How to deal with death by cold exposure

[John Moridin]

I'm having trouble with lots of people dying (100+ out of 1.5k) died from the cold.

Everyone has 2 pieces of clothing. I had them set to 4 at one point but it was difficult to produce enough clothing.

I do have hearths spread around, but maybe I don't have enough? How many hearths should I have? How close together should I be spacing them?

Or is there another way to deal with cold exposure?

[failsafe]

I have 10 hearths in my 1,5k city. But not just number counts, also how big they are, how well supplied with wood they are ect. I think it is better to have more medium sized hearths rather then less large ones... though it is better to have them big.

If you click your hearth it shows available services - green area displays how many are available now, but when u hoover over this display it also shows max daily usage of services. If it is around 20-30% it means that not many people are using this hearth. But if this is 90-100% it means that this hearth is attracting many people - in this case you may need to have it bigger or add another nearby (not very close, but just nearby).

[John Moridin]

Oh, you can resize hearts and wells. I was sure I tried it and it didn't work before but I must have been mistaken.

When I loaded an earlier auto-save I noticed my wood reserves were low, so maybe that's the real reason...

[El Chico Gordo]

yea you can basically resize every building like guardposts, wells etc.
Same goes for furniture inside buildings (e.g. the boxes of a warehouse)