Tom Sawyer

Everything fine.. I don’t include something where I’m not convinced of or not think it can be worth trying.

Seems, you already outsmarted the Iceland scenario. Maybe the birches are spreading a bit too fast and should keep wood more rare. Also, the turfhouses want to get a matching storage. Digging for clay was probably not the first thing a Viking had in mind after arriving there. =)

About deer, this is the only starting condition without big reindeer herds. I doubt there was any deer at all but I did not want to make hunting completely useless. Survivors start at the main land with forests and big herds and will not have to suffer of these special conditions.

I made changes at the houses and the wiki still refers to North6. Since log cabins now need some glass, I saw no reason why they should not have perfect warmth and gave them 100%. Turfhouses are warm too but without proper oven and chimney, firewood consumption will be not so efficient -> 80%. Red cottages still have the advantage of happiness + less risk on fire over log cabins due to the tiled roof. Frame houses have 60%.

The production list of the sheep run get’s a fourth row then. Good hint. :)

There are some open questions to answer, so far they are not solved by the update. :)

The Trapper I moved to Hunting Cabin and Gatherer Shelter because I often saw people looking for it there and not in production. I think it makes sense here and the toolbar is now called Farming, Hunting… The fur price was a result of recalculating tailoring recipes if I remember right. I want to look at this to be sure I did not make a mistake.

With Tallow you are right and the idea is to add a workshop matching old houses, probably in frame style, to make tallow and also some other processing. This is one of those models I wanted to make while the beta test is running.

Potash is produced in the glass factory if not provided by traders. The idea is adding an Ashery for this job where I already picked photos of a historical building.

With Ropes it’s the same but they have to be bought for now. I thought to make them from flax somewhere but not sure yet. I have photos of an old Swedish rope storehouse that could look nice also as a production building.

Frame Houses are the first homes without disadvantage on happiness. They have an open fireplace as well and no windows but I think it would be quite nice to live there. The only other advantage could be 3 over 2 children in the turfhouse as it was in the preview mod.

No, the blacksmith shops don’t have a detraction radius. I thought it should be fine to have a blacksmith working inside a village. So it must be something else in your case. If you want to join us fighting back the beta bugs, let me know. :)

Hi and welcome! You can increase the workers in this pasture from 0 to 1. With the arrows left to the total number of workers. It was indeed a bit confusing and unnecessary in this version. In North7 all pastures start with 1 default herdsman.

Good idea to start testing as survivor, the most tricky one to balance. Will answer by points.

With the reindeer you might have been unlucky on your map. There are still big herds with up to 30 animals, just not that close to each other as in version 6. The smaller groups are more common and you probably had only those in your starting area which makes it then of course much harder to hunt enough. My idea here is to make the small groups of deer slightly bigger and also to let them re-spawn with minimum 2 or 3.

Leather for tunics I added with belts and shoes in mind, yes. And to not make it too simple with clothing from wool where leather would then be almost useless. An idea is here to let herdsman take a sheep hide if they slaughter one for some leather. So shepherds can be self-sufficient but still need the tannery chain.

A separate Button for Boulders is of course possible and probably liked by most players. I found it nice to move over the forest and to pick boulders for a Thingstead but can become annoying after the first time.

About Stone Tools from the campfire, do you think it takes away the “thrill” of the survivor start? That’s still my concern about them but I liked the idea and wanted to try. The original idea was to add Flint to collect and to limit stone tools to early game in this way but it would be a new resource only for a very short part of the game.

In my test, the miner always could get out of the empty Clay Spot (will do some more tests on different terrain) and the idea is to fill it with clay after starting a proper clay pit. Is not that cool to flatten the hole by filling it up? But I will think about it.^^

The Bloomery will be fixed following the metal limit.

Great to get some good feedback now to this version! I’m really used to work alone on things but it’s so much more productive this way.

Nice to read you here. I don’t mind blogging on WOB but yes, why not testing this board while testing the mod. Maybe I get some ideas how to improve it for this use. At least handling bugs and beta issues is easier on this separate board.

Terrains are completely unchanged, I just renamed the Forest to Lowland because as Seafarer you settle in a land where this term would not fit. If there are more hills than usual it must be just “luck”.

To deal with the new conditions as lone Seafarer is thought to be a special challenge only in this scenario but doesnot mean it’s also interesting to play. Let’s see. In all other starts you probably have a point about missing early nomads with the chapel depending on trade. To let Thingsteads attract some nomads sounds already like a good idea. They do not yet.

Looking forward to your blog. It’s an open forum now, so everyone can read.

I found a talk of people having the same problem with the GOG version and they solved it by moving the pkm to c:\gog games\banished\win64\WinData or c:\gog games\banished\win32\WinData. Seems there are more than one windata folders in your installation and you just have the mod in wrong place.

Welcome back with a new series, Ash!

I just notice in first episode.. those patches are actually meant to fix things in vanilla games. The mushroom fix doesnot make a difference in the North but you should disable the purchase patch. It would overwrite the trading post in a (fixed) vanilla way removing the Nordic merchants. I will make some better descriptions in download page. Everything else is good in your mod list. Thanks to HelDM. He deserves a flag pole in your town.^^

Maybe the sheep-run with stone walls and the paddock with this fence we already have around the pen where milk is spawned. And to keep the open pasture over hills especially for reindeer with some disadvange for other livestock to balance the building costs.

Today I made an auto-fenced version of the chicken coop, to test how it feels in game compared to the open area with self-placed deco fencing. So far, I like this more and tend to add it to the mod. It has then also a build stage and people use the gaps most of the time. For some reason they sometimes run through the fence but that’s in vanilla too. Can’t be completely avoided I think. And so it could look like with the new wattle fence: