Roads

[hunterlarchibald]

I cannot figure out what roads are for or what they do... Can somebody help me out here and tell me how/why I would use them.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

You use them to speed up villagers going from one place to another.
Personally I don't feel like investing on them until it's mid-late game.

[Tekkionn]

How do I actually build the roads?

[Tekkionn]

Well I figured that out but now I'm wondering how to remove or cancel roads.

[Tekkionn]

Figured that out too.

So if anyone is wondering you can build and dismantle roads by using the tool in the lower right and if you want to unassign you hold shift.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

:-]

[tuxdelux]

Thanjs for explaining. I couldn't find it.

[Pepski]

if you want fast roads you have to keep telling them to upgrade the same bit of road over and over again. this is planned to be changed at some point though to make it better. fast roads are great when you have a good network though :)

[Merluca Kitsokami]

Yea i dont use roads myself a lot, cause if im at the point where i think i coud start building them, my village is allready quite the size... and then its just a pain in the rear to build the roads and upgrade them, cause you need to redraw them 4-5 times

[Pepski]

yeah i've not bothered with them for ages now. great when they are working but not worth it when it makes a difference in the early days. i would rather use the resource and man power for other things early on and when village is running ok i cant be bothered to build them. will use them when you can just select to put a road and it will keep being built until its upgraded as they are useful mid game

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Problem is they'll also speed up monsters, so you take the time, effort and materials to build 'em and then if your village is invaded the monsters get a free ticket to the highway lol

[rada660]

Originally posted by Merluca Kitsokami:

Yea i dont use roads myself a lot, cause if im at the point where i think i coud start building them, my village is allready quite the size... and then its just a pain in the rear to build the roads and upgrade them, cause you need to redraw them 4-5 times

The dev should add a quick button on the waymaker building to "upgrade all road" so you dont have to redraw them. Just merely task your worker to upgrade them.

[tuxdelux]

playing the game in sandbox mode... the build road button is darkened and unavailable.. is that normal? I tried building grey tiles instead.. not sure if they are roads but they look nice

[Tiberiumkyle]

You must build a waymaker shack first.
I greatly prefer getting at least basic road network setup early, between key locations, for the little extra boost in productivity that happens when villagers can get around faster. Pays off long term.

[Purple Farmer]

You need a waymaker to build roads, dig lakes.