Can you build far out of city?

[Kitsune]

The nearest iron mine deposit is quite far away. I tried expanding my territory there and build houses so I can create a mini colony to work the mines but the house wont build. I have builders and it shows the house have full builder capacity but after 2 years it still wont build. The roads for some reason got build but the house didnt. How do I do it?

[Ho Say Yung]

Yes you can, but it will take time. I believe it would be best for you right now. Is to do trading selling/buying.
Possible but will take quite a while due to the traveling and resource moving the AI will do.
You can also make the build be a priority, by checking the star on it.

[evoVII]

You can build a colony anywhere to "extract" the ressource (in my example grapes).

You just need to own the province. The building does not need any ressources to build and it is constructed by its own (no builder needed).

You will get a certain amound of goods - in my example +41 grapes. And you can place more than one colony in a province.

Super easy :)

https://abload.de/img/colonyf5kwj.jpg

[Kitsune]

That's Alright a écrit :

Yes you can, but it will take time. I believe it would be best for you right now. Is to do trading selling/buying.
Possible but will take quite a while due to the traveling and resource moving the AI will do.
You can also make the build be a priority, by checking the star on it.

I dont know about that. I have left it running at max speed for 2 hours trying to build it and it wont build. I have buidlers and materials it just wont if its too far. Yea, i found selling/buying to be another option that works for sure. Not fun though.

[Kitsune]

evoVII a écrit :

You can build a colony anywhere to "extract" the ressource (in my example grapes).

You just need to own the province. The building does not need any ressources to build and it is constructed by its own (no builder needed).

You will get a certain amound of goods - in my example +41 grapes. And you can place more than one colony in a province.

Super easy :)

https://abload.de/img/colonyf5kwj.jpg

Oh, I didnt reach that house level yet and have not seen that colony building. Seems like a lazy way to solve the problem though. lol. Where is the fun of a city builder if we just build one building to extract resource from a province rather than having to build a small echo system on the province itself.

[evoVII]

yes, i know. But how would you ever build houses to every resource in these insane big worlds :D

But I also used the trading port a lot to buy Tier 3 luxury (or gemstones + gold) to get the last house level. Pretty much impossible the "regular" way...

i was also able to sell the "luxury" in the end making a hell profit by just import the needed resources and export the final product :D

[buds]

I think it’s possible but you must have satellite communities leading to that far distant province/s.
Imo communities with sufficient essential/s are key to projecting expansion/s. I haven’t done or tried it but once all the manpower to keep my industrial city are filled up then I will expand gradually to each and every province that I claimed.
This game is really good the challenge is there before you accomplish the fullest it can offer.
Imo efficient and very productive villagers (due to luxuries you can provide) are the foundation of having a great kingdom.
After playing 3.5k hours of DoM I think I will be into this game for a long while.

[Dopam1ne]

Resources are running out and it is not clear what to do next. It's stupid to sit on trade all the time, I have 500 - 600 population and constant interruptions. It grows but is not able to feed itself.

Colonies are not saving +20 coal per round ... It's nothing, even +200 coal is not enough.

[Jon]

Kitsune: I think satellite communities may be the best answer until you can build a colony. I tried it, though not intentionally planned that way:

Outside of town area [2 provinces I think], I put in sheep & cattle pens with houses & market. A little further on I had a coal/iron area for making tools, with houses & market.

Finally I was able to reach a gold area which was quite a distance away. [Built houses & market.] My gold area was focused on minting. From that I was able to reach victory in 16 years with a population of only 260 [and no colony].

[Dopam1ne]

We have different goals.
On the right, behind the screen, I have a coal plant; below, behind the screen, you can see a diamond mine.

34 years have passed, many cities have died out. And others are dying from an epidemic, I think to finish building my city to them and save them.

https://abload.de/img/desktopscreenshot2020jdjci.png

[GameKitten]

marketplace...a food source..to start off the new expansion to your city. The peeps will bring things to the market place for the houses..

[buds]

This is how far I built my kingdom and I do this on either the main branch or the betas. I am still expanding to southeast and grab cotton, I purposely do it because I like the location start area. Since this game is o. The betas there are 3 tunnels now from the TH to the desert. I used a narrow (1tile passage in the middle) near that small river/lake to expand when I played in The main branch. So far this shot is of Emperor difficulty abd I’m not using any colony. Victory was already done snd I lavished the villagers with all the luxuries so the coin had dropped down.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2322514650

[Dopam1ne]

It looks weird, you might be a cheater. It's not clear why you have enough food and wood. I have a smaller population and x3 times more food production and I do not have enough, I buy food in tons and still do not have enough.

[buds]

I do oranges, they are OP and I don’t cheat just played slow and methodical and orthodoxy. Houses not concentrated on one area but rather in every areas for villagers working specifically on each areas. I must have surpluses of 4 necessities namely food, medicine, tools and fuel on nearby houses/stockpile/warehouses so that distant walkings are avoided. Coal mi s is slow abd charcoal burners are best as long as your foresters are strategically placed and set.