Farthest Frontier 50+ Tips and Tricks - VERY USEFUL!

[@AurioDK]

1. You can deny food into the market, makes no sense in terms of realism within context. However root cellars are far better at holding food and can have 10 barrels, markets only have room for 5. Citizens will use your root cellars to get food and income wise I havn´t seen any benefits from food in the market. The first thing I do after the market is built, deny it any food, you do need root cellars close to your houses. (covered in the video, I am writing this because it´s extremely important). 2. The game isn´t realistic when it comes to time. Some things which in a normal village would take 1 day to transport, could be milk f.ex., it might take 2 months in game time if your barn is a bit too far away from the city like mine is in my current game, milk will never reach the citizens, milk is for making cheese which currently is broken, cheese is extremely fast to produce and last a long time. Bread suffers from the time issue and the baker needs to be built where your houses are, I wouldn´t bother though, it steals all your flour in a zip and makes stuff which is guaranteed to spoil. Keep your grain for beer and cows. 3. It´s faster to delete existing roads and build stone roads, the upgrade process is somewhat borked and may take several seasons for 2 long roads. My guess is that it depends on layout and pathing, had games with no problems but the last two it was a decade project to get a few roads upgraded. I do like to build asymmetrical, could be a reason. 4. Get a barn, buy cows, set milking to on when you have built the cheese maker, watch your food woes disappear. Build root cellar, granaries, 3 corn rotation fields, cheese maker and barn next to each other. People will get your cheese if they are hungry, so that particular root cellars doesn´t have to be close to houses, deny other foods except for root vegetables. 5. Rotate your fields. 1 entire season should have two work sessions and a clover growth, the other 2 seasons can be pressed more as you want food growing in spring and late winter. Carrots, the two pea options and turnip are the only things you should grow, the rest either spoils too fast and/or leaves no room for a work session in between. If you are a natural born turtler you can cheese this, use the first 8 seasons to simply prep for big growth. You make one field and only do work/work/clover or 2 clovers. You then make a new field and take the workers off the previous field, do the same rotation as mentioned. You can repeat this 6 times f.ex. and the 3 farmers will tend to all fields and do as much as they can accomplish. Farmers help out in nearby fields, so you can set a final crop rotation and employ farmers as you get more people to fields which are ready and done. There will be no food shortages as you havn´t grown much, hunters, foraging and some fishing will have you covered. 6. Your town center should be left alone and houses built a bit away from it. Unlike in the video you don´t need roads around your town center, actually you don´t need roads at all initially, but it´s up to you. Roads are nice initially as an alignment tool. You will want your first and second storehouse build next to the town center along with the trading center, trading is important and you need goods moved fast. That area should then be walled in, initially with palisades, two archer towers should suffice to keep any raiders off your back, the town center will help. The walls should enclose the town center, the two storehouses and the trade building while allowing for the town center to shoot at anything beating them. 7. You will need roads .... :) .... the very first steps are incredibly important though and you will want to focus all your efforts on maximizing productivity, for the first 8 houses and other crucial buildings it´s my experience that its better to focus on building and roads after. The only problem being alignment and that roads sometimes don´t want to be built where you want them. Some types of terrain are awful for road/building alignment. PS: Make cheese ...... it´s kind of cheesy.

[@Kysen]

Awesome comment, thanks! I've pinned it as I'm sure it will help people :)

[@aphexdruqks7751]

Those are actually real tips, not a tutorial

[@kevinwbrake]

could have made a video.

[@uncannygames3min]

Can verify on the cheese - my colony now subsists on cheese and fish alone! Nice tips btw, really advanced stuff!

[@AurioDK]

@@uncannygames3min Another tip which I just discovered is that the colony actually works best without roads, took my own advice to heart about avoiding roads early and took it further. I am in tier 3 with no roads, peeps walk in a straight line and through the gaps in the buildings to their destination. Who knew the quickest way was a straight line? 😀

[@robertc7788]

Some very good info to somebody here who just started and made classic mistakes on my first game. I'm grateful KZbin let me change the playback rate to .75, though. Fast talker, and the editing to keep pauses almost nonexistent is, I guess, a common thing in gaming videos. I'll apply much of this for sure!! So glad i decided to buy something new so i did not just have to play Civ V yet again.

[@rosalacroix6447]

I started playing this game and was very overwhelmed with the amount of information in the game (i normally do not play theys kind of games at all), this has really helped and made things alot more clear & easy.

[@harvbegal6868]

Seen this in another video: dont fence up your crops. Instead put hunters around it. Deer will come towards the crops to eat them, hunters will take them out.

[@Benomeno5]

1 little thing, at the start it's better to check the fertility and water levels, so you wont put your houses on the best farm lands. Otherwise it's very nice starter tips.

[@wastedwatts]

Indeed! It is a pain and time killer to need to move stuff around to fix efficacy issues. So far, there is no end to the need to move stuff around as I learn the characteristics of the map and pick up another tip, or two.

[@MichaelCaliri]

it needs a small map like anno where you can click on it instead of scrolling

[@wastedwatts]

I have been using hunters to take out wolf dens, and most other bad critters like bears and boars and explore as a group. Boars are too much of a kill without around 3 hunters teamed up, but you might be able to get by with two hunters. I build a few hunter shacks not too far apart and when they are ready to hunt, pause the game and left click on the guy, or gal icon in the shack. Now I can click on the map and they will go there. Send 2 hunters to the shack nearest the target, and do a box around all 3 hunters so you control them as a group. Right click where you want them to go and they will arrive after a while and stand there for around a minute and a half before doing whatever the programming tells them to do in an automatic function. If you right click on a target, a wolf den, wolf, bear, or whatever, the group will automatically attack it, but only one will harvest the meat, hide, and such. Group the remaining two and have them go somewhere, or attack something, and again, one will harvest the meat, hide, and such.

[@wastedwatts]

There are a few things to keep an eye on, or your hunters will die of starvation, or something. There are four circles that tell you things like current food satisfaction/hunger (diet), warmth, happiness, and health. Obviously each of those affect any activity you send them to do and can be a problem to the success of the task.

[@wastedwatts]

Another thing to ponder, hunters and foragers make great early warning folk, where the hunters will attack raiders coming, or going away, but at the risk of getting killed. Foragers tend to just run towards the town seeking protection. In either case, you want their shacks near your roads placed outside the town since the raiders tend to use any road you have made and this helps you place the shacks. I haven't yet tried walling in with a gate the shacks to see if the hunters will run to their shack after taking a few hits from the raiders. Sort of a small compound for them to retreat to if chased by a raider they shot.

[@Wolf-dn7uo]

one thing you can do if your harvesting stone or a forest that is relatively far from your storage is move the ox wagon (your initial storage) to the location your harvesting to reduce carry times. this is usually good for early on.

[@anonymousdictator]

This is super helpful, thanks. For some reason i kept building my roads coming out of each entrance gate of my town center instead of doing a square all the way around it.

[@Kysen]

Glad it helped! :)

[@wastedwatts]

The first thing I did once I got around to putting in some roads was back off a few squares from the town center and head straight north and south. That provided extra space for stuff within the section where the town center was. I did the same on the other side of the town center. I put a lot of useful structures inside that strip of land, like the storage buildings, towers, and such that need protection from raiders. By the way, the door on the town center is facing south normally to give you a compass reference.

[@bertvsrob]

tip: exit game and restart a new map as opposed to rerolling map - the load time and fps drop compounds each time you reroll

[@wastedwatts]

It seems you are correct about this in my tests and experience. Maybe that will change.

[@wastedwatts]

Farming is something you want to start in tier 1 since by tier 2 the villagers are needing another food source. That doesn't mean you have to do much with the farms other than fertility, rocks, and weeds. What I am still researching is small farm plots vs. large.

[@Mortzzz]

Any updates?

[@wastedwatts]

@@Mortzzz Yes, but I am still editing a seven plus hour recording. Two significant discoveries is housing and farming. Basically, once you can get markets in (town center tier 2) you get stupid crazy putting in excessive housing, even to the point of having 100 houses waiting for villagers to move in. As long as you can keep the food flowing in and the houses inside the circle of influence of the market, the gold flows in. You may want to ensure the gold is spent by the last month of the year, or have very little by then end of January to prevent huge raider attacks. As to farming, always make the field huge, as big as the game will allow. The first field was maximum size, then I extended it to the next maximum size. I did have to keep an eye on the common labor force since when it goes red, the harvesting efforts go negative.

[@wastedwatts]

I haven't played that far into the game yet, so most of what you said is beyond my understanding.

[@royalladybug30]

I know this is older but I have one tip that I found extremely useful that is not mentioned in this video: You can halt construction. If you are like me and want to pre plan where your houses will go for future building and desirability planning, this helps. Place down the house (or other asset) then immediately uncheck the 'enable construction' box. You can turn on construction as needed but this will help witg city planning!

[@thereal_onelargemammal]

Great vid, thank you. Would love one going into the details of the supply chains. Like what each worker does and why and where they go to do it.

[@Kysen]

Cool idea for a vid. When I have a city that's fully built I'll look into this 🙂

[@Embr]

Ty, might have to get this! Reminds me of the game Banished, which I loved!

[@1800JimmyG]

When it come to the cemetery, build it far away. Burials are rare so it's okay to waste some time walking out of town.

[@LilSinger097]

Instructions unclear.... entire town died...no one left to bury them...but it's ok because the wolves cleaned them up

[@TakoVirus]

@@LilSinger097 but if no wolves clean that bodies it will bring disaster i remember i dont have graveyard before. and my town got pandemic lols.. lost 60% of my pops. since medince stock cant keep up the sick person mount

[@LilSinger097]

@@TakoVirus I think disaster already struck when I lost my 50 villagers to a disease 🤣🤣

[@wastedwatts]

@@LilSinger097 LOL, ok, but what about the rats dead bodies create?

[@chengkuoklee5734]

@@LilSinger097 I lost 20 villagers due to starvation even with abundant food. Turns out I build fence and farming plot in the same time, forgot to build gate. So those poor villagers building inside fence died of hunger.

[@negativezero9179]

can i share one of my tips? i found that making you're hunter do exploration better because they can defend them selves better than normal villager against predator except if its wolf den. to make hunter do exploration just click hunter cabin then retarget building work radius to place you want to scout or just select the hunter and make him move around

[@t_momula9057]

Dude!!! You’re a fckin legend for this. I can’t even explore the map because my people keep getting killed and the game won’t let me replace an explorer. So Most of my map is just a shadow at times.

[@mgan59]

Well done and great overview 👏🙌🏻

[@Kysen]

Thank you :)

[@theohiohousewife]

Tools are real....Firewood Splitters and Fletchers use tools. Maybe more industries do too. Just figured that out. My storage menu doesnt list a use for tools. The build menu doesnt mention them as a used item either. I have only found them when reading the post building description.

[@Kysen]

Thanks for the info! :)

[@theohiohousewife]

@@Kysen i was adding firewwod sheds and couldnt keep up with demand. Took forever to harvest trees. Ttaded for about 100 and work started happening.

[@wastedwatts]

@@theohiohousewife So I take it what you are saying is your labor force used all the tools you started the game with and you had to buy more to get them working better again?

[@The_Art_of_AI_888]

I don't have Tools, but my FS and Fletchers still producing items...? Or it is improving the speed?

[@wastedwatts]

@@The_Art_of_AI_888 Yes, I believe it is about speed, or getting stuff done in a timely manner. I have found some villagers standing around idol and when I clicked on them they had a statement saying they couldn't do anything.

[@lauriebrooker4310]

Well done; you packed a lot into this and very useful. Would love to see a tutorial by you just on the Trading Post; I'm sure I am not getting the best results atm.

[@pilotmanpaul]

Just transfer the mininum amount of stuff you have plenty of(IE 800 Stone, Transfer 200 to the Trading Post for selling). Its also where you can buy Cows for infinite meat.

[@masteroink8944]

Such a good game, thanks for the video!

[@Kysen]

Indeed! And you're welcome 🙂

[@JK-pp2xl]

Thank you. They really need a tutorial. I was so lost and it kind of sucks to have to google everything.

[@segothgalont23]

Thanks man!

[@VelcroKittie]

I find this game quite frustrating. I was playing it last night, was doing really well, and then my town burnt down. I had Wells all over the place in strategic locations so it's not like I ignored that aspect of the game. Now granted, some well locations had more water in them than others but there absolutely should have been enough Wells available along with free citizens to put out the fires. Instead, the fires just spread and within a few minutes my town was ash. In my opinion this element is definitely broken in the game. Granted however it's early access. The only way around it would be to build fire traps between every house which is completely ridiculous.

[@pv7133]

If the pop is too far away, it will always affect reaction time. Always build temporary shelters with wells at every worker camp. And make sure to unassign non-essential pop like soldiers/guards, clerks etc. inside the town to make them laborers to aide at firefighting.

[@harvbegal6868]

Move the blueberries!? Holy crap! I dont need a shoal of fish in order to fish!? Holy crap! I might need to restart my current game after all this education.

[@Remrau]

I've gotten to T3 and now my village is absolutely destroyed. My people are starving, disease is everywhere and I don't have a gold to my name. Any chance you could do a T2-T3 tutorial of do's and don'ts? I suspect I built too much too fast as I hit T3, as I was already struggling in T2. Started over 4 times now, and everytime I reach T2 it becomes hard, and T3 impossible. How do people do it?

[@heysues853]

I noticed that you relocate your hunter cabins. Thankfully thats not necessary as you can actually change the work zone by using the golden ring icon with two arrows which you find in the hunter cabin screen

[@fatal9961]

holds down SHIFT, im in a totally new game now, ! nice patch! xD

[@DFWTF]

I'm really behind on this game just bought it on steam thank you for the guide and tips !

[@Pl4sm0]

awesome tips, sub deserved ^^

[@carlb641]

Any tips with the wagon? I'm not sure if this is working properly in early access. Sometimes it just sits there "waiting for a task" while Industry workers walk all the way to the mines to get resources. lol

[@Kysen]

did you build it from the storage build menu? If so, it will bug because they did an update where you can no longer make wagons. That may mean some wagons built before this update stop working

[@infectionSincross]

@@Kysen hi. quick questions. do the cloths shoes are being used by citizens from the tannery and cobblers? cause i have 20 and more cloths and shoes. and i just sell them half to trader. and i notice citizens have cloths and shioes already. tnx

[@carlb641]

@@KysenI didn't know they removed it altogether. I thought they were referring to the starting Wagon/storage but thanks for that. It's a bit meh watching workers go all the way out to the forest to get resources from the mines haha.

[@mannycalavera8746]

Thanks for the help !!!! do you know what is the best way to use the wagon shop ? it seem to go from storage to storage only

[@theohiohousewife]

Yes, transferring goods instead of the shop keepers running. The wagons also go to the mines. Not an expert just what Ive observed.

[@Kysen]

Yeah it's just that it's a faster way of transporting goods than having your laborers doing it on foot

[@wastedwatts]

@@theohiohousewife Not sure what is being said here as a tip. I know about transferring goods to the Trading Post and various storages structures, but not sure about the starting a game wagon. I think you are saying you can transfer items out of said wagon.

[@Raylis]

@@theohiohousewife yep this is why I build wagons near big mines

[@wowitsruss]

My medical doctor is expensive (30 gold per month) I believe. Should I build roads around town center or should I put my market, storage, etc around town center and then build walls to let town center kill looters

[@pv7133]

Only assign a doctor when someone is sick or injured. Otherwise let them go back to your laborer pool. You can also do this with guards but only if you make sure that you expend your gold before the end of the month. Otherwise you might be caught unaware with a raider attack.

[@saltgoblin]

Great tips, thanks a lot!

[@grazzitdvram]

What's the purpose of the storage cart you start with besides just having initial resources?

[@JanStuivenberg2810]

No purpose at all this moment. I read that the devs will adress this in an update so either you can delete it or they will give it an additional purpose.

[@pv7133]

Since it's not living, I used it as a long range explorer. If an animal attacks it I will just send a hunter to explore the location of the wagon since the wagon tank the enemies better, buying time for rescue. After that, the hunter will go back to its job and the wagon will explore a different area instead. Managed to locate so many mining/excavation sites that way early game.

[@ghostlightx9005]

How do you turn a building off? I see no such button anywhere but you mentioned doing it in the video.

[@Kysen]

So you just keep reducing the workers until there's 0 working there 🙂

[@ghostlightx9005]

@@Kysen Ugh. That's....horrible. But thank you.

[@Kysen]

@@ghostlightx9005 I think they will change it in a future update and have an on/off button. Hopefully

[@Britephartt]

Go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and just do it.

[@Wazza555]

How do you manage your labour force? I am constantly left at stand still for MONTHS as I cannot get the labour needed!?

[@bjornr1120]

How do u set up a lumber farm? Ive seen serval options but its not working. Can u also do it with apple trees.?

[@pilotmanpaul]

For Lumber Farm. You need a Work Camp. Just slide the Stone and others down to zero and slide the Tree to max. Upgrade it and it will become a Forester Camp where you can replant entire forests. For Apple Trees, there's a dedicated building for that, Arbolonist or something. You can plant trees that bear fruit and such.

[@lloyd67lp]

How do you make immigration a question to be answered instead of immigrants just moving in? Thanks!

[@wisnudJat]

Removed Spiderman remastered from chart because of this game

[@wastedwatts]

LOL, I am about to go back into my ARK survival evolved games on various servers and make all my pets available to be claimed, or let them die if no one takes them. Of course the games auto-decay system will remove everything else sooner or later.

[@BertfromBelgium]

the food doesn't get to the houses , specially the meat; how many hunters do populations need? is 6 hunters enough for 155 population? or is there some weird reason why the meat doesn't make it to the houses?

[@pilotmanpaul]

I just make sure to spread the storages. It seems that people are lazy to the point they'd starve than walk a few miles

[@yarur7678]

Squares, squares everywhere 😭

[@lordenoo6]

How do you get idle workers to work or when it says unable to work?

[@pv7133]

You'll get that message if there are not enough materials to work with or the worker has illness. You can fix both by having idle laborers gather materials and unassigning the sick worker to become a laborer and the game shall automatically assign a new worker for the job.

[@robertcharn7537]

Restarting the map DOES NOT give you the EXACT same map. The land layout is the same but the resources amount and locations are all random.

[@linnilotus]

Totally guilty of restarting a map over and over again solely to move my wolf den and deer spawns lol

[@robertcharn7537]

@@linnilotus Same, that is how I found out lol

[@rygyouwill5293]

building that uses firewood(forager/hunter) hut count as build valid for marketplace taxes

[@TRGaming0_0]

wait wtf

[@Incubyss]

anyone know how to pick up dropped items? was raided and killed the raiders but they dropped 250 of my gold on the ground...cant seem to pick it up

[@Mortzzz]

From my observation villagers will pick up stuff according to necessity. So when the gold is needed... nearby I suppose, it will get picked up

[@longdongsilvers483]

UHG HOW DO I REPAIR MY BUILDINGS HELP

[@TrueBipytron]

I've only played a few hours so far but I'm having a hard time with wild animals and not really finding anyone talking about it. How do I deal with wolves and bears that attack my explorers/villagers?

[@danny5253]

DUDE do you actualy breathe in between the lines, great tips and all you just speak faster then the F-35 can fly, chill out smoke a joint or 2 make a walk in the park before you next tube it might help :D

[@fredericoneto1984]

Sorry mate, this is a tutorial, not really tips and tricks ... this is a game that can benefit from tips like how to deal with invasions effectively...

[@horstrumbach2479]

the best tip, don't jump on that hypetrain.

[@mevenyo]

This is more a begginer video than a tips and trick

[@Tangsters]

I don’t think you can movie the Barrie bushes anymore

[@alexbull4722]

You can move Blueberry bushes, you cannot move Hawthorne bushes.

[@Tangsters]

@@alexbull4722 thx.

[@capitainmavel6318]

u talk too fast