How do I equally distribute my food and other resources?

[Chedwin]

Every time I start Banished I begin by building a boarding house and add new houses to increase population. It seems that everytime the first house I build will always hoard the goods from the boarding house and making all the boarding house people die (which is somewhat how society works anyways), so I would only last for around 10 years.

Is there a building that was able to fairly distribute food? I tried building markets but it was still the same.

[Chedwin]

The only solution I had was to destroy the house to send the people back to boarding house and when I'm stocked with food in the storage I reclaim it.

[AlP]

Don't build a boarding house.

One house is enough for the first year, all villagers get warm there. Use stone to make it efficient. It will hoard a bit of food but there will be enough left.

Second year expand your food gathering and build more houses.

[jensenthecat]

Originally posted by AlP:

Don't build a boarding house.

One house is enough for the first year, all villagers get warm there. Use stone to make it efficient. It will hoard a bit of food but there will be enough left.

Second year expand your food gathering and build more houses.

Good advice.

[Chedwin]

Originally posted by AlP:

Don't build a boarding house.

One house is enough for the first year, all villagers get warm there. Use stone to make it efficient. It will hoard a bit of food but there will be enough left.

Second year expand your food gathering and build more houses.

But doesnt houses only hold one family?

[AlP]

Originally posted by Chedwin:

Originally posted by AlP:

Don't build a boarding house.

One house is enough for the first year, all villagers get warm there. Use stone to make it efficient. It will hoard a bit of food but there will be enough left.

Second year expand your food gathering and build more houses.

But doesnt houses only hold one family?

Yes, but they gthey don't need their own house to get warm.

[mbutton15]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by Chedwin:

But doesnt houses only hold one family?

Yes, but they gthey don't need their own house to get warm.

Now what I don't understand is if a house has one family (and I have no homeless) then how come I have more families than homes ?

[jensenthecat]

They can manage to stay warm and survive with just one home.

But reproduction will only happen when a family has a house, so it is not a long term solution.

It is a situation that only happens early game, later you will receive the information regarding homelessness.

Don't sweat the small stuff - the game is a game and has small idiosyncracys, that's something you will come to understand and love.

[AlP]

Originally posted by mbutton15:

Now what I don't understand is if a house has one family (and I have no homeless) then how come I have more families than homes ?

When you build a new house, two adults settle in it and form a new family. They leave the boarding house if a house is available. That's probably what happened.

You also need to be careful with house expansion here, to make sure they can always form properly aged families that can reproduce. You don't want too many houses that will be empty or end up filled with couples like 15/60 years old.