Roads

[ElDuderino]

Please give us a tool to delete them. These villagers make some terrible pathing choices and roads never disappear.

Or better yet, give us a road building tool so we can put in roads where we want them in the first place.

[Minotorious]

Roads disappear over time if they are not used. you can use the forbidden zone tool to force them not to use a path for instance.

The game is all about organic city building and development so a road building tool will not be added at any point. What is planned is for the most frequently used roads to upgrade to stone paved for instance

[ElDuderino]

K. How much time? I waited over 5 weeks after zoning forbidden and it was still there. Bug maybe?

[Minotorious]

It takes a lot of time for paths to go back to normal atm. I haven't measured it but it is definitely more than 10-20 weeks

[ElDuderino]

Hmm. I hope they rework that. Since they can form in less than a day it's weird that it takes so long for them to fade.

I get a lot of nonsense roads forming in the early game when I'm clearing the area of trees. Don't really want to wait 10-20 weeks to zone housing while they clear.

Guess I'll just have to micromanage forbidden zones for now. Thanks for the info Minotorious.

[Minotorious]

yw :) and yes we have requested that the road decay speed is at least doubled with the next update but we will see when and how the devs will tackle it exactly ;)

But woodcutters don't create roads when they are going around cutting trees, simply place the woodcutter hut where you want to have it and then paint all the areas you want the trees gone from blue. The woodcutters will slowly cut all the trees starting from the closest to the hut and spread radially outwards for all the marked trees without creating any roads.

[ElDuderino]

Got that, but villagers can't path through trees apparently. So I'm ending up with long winding paths at weird angles from the village center to the wood cutters that take up valuable "desirable" housing area.

[Minotorious]

oh you have placed the woodcutter hut inside the forest haven't you?

yes in that case the path to the hut that is created will be kinda zig-zagy as they path around trees as you said. I personally prefer to place it just where the forest starts to avoid that

[NighttimeAssistantManager]

Do Villagers avoid building their houses on paths?

[Minotorious]

yes no houses are built on top of existing paths