Tom Sawyer

The merchants come along the main river. So the right place for trading docks is at the main river or at a lake connected to the river. They can also use brooks if necessary but those shortcuts can easily be blocked by water mills or crayfishers. Sometimes at big lakes, it can happen that merchants don’t find the docks even if they are connected and always leave the map without a stop. But this is very rare.

Honey from wild bees can be gathered in summer and autumn. The bees need at least one month at 10 °C (50 fahrenheit) to produce enough. In cold summers, especially if you are settling in harsh climate, it can happen that your gatherers will not find wild honey at all and it’s a bit random of course. Also, it can only be found by professional workers from a gatherer’s hut, not by laborers sent into the woods manually.

Beekeeping is for sure the more reliable way to get honey. :)

I thought of peat or turf as a resource mined from the ground in small pits to build my new turf houses, but preferred a variant with it as a free/virtual building material. For fuel, we talked about peat some time ago on wob. I see problems with balancing because it should not displace firewood but leaving useless holes in the ground is not what players love. I also think that in reality it is not that easy. It contains rather less carbon and must be completely dry. However, in general it can work both in real and in game. :)

Thanks for your list, Perer. There are indeed many more mods working in the North. I have only those in my list that I have tested myself or made compatible by overwrites. Even CC should work without crashes since North 6.2, where I made some adjustments to the flags.

Of course, it also depends on what we mean with “compatible”. For me it’s more than just no crashes. It should also look and work like intended without confusing balance or the scenario. :)

Hallo Jase, danke für Deine Ideen! So ein Lagerbalken macht Sinn und sollte kein Problem sein einzubauen. Zum Wohnen find ich die Jagdhütte bissl zu klein, im Gegensatz zum Forsthaus. Wenn die Upgrade-Funktion flexibler wäre, fänd ich eine Umnutzung zum Wohnhaus lustig.

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Hello and welcome!

Actually your tailor needs nothing else than leather to make simple leather coats. For winter coats he needs leather + wool. If you already picked the right product and it still doesn’t work, the material might be not accessible there or it is a tailor shop from another mod with different recipes. A screenshot can help to figure it out then.

Nice that you like it and thanks for your kind words! :)

Hi and welcome!

You are right, to keep the couple healthy can be tricky. With turnips from the field, berries from the woods and venison or fish you have at least 3 of 4 food types. With wild honey you can cover the grain category but only professional gatherers (assigned to the gatherer shelter) can do bee hunting. Herbs are only useful if you build a herbalist’s cabin where one has to work as a herbalist to heal the other. To build a small trading dock as soon as possible would be also a good strategy to get all food types and barley or rye seeds for grain cultivation. Smoking meat and fish does not improve health, it only increases the available amount of the same food type by preserving it.

But getting the right foodstuff is not the only thing. They also have to have the types together in their cabin, which is later ensured by markets and vendors but hard in very early game. If they have a shed full of berries, another full of venison and so on, they will carry only the food item from the nearest location and still suffer from an unbalanced diet. So, a bigger storehouse where everything is stored is better than many locations. This is a part I want to improve in this mod, adding more useful storage buildings and a small food market.

Hi Wuiky :)

Ordering certain items (and waiting for it) is a different thing. With auto-purchasing I mean if you go to the “purchase” tab and define an amount of grain or fruits to buy when a merchant arrives or leaves. When this happens, the merchant takes one item after the other from the inventory of your trading post until the value is balanced. And I always thought he takes it randomly but maybe not.

Hi Wuiky,

No problem, little nephews have priority over little bannies. :)

I never noticed that traders take something alphabetically. I think they do it randomly and I doubt they can understand any language.^^

Let me know what’s your maximum pop then. I guess, with 2.5 k it’s already slow motion.

Have a nice day!