Foundation – Crash’s Comprehensive Guide to Your “Foundation”

What Am I Missing? (Simple Tips and Features)

Ello M’Lord, So you have a village of your own but you can’t seem to slow the population flow? Are you running short on food and luxury goods? Will no one dare stay in your village? Well did you know… 
 

Immigration

• Immigration can be stopped at any time by simply ticking the box in the ____ panel.

• Immigration has three factors to it: Happiness, Living Space, and Employment. They are as follows..
  • Happiness is simply meeting all the desires of your population: providing food, religion, housing, etc.
  • Living Space is about making sure that ALL your villagers are in their appropriate housing. When a villager is promoted from a Serf to a Commoner they must live in a location that is marked at least HIGH
  • Employment is determined by how many members in your community do not have a job, having everyone perform one duty will keep this at max demand. Monks in the monastery count towards this number!

• You can see what factor is lowering your immigration by hovering over the ticked box to enable immigration within the ____ panel.

• Factors have ranges but do not provide numbers so you can see a difference from output with the same label. E.G. You can have High happiness and space, but Average employment resulting in Average immigration pull. You can find the people not working and provide them jobs and still maintain Average employment but increase to a High immigration pull. The takeaway from this is that even if something says its good, doesnt mean that you can’t improve upon it more. 
   
  HIGH+AVERAGE+HIGH=AVERAGE 
  AND 
  HIGH+AVERAGE+HIGH=HIGH 
  EXIST

• Just because something is listed as favorable does not mean you are guaranteed: Extreme victories can still fail, and High immigration pull can still yield nobody, albeit both are incredibly rare.

Food

• Nearly every resource gatherer can be stacked on top of the same resource to increase your yields. E.G. Fishermen on a fishing spot or Foragers on a berry bush.

• Fish only appear in ripples on the water, so best to be aware of where your fish actually are.

• Fish always increase during the storm. If you have access to fish on your map, it would be wise to try to focus on it.

• Food is arguably the ONLY resource worth purchasing. Never sell them, just always offer to buy just in case you start to tank during moments of bad weather.

• A stratified economy is a HAPPY ECONOMY. It is far easier to keep serfs and newcomers for manual labor and food jobs since they will be farthest from your village centers, and use commoners and citizens for jobs that can be done at your village center. This is because at rank commoner and up, you will need to provide clothing and two food resources to every individual. This becomes overwhelming VERY fast if not careful.

Housing

• Your villagers will demand HIGH housing attraction at rank Commoner and Citizen, so only be ready to promote when their household is already in an attractive area.

• Many villagers will jump from house to house to get closer to their job and meet their needs more but eventually they will stop and decide that it is better to walk 150 meters from their house to place of business and become incredibly unproductive.

• The best solution is to evict villagers when they change jobs or place of business. If you have a bakery move be sure to evict the baker so they will "reset" into the best available housing. If you have a transporter become a shepherd? You better evict him or you will be lucky for him to sheer two sheep a job shift.

• As annoying as it to stay on top of residency of villagers there will constantly be buildings left abandoned as well, especially from serf to commoner. I find it better to just destroy the building altogether and free up the space.

• If ONE villager is not in a house that meets their needs because they are a commoner or citizen in Average or Low housing, you will likely NOT receive any new villagers, you must always be mindful of this when you grow and expand.

• All housing can be drastically improved with the third building tab. Placing bushes, trees, fountains, statues, and lastly markets will yield high attractiveness in increasing order. E.G. bushes provide some low boost, while fountains are incredibly high boost

• Most jobs will lower attractiveness, that is what the red circle on placement for them represents, keep these away from your village and those without circles at your village center.

Economy

• All buildings and jobs will have a max stack of "50" with a warehouse or granary using the stack of "100". Villagers will sometimes go over this number by a few but at these limits they are told to no longer work or retrieve any more. E.G. A miller will only grab up to 50 wheat and no more. A lumber yard will not collect wood if 50 logs are residing in the camp.

• Not every job is one to one in the production chain, watch their yields carefully and try to mitigate shortages this way. Some are one to one by employees, and others are one to one by building. E.G. one shepherd supplies one weaver’s hut, but two tailors are needed to keep up with the two weavers in the one building.

• Luxury goods are almost solely fulfilled by monks at a monastery: Honey, Wine, and Herbs

• The monastery can ONLY be filled by unemployed men

• Monks without a job will count against your employment.

• If you do not have the religious influence high enough for a monastery you can send soldiers out for raided jewelry or rely exclusively on the beer at the tavern. Either way you will need to use one of your three pillars to progress into citizens.

• The only difference between commoner and citizen is one luxury good so if you can provide them it is best to just promote commoners.

• Wine is by far the best resource you can sell: It is made incredibly fast, the citizens do not use it as much as you’d think, and sells by your citizens for 100 gold and by your trader for 120.

• True to medieval nature, the best way to get rich is a good ole fashioned military campaign. Easy missions provide hundreds of gold bars while difficult and extremely difficult missions provide thousands of gold bars.

• You can’t have an economy if you can’t keep the gains. Build a "treasury" by building a lords manor and making every room a "treasury". By doing this you provide a safety net for your economy because some products take time to make and time to sell. You will see your weekly gains both skyrocket and fall from time to time. This is most common with things like clothing and beer.

• You can’t sell everything, check to see what trade routes are available and what they are willing to buy that you can get rid of. You can’t sell "herbs" for example, do not try to build gardens in the attempt to sell them.

• All products sell for different prices with the general value of nearly everything being "10 gold" but things like berries being "9" and beer at the tavern being "25". Pay attention to these numbers for you can giver the cheaper stuff to the serfs in small one food markets (because it will likely be easier), or you can try to trade it all off and sell things like fish to everyone for that sweet extra profit of "1 gold"

• You can’t buy everything either. You should be able to buy most food sources but you will rely on certain resources that may not be available for purchase (like clothes). DO NOT NEGLECT THESE PRODUCTS

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