Upgrade House Dilemma

[dmcreativelink]

I've three different islands all of which need artisan workers but I am not offered any opportunities upgrade. Opportunity to upgrade to workers but not artisans. On each island I have all basis needs met at 100% , also all happiness categories are at 100%. Was able to upgrade a few earlier in game but last few hours of play, I keep getting shortage of workers announcements.

[BLÀde]

hover over the upgrade button on a house and it will tell you what you are missing. you can also get items from the NPC traders that will increase workforce if you install them in a town hall. these help a lot some of them increase workforce by 50%
so if your short on artisans put a town hall right in the center of where they all are than get the items that effect all residents that increase workforce and install them in it.

[Tankfriend]

You can upgrade houses when the people living in them have all their basic needs met at 100%, the house is filled up to the current capacity limit, and you have the building materials in store for the upgrade.

Publicado originalmente por dmcreativelink:

I've three different islands all of which need artisan workers

I'd recommend not doing that. Concentrate on advancing a single island all the way to Engineers until you can build the Commuter Pier.
Every other island can stay at Peasants + Workers, since most Old World islands can supply them self-sufficiently.

The Commuter Pier allows all islands in the same region that have a Commuter Pier to share workforce, meaning the Artisans and Engineers on your main island can then also work on other islands, and you don't need to supply all the islands with all the goods.

By default, the Commuter Pier can only be built in the Old World and Cape Trelawney, but there's mods for that in case you're interested.

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You need to upgrade to workers before you can upgrade to artisans. It only goes up one tier at a time. If that is what is confusing you.