Thanks I appreciate the compliment good sir! I'm sure you'll get there it just takes making a plan with the time and patience to see it through. My village was a jumbled mess of all the buildings just built temporarily for quite awhile. Only once everything but the windmill and tavern were unlocked was when I started to find a permanent spot for each of them and it started to take shape.
My village is in the same spot . Im on xbox and up the limit to 140 buildings and decreased to 125 population but id say about 20-5 is offspring all around 1-8 😂 but my village layout is no where near as good. I too have put buildings in temporary spots . I have all my animals in one big fenced in place . There needs to have an edit mode where you dont have to knock down and re build. And it should pause as well while you are editing
Thanks a lot man! It definitely wasn't organized at first. Best advice I can give is once you know where you want your village, build everything as you unlock it close together off to the side out of the way. That way everything is beside each other for crafting at all the production buildings etc and you don't have to worry about where you want it right away. Then once you have most buildings unlocked and stockpiles of materials start planning and finding places for them all and taking down the old ones one at a time. Also once you have villagers taking care of the farming and everything you can spend all your time on just relocating each building. Good luck!
Thanks! Yes it was definitely a bit of a grind, I left an open space for it for soo long lol. I came to realize later on that doing certain quests gave production points that amount to way more than personally crafting/cooking/smithing did. So I probably could of saved a fair bit of time had I focused on those earlier.
I love the large spaces. Usually others put things too close together even when they have a huge map to play on. I have moved 3 times now in my first week. Each place was too crowed or hilly. I have a question for you. How do we know the needs per villager? Food, water and firewood. I know firewood will depend on the insulation in the house walls. Don’t think I will try villagers for at least another game year, need to stock up. Will they eat anything if I forget to cook? 😂
Thanks yes I like using a big chunk of the map as well haha. I did plan on making it a little more crowded than it was however but I decorated so much after this video that my Xbox wasn't able to handle upping the build limit so I couldn't keep building. Finding the right place can definitely be tricky but is so important for sure! As for your question, it will show your village population needs at the management menu. I believe each villager on default settings needs 30 food, 30 water, and 30 firewood per day. However with the firewood it changes with the seasons. In summer it's half that, but in winter it doubles. As you said insulation can help and also if I remember right there's a diplomacy skill I believe that can lessen villager consumption of resources as well. As for food and water they will just take it from whatever you put in your food storage building. You can designate some things as off limits I think though. The 30 food per villager sounds like a lot but it's in like "nutrition points" so for instance 1 fish meat is worth 10 nutrition so a villager would only need 3 of that per day to reach 30. If their needs aren't being met I think they just eventually leave but I've never had to find out. You'll see an alert on the screen as soon as anyone is out of something. Honestly I wouldn't be too worried about adding a couple villagers fairly early on. You don't want to expand too fast, but having one fulltime collecting logs and making firewood/planks while having another in the hunting lodge bringing in food can make your life easier and actually help you with the stockpiling. They'll bring in more than they can consume, and then as long as you have a bucket to fill from the well with water and keep it refilled every once in awhile in the food storage you'll be set.
Do you mean from like any of the default villages already on the map? If I remember right the game will tell you if you try and place a building too close and it won't let you place it to build. A good way to find out is to try placing a road towards it and once it stops letting you you'll know you are too close and can then just easily delete the road after.
Very nice town. How's well are your food/income/tool production balanced? I always seem to either have 3 times the ammount of food & tools that I need or nothing at all.
Thanks! Yes I know what you mean, it can be a tricky balance with lots of tedious micromanaging in the menus. I played around with the sliders for villager assignments a lot for each building. One thing I found eventually made it easier was once I had 2 of each production building I could split up the tasks. Say 2 blacksmiths, 1 building focused on turning Iron Ore into Iron Bars, the other just made Iron tools. Once there was a surplus I'd start selling them in the market stall. Same with food, I have just the 1 Hunting Lodge and Fishing Hut however as it seems to be enough with 4 hunters and 2 fishermen. But 2 Kitchens where one just cooks meat at 100% and the other makes things like bread, etc. Then you can have the market stall selling it as well, and whatever is extra can be turned into rot using the composter then fertilizer in the barn. I never filled up to my food storage limit, maybe because of a big population? But I have ran out of space for resources and had to stop my lumberjacks and miners a few times since I was running out of buildings to build. Hope that helps?
can you tell me which sizes your farmlands are and what you're growing on which field? i kinda feel stupid after watching your video :p since i only had like 3 fields and was always micromanaging them...
No problem and that's actually not a bad idea at first, I was doing the same since you get taxed on each field. But after I wanted a big farming area and the farmers auto take care of planting and harvesting in season so I started making a field for each type of crop. Max is 16x16. I think I did a 12x10 Flax and a 10x8 each for Poppy, Wheat, Oat, and Rye. Then I lined up long skinny rows of 15x2 for each vegetables (carrots, beetroot, onions, and cabbage). I just basically used up all the space I'd set aside for farming and that's what it worked out to.
Yes I agree with you there! I made this right after finishing the last of the buildings. In the time since I have focused on flushing out the decorating more and soon I'll probably have it finished for one more video that will be a first person tour without the commentary just taking my time walking through and showing all the details.
There are main storyline quests that once they are all completed that is it for them. But the side quests where you help out villagers around the different villages including your own are always there. Your wife has the odd quest for you too. And the quests where the King gives you a challenge to complete when you talk to the Herald are still ongoing as well.
@@RoboCharged Are you on a 3 day season? Being an older man I am on a 7 day season. I am in my third year with a wife and baby. About 12 buildings finished.
@@steven-nb6rt Yes I stuck with the default 3 day seasons. I left everything at default for this play through actually. But it's not a bad idea, I considered having longer seasons before I started out. I believe once it's been 3 days if you have everything done you want you can skip ahead to next season anyways when you sleep? I'm not sure but there seems to be that option. I just wanted to make sure I got to play as my son and time passed.
I aspire to build something this impressive 🙌👏. I am humbled by your village.. no.. your kingdom! 🤴
Thanks I appreciate the compliment good sir! I'm sure you'll get there it just takes making a plan with the time and patience to see it through. My village was a jumbled mess of all the buildings just built temporarily for quite awhile. Only once everything but the windmill and tavern were unlocked was when I started to find a permanent spot for each of them and it started to take shape.
My village is in the same spot . Im on xbox and up the limit to 140 buildings and decreased to 125 population but id say about 20-5 is offspring all around 1-8 😂 but my village layout is no where near as good. I too have put buildings in temporary spots . I have all my animals in one big fenced in place . There needs to have an edit mode where you dont have to knock down and re build. And it should pause as well while you are editing
Exactly where I built!
Left side, I also am going to build houses and fishing huts all around the lake...great spot 🙃
Nice! Yes it is, I checked all over the map multiple times before I started and couldn't find anywhere else I liked as much.
You’re village looks great. I can tell you put a lot of work into it.
Thanks! I did but it was mostly fun to do...
Awesome! I'm 2 years in. I can't imagine doing this and doing it this organized in 28 years. Great job man!
Thanks a lot man! It definitely wasn't organized at first. Best advice I can give is once you know where you want your village, build everything as you unlock it close together off to the side out of the way. That way everything is beside each other for crafting at all the production buildings etc and you don't have to worry about where you want it right away.
Then once you have most buildings unlocked and stockpiles of materials start planning and finding places for them all and taking down the old ones one at a time. Also once you have villagers taking care of the farming and everything you can spend all your time on just relocating each building. Good luck!
what an awesome village
you should do more foliage / trees decorating, it would look more natural..
24 years for the tavern that’s a long time. Great village btw
Thanks! Yes it was definitely a bit of a grind, I left an open space for it for soo long lol. I came to realize later on that doing certain quests gave production points that amount to way more than personally crafting/cooking/smithing did. So I probably could of saved a fair bit of time had I focused on those earlier.
I love the large spaces. Usually others put things too close together even when they have a huge map to play on. I have moved 3 times now in my first week. Each place was too crowed or hilly. I have a question for you. How do we know the needs per villager? Food, water and firewood. I know firewood will depend on the insulation in the house walls. Don’t think I will try villagers for at least another game year, need to stock up. Will they eat anything if I forget to cook? 😂
Thanks yes I like using a big chunk of the map as well haha. I did plan on making it a little more crowded than it was however but I decorated so much after this video that my Xbox wasn't able to handle upping the build limit so I couldn't keep building. Finding the right place can definitely be tricky but is so important for sure!
As for your question, it will show your village population needs at the management menu. I believe each villager on default settings needs 30 food, 30 water, and 30 firewood per day. However with the firewood it changes with the seasons. In summer it's half that, but in winter it doubles. As you said insulation can help and also if I remember right there's a diplomacy skill I believe that can lessen villager consumption of resources as well.
As for food and water they will just take it from whatever you put in your food storage building. You can designate some things as off limits I think though. The 30 food per villager sounds like a lot but it's in like "nutrition points" so for instance 1 fish meat is worth 10 nutrition so a villager would only need 3 of that per day to reach 30. If their needs aren't being met I think they just eventually leave but I've never had to find out. You'll see an alert on the screen as soon as anyone is out of something.
Honestly I wouldn't be too worried about adding a couple villagers fairly early on. You don't want to expand too fast, but having one fulltime collecting logs and making firewood/planks while having another in the hunting lodge bringing in food can make your life easier and actually help you with the stockpiling. They'll bring in more than they can consume, and then as long as you have a bucket to fill from the well with water and keep it refilled every once in awhile in the food storage you'll be set.
How far you need to build from your village so it's not within the limits?
Do you mean from like any of the default villages already on the map? If I remember right the game will tell you if you try and place a building too close and it won't let you place it to build. A good way to find out is to try placing a road towards it and once it stops letting you you'll know you are too close and can then just easily delete the road after.
I love it!
Thanks so much! I later made another video tour for this village after I finished decorating it as well.
Very nice town. How's well are your food/income/tool production balanced? I always seem to either have 3 times the ammount of food & tools that I need or nothing at all.
Thanks! Yes I know what you mean, it can be a tricky balance with lots of tedious micromanaging in the menus. I played around with the sliders for villager assignments a lot for each building. One thing I found eventually made it easier was once I had 2 of each production building I could split up the tasks. Say 2 blacksmiths, 1 building focused on turning Iron Ore into Iron Bars, the other just made Iron tools. Once there was a surplus I'd start selling them in the market stall.
Same with food, I have just the 1 Hunting Lodge and Fishing Hut however as it seems to be enough with 4 hunters and 2 fishermen. But 2 Kitchens where one just cooks meat at 100% and the other makes things like bread, etc. Then you can have the market stall selling it as well, and whatever is extra can be turned into rot using the composter then fertilizer in the barn. I never filled up to my food storage limit, maybe because of a big population? But I have ran out of space for resources and had to stop my lumberjacks and miners a few times since I was running out of buildings to build. Hope that helps?
can you tell me which sizes your farmlands are and what you're growing on which field?
i kinda feel stupid after watching your video :p since i only had like 3 fields and was always micromanaging them...
No problem and that's actually not a bad idea at first, I was doing the same since you get taxed on each field. But after I wanted a big farming area and the farmers auto take care of planting and harvesting in season so I started making a field for each type of crop. Max is 16x16. I think I did a 12x10 Flax and a 10x8 each for Poppy, Wheat, Oat, and Rye. Then I lined up long skinny rows of 15x2 for each vegetables (carrots, beetroot, onions, and cabbage). I just basically used up all the space I'd set aside for farming and that's what it worked out to.
@@RoboCharged thanks alot :) very inspiring to see the development
Woow
It feels quite empty. No attention to decorations. That would make a big difference.
Yes I agree with you there! I made this right after finishing the last of the buildings. In the time since I have focused on flushing out the decorating more and soon I'll probably have it finished for one more video that will be a first person tour without the commentary just taking my time walking through and showing all the details.
Do you still get quests to do?
There are main storyline quests that once they are all completed that is it for them. But the side quests where you help out villagers around the different villages including your own are always there. Your wife has the odd quest for you too. And the quests where the King gives you a challenge to complete when you talk to the Herald are still ongoing as well.
@@RoboCharged Are you on a 3 day season? Being an older man I am on a 7 day season.
I am in my third year with a wife and baby. About 12 buildings finished.
@@steven-nb6rt Yes I stuck with the default 3 day seasons. I left everything at default for this play through actually. But it's not a bad idea, I considered having longer seasons before I started out. I believe once it's been 3 days if you have everything done you want you can skip ahead to next season anyways when you sleep? I'm not sure but there seems to be that option. I just wanted to make sure I got to play as my son and time passed.