tips for beginners plz (with workers and build order)

[Klaus]

what is the basic ratio of workers that is efficent for buildings. and I guess firstly what is a good build order for the first 6-7 buildings or so to get an "up and running" town?

[Jingleheimer Schmidt]

My preferred order.

Town Center > Lumber Harvest > Bowyer > Water Source (well or purifier) > Bow Tower(s) > Housing > Farm > Essence Collector(s)

Focus all population as builders, then set the minimum workers for each production building until your populations grows, use the Essence Collector(s) to suppliment your mana and add as many Labor Golems as you can...

[Master Turd Blaster]

On the first two days or so I usually do something like this

village center > upgrade center > wellx2 > farmx1 > essencex1 > stone golemx2 > housing > maze > towers

Lots of construction is going on so I max my builders as much as I can and run a bare minimum on everything else until I get some defenses going.

[G.I.bortin]

I go for Village Center->Lumber Yard->Housingx5->Stone Quarry->Upgrade Village Center until boards are required->4 wells->3 Ancillary->Boywer->6 Bow Towers.

Also, I try to max out Ancillary workers and reduce builders to a team of 2-3 with the rest harvesting. Ancillary workers focus on delivering items to build sites, harvesters focus on gathering and the few builders are constantly constructing and rarely waiting for resources to be delivered or running around gathering themselves. First night you may lag behind getting those towers up but you can toss the first few monsters into the magic pits. :D

[Klaus]

interesting. I might need to try to play around with that. I still don't really know what i'm doing when im assigning

[Pepski]

assuming you are playing the latest unstable you have a few options. i would get an essence collector up straight away and get 2 stone golems going - they will take a while to get enough essence to produce golems.

add a farm, 2x well, wood harvest, bowyer (build bows/arrows so each villager can have 1), couple of bow towers. that will get you through the first night on nightmare so should be easier on survival. upgrade your wells/bow towers asap. add stone harvest another stone golem (or crystal golem), then get lumber mill and stone cutter and get some towers upgraded. i personally use spray towers at the first upgrade as they are very op early game. keep adding essence collectors as you will need a big store later one. add housing and ancileries.

for assigning everyone is a builder until you have a new building that needs someone then assign a single person to that job. you might want to assign 2 people to wood/stone harvest to stop builders havesting early game