Village question.

[Veld']

Just wondering if you can ignore the village management part of the game and manage the area you live in as a single family/dynasty homestead with appropriate buildings for your layout. I thought this game was more live a simple, medieval life. Not be a lord of a village kind of game.

[Milinia]

I'm pretty sure you can. You need to build certain buildings to "progress" in the game but you can demolish them after that part of the chapter quest is done. You don't need a hunting lodge for instance, you can do all the hunting yourself. I'm not 100% sure but I think you can just ignore all the quests except the first chapter quest, that one gives you permission to build a house.

You can pretty much do everything yourself. You can do all the farming yourself except collect eggs and manure. You could have your wife help with that I guess. Pigs are good to have because you need fertiliser but you don't need eggs.

If you make a farm you can get decent money from selling flax seeds so you can buy everything else you need.

It sounds like a fun experiment, I might give this a go myself. :)

[Thoddy]

Yes, that's possible. However, you need people for all stuff regarding animals as far as I know. I had chickens and no worker in that building and got no eggs. You can (and have to) feed them but they do not produce eggs. Again: AFAIK in my playthroughs.

[Veld']

Thank's for the info. So not really is the actual answer. I guess that leads to another question. Can you assign someone (eg your spouse if you eventually get one) to multiple buildings, ie will they do their daily tasks amongst multiple buildings, or is that me expecting too much.

Thanks

[Thoddy]

Originally posted by Veld':

Thank's for the info. So not really is the actual answer. I guess that leads to another question. Can you assign someone (eg your spouse if you eventually get one) to multiple buildings, ie will they do their daily tasks amongst multiple buildings, or is that me expecting too much.

Thanks

No at once (Work @X buldings). You have to wait until the work is done and then you have to tell her: Now work there.

[hubbemattsson]

You dont need to feed animals.
Just if you wanna have what they produce, but them dont gonna starve without food.
Also, No direct need for farming if you just gonna live with just your family. Enough to Hunt for some meat.

But you can feed animals yourself, milk cows and goats, sheer the sheeps.
But not pick eggs, honey or manure.

And dont worry. Even if you build a big village, you will never become a lord.

I will also ad... Try it out, best in default first time. No need to rush, really not. And have fun.

[Morri]

You could if you want to.

The chapter quests determine the maximum of buildings you can place, and at some point there will be one to have a number of villagers in your settlement (i think it's 5). So you will be stuck at that point. However; you don't need to complete the chapter quests. They only serve as a guidance/tutorial and to up the building limit.
And if you don't wanna recruit villagers, you won't need to build houses for them, so you won't need such a high building limit anyway. The building limit til that point will be enough for all the buildings you would need for one household.

You can do everything yourself in the game, except collecting eggs from chickens or geese, collecting manure from pigs or collecting honey from bees.
The manure however is only used to make fertiliser, which you can make from rotten food as well, so manure is not needed.
And the eggs and honey you could have your wife collect by alternating her assignment.

[Veld']

Thanks for the info.

Seems like i can mostly have what i want but i have yet to figure out the relationships part of the game. I am absolutely despising the quests in this game. Not interesting, terribly written and add nothing to the game except to gate building limits from what i can tell. I doubled the settlement building limit in the game options and i hot that already. Am only at the point of the story where the unigost plot is resolved and i have to wait for a season change and or summer. I have crops planted in my fields, some pigs and chickens and the structures i need to do most stuff myself.

I m having issues with the storage chests of building having too small a capacity and don't know if there's a way to build single chests and place them down or if am stuck with the small limits.

Fun game but some of the design decisions are disappointing. Would have loved for a pure sandbox, no quests version of the game. Also seems like from road map that there's very little coming for the single player game as dev time will go into console and coop for the next year or so.

[hubbemattsson]

Build resource storage, and food storage. The chests in buildings are for overflow.

You dont need to do quests at all, and them have nothing to do with the building limit. Thats the chapters, and those will you unlock by just playing.

I absolutly can not see your point with the story, I myself thinks thats wonderful, but as said. You dont need to do it.
And you can be sure that the devs dont have thier eyes on just that. But yes. After so many people have demanding it, they need to put time into it.

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by Veld':

Thanks for the info.

Seems like i can mostly have what i want but i have yet to figure out the relationships part of the game. I am absolutely despising the quests in this game. Not interesting, terribly written and add nothing to the game except to gate building limits from what i can tell. I doubled the settlement building limit in the game options and i hot that already. Am only at the point of the story where the unigost plot is resolved and i have to wait for a season change and or summer. I have crops planted in my fields, some pigs and chickens and the structures i need to do most stuff myself.

I m having issues with the storage chests of building having too small a capacity and don't know if there's a way to build single chests and place them down or if am stuck with the small limits.

Fun game but some of the design decisions are disappointing. Would have loved for a pure sandbox, no quests version of the game. Also seems like from road map that there's very little coming for the single player game as dev time will go into console and coop for the next year or so.

So this game probably just isn't your cup of tea.

[mrddrm]

I partially agree with some of Veld's complaints. I liked the original story better with the wolves than the current one. The current one is... weird. I started a new save and abandoned it fairly quickly. But some seem to enjoy it, so whatever. I don't have to do the story.

There have also been complaints on several things the user mentioned that are perplexing choices over its entire development.

However, the game is "done," from what I can tell. There is continued development but this is all extra. Personally, I put it down two years ago and recently picked it back up. I enjoyed the openness they added with game settings that you can change on the fly. I disliked that they changed some of the early money makers and certain things are still just as confusing now as they are then.

Ultimately, it's still a fun fairly open peaceful game.

[Veld']

Originally posted by Capuzzi09:

Originally posted by Veld':

Thanks for the info.

Seems like i can mostly have what i want but i have yet to figure out the relationships part of the game. I am absolutely despising the quests in this game. Not interesting, terribly written and add nothing to the game except to gate building limits from what i can tell. I doubled the settlement building limit in the game options and i hot that already. Am only at the point of the story where the unigost plot is resolved and i have to wait for a season change and or summer. I have crops planted in my fields, some pigs and chickens and the structures i need to do most stuff myself.

I m having issues with the storage chests of building having too small a capacity and don't know if there's a way to build single chests and place them down or if am stuck with the small limits.

Fun game but some of the design decisions are disappointing. Would have loved for a pure sandbox, no quests version of the game. Also seems like from road map that there's very little coming for the single player game as dev time will go into console and coop for the next year or so.

So this game probably just isn't your cup of tea.

Not really a fair statement. Just because i see things i consider flaws doesn't mean the game's not my cup of tea. I made the OP to try and figure things out so that i can adapt it and or how i play to suit what i enjoy. Also, my gf whom is a relatively new gamer is loving the game and we putter in our own games together and enjoy what we're learning about the game as we go. So as much as i hate seeing the dev emphasis taken off what made and got the game to where it is (single player) i'll be able to at least play coop with the gf.

[Veld']

As far as my use of the word quests...i meant chapters and the side missions/quests the game has. Not a single one of them for me has been fun or enjoyable and the fact building limits are gated behind those is what annoys me. Sure i can suck it up and just do them but it doesn't add anything to my game and only detracts from my enjoyment. All so i can put more buildings on land i already have after the game (at the start) has told me i can just take some land and build whatever i want there (now it's telling me i can only build some stuff there).

The game's good and i am enjoying it mostly, but the few things i've pointed out and asked for info on just were interfering with my progression and needed help on - or detract from how good the game could have been for me personally, hence my posts.

Anyways, thanks to those that helped with info and opinions.

[Morri]

Originally posted by Veld':

I m having issues with the storage chests of building having too small a capacity and don't know if there's a way to build single chests and place them down or if am stuck with the small limits.

You can't build separate chests unfortunately, but a higher version of a building usually has double the storage space (not for houses though). But like hubbemattsson already said, the resource storage building has lots of space in its chest and is meant for storing everything not food-related.
You can also safely drop items on the ground and they will stay there. Only be careful with food, cause it will turn to rot when left out of a chest when the season changes on default settings.