Tom Sawyer

It’s an interesting result, thank you for posting. I also did such tests back then and cows are intended to be the strongest livestock in max size pastures but I dont remember them to outperform so much. Reindeer was only added because people liked the “deer as livestock” option from other mods and it should be more a niche thing if not even moved to a special scenario but that’s another problem.

My first thought from your test is to increase required size, maybe from 30 to 36 for a cow and slightly reducing food output in addition. Or even more size but that will make it quite difficult to place pastures for at least 10 cows, which is the minimum to split a herd, if I remember right.

Cows should still be noticeably better on large areas than the others because it is more expensive or time consuming to establish such a big herd and also less fexible in terms of land use. Another small drawback of cows is that you actually need sheep to be self-sufficient on warm clothing.

Thanks a lot for your questions. I think they point out some problems with the last mod version. I hope, I will find some free time over new year to work on an update. There was already a change prepared to improve the grain production chain..

1) Yes, these ranges mean just the difference between uneducated and educated workers. If there is only one number, then there is no difference. A random yield modifier is not possible.

2) The idea is to give both grain types a use in game, based on historical background or realism. So barley used as porrige especially in the old times and in the far north vs. rye as the common grain suitable to bake bread in a developed settlement. That means barley needs a higher plain yield and also a better cold resistancy than rye with the latter being superior after investing in milling, baking and education. The circumstances are defined by climate, space, distances, materials and education. That gives some interesting combination of cases where one or the other grain is better and it should not be a nobrainer for the player. I think, on paper it works already quite well but as you say, barley might be the winner in too many scenarios. The reason is probably that logistics is messing up the rye chain. A solution I was working on already was making rye and wheat inedible grain that can’t be piled in houses and a granary that works with wheelbarrows for much more efficient transport. If that is not enough, the productivity of millers can be slightly increased as well.

3) In current version you can optimize it by minimizing this part of the rye chain. So keeping short distances between fields and the mill. Also, people should actually not pick food from the granary if they life in the radius of a marketplace or a village shop.

4) I compared wiki and code of the latest version and the wiki is correct. Pumpkin was maybe missed when other crops got a buff and the text still tells about biggest yield for educated farmers. So whenever an update comes, there will be increased yield for pumpkin with still 100% education gap.

Sorry for the lost post and late answer.

The most similar thing would be my grid texture mod for the North. It works also separately and just overwrites terrain textures. It has this grid though. If still a thing, I could make one without the grid.

Hey Brad,

no news from Nilla since her last post 2 years ago. I hope she is doing well.

I was also quite absent this whole time. My last info from WoB was that someone wanted to take over the forum but did not happen. To completely lose the site now would be bad. There was a lot of gathered knowledge about modding this game.

The link to Simtropolis I added to my list in the footer.

Thanks for asking. I added a button to delete the account on the profile page.

Hi Czari,

it has not changed, but going slowly. What is done so far are reworked textures, ambient sounds, parts of the UI and solving issues of old versions, which is mainly polishing stuff and not worth showing. I also started to model town houses and a few other pieces for expanding content. To make real progress with modelmaking I need more time in a row instead of doing something now and then at weekends.. The issue with payed work constantly getting in the way (and hitting that priority button).

You could wait for that one last birch tree to reseed.. =)

But probably dying before that happens, running out of either peat or lifetime.

Nice you solved it. The red warning is normal and not a problem in this case. The game simply checks if mods contain a file with the same name and marks them red. Here the Ironman mod overwrites files of the main mod but of course intentionally.

I forgot to answer that to your last post.. Mods in general disable achievements, for cheating reasons.

Hi and welcome!

Nice to see such an attempt again and very well done so far. I think that’s indeed the hardest setting with this mod. And sacrificing people is definitely not unthinkable. =)

The simple smithy causes fire more likely than anything else if I remember right. So it’s a good idea to place it a bit away from houses. Tornados however are extremely rare and not that devastating in the North.