Housing and Residents

[Bezintine]

There are still some things I'm learning about this game. But as I'm expanding my village, I'm moving stuff around a lot. I recently moved my lumber camp further on the edge, and decided to move my workers there. But now they're further from their homes.

So my question is: can you move serfs to different housing? Like... closer to their profession? If so, I don't know how.

[Maehlice]

Not manually, no. Like, you can't assign them to a specific house.

But, knowing the rules and using them in you favour, yes.

Villagers won't move automatically unless their Workplace is moved to >150m from their home.

They also won't trigger a new House to be constructed unless there is no vacancy in any Home within 150m of their Workplace.

So, if you want them to move, you either need to wait for an excess population (Housing Shortage) so that you can trigger a new House plot next to the new Lumber Camp. Or, you can delete their old home (and any other homes with vacancy nearby) to artificially create a housing shortage.

[ianquiksilver]

@Maehlice, so I didn't get what you meant half way through your response. so if the workplace is moved +150m, the workers will move & build a new house if there's a free plot nearby?

[Doc_Hotpants]

Originally posted by ianquiksilver:

@Maehlice, so I didn't get what you meant half way through your response. so if the workplace is moved +150m, the workers will move & build a new house if there's a free plot nearby?

Kick them out of their old house, and they'll find a place to live closer to their workplace :-)

[ianquiksilver]

and is there a tool in-game that can be used to measure distances? something where you can put down two markers would be awesome

[ianquiksilver]

Originally posted by Doc_Hotpants:

Originally posted by ianquiksilver:

@Maehlice, so I didn't get what you meant half way through your response. so if the workplace is moved +150m, the workers will move & build a new house if there's a free plot nearby?

Kick them out of their old house, and they'll find a place to live closer to their workplace :-)

ok for the manual way, but can they also do it automatically? cause this can get quite tedious when you're dealing with a bigger sized village

[Doc_Hotpants]

Originally posted by ianquiksilver:

Originally posted by Doc_Hotpants:

Kick them out of their old house, and they'll find a place to live closer to their workplace :-)

ok for the manual way, but can they also do it automatically? cause this can get quite tedious when you're dealing with a bigger sized village

None that I know of, sorry.

[ianquiksilver]

thanks doc =)

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by ianquiksilver:

@Maehlice, so I didn't get what you meant half way through your response. so if the workplace is moved +150m, the workers will move & build a new house if there's a free plot nearby?

Yes.

So, if (for example) you reassign someone to a different job, and that new workplace is >150m from their current home, they will move out of their current home (because it's too far away). They will then start the same house-hunt sequence all villagers go through looking for a vacancy in a home within 150m of their new workplace. If there's a vacancy, they move in and carry on. If there's no vacancy but there is empty residential-zoned land, they will build a new Low-Density house there. If neither of those things are true, they'll yell at you.

[shawnmsmall35]

I really feel like the devs should add a way to measure distances. That would be very useful.

[fefnir3284]

Originally posted by shawnmsmall35:

I really feel like the devs should add a way to measure distances. That would be very useful.

agree

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by fefnir3284:

Originally posted by shawnmsmall35:

I really feel like the devs should add a way to measure distances. That would be very useful.

agree

https://steamcommunity.com/app/690830/discussions/2/599645206077293770/

[rkelly17]

Originally posted by shawnmsmall35:

I really feel like the devs should add a way to measure distances. That would be very useful.

i think that there is a spot on the person's window when you click on their picture in the work place window that tells you how far they live from the work place.