Can't build ♥♥♥♥.

[Ruby Rose [ITA]]

Okay, i literally timed it. I had 2 buildings queued up that i prioritized. 4 hours of gameplay and they still have to be built. I have a lot of workers, at least 5 pages full of them. You guys should really explain to me why nothing is getting built here.

[OperationDx]

Resources? Too far from resources or a bug.

[Ruby Rose [ITA]]

Originally posted by OperationDx:

Resources? Too far from resources or a bug.

I have plenty of them, it's the fourth game this happened.

Too far from resources? Does it really justify 4 hours of not building? I have only 2 warehouses.

[OperationDx]

Nuggets that are to far away give up and go eat food or drink or die.

[Dregora]

Hard to tell you without looking exactly at your build or what they're not building, but it could be a bug. Hasn't happened to me at least and i've not heard anybody else about it, but without any concrete screenshots or information we can't exactly help.

[BossScroll7170]

Possible reasons for the structure not being built could be a labor issue, lack of resources, distance from the main city, absence of couriers, food and water shortage, or pathfinding problems.

[Ruby Rose [ITA]]

Originally posted by OperationDx:

Nuggets that are to far away give up and go eat food or drink or die.

How can i fix this?

[Ruby Rose [ITA]]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Hard to tell you without looking exactly at your build or what they're not building, but it could be a bug. Hasn't happened to me at least and i've not heard anybody else about it, but without any concrete screenshots or information we can't exactly help.

I have some buildings queued up, but i have 2 barracks and one lumberjack that are prioritized, but they didn't even bring the resources to the building slot.

[OperationDx]

The balance in the game is odd. Storage helps but keeping water and food near helps. This game does not give you any indication what needs to be built where so I can see how a player can get into trouble easily.

[The Hat]

Originally posted by Ruby Rose ITA:

Originally posted by OperationDx:

Nuggets that are to far away give up and go eat food or drink or die.

How can i fix this?

Its a compound thing, so the longer they are travelling to do other things, the less time they are building or working. Putting food, eateries, water, shelter etc closer to the site. If laborers live next door, eat and drink next door, then they'll build it more easily. Think about creating small mini communities within your city.

Bridges help if its over a lake then behind a mountain or some such, they can also cut down on travel time overall so build a few. Cars help with garages, and couriers help. I tend to build my areas out like small neighborhoods. Sometimes you can do a single area for housing that's central but aside from residences, I make sure I put food source, water, defense, hospital, eatery, cemetery, engineers stockpile, shelter, courier, and garage all within reach of each other. Then I try to put the lumber camp next to where they make the wood refinery, the stone mine next to where they make the stone refinery, the gas extractor next to the glass factory and power plant.

The more you cut down on travel distance and leave room along roads, (don't build over the major roads) the better your city will function.

At the start its a better idea to build wide rather than dense, and try to spread your residential areas out in different areas with the holy ground power, that way you'll have some gaps for garages and couriers etc.

People tell me engineers also help with construction but I haven't verified it yet.

[Kyle]

During the early game your nuggets also have low carry capacity, I think someone recommended 70-80% auto-assignment at the town hall and the rest as untrained laborers for carrying and constructing

i do 90% tho and just over populate, currently have 200 untrained laborers in a population of like 600 (it's going down as i make some more material stuff)

things still take a bit of time due to travel though, but it's faster than my other playthroughs where I would have like 30-40 available, though i also have 60 nuggets as couriers