Nilla

What is if the evil queen finds 2% too little and demand more?

Your pictures are nice, fun to see the Viking buildings with a modern touch.

Farming in the north is a little special, especially farming vegetables. I don’t know if you have noticed, most vegetables have a weight of 3. That means the farmer need to go 3 times as often to the store than in vanilla farming. So you made the right decisions after you first noticed the freezing crop; smaller field, very close barn, close idling locations. (Now, you might notice, that some times your farmer want to idle at another spot than the at the pagan idol but mostly it will work).

If you still have problems with freezing crops, look if the barn gets full, it may be full soon and might need to be doubled or increased in size. I don’t know if your screenshot with the field is before or after you made them smaller but you might need to reduce the size of the cabbage field even more. If I remember it right you play with a mild climate but also on mild, some years will be cold and it can be a good idea to start the harvest early manually when the temperature starts to drop or simply send some more people to help in the late harvest. On harsh or fair it’s necessary to start the harvest manually every year. Beans is the only vegetable with a lower weight, same as grain, and is the best vegetable to farm in a North game. So replace cabbage with beans is another option.

I know how easy it is to forget something in a game where you need to micromanage a lot but it looks like you noticed your low supply on clothes early enough and with a little help of the pagan gods you’ll do fine.

I see these huge distance between your villages. Doesn´t that mean trouble, people just walking between the settlements not working? But I find your idea nice and interesting.

By the way; I went on with my idea; taking 20% nomads every year. You are so right. It´s a stress but you know me, can´t resist a good challenge. Maybe I´ll make an own thread about my efforts.

I don’t understand what you mean with only amounts of 50. The merchants can take any number of goods. You seem to use the “click” system only. How would you manage to sell something like 2000 mutton? (Something I indeed do quite often in a Nordic game). A terribly lot of clicking. I never use it, I always write the number. Like in trade generally, you can write any number of the goods you want to buy and the goods you want to sell as long as it’s less than 999999.

I like that the log cabin need glass. I like the development and that you can’t build everything you want from the start. If you want a Nordic house without happiness detraction early, you can build the frame houses. I like them very much, they are models from real Viking townhouses. I think Tom has used his models from the important Viking trading town Haiterbu on the north coast of Germany but if you look at reconstruction pictures of other trading towns in this area from that period, like Birka in Sweden, the houses look the same.

Other Viking buildings that are important in a Nordic game is the Viking longhouse. It’s a boarding house for 3 families. I try to build it as early as I can. I use it for nomads, upgrading, fire accidents but I also, especially early in the game use it for “population management”. Especially to give new houses to the people I want to have it. If you have a couple both over 15 and you build a house for them, you can be damn sure that some 12 years old will occupy that building alone. To avoid this, I instead “fake demolish” one of the houses with the 15-year-old (no 12 years old sibling) and the family will move into the longhouse, when I undo the demolition, you might get a new couple. Sometimes the youngsters are a bit reluctant and you need to try a couple of times but eventually, they will hook up the way you want.

I like to look at details. If you have nothing new to show us, it would be nice to see a close up of some area.

Many merchants can sell some seeds. If you order, it usually doesn´t take very long to get some. And I would also order glass (needed to make a glassworks for more advanced buildings), a bible (needed for a chapel if you want to make people happy), maybe rope (needed to produce stone and for the larger ports) and maybe even brick and roof tiles (needed for a brickworks to make hospital and school). Merchants who bring these things don’t arrive that often, especially the Hanseatic merchant who´s the only one that may offer bricks and roof tiles.