Smurph

I restarted my town for The North version 3.

Survivor. Small, Harsh, Mountainous, Disasters off. Map seed: 1000.

Currently year 40. I built the Thingstead as fast as I could. I accepted all nomads. I bred people as fast as I could. Population 38/0/24. I just finished a school. I have 3 Big Trading Posts. I am a Wool product trading spot.

I am going to remake the town and make it very pretty now. I sort of threw things in an ugly pile for efficiency to start. Now, I will focus more on aesthetics.

The Collect Boulders button will be well welcomed. It is year 18. My thingstead isn’t built. I paved all my roads with stone. I built a Large Trading Dock, Several Homes, I have traded for glass, I have a Herbalist, Hunting Cabin, Forester’s Lodge and other things. I have 300 additional stone. I still have only collected 14 Boulders.

Are boulders used for other things?

I must ask; why do you bother to build a large trading port for such a small settlement?

The biggest reason is I didn’t want to dig clay. I like being able to demolish everything in my town and remake things. Clay and Sand are permanent, right? Even filling in the tiny clay thing leaves a little hole in the ground. I was able to make the big one without clay.

The increased cost wasn’t a big deal. I was able to afford it no problem. I considered making one Small quickly, then either another small or a Large, but I had the resources so I thought “let’s go big”.

I’m not familiar with The North. The descriptions on the Trading Posts let me think there is a chance, and just a chance, that each Trading Post gets different boats, or a different balance of boats. The small Trading Post didn’t bring Bricks and Roof Tiles very often. Perhaps I had bad luck.

What about a small Hunting Camp for early game to not have to use those tactics until the proper Hunting Cabin?

The “put the hunting spot in a far corner of the map” method may be more effective than Hunting Cabins. There doesn’t seem to be a kill limit on the Hunting Spots. Are there limits on the Cabins? Perhaps I had bad luck with the cabins that I built in my previous runs of The North.

Also, I have always felt that smaller maps have larger concentrations of animals. I am asking if anyone has any data from the moddable files. I know you can edit the herds etc. but in my 10 minutes of searching I didn’t find the right file/information.

I’m tempted to make a vanilla game on a small and medium map, cut down all the trees, and count the deer. That’s quite tedious and silly though.

I’ve always suspected that there is a math error on how many animals should spawn on each size map. For example, a 200×200 map is quadruple, not double, the size of a 100×100 map. Perhaps an understandable error like that was made when setting the spawn amounts.

Again, those are just feelings and suspicions. I don’t have data.

I would always suggest to give real time a chance and to see a town now growing by immigration rather than by unnatural fast breeding.

I don’t even have enough Boulders for a Thingstead yet. I built the “Big Trading Dock” and my Thingstead still says “6 of 18 Boulders”. In my last game the immigrants had a high chance of dying rather than reaching my town.

Step 2: Industry and Trade. Setup Iron Tool production. Create the products needed for a trading post.

I created a Tar, Charcoal, Bloomery and Blacksmith. I finished a fishing dock. I had one worker fish at ~500 food per year. I had the hunter going at ~600 food per year. The 1,000 year was a fluke. My other two workers rotated between Logging, Firewood, Blacksmithing and building.

I finished the Big Trading Dock in year 10. I had 9 citizens. I had 2,000 food stored.

Now I will be setting up orders at specific traders: Tools, Glass, Bricks, Roof Tiles and NON-protein Food will all be ordered.

I have changed my mind. My oldest child is 8. Let’s see how quickly I can make a School. I won’t save-scum.

I only have 4 Boulders so far. My Thingstead isn’t ready yet. I am unsure what goods I will produce to trade. Perhaps Leather. Perhaps Hide Capes.