Houses not being build

[Sakuranohime]

Sorry, if this is already discussed (I could not find it). My people need more housing and somehow, they stopped building new ones. I have a huge area marked for housing. Builders are free, material is there. Any idea?

[Steve]

I had this earlier. Plenty of housing space marked, with obvious access to it, and plenty of materials available, but no one building houses.

I ended up restarting and just hope it doesn't happen again.

[lembos-hauser]

Originally posted by Steve:

I had this earlier. Plenty of housing space marked, with obvious access to it, and plenty of materials available, but no one building houses.

I ended up restarting and just hope it doesn't happen again.

Delete the area and mark it again. This helps. Or mark one at a time (max circle size)

[Sakuranohime]

Thank you. I tried remarking and it did not help. I tried restarting the game, did not help I think. I marked another region and it worked. Not 100% sure, if maybe the terrain is just slightly too uneven? But it does not look very uneven.. I can build other structures there. Would help if we got some information, if the area is not suitable for houses. Making the area red or so. Or I simply have some kind of bug.

[lembos-hauser]

Originally posted by Sakuranohime:

Thank you. I tried remarking and it did not help. I tried restarting the game, did not help I think. I marked another region and it worked. Not 100% sure, if maybe the terrain is just slightly too uneven? But it does not look very uneven.. I can build other structures there. Would help if we got some information, if the area is not suitable for houses. Making the area red or so. Or I simply have some kind of bug.

Yeah that is the reason. Terrain has to be more eor less very flat. I had this in a mountain city, pretty annoying. There is Def. some overlay missing which indicates where they can build and where not.

[Steve]

I reloaded the save I was looking at in my comment above, and as far as I can tell, the land I've marked is very flat. No visible reason at all why it couldn't be built on.

I tried remarking it, but it didn't help. The only possible reason I could think of is that it was too far from the village centre, 3 or 4 houses away, but that seems unlikely as it would surely be indicated if distance was an issue.

[Sakuranohime]

I also started a second map, to test why achievements dont pop and the ground is way more steep and they still build.... I really dont get it. I have a screenshot uploaded of the area they dont build on.

[Nekolodian]

From what I've gathered, people like building houses where there's a good reason to, as in close to their workplace or a market or a well, church, etc.

I've found if I simply designate an area for housing away from everything else, no one will build there.

[Sakuranohime]

Originally posted by Nekolodian:

From what I've gathered, people like building houses where there's a good reason to, as in close to their workplace or a market or a well, church, etc.

I've found if I simply designate an area for housing away from everything else, no one will build there.

Thank you. I just started the game so the area is not too far away from everything. Maybe you can check the screenshot? Is this already "too far from markets etc" so that they rather stay homeless?

[Sakuranohime]

Here is the screenshot (does this work?): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3418682762

[Nekolodian]

Originally posted by Sakuranohime:

Here is the screenshot (does this work?): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3418682762

No that seems fine to me, I'm not sure why they won't build

[Alice]

What just happened to me and might help someone: I kept getting "Housing Insufficient" despite lots of free residential zone space, restarting and repainting didn't help, but it turns out what was missing was a desirable area for some Commoner residents, so I actually had to add Beautification

[Sakuranohime]

Originally posted by Nekolodian:

From what I've gathered, people like building houses where there's a good reason to, as in close to their workplace or a market or a well, church, etc.

I've found if I simply designate an area for housing away from everything else, no one will build there.

For me this actually worked! Thank you! I played some more and they started building lower. Still strange why they would be rather homeless, than 1m further away from work.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3418788490

[Steve]

Originally posted by Alice:

What just happened to me and might help someone: I kept getting "Housing Insufficient" despite lots of free residential zone space, restarting and repainting didn't help, but it turns out what was missing was a desirable area for some Commoner residents, so I actually had to add Beautification

This makes sense to me. I've deleted the save now so I can't test it, but I hadn't long promoted a few villagers when they stopped building houses, and I had a quest active for beautification which popped around about the time I promoted them. Cheers for undoing my confusion :)