Best place to build a village?

[shower_room1944]

When I first started this game I chose a very bad spot, so after a while let's just say I decided to take a break from the game for a while. A few days ago I decided to try this game again but then I saw that there is gonna be a version 1.0 and I didn't want to start a village only to restart it again, so I am going to start playing when it comes out. Anyways sorry for getting off track but you guys know a good spot for a village? (Like the best of the best, where everything you need is there)

[Soylent_Greene]

Chicen,

Very subjective answer for starting locations... Everyone has their favorites...

Personally I love the idea of the open area south of the bridges, north of Danica.
Wolves in the woods south, with Buffalo and lots of deer.
Lake close by plus the creek but this is irrelevant with the wells now.
Straw to start with in the lake as reeds, woods nearby, lots of stone.
Villages everywhere to sell goods, and lots of open space for orchards, fields and buildings.

But plan on building near a mine, best with a storage shed close. Like the mine up north, between the two villages for easy trade.

But as I said, everyone has their favorite spots...

There was a Youtube from Raptor who started at the start spawn, don't know if the stuck button still works but it was a great way to load up and fast travel to your village.

[TheMole]

Originally posted by Soylent_Greene:

There was a Youtube from Raptor who started at the start spawn, don't know if the stuck button still works but it was a great way to load up and fast travel to your village.

The unstuck button works as intended now, in that it just gets you unstuck from where you are. By moving you a few feet one direction

but the rest of your post is bang on, where to build is extremely subjective, with each possible location having it's own pros and cons

[-shhfiftyfive]

i build just west of Gostovia. Right outside the border of the town, past the bridge, along the road.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2605697011


i build my crop fields on the open hill to the south of my village.

[Widepeepohappy]

Originally posted by Soylent_Greene:

Chicen,

Very subjective answer for starting locations... Everyone has their favorites...

Personally I love the idea of the open area south of the bridges, north of Danica.
Wolves in the woods south, with Buffalo and lots of deer.
Lake close by plus the creek but this is irrelevant with the wells now.
Straw to start with in the lake as reeds, woods nearby, lots of stone.
Villages everywhere to sell goods, and lots of open space for orchards, fields and buildings.

But plan on building near a mine, best with a storage shed close. Like the mine up north, between the two villages for easy trade.

But as I said, everyone has their favorite spots...

There was a Youtube from Raptor who started at the start spawn, don't know if the stuck button still works but it was a great way to load up and fast travel to your village.

I had my first village by the lake southeast of Danica, but I think on release I will move to the spot you are referring to. too many good outlets in that spot. 5 villages on all sides, good water access for fisherman huts, plenty rocks and woods for early building. very good idea.

[-shhfiftyfive]

maples trees are a must.
any other tree is junk because it gives less logs.

[Goldi:AI]

Maple gives four, spruce gives three and birches give two.

[Tartyron]

It is good idea to check the proximity of resources (clay, metals).

As well as presence of large flat area for the fields (I'm a sucker for 16x16 fields - after a year I have 16x16 field of cabbage/onion and after 2 years 16x16 field of flax - huge income)

[Soylent_Greene]

Tartyron,

Granted I haven't played since April, but back then a 10x10 field wasn't able to be worked.
The NPCs seemed to spend their time in the Tavern instead. Or standing around in the barn.

Does the 16x16 work?

[Cyrenic]

Can't believe there wasn't one guy yet, that told you that the map will be changed.

[Goldi:AI]

Originally posted by Cyrenic:

Can't believe there wasn't one guy yet, that told you that the map will be changed.

Your chance to shine ;)

[-shhfiftyfive]

Originally posted by Soylent_Greene:

Tartyron,

Granted I haven't played since April, but back then a 10x10 field wasn't able to be worked.
The NPCs seemed to spend their time in the Tavern instead. Or standing around in the barn.

Does the 16x16 work?

nope they are barely fast enough for me to do 10x10, and that's just one job. if you need to seed 10x10 but also hoe, and also fertilize, that will take 3 workers. it depends how many workers are set to the fields. if you have 3 workers on one field, maybe they get done, but i doubt they can finish 16x fields..

i dropped down to 10x10's. even then, the workers are programmed to prioritize refertilizing the fields rather than harvesting the current crops (if you have more than 1 field) so some fields harvest can easily get ignored because the workers choose fully finish one field before working another, that means to lay down fertilizer for next year instead.

[listless]

Originally posted by Soylent_Greene:

Lake close by plus the creek but this is irrelevant with the wells now.

though the ambience of running water is very nice

[rebekaktus]

I sometimes use two locations:
1. Starting location with my first basic village. Preferably directly outside the mine in the north (between Branica and Baranica). Plenty of stone thanks to the mine and that's the heaviest thing to carry. You have to walk a bit to find straw, but you can carry tons of that at a time.
2. Once I have unlocked level 2 of all buildings, I start building my actual village. Here I care more about looks. For this I like the huge flat area just south of the bridges (and north of Denica). By now it is less important to have a mine nearby becaus I have a horse...
Then I move all villagers to the new village.

My reason for this is that it's a bit dificult to actually plan out your entire village at the start. My starting village is always a bit messy with buildings placed wherever there was space. But for the long run I want an actual main street and things like that.

People are right though: firstly, it is very subjective and secondly, the map is going to change in a few days.

[rebekaktus]

One more thing you can do: If you are missing one resource near your village, just build a storage building in a different place, where there is enough of that resource. Storage buildings have shared storage, so if you put your stuff in one building, you can access it from the other.

[ciero9]

Originally posted by Tartyron:

It is good idea to check the proximity of resources (clay, metals).

As well as presence of large flat area for the fields (I'm a sucker for 16x16 fields - after a year I have 16x16 field of cabbage/onion and after 2 years 16x16 field of flax - huge income)

Just out of curiosity, why do you feel fields have to be placed in flat areas? Historically people have planted fields wherever there was space including hillsides, etc.