Initial house location advice

[Shinerunner]

Should I build close to a village or spaced apart to allow for future growth or close for the store? Close to water? Flat fields? What should I look for when putting down first house. Can I relocate later?

[Slavyk_FR]

I'm wondering exactly the same.

[Slavyk_FR]

Just got this from the manual:
"Look for a suitable place to build. You are unable
to build close to a neighboring village. Choose carefully as the terrain should not be too
steep, consider you may want to build a larger settlement in future and it is a good idea
to start in an area with additional, adjacent flat land. Take account of your freshwater
source and the building materials you will need. On the shores of larger lakes and rivers,
reeds grow, these can be used as straw for building roofs"

[Shinerunner]

found this guide https://respawnfirst.com/how-to-build-your-first-house-in-medieval-dynasty-best-location/

There is a location right across the river that is perfect for your first house in the Medieval Dynasty. The location is next to the road, water, and is flat.

[Bosli]

I started directly south of the bigger river delta, east of the road going south. There is a very big open space, fairly close to two villages, with the big river to the north and west, two bridges to the north and dense forest south/southeast.

[Isildor]

Be advised that you can build towns and cities later. and as far as i know you cant remove fields right now! so those will stay in your list.
Also mind that even on the 2nd "Techlevel" you can have 8 buildings standing about. So things grow large quickly.

There's a lovely place across the river to the right, or on the same side as the main village a bit further to the west. However, Both plots of land don't really support more than 6-ish houses if you want to build somewhat pretty.

I myself didn't find a really nice spot yet though.

[Stellar ❤️💙💛]

I did build my cabin at that big lake, only problem is there are no reeds nearby, might start new game and reconsider even its not too bad.

[Ned Nederlander]

I made my village on the road along the river near a bridge, between Denica and Gostovia.

[MiguelCairo]

I found a great spot at the mouth of the stream that flows south between Branica and Baranica.

[Eddie Dexx]

The best location to build your first settlement is if you go west from Gostovia, past the first bridge and up to the second bridge, you'll notice 2 three-way crossroads, one that goes south towards the mountains and Hornica, and the other that connects to the bridge to the other side of the river. That location is really good because you're nearby Gostovia, Borowo and Denica, as well as the northern villages of Baranica and Branica.

In this spot you got everything you need nearby. You got forest, you got animals to hunt, large body of water for fishing.. as well as a cave just south of you. That combined with the nearby villages will help a lot. Not at least getting new inhabitants to your settlement.

[jholcjholc]

honestly build where you want cause you can build a resource storage and food storage outside of any town. I personally built west of gustovia because it has tons of maple and clay and berries rocks sticks, mushrooms and is really short run to pay taxes and gives access to 6 vendors that are close. The sourthern mine is really short run and its right by the unstuck spot and its pretty centrally located makes running to other towns for quests quick then you can use unstuck and be virtually at home. there is also that lake just west of unstuck spot its pretty good as well

[Murray99]

1. The house should be close to water. Reeds are not that important, because you can edit the roof of your house so that you do not need straw (but you will need it for some utility buildings)

2. The terrain should be flat, unless you want to relocate your settlement later on.

3. What do you intend to do? Hunters should go south, because there is more game, there is a very flat spot for farming in the NW near Rolnica, for mining go near a mine (Branica/Baranica offers space, water and two settlements nearby

4. Settle somewhere near maple trees, makes woodchopping for your houses less tedious

Settlement places near Gotovia have two advantages: you don´t need to run that far every spring for paying your taxes and there are six traders in the vicinity, four in Gotovia, two in the settlement across the river (important, if you have already enough iron arrows to sell )

[YodaDoge]

My priority list:
1. Land - Lots of flat land for fields and buildings
2. Other Cities - You have to walk to them often to buy/sell/recruit/quest
3. Trees/Wood - your primary building resource
4. Water - you need to drink regulary
5. Clay / Iron / Rocks - needed for building later on. But your NPC can collect it too. For them the range is not too important as walking distance currently doesnt seem to matter.
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100. Reed - is very easy to transport, for houses you can substitute it with wood. You can produce it yourself with a wheat/rye field.

Originally posted by Isildor:

and as far as i know you cant remove fields right now! so those will stay in your list.

You can delete fields with the hammer - toggle the mode to destroy via right click

Originally posted by Stellar:

I did build my cabin at that big lake, only problem is there are no reeds nearby, might start new game and reconsider even its not too bad.

Just collect a bunch of reed (200 or so) at the starting city and put it in the chest it doesnt go bad.
Wheat or rye fields produce straw too when you dredge the the grains.
You can also change the roof to be a pure wood roof when building houses.

[+2 Epic Flail]

I built in the same location as the youtube streamer 'Raptor' (check videos) but I built mine a bit more spread out for developing later with furniture, decorations etc - just east of the main town Gostovia, by the bridge across the river and around a smaller bridge near a roadsign. It has reeds along the bank for early level buildings, you can build to the map limits in the east on plenty of buildable land, lots of trees for resources as well as deer, boar and wolves just south for hunting. Berries grow around the area and joust south is a clay pit. I am developing further south in my 10th year, and it provides alot of area for progression. I've kept my eye out while travelling and there's a lot of good areas, this one just provides everything including a picturesque location. **BIG ADVICE** build a resource centre at the unstuck point - when you start mining, you can clear the mine & take everything to the the entrance, then pick it all up & press escape for the menu, selct unstuck and teleport your encumbered self directly to a resource centre, saving you tonnes of hours of resource gathering and carting. trust me, best decision to make in the game.

[Wazumba]

I just played for two-three hours and just now found out that it needs to be really flat for you to be able to place bigger buildings than the starter house. I don't mind that that's the case, I just wish they would've mentioned it earlier that it would come to be a restriction. That's how I ended up here, trying to find some good suggestions and then I'll restart my game.

[Goldi:AI]

Originally posted by HappyMike:

I just played for two-three hours and just now found out that it needs to be really flat for you to be able to place bigger buildings than the starter house. I don't mind that that's the case, I just wish they would've mentioned it earlier that it would come to be a restriction. That's how I ended up here, trying to find some good suggestions and then I'll restart my game.

I feel you. This was the reason for one of my restarts as well. Now that I have found the perfect spot however ... Have you seen the heat map? Here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1129580/discussions/0/2930112548439176761/