Let's Play: Banished Megamod 9 - Jack & Jill - Episode 1

A relaxing playthrough of city-building game Banished (2014). We'll be taking a measured approach to reach a 1.000 citizen population and over-explaining every step of the way. Join us and we hope you'll enjoy watching it as much as we do playing it.

[@boojuice1533]

Don't stop, KZbin told me about this as it looks like you have been uploading daily. There is many more banished fans that will come here to watch and help you grow. Good job.

[@cowabunganl7042]

Thank you for the comment! If I may ask, what is it that KZbin is doing that might hold back this stream and/or daily uploads? My plan is to continue putting out content (if at all possible daily) as long as there are people that are enjoying it (I very much enjoy entertaining the viewers as well as play the game of course). I hope you are enjoying the videos!

[@boojuice1533]

@@cowabunganl7042 it is my understanding that KZbin looks at what people are watching by title and the tags you enter (ie, banished, mega mod 9, City builder) and such and then suggests others to your home page that fit your viewing. Like afew weeks ago I watched a tik tok compilation about and my home page started having so many of the same sort of videos I had to go through and click no longer interested. But I watched a mega mod video by someone I sub to (will add in comment below) who has just started MM9 like you and then your video popped up on my home page. KZbin likes daily uploads and short currently and it helps push smaller channels like yours.

[@boojuice1533]

@@cowabunganl7042 wonder wizard is who I watch

[@Vayify]

I agree with Boo Juice

[@CilfaNieraad]

I almost skipped over you video because of the thumbnailstyle and the channel name, but I'm glad I didn't. Love your calm voice and you taking the time to explain everything. It has been a while since I played Banished (4 years or so) an I've never played the megamod. Felt overwhelmed when I started and decided to look up some vids. Thank you for yours!

[@jobemedia6248]

One thing I like best about this play through of yours is your not using the land and getting as much as you can on the water. No body does this THANK YOU Jimi

[@Rhaenarys]

Also, the most important buildings for this level is food, like fishing or gathering, a barn, and a home. After those are built, then firewood. Tools actually aren't as necessary, just makes all other work take longer.

[@pershop4950]

The ability to collect wild food can help so many villages not die off, but overall, I think players still struggle at the food gathering concept that Banished came up with. Also if you use resource limits, such as 6 tools, 60 firewood, then the workers will just make that much whenever they are assigned to that job. and if they have met the limit, then they act as laborers anyway, without having to reassign them to be a laborer or to click "stop working on this building" option.

[@MrCrystalJoe]

I totally missed megamod v9 being out. That's great! I'll start watching your series as a sneak peak ;).

[@cowabunganl7042]

Thank you for the comment and I hope you will enjoy the content!

[@absurdist5134]

Really appreciate that explain and show clearly what you're doing.

[@sailorcentrist5077]

Thank you for the content!

[@cowabunganl7042]

Thank YOU for the kind words, enjoy the content :)

[@darezi]

I played this mod a bit and it's a bit annoying when trying to find a specific building and some buildings will not assign workers or use resources that are available. Overall it's a nice compilation of mods regardless that it's heavy on the game when starting it. It takes long to launch!

[@HiHi-is4lx]

Better to lower the music and higher the vocal voice

[@cowabunganl7042]

You are absolutely right. I have had similar suggestions before, the volume balance will be adjusted in the coming episodes. Thank you for the comment and I hope you are enjoying the content!

[@jobemedia6248]

hi again I have a suggestion make a section with all the different types of food sources including turtles frogs fish farms pool scavengers ect next THIS IS SOMETHING NO HAS DONE YET line the entire shore line from your new bridge to the new one your just starting with tree house so we can see them and they are now hidden from the forest. This will be the prime rental properties with a view of the lake. 8 houses should do and plat a row of the bright green rice farms below to brighten the deluxe area and give then jobs

[@jobemedia6248]

use the flatening tool to make a island in the middel of the water and put up the statue of liberty and make it a shrine with your imagination as to what you put around it Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

dont for get to start adding smmall boats and flower pots on the docks and barrels and maybe a double wide or tripple wide connected to land and have a wagon with a horse out on the water with a turn around for the horse and build a whearhouse area with a trader

[@jobemedia6248]

a fishing pier might be cool too

[@Rhaenarys]

I actually find jack and Jill or Adam and eve to be pretty easy. You HAVE to get nomads asap almost every time, but with just two adults, the food and firewood you need is low, so you can switch them to whatever job is needed. Just takes a long time to get a good amount of laborers and builders. And without the nomad option, they generally die off very quickly, as you won't always get great reproduction rates, especially since Jill or eve tend to die in childbirth after like the second or third child. But yea...i actually find it pretty easy, much easier, actually than having an easy start. I guess the managing of less people makes it easier as well.

[@jobemedia6248]

I've been to the philippines where they are out in the ocean all on stilts you make make a village in the middel by a foot bridge and build it to be self sutainiing and then destroy the bridge and see how long you can keep it going You will need several wood storage units for growth Jim

[@jobemedia6248]

I'm not sorry for slamming you so hard today but this is the only banished fun I have since I cannot play the game

[@jobemedia6248]

you could place dogs outside of the school waiting for their master to come out Jimi

[@Ninja-ty4lw]

Cool! I've been looking for a video like this. Ben je Nederlands trouwens?

[@cowabunganl7042]

Thank you for the comment and I am happy to hear you like the videos! Its been a while since I played a game of Banished. Maybe I should record another season and wrap up the Banished saga. En ja, ik ben Nederlands, het accentje ligt er dik op ;)

[@jobemedia6248]

more boat bridges , more boat bridges get out into the lake and start building away from the shore Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

growing fast Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

one thing I always thought looked good was rows of back to back shanties Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

schools should have outside play areas with large deck with a hangmans noose to play on

[@QuodNomenTibiEst]

Nice! Lets get started with this new series :)

[@cowabunganl7042]

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words, I hope you enjoy the content.

[@jobemedia6248]

you could also use the flattening tool to create a smal land patch to use other trader docks Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

the triple wide road leading into the forest should be a yellow brick road Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

you need to put fencing around the school so the little ones dont fall into the water Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

you could put your own boats on the river Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

it might be very cool to double up the boat bridge and walkway Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

see what kind of weird things you could put on the water that doesn't sink maybe you might come across some thing cool with this exercise Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

maybe you could have the elphants walking into town on the yellow brick road Jimi

[@garrettstreich4652]

Please, for the sake what little remains of my sanity - turn down the volume on everything, except your mike. Every sound that the game makes drives me a little farther down a deep, dark hole. Thank you.

[@cowabunganl7042]

When you are right, you're right. The sounds and commentary are unbalanced but they will improve in the episodes to come. Sit tight and enjoy.

[@jobemedia6248]

you could also use flattening tool to make a fake zebra farm in the middle of the lake Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

Now this is providing entertainment so be a show man. Make some fake corrals with fencing and sheds for raising girafes and rinos a zebras. nEXT PUT ELPHANTS WALKING DONWN THE CREEK

[@jobemedia6248]

you could make land just big enough to put a grand town hall and another to erect a very large stone church then surround is with docks Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

CREATE A LARGE AREA OF UST WOOD PLANKS AND IN THE MIDDEL PUT A WATER WELL THIS WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE TO SEE PEOPLE GATHER AND PUT IN BENCHES AND OTHER DECOTARING IDEAS SHOULD BE no less than 4 walkways wide from the well

[@scrow9]

Oh I just found your new series today...I thought you were on to some other game for a little variety!

[@jobemedia6248]

also shanties with steps leading down to lower level dock with boats Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

you know that if you build a sea of foresters you can have almost unlimited supply of wood Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

now having the rice patty's you need to get noamds and start going fast speed baby and more foresters even double and tripple them up to get massive production it works Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

another thing I have not seen done is to create a fake farm feild. There are these tropical ghost plants that have a very bright red flower you make a mystery crop of these flowering plants in rows and columns fenced in behind someones house. Try to create something special associatedd with each house for maximum wow factor. Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

could build a island with the largest city market Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

have you noticed if you place dock homes across from each other their awning almost completly cover the walkways this would be good to use if you did a maze Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

you should make a maze on the water like the slums of the Philippines where there is no access to the water every inch is a building and it goes every which way Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

you are also missing out on using many shore buildings USE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jimi

[@frizzembauer]

Grazie!

[@cowabunganl7042]

Sei il benvenuto!

[@jobemedia6248]

if you made a sea of foresters and rice growers you could handle any increase of nomads that would be great to see you have a nervous breakdown of screen trying to build so fast to keep up yeah hundreds of new nomads Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

build a clothes washing area I've seen it done and it was very cool you could combine it with the taylor

[@marcopalazzi8751]

If put a storedge barn big is another what don't thinkg?

[@jobemedia6248]

BUILD UP A SMALL AREA OF SMALL HOUSES SURROUNDING THE LARGEST HOUSE IN THE GAME IT COULD BE THE GOVERNS MANSION

[@jobemedia6248]

there are stilt house s that might work for you in this series Jimi

[@mortenp70]

Thanks. Please share the link to Megamod 9 download.

[@cowabunganl7042]

Thank you for the comment. You can download the beta version directly by clicking this link: drive.google.com/file/d/1VwByCG2JXWe26jSOrjU1rdTMd_GSB6IV/view I hope you will enjoy the series!

[@jobemedia6248]

I hope you think some of these ideas are good enough to postpone the grand bridge I think it is way too soon to do this project and you dont have the infrastructure yet but will some day soon and I believe that is when you should do it sorry Jimi

[@owenauer3406]

Megamod 8 and 9 both crash on my computer when I hit the Theme button.

[@cowabunganl7042]

I wish I could help you however, unfortunately, I don't know much about crashing issues. Do you by any chance have more than one mod active at the same time? I usually look for solutions on forums dedicated to game-issues and I think I read somewhere that different Banished mods should not be active at the same time as it makes the game unstable.

[@cowabunganl7042]

I do not know if this is going to help however I really like you to be able to play the game so I looked around a little bit more. The reason that I have been looking for crashing solutions in the past was because I had my games crash when exiting the game (it is not exactly the problem you are describing however it might be worth a try). The solution that was offered helped me out a great deal and maybe it might help you as well so here it is: "Whenever you go into the Mods menu to enable/disable a mod or to change their load order, after exiting the mod menu and clicking that confirm button, you should take the time to entirely exit Banished and restart it before you start really playing. That forces the game to really have those mod changes commited to memory and should prevent the crashing when you exit. So in your case, launch Banished, go to mods, untick-retick [MM] to trick the game into thinking you made a change, exit mods, exit Banished, relaunch and open your saved game. :)" Source: steamcommunity.com/app/242920/discussions/0/1699415798755427558/

[@owenauer3406]

@@cowabunganl7042 Thanks, I tried it with Meg Mod 8 and it seemed to work, after I saved the game it hung up a bit after I quit the game.

[@cowabunganl7042]

So it is still not working properly?

[@owenauer3406]

@@cowabunganl7042 It is working, but after saving the game I hit quit and it takes awhile to go back to steam, but it works.

[@femalecrusader8389]

How you have Terrain Type and Starting conditions, is that a mod? Mine only Valleys & Mountains/Easy, Medium, Hard.

[@cowabunganl7042]

Hi Sharon, yes it is a mod! The 3rd season really revolves around exploring the 'Megamod 9'. That is the reason there are so many additional options as opposed to the original game :). This season was an introduction to the mod as I had never played it before and it offered a lot of new features.

[@femalecrusader8389]

@@cowabunganl7042 Thanks

[@cowabunganl7042]

Happy to do it :) Are you just starting out with Banished or are you just watching if you don't mind me asking.

[@femalecrusader8389]

@@cowabunganl7042 Back playing been rotating my games. Been maybe a year last I'd played.

[@jobemedia6248]

yoou could also make this fake farm on the water Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

double e show always plays his game checking home to family ratio did you ever play this game this way????? Jimi

[@jobemedia6248]

if you build the island you will need multiple islands and wood scavengers and use wood tools but I think it would work you may have to kill some citizens from time to time to stay going but whats wrong with a little patricide! Jimi

[@donaldmeulemans6458]

Niet ophouden!

[@cowabunganl7042]

Geen probleem, we zitten op het moment in seizoen 5 dus er zijn nog genoeg videos als je nu bij seizoen 3 bent :). ENG: No problem, we are currently in season 5 so there are still plenty of videos if you currently are watching season 3 :)

[@bannor216]

lol look up the meaning of a "sundown town" haha lol