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I’ve just played a few years on a seafarer map as well. As you can see on the picture I noticed that sometimes grass stands not on the bog square but next to it. And some bog squares have no grass at all. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the land is flattened by the peat cutting?
The other new changes you made I like.
To the grass, I have to say that I actually like it and it makes the land more natural. But there’s something missing that makes it look like a bogscape… You can see it well in winter but in the other seasons it is not so good to see, especially if you zoom out a bit. I don’t know, maybe bring in some variation with other bushes that have a different color than green or something? Or you rarely add some of those longer dry reed sticks like on picture 2 then there is a little bit of brown color in there?
Well, now I have also played a seafarer’s map as well.
As you can see on the first picture I had a pretty hard start on an island with very few trees. But I tried it anyway.
In the beginning I cleared some trees nearby which gave me 29 wood. I built 3 Goahti and a Pit House.
I quickly sent three people to fish and one to cut peat. But unfortunately the first person died of starvation in september…
I immediately started to grow 2 fields with turnips for the next year and it worked so far. It took some time until the sheep grew up and gave me some meat.
I had left some trees in the hope that they would multiply but it did not work out so well… So I removed the bog around the trees so more trees and fruits could grow. From the rest of the wood I built a second pit house and had to make some stone tools. The food went well so far when the sheep were big.
I had to remove some of the trees from time to time to build new tools.
In the 6th year i came across my old wool problem again because the warehouse was full of wool again and took up space…so i had to build another turf storehouse next to it.(picture 2) Here i thought why not use other animals for the scenario like deer? Or an early storehouse for wool or materials…don’t know.
But I knew that I had to go to the other island on the right because it had some trees. So I decided to build a bridge. But… the construction costs were too high… i had no wood… And the Stepstones were too short. Here I wished for a simple bridge with less construction costs… Maybe the Boardwalk just as a bridge with 2 wood per length? So I decided to cut down all trees on my island to build the bridge. On picture 3 you can see that in year 7 i had exactly the 48 wood for the bridge, but the tools ran out…so wait until the bridge is built…The health is about 0…
The peat cutting works quite well but I don’t know which fields are already cut because no symbol is shown so I keep forgetting to create new areas. And because I have too few workers, I only allocate peat cutters when necessary.
In the year 9 it was time…I only had one peatcutter and the working morale was not very good. I missed to instruct a second peatcutter and so all of them were frozen… end of story.
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Without the peat cutting you could not have survived at all. But I had to clear a lot of bog to build buildings. And then there is the problem with the fruits and herbs… Now after I have seen how much peat is extracted until year 9 and with the extreme shortage of wood I think that the amount of peat should maybe be increased slightly…
Maybe it makes sense to reduce the amount of bog generated by trees about 20% but to increase the amount of peat by 20%? Then you can also increase the amount of work by 20% and either let 2×5 peat be given or 1×10…
Then you don’t always have to change and remove the peat places as often.
Or you can go even higher from the % so that you have less bog but work longer on it.
I found another bug. If you dismantle the Thingstead while materials are already inserted, you dont get them back. Now that there’s a lot less rock, I usually can’t build another one…
You are adventurous Jase, choosing such a map, maybe a little too extreme for testing the changes but probably fun to make a try.
I don´t know if it´s a good idea to increase the amount of peat from each tile and increase the work time or not. For the early game I would say, it´s not. I don´t need as much fuel as I need to get rid of bogland but on the other hand, there´s always the “reclaim bogland” option. But later in the game when you really want the peat primary as fuel maybe it´s better. Hard to say without being further than in year 26.
The decreased weight of wool and wadmal will be good and I agree that the relation between the pit and turf storehouses needs some adjustments. After I built the clay pit, I only build the pit stores. Not only does it save logs and need little work to build, it also has more storage space pro tile. Maybe the worktime could be higher for the small pit store, not so unrealistic if you work with clay that needs to be prepared, dried and applied in several layers to be good enough to store food.
I´ll also show one picture. You can see that it has not been the “land of plenty” but things seem to slowly sort out.
My current calculation for small storage in picture. This way the turf-storehouse would be the very best choice if wood is rare and all others have their place if enough logs are available. The small log shed is the fastest storage (storage/time) because clay for the pit house needs to be dug out of the ground first with much more effort.
I played some more years and I´ve now reached a point where I really need the peat as fuel and I´m starting to regret all peat I only cleared away without using at the beginning.;) So, I´m starting to think that it might be a good idea to increase the amount of peat on each tile. Although it will be a frustration for a person like me; too stingy to “throw away” valuable peat but also impatient, wanting to expand fast. I have looked a bit more in the combination of firewood (so far only deadwood) and peat. It´s a bit strange but it looks like people like to have the same amount firewood and peat in their houses. And since you need firewood for charcoal and in several other production sites, you will sooner or later need to cut wood as well but of course, peat will help out in the houses.
One small request if it´s not all too much work: is it possible to change the colour of the peat tile when all peat is harvested? It would be a little easier to manage these larger peat areas.
I´m working on making my people happy. I started a bit the “opposite” way by building the pagan temple before all wells and saunas. As it is now, I will need all happiness maker anyway to get one single person happy; they live in the turf houses, the diet hasn´t been very good and everyone was ill. But one thing is weird: they are supposed to sacrifice sheep. OK, maybe the gods will like crayfish but peat? Why on earth would they sacrifice peat? Maybe it´s cold in Valhalla.
I will also show you my gay couple! Never saw one before. ;)
I have small problems with the pagan chapel. Look at the happiness graph. Happiness drops when the temple runs out of mutton and it seems to happen the whole time. It looks like they don´t start to refill the chapel with mutton before it´s completely out and since I´ve built it a bit away from the village, it takes some time and in this time, happiness drops. (there´s plenty of mutton in my stores). And why do they need firewood? Do they cook the sacrifice meat? Maybe instead some offering gift could be produced and stored in the temple, similar to the roasted meat in the mead hall.
At the picture they have just refilled the temple with mutton and happiness rises again.
