Quick post as a warning for all of you: don't try to be fast!

I know, it's something that every player but newer ones know about. But it's important to remind it.

I wanted to "quickly" get 1k people, so I accept a lot of nomads. Everything was good until I saw 110 nomads in my town. I had 750 inhabitants and a lot of useless food so I was thinking "Yeah, why not?".

What a mistake! I dropped to 350 inhabitants... I had a lot of food and a good production (like 82k per year), but it drops so fast that I couldn't do anything. I don't even think that I can fix it, my population is starving even if the production is now stable.

So again, be careful with nomads, you can lose hours just because of ONE mistake.

Hey guys so I've been playing with mods and am totally aware that breaking the game is a risk but after installing a recommended mod pack the game now crashes on launch and I can't do anything. I've tried deleting all the items from my workshop and even uninstalling the game... any idea?

ive been trying to install MM9 but once i enable te mod an click to apply them, after a few minutes the game crash, couldnt take a screenshot but it said something about a crash dump in the game folder

Jack and Jill as starting conditions is hard enough, or maybe something else if you would like to share, but what about terrain and climate?

Hi folks,

Have a question on how the food system works. Already searched a bit in the old posts around this topic in the subreddit and concluded the following:

• 1 food = 1 food. So meat and a berry feed somebody in the same way
• Food type matters. Making sure your population gets food from the four food groups ensures that the population stays healthy.

Is that correct, or do you guys have another opinion on this?

If the above is true I wonder why you would want to refine your food, like from wheat to bread. Or why would I build a fisherman huts and/or another slow food gathering method?

I also wonder whether it matters where i locate my - lets say - fisherman huts? Is there a way to check the efficiency?

Started on hard difficulty and had a decent start but by year 25 it all went downhill. I never had enough excess to trade for seeds or livestock, so had to rely on fishing, hunting and gathering.

A combination of building three houses extra, led to starvation, which led me to reassigning foresters to food production.

Next year as a result, there was less wood for my woodcutters so ppl became cold.

Whenever I tried to shore up one resource, it came at the sacrifice of another so we just hit a steady decline as everyone pretty much died off slowly.

And over a period of 5 years I went from 120+ down to 5 people left. A 70 year old laborer, and my only hope for the future. A 25 year old hunter, and a 15 year old gatherer, and their two children, a brother and sister.

Somehow my couple decided to split and they live in different households (maybe due to reassigned job) with one kid living with one parent and the other by itself.

I got like 30 abandoned houses, is there a way I can force the couple back together? And how do I ensure the Alabama kids move in together? From some cursory reading it seems them being related is not a worry.

Well I want to start harvesting when yield reach 20%

I play on hard harsh climate and lost loot of crops.

Maybe I’m just dumb as hell, but it’s super annoying when I have massive sprawling cities and I’m not realllyyyyy paying attention and a single building burns down. Is there a mod or option in game that would create auto rebuild

I love this game.

After I finished 100% achievement (and playing what I think is my best game ever) I thought I'd throw some things out there for anyone else that might find them useful. Please feel free to comment/criticize/contribute!! I've seen enough youtube/twitch videos to know that everyone plays a little differently, and that's what makes a great game.

This is base game mode, and I mostly try to play for sustainability and efficiency so keep that in mind. I also always start on medium or hard because I hate the placement of the houses and hate having to tear down/rebuild. Which brings me to my number one tip:

-DON'T BUILD HOUSES WHERE TREES GROW. I know you're supposed to put houses by jobs, but the jobs are dependent on the trees and you can't grow trees where houses are. That's just math, and even though I'm terrible at math, that seems pretty obvious.

---Foresters are the unsung heroes of the game. They seed the food the gatherers gather, the herbs for the herbalists, and provide a constant supply of wood. They're consistent and once established you never have to mess with them again. I look through every map before building anything and find where the wide open places are, pop a forester in, and pause construction. I then build houses and mines/quarries (eventually maybe beans/sheep) AROUND the future-forested areas.
---Same with Gatherers, I try to keep them staffed at 1 or 2 unless I'm heading into a population boom and I'll bump them up to 2 or 3. Any higher than that and their production tends to drop over time with just one forester going. I also like to know there's plenty available TO gather when I do need to bump up workers in a pinch.
---Hunters. Despite reading from some that they will not produce unless far away from populations, I haven't found that to be the case. They just need the same space as the gatherer and they do fine. I also keep them at 1 unless things are looking dire.
---Build one house and your forester/gatherer first. (People need somewhere to go so they won't freeze, but they don't all need to be housed immediately.) Then another house. Then hunter/woodcutter. Another house. Then blacksmith/tailor/fisherman etc. Set your people to harvest all surrounding resources from the area your forester will be seeding.
---Don't build roads you don't need to until there's nothing to do. They distract your laborers/workers from getting resources/building.
---Don't f&$k with coal for like 100 years. Just focus on firewood/hide coats/iron tools until you have plenty of each and can start loading up a trading post with tools and coats to trade for steel tools and warm coats. (also a place to put extra leather) Then introduce coal into your population and slowly transition to building your own steel tools. I have found that nothing messes with the rhythm more than coal.
---Ale is not worth it. Churches are not worth it. Just build graveyards. They keep people plenty happy.
---Hospitals and schools ARE absolutely worth it.
---In base game I do not mess with markets. They're not worth the laborers or ending up with barns full of garbage. Just build an extra barn in each forest.

There's so much more I could add, and I could write a whole other post about mods, but I'd rather hear from others. This is such a wonderfully built game, I adore it.

ignore the hills in the bottom, this building layout is just for display purposes

Every time I play I feel like I end up with thousands of items I don’t want like leather bc I could give 2 sh*ts about warm coats most of the time and trading just doesn’t feel efficient. Is there any mod that makes a easy way to dispose of unwanted items b

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Before I fell on the proverbial sword to get the last achievement

I played my best game yet, and that means this hyperfixation has come to a very satisfying conclusion. I hit 100% achievement today, including 6 in this one game, on a medium valley map. (Seed 250661813)

-Farmer
-Food Variety
-Exports
-Master Builder
-Smelter
-Tombstone

Since Tombstone was the very last one I needed, I decided to just get it over with, kill everyone, and then pretend it never happened. I saved the game, then built two extra 20x20 cemeteries, brought every profession down to zero, and let it go. I was very surprised that it still took 3+ years for the 300+ people to die to fulfill the 400 graves needed.
Interesting to note, when my people had no jobs they liked to mill around cemeteries... and then they died.

After getting the achievement I went back to my save point and pretended I didn't watch them all die for a star.

Been playing banished for nearly a decade now and always just suffered through extreme lag. I finally upgraded my computer setup to where it can simultaneously run multiple instances of Minecraft, COD, Vallorant, etc with no lag. Yet when I load in banished it’s still lagging.

Banished is not using the available RAM OR CPU. Is there a way I can make it use more?

Edit: figured out the issue was an install from a backup. Backup of the game was configured to the potato laptop and didn’t update to the better system.

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I've been playing for a year and a half now. I've noticed a quirky habit. When I make fields I go diagonally first. It seems oddly efficient because I don't have to count out 7x7 for most of the squares

Anyone notice any habits they developed?

When it comes to converting land to food production, which is your go-to and why?

I prefer Gatherers due to the lack of seasonal variance in production and the build doesn't require markets except in your most urbanized areas.

My question is - how do i progress from here, what's the next step to maintain a big village? What do i build, how do i assign jobs. I've never watched tutorials on how to play the game so basically at this point it's getting pretty tough.

Climate - fair, starting point - medium

Are there perfect seed for all acheievement in one map?

Of course it is for Small + Moutains + Harsh + On + Hard

And it must able to build 50 length bridge

but most seeds at 2020 Updated Seed-List 1.0.7 are for not moutains not hard not small

onlys few seed are good for Hard Small Moutains and I feel it is not good enough.

such 601902282 in my view is good enough.

For more detail, we need running without tools due to long play without iron. (so, i don't feel 170943658 is good)

and i try incremental start from 0, that found 16 is maybe works seed, keep trying incremental.

So I couldn’t find a new game I wanted to buy. Scrolling through the steam lib….

Oh sure let’s play banished.

Yep my town died 🤣

I’m now here looking for tips n tricks 😂😁🤪

So, this is my start. :D Any advice? I'm not sure, if I'm happy or sad about my progress as I'm rather new to this type of game.

Ahoi mates, I finally got the chance to buy Banished. I haven't played a proper city builder in over 15 years, but I wanted to return to something more relaxed as PvP games start to make me exhausted. :)

Do you have any advice for a beginner to this game?