can i claim an empty town/area?

[big bungo]

so i want to mod in a town but make it empty of residents so my people can take it over and build in it (add new buildings and such), but i don't know if that's a thing. i tried googling it but all i found were posts from years ago, so i don't know whether or not it's a feature currently.

sure i could just go and build another base in the location i want, but that takes a lot of time and materials, i just want a new scenic outpost to claim and build on. is something like this a currently implemented feature, a planned feature, or made possible by a mod?

[harberst]

Using (I think it's shift+f12) you can spawn in buildings, so you could do that and roleplay as an abandoned town that you've reclaimed. I believe there's been some issue with things generated or moved this way persisting across new saves, so caution is advised.

[nex]

you cannot take over towns. MAYBE in the future (post 1.0) we will get the ability to take over towns but thats far from certain.

for now we have world states / town overrides where if you don't like the faction that owns the town maybe you can wipe them out / replace them with someone more friendly to you..