Best Starting Location?

[Rapthorne Lightweaver]

Hi guys,

I just wanted to ask for some advice on where it's best to build my house. At the moment, I'm set up by the riven, near the bridge close to the first village. It seems like a nice, low-danger area, but the only abundant resources are reeds, wood and sticks.

Is there a "sweet spot" area that is relatively close by to most necessary resources? I get the feeling by current location will not be very useful later on.

[AfLIcTeD]

The open area just west of the second bridge west of the starting village is a good spot too. Nice open flat land. Seems quite central too.

[rchapa21]

I really like to be by the lake south of Denica, heavy woods and open space. Only negative is no reeds, but loan up on trips

[X]

West/north west of starting location is the one I use.
Large open area with lots of trees and reeds to get started with and centrally located to most of the villages to trade with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1dhQHkMEIc

[radtazman]

several videos on U-Tube that covers good starting locations for villages.

[Lailantie]

If you plan to have a fully self sustaining village, pretty soon you won't have the need to have resources nearby. Your villagers will collect them for you.

[bstangeby]

I kinda like the three waterfalls area 400 meters or so south east of Gostovia. I remember built my settlement there once with my own house so would wake up in the morning and go outside and see that sight. Almost everything else was built above the waterfalls. And you are close by to Gostovia and Hornica who both have the most traders in game.

[CrazyMom]

My first house was built on the North East side of the bridge/lake East of Gostovia. 32 game years later and 68 buildings now on the North side, with 5 market stalls and a tavern on the south side.
It was a challenge building on the hill section, leaving almost all the trees, but the view is phenomenal, my fields are in the middle of the hill.
Had to move my barn and main storage 3 times but was worth it.
The waterfall area is great for high item loot reappearing every several years, also pickax there as well.
The surrounding forests have every animal and it is close to several clay areas.
Challenging but worth it.

[CrazyMom]

If you build close to or on abandoned camp sites, they will disappear.

[Minoris]

Well, "best" is already pretty subjective, nothing new there, but in this game it is even more so.

This is not a very challenging game. It's laid back, you can take alllll the time in the world, nobody's gonna stomp on your business and destroy things, resources are infinite... Once you perfect the whole "don't die" thing, which shouldn't take all that long, you're basically set. You can build wherever you like and mostly do just fine.

Now, about that "mostly"...
The only real challenge in the game is managing to squeeze in buildings in very tight but hot damn pretty places and/or on hills and slopes. So in this regards, the very best starting location is the crossroads on the south bank of the river just north of Denica. It is incredibly flat and easy to build on, it has lands for days and all the places you possibly want for your fields.

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Everybody's going to give you a different answer. There are threads on Reddit and here on Steam where everyone lays out their reasons why they prefer this or that place. And everybody is right, as there is no wrong answer. My own best spot to build? I don't have all that many hours in the game yet and still have to build a truly big village, but so far perfectly flat lands didn't suit me. I like the idea of a forest village of hunters, herbalists and lumberjacks. Throw in a mine eventually (I'll get there someday) and I'm a happy boy. So I need woods, lots and lots of woods, and plenty of games to hunt. Make it next to a wolves den for some additional challenge: they're very easy to kill, but if you get caught off guard working on something when they barge in... Well, it keeps things interesting. I tried the 3 waterfalls but something felt off, being so close to the river and Gostovia. The Memorial Tree would have been perfect, but ever since I heard of its story I decided to leave the place alone.

So I built my village about a 100m or so downstream from the Memorial Tree. There's a little pond and a waterfall there, with a lone maple tree sitting in the middle of the pond. It's a tight squeeze, the ground is uneven, a den of wolves keeps attacking me from the other side of the stream, but it's beautiful. A perfect little forest village.

My second choice would be the lake between Jezerica and Hornica. I might build a second village there actually, considering I'll probably never reach the building limit in my current narrow little spot.

[Cocco]

Waterfall near Gostovia
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2894479727

[Cocco]

In the swamp

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2894636784

[Cocco]

Mining town north Baranica
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2894636758

[Cmdo.Delta]

Originally posted by p.klein3255 aka Cocco:

Mining town north Baranica
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2894636758

Are you screenshots all in the same save file? Can you build multiple villages in the same game or you have to start a new game?

[Morri]

Originally posted by Cmdo.Delta:

Can you build multiple villages in the same game or you have to start a new game?

You can build your buildings spread out all over the map; theoratically they all belong to your village, no matter where you are.
Since you can not name your village anyway, you might as well put some buildings together in one place on the map, and consider it to be village 1, and then put some buildings together in another spot and consider it to be village 2. For immersion.

For game mechanics, it'll all count towards the building limit as one village and your workers will travel freely between them if they need to go to a building in your 'other' village.

Keep in mind that farmers are the only workers that need to actually physically be on the fields/orchards to be able to do any work. When work day starts, they will travel from their house to the shed they work in and from there to the fields/orchards.
So make sure you don't put their house, shed and fields on opposite sides of the map or they'll never get any work done :-)

(This does not matter for all other workers, who produce the items they are assigned to produce no matter where they are on the map)

[TheRealMuehle]

Originally posted by Morri:

they'll never get any work done

... which happens anyway now, if you build at least 2 villages with Sheds.
Even after the current bug (which comes on top) will be fixed.