food, water, firewood???

[saintsfan36]

I just started playing this game. Am I seriously going to have provide food, water, and firewood for every villager in my village? I mean, the river is about a 2 second walk away. They can't get a drink the same way I do? I'm barely keeping myself in food, now I'm supposed to feed everyone? What are they doing? Watching t.v. and playing x-box?

I'm new, so I'm sure that I'm missing something here.

[Senyuki]

You have to give them some jobs like hunting, cooking etc. So they can help you with all the work in the village. For this you have to built the buildings like the kitchen, hunting lodge etc.

[saintsfan36]

Thanks

[NickTwist]

Before you get any villagers:
have a food storage hut,
a resource storage building,
a hunting lodge,
a lumber mill
and 2 house besides your house.

Then go hunting and roasts the meat and put it in the food storage hut, You can roast meat in the fire-pit in your house),
and cut down trees and make firewood and put in the resource storage building -
also make a bunch of stone knifes and stone axes and put them in the resource storage building.

THEN- go get two male villagers and assign one to lumber and one to hunting. Make sure you open the building window and activate the lumber mill to get logs/firewood/sticks/planks, and the hunting set to get meat. If you don't do this step your villagers will just stand around.

You will be supplying all your villagers with tools and roasted meat for a little while until they can start making their own items when you get a smithy and a crafting hut and kitchen.

[zenstrata]

I am a bit confused about the hunting lodge... I built one, assigned my wife to it (she has hunting level 3). But she has yet to product any meat or any other resource at all. . despite about 40 hours of game time. I also made sure she had access to a bow and arrows in the box in the hunting lodge.

[NickTwist]

Originally posted by zenstrata:

I am a bit confused about the hunting lodge... I built one, assigned my wife to it (she has hunting level 3). But she has yet to product any meat or any other resource at all. . despite about 40 hours of game time. I also made sure she had access to a bow and arrows in the box in the hunting lodge.

She need knifes only, not bow and arrows (they have their own). Also open the building menu and click on the hunting lodge and on the top of the window click the assigment icon and turn on meat and whatever else you want .

[zenstrata]

Thanks! I wish the game was a bit clearer about what resources were needed for each building type. I even watched some videos about it, but all the tutorial videos were for older versions of the game and so are mostly useless =/

[NickTwist]

In the building menu, (the one that shows all the building you have), if you click on any building, another window open for the building - it will show you what tool is needed for the villager to work. You only need to supply it to the resource storage building.

[saintsfan36]

Thank you for the info! That is all very helpful. :)

[Dekent]

A bucket of water lasts quite a bit, and 10 bucks of water and you can forget about water needs for the year. They are easy to craft and fill so water shouldn't take more then 30 seconds of effort. You can get a well and automate it but it feels like that just eats up a village for very little gain, maybe when the kitchens start using water that might be useful.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Originally posted by zenstrata:

Thanks! I wish the game was a bit clearer about what resources were needed for each building type. I even watched some videos about it, but all the tutorial videos were for older versions of the game and so are mostly useless =/

It's worth a quick look through the stuff on the games Knowledge Tab, its pretty sparse and could do with much more information but it gives you some hints. The guides here on Steam are out of date about a lot of stuff in v1.0 but a lot of the basics are the same to they are definitely worth a look as long as you bear that in mind.

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by Mark:

Originally posted by zenstrata:

Thanks! I wish the game was a bit clearer about what resources were needed for each building type. I even watched some videos about it, but all the tutorial videos were for older versions of the game and so are mostly useless =/

It's worth a quick look through the stuff on the games Knowledge Tab, its pretty sparse and could do with much more information but it gives you some hints. The guides here on Steam are out of date about a lot of stuff in v1.0 but a lot of the basics are the same to they are definitely worth a look as long as you bear that in mind.

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Also maybe you try to pay attention to all those tiny info screens that are popping up every once in a while. If one of these presents itself, don't just close it without paying any attention. Usually they provide really important information and it's just a few lines of text along a very short video loop where the game tries to teach you the basics. These ARE important so please don't ignore them.

[zantariz]

Originally posted by NickTwist:

Before you get any villagers:
have a food storage hut,
a resource storage building,
a hunting lodge,
a lumber mill
and 2 house besides your house.

Then go hunting and roasts the meat and put it in the food storage hut, You can roast meat in the fire-pit in your house),
and cut down trees and make firewood and put in the resource storage building -
also make a bunch of stone knifes and stone axes and put them in the resource storage building.

THEN- go get two male villagers and assign one to lumber and one to hunting. Make sure you open the building window and activate the lumber mill to get logs/firewood/sticks/planks, and the hunting set to get meat. If you don't do this step your villagers will just stand around.

You will be supplying all your villagers with tools and roasted meat for a little while until they can start making their own items when you get a smithy and a crafting hut and kitchen.

I would add crops to this list. You don't need the barn the first season, just buy enough fertilizer for your small garden. You'll want the Barn by your second season to convert your rot to fertilizer. We sure to collect a LOT of berries and then just drop them on the floor somewhere in one of your buildings and let it turn to rot when the season changes. I collected I think 700 berries in the first season. It doesn't take as long as you might think. That's really only a few berries patches. If you wander the roads and river sides a little bit, you might come across some salvage and you might find some useful materials there that may help you with a number of things.