Vrayna

In my current town, people seem to eat 200 food per year. I noticed it in year 3 and thought it might be just a blip caused by the opening of 3 new houses at once, but the consumption has been steadily rising as kids are born, and I’m currently at 1920 food “eaten” last year in a town of 10 (kid was born in early summer).

It’s a Gold Hunter start, on a normal map, the only thing I’ve changed from previous games is adding the hunting camp. I am kinda confused. Are people eating more in North 7 and I’ve simply not noticed it before, or is there something weird going on in this town?

Or is the Venison taken from the hunting camp to the campfire seen as consumed, when it is in fact transformed?

Someone on Discord is reporting an issue with chestnuts: They’re buying the seeds, but they can’t be used in orchards or fields.
I haven’t been lucky enough to see those seeds on a merchant, so I can’t confirm the problem, but he’s tried it a couple of times in the same town, without luck.

The tents might have linen, but most of the other tiny things are just tree stumps, logs, branches.

I tried building the mini townhall from Kralyerg’s minibuildings, and I’m getting consistant crashes when I click on it (even before it’s built).
I seem to remember it working fine with North 6, so I’m not sure what’s happening.

I just noticed that in the “Secluded Settlement” and “Viking Village” overview windows, the “months” are listed as Early Season, Season and Late Season instead of months like in the Trading Town overview. Is that intended?

I had an “interesting” thing happen in my game.
1- Outbreak of tuberculosis on July, Year 13.
2- As you can see it spread quite quickly. Already 4 sick the next month.
3- A couple of people recovered, a kid died in August, and still more got sick. By September I was up to 13 sick people, and work around town was basically not happening.
4- A couple more people died in October, more recovered, and finally the outbreak was over, with the last sick person being the first one to be buried in my brand new graveyard in November.

That tuberculosis outbreak killed 1 worker and 3 kids, one of them being 11 and so close to turning into a worker. Sick people also didn’t work, so I lost most of the barley, couldn’t pick the mushrooms/berries, or firewood (I forgot to turn off the charcoal burner too. oops.). I had decent food stores, so my people didn’t starve, but… If it had happened a couple of years earlier it’d have killed my town.

While it adds a good dose of realism to not be able to build a hospital until pretty late in the game (roof tiles, bricks, glass), it’s rather deadly to not have a healer earlier on.
I’m not sure how the death/recovery odds are calculated, but if health has an impact, I’d say the healer’s hut saved me, as most of my people were pretty healthy.
I turned it on mid-outbreak to try and help the people who were missing some hearts. I have no clue if that helped, or if it contributed to the spread of the sickness when everyone gathered there with herbs to have a sip of tasty herb-tea.

About the nomads, is there a way to change the age range of the couples that arrive? I just got a 16yo guy arrive with a 42yo woman, which makes for a super odd couple and might not even have 1 kid.

I’ve been thinking about the market too. At the moment we have the choice between the old “vanilla-style” market that requires pretty fancy stuff to build, and the red Landhandel which requires pretty fancy stuff to build (the traders bringing roof tiles and bricks are rare).
There’s nothing to use early on to help get goods distributed evenly unless you’re using another mod (market carts or in my case Kralyerg’s mini-buildings), and nothing in the old-viking-style.

About the frame houses: I love the way they look, the fact that they’re smaller so can fit better in some places in the village.
My issue with them is the pottery, and that comes from not having enough workers early on to be able to have one digging for clay and one making the pottery, and not having enough charcoal for everything. By the time I have enough “free” workers and charcoal, I’m starting the glass to build the things that require it and I’m waiting for bricks.
I suspect the change back to 4 firewood per log is going to make a difference on both points. I’ll probably feel like I can take 1 worker off the winter/spring firewood collecting, and/or I’ll be able to make more charcoal without letting house go cold. The charcoal production feels slow though, so even with more firewood I’m not sure I’ll have enough charcoal for the iron bloom and iron bars and tools/fittings, and still have some to spare for the pottery.

Basically at the moment it feels to me like the pottery can’t really be a starting thing, and by the time you get that running, you’re close to having the stuff needed for even warmer houses. I’ll probably build some at some point because of how they look / fit in my messy town, but I can’t see them turning into a “main form of housing in young towns” at the moment.

About the stone tools: I’m a bit undecided too. It feels “too easy” to have them, but… With the amount of work needed to get firewood, charcoal, iron bloom, iron bars and then finally tools, I’m pretty sure something is needed as a temporary solution. There’s just no way at the moment a young town with so few workers (and slow aging, so it takes many years to have more people) can manage the initial charcoal output to make the iron tools early on.

Maybe some “primitive tools” at the early blacksmith instead? Made from bog iron and wood, using charcoal, to allow tools of poor quality while skipping 2 production steps at the start? The fact they’re using the “precious” bog iron would make it something that’s not interesting in the long run, but just a temporary fix for tool issues.

The “heavy turnip” thing bothers me a bit. They’re what grows best in cold climates, but unless I put more workers per field, I’m more likely to have a good part of my harvest rot in the fields. Maybe if farmers didn’t spend so much time iddling because they’re unhappy it wouldn’t really matter, but until late-ish game people are unhappy by definition and waste a ton of time. The fact that they need to run to storage a lot more often on top of that is quite a killer unless you have enough workers available to add one in each field at harvest time, which comes back to workforce issues due to the slow aging + few nomads point.
I’m not sure how much “heavier” they are compared to onions for example, but would an in-between value be possible?

Reddish sign, that’s the one with tables of goods on each side of the door, isn’t it?
*rushes to cancel the building and pick another model*

About the firewood/charcoal thing: I’m playing on “only” Fair climate, so not the harshest, and I have to say that with a Seafarer start I run out of firewood every winter and can’t make more than a few batches of charcoal.

I basically can never have enough charcoal to use at the bloomery + the 2 steps at the blacksmith to make tools or the fittings needed for the Trade Post, unless I close down 2 of my 3 houses every winter to cut down on firewood use.