Nilla

I don´t think that it works that way with the North, Brad. The jetty blacksmith should produce fishing gear, so loading another blacksmith will not help. I have seen no merchant so far that brings fishing gear. I haven´t built any port from DS yet but my guess is that the same merchants with the same goods arrive to the DS port as to the North port. But we will see.

As plan B I could perhaps load some other jetty mod that has a fisher but I don´t know if there is one that suits well enough. I don´t want CC, I don´t think Red has his jetty pieces as a separate mod, as far as I remember, Necora´s fisher catches things like clams and seaweed rather than fish, maybe Kid has some “normal” fisher in one of his jetty mods. His “swamp” structure could fit quite well to the North.

I will try to keep my hands away from the footprints. The next crash was the footprint of the food merchants.

And yes, the balancing isn´t adapted to the North. I will run the sites anyway and make notes about how I find the production numbers. Hope it´s for some use. I think it´s worth some effort because I find this is a nice mod that suits the Nordic theme pretty well. For example, it would make sense for the seafarer people to search for driftwood.

I had some problems yesterday evening. I got a crash when I tried to build a jetty glassmaker.

As it happened, I remember that there´s a patch for DSJ&B that I forgot to load and thought maybe that´s the reason. But it wasn´t. But the crash comes not as I first thought, when I set the footprint but when I click on the footprint. So after I was disciplined and left the footprint alone without watching how much more lumber or fittings was needed, it was built and seems to produce, following North receipt.

My thought is/was that the crash is rather a bug in DSJ&B than a compatibility problem. I could click on other jetty buildings footprint without a crash. So today I decided to make an experiment. I started a new game with only DSJ&B and the patch. No crash when I clicked at the footprint, so maybe there’s a compatibility problem after all. Don´t understand how.

I made another few screenshots yesterday, here they are:

First an overview of the settlement in year 7. The driftwood searchers have worked so we can finally afford a longhouse.

I often make “population management” early in a Nordic game; forcing the right youngsters together, forcing the right people to live in the right house, forcing divorces, everything to get the number of children I want. Here I want many children, in another game I might want few.

The first couple I want to move into the longhouse are young Autheron and Graci. It works as a boarding house, so they will not move in there voluntarily. If I build a normal house Gracie might as well choose her (foster?) brother but I want new babies in both families. So as soon as the longhouse is done, I will (fake) demolish the house of Autheron´s family, hoping that he will split from his parents and move in with Graci. First time didn´t work. The whole family moved together to the boarding house and back to their old turf house. The second attempt was better. Autheron and Graci moved into the turfhouse and the rest of the family in the longhouse. But that way there will be no new baby in that family. The longhouse is for 3 families with 2 children. The first swap went the way I wanted. Autheron and Graci will soon get company in the longhouse from new nomads.

On the third picture you can see where we are now; a second sheep pasture, another two jetty buildings, the problematic glassmaker and a water pump. You can see at the graph that the harvest one year was really bad; almost no barley and very little turnips. Everyone needed to catch as much trout and crayfish as they could and I also built this pump, even if it´s not much nourishment, water helps to survive. At the menu at the bottom, you can also see that Autheron and Graci already have 2 children, still living in the “house of the youth”.

I don´t really know how the markets work. Yes, Bannis prefer markets but they don´t walk any distance to use one. How far do people walk to a market to get their food there instead of a closer barn? (or in this case a tavern). There´s a common misunderstanding that people living inside a market circle also use the market as first place for supply but I´m pretty sure that it´s not the case. It´s a happiness circle not more not less and has nothing (or at least nothing directly) to do with the preference to collect food to their houses. People who live close use it even if there´s a barn closer, people at the far end of the circle will primarily use the close barn instead. I made several of these experiments in the vanilla time. But it wasn´t easy to set a distance.

Anyway, I built some more stores in that game closer to the houses that stored a lot of meat from the tavern and the amount of roasted meat in the houses went down. So I don´t think the Bannis see the tavern as equal to the market. Houses close to the lanthandel didn´t contain any/much? roasted meat, also those next to the tavern. But maybe they prefer it over a barn. I don´t know. Could the distance they are willing to walk to a lanthandel be shorter than the distance they are willing to walk to a vanilla market?