, I want to see more of this
I saw a picture of MATN I had to laugh. Because we look shockingly alike.
I'm really happy you liked the game. Its my go to chill game.
The end of the video was about what I expected because that is exactly what happened the first time I played. The best way to prevent it from happening is to build at least one house a year for the first several years until people start dying from old age.
From a mechanic perspective the cause is the following:
While people are free to move from house to house to live closer to where they work but empty houses can be claimed by families.
Couples can't have kids and start a family unless they can claim a house.
people will not move out of a house if it means they will be homeless.
So if you do not build houses, No one can get a date because they all live with their elderly parents and nosy siblings. By the time enough people die that people can move around they are all too old the have kids.
John as a village elder would be hilarious
Have to be honest, that's the first time I've ever heard anyone mention anything about a lack of backstory lol. I think you're onto something there.
The market is awesome because it evenly distributes the resources for your citizens. So that not one household hoards all the food, tools, clothes etc.
One of my favourite games of all time
Especially when there's some nice mods installed