Foundation - Peace, Prosperity, and Doom Fortresses

[@willreaver1425]

This game reminds me of Banished. They are very similar in how they play. Except Banished is more of a village survival, where you slowly grow the village from nothing into a major city. Then a disease kills a quarter of the population. Then you have a poor harvest followed by a harsh winter, and it becomes a slow death sprial until you have a lone fisherman. Nobody knows what happened to the fisherman, nobody goes to that town anymore, and it is only spoken of in hushed whispers. If this game can give me an experience like that, then I'm sold on it.

[@tommenno]

So.. Dwarf Fortress.

[@l.d-b3465]

Yeah, it is a bit like Banished... well, hopefully it goes further than Banished ended up being. After a short while in Banished you just ran out of new things to do and just kept repeating the same thing over and over.

[@MWSin1]

More food, and more people who came to buy the food, and you need people to help make the food and keep track of the sales, and now, you need houses for people to live in and people to make the houses, and now, there's more people, and they invent things which makes things better, and more people come, and there's more farming and more people to make more things for more people, and now, there's business, money, writing, laws, power. Society!

[@MWSin1]

Also: "We need more carpenters (has zero wood)."

[@badatnamesrea5217]

The sun is a

[@PaulKurz]

@@badatnamesrea5217 deadly lazer

[@spechter94]

SOCIETY!

[@Novasky2007]

Boi that escalated quickly

[@noddler217]

'So Robin, how do you feel about being a fisherman? Because you don't really have a choice.' Well, I'm cack-handed, uncoordinated and I can't swim, but I'll do my best...

[@HermanHassel]

And then you see his eyes while he's in a boat. :D

[@noddler217]

@@HermanHassel If they're wide-eyed and in Trying Not to Break Anything mode, accurate.

[@XeranDereth]

"We have 5 bread, YOU ARE THE WORST FISHERMA... Oh wait the trader came by." Jon were you accusing the fisherman of fishing bread out of the river? If so I would have been more impressed that he could transmute fish into bread.

[@5Andysalive]

But when he turns the river to wine, all the fish die. Be careful with this guy.

[@geekwithglasses2897]

Or that he could catch bread on a hook That would be hard especially soggy bread

[@XeranDereth]

Geek With Glasses that would make him a dick, because then he is stealing food from the birds.

[@timothymclean]

@@5Andysalive Jesus didn't turn fish into bread, he turned fish _and_ bread into...bread and fish, but more of it. Yeah, not his most impressive miracle, but it got the job done.

[@the_tactician9858]

​@@timothymclean As if turning 5 bread and 2 fish into enough food to feed an entire army is not the literal wet dream of all military conquerors in history...

[@dextercritten6167]

Jon when building buildings, if you hover over any tower a little green arrow will appear that lets you make your tower taller.

[@ManyATrueNerd]

... Alright, peasants, tear it all down, we're starting again...

[@seanoverholt1736]

Beat me to it 😁

[@miot22]

Went looking for this exact comment...lol. The short tower looked so awkward.

[@suborbitalprocess]

Yeah, when Jon tacked the steeple to the side of the chapel I was like "Uh, has he never seen a church before?" At least it's unique!

[@brokenfuck]

Oh, missed that. This will help me build taller towers! Thank you!

[@koolkendall9204]

This game is "Spot On"

[@jacksonl.2201]

49:43 He fishes by staring at the fish, giving it a heart attack, then picking it out of the water with his hand.

[@Foureye15]

Going to sleep at a reasonable hour vs watching a 93 minute MATN video... I blame you for my perpetual tiredness jon

[@Salacyous]

What is it with people are this whole attitude? It's not a livestream. You don't get brownie points for being "early". The difference between watching it now, or watching it when you've actually had a good nights sleep, is meaningless.

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

@@Salacyous It's called "eagerness" and it only speaks as to Jon's quality as a content producer.

[@jamessutton7544]

Haha always the way. I swear that happens to me all too often

[@theexplodingspider4352]

Peace, Prosperity and Doom Fortresses. A.K.A. England

[@SATANIC__VIPER]

@Pablo Muñoz Alabau fortress=parliament

[@knightboulegard5483]

The Exploding Spider I believe it’s meant to be: Peace, Incapability at holding land and Doom

[@Healermain15]

Also Peasants, Plonking Big Ships, and the Pwueen.

[@SirMoribund]

This would make a great series once it officially launches. It has great promise.

[@greensun5998]

"Sheppey (n) Measure of distance (equal to approximately half a mile), defined as the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque". Adams and Lloyd

[@clucka34]

"Now we have a nice sustainable forest!" Five minutes later "Tear it down! My Doom Fortress requires a panoramic view!"

[@polishenglish8356]

What a beautiful and intricate game...I love it already :)

[@dilladoof2342]

The game is really Awesome! I been loving it.

[@AceCorban]

I assumed the gold cap would go up with a treasury, and sure enough it did...until Jon destroyed it to build his stone doom fortress...presumably without a treasury.

[@TheDramon]

I actually thought that this was stellaris from the title

[@erik260196]

Nobody mentioned this? ok Jon, you built your wall the wrong side around (ramparts facing inwards towards the town), it is now protecting the trader tribe from you

[@dragonwaz]

Can't wait for this game to get closer to release. I love how those paths work.

[@Murcareum]

adding a treasury increases your gold cap.

[@Lungomono]

Jon, you should try Banished. Its a frontier village builder, somewhat like this one. Made by one man and its awesome, lovely, and at times, brutal... when your entire village collapses doing a hard winter, missing warm cloth, getting sick, can't produce enough food or tools, and everything just goes tits up. It's brilliant!

[@charlieholmes2760]

Peace, prosperity and doom fortresses. hmm one of these things is not like the other... PEACE! you have to be prosperous in order to afford to build the doom fortresses, peace must be the odd one out.

[@rateeightx]

I Saw A Trailer Or Something For This A While Back, And Immediately Put It On my Wishlist. Now I Just Want It Even More!

[@tyger166]

Ok, just invested in this game after the 1st 15 mins of the video, looks right up my alley

[@Mik3Bravo]

Spot-flippin-on with this! Hope to see much more of it

[@garmtpug]

This is very nice for a town builder. I've never played anything like this, but this game may just change my mind!

[@dexxx87]

that was one of those therapeutic MATN video viewings. Defo giving this game a go.

[@pogwog5309]

Take a shot every time he says "Spot on"

[@dalegould2924]

Please good sir make this into a let's play

[@rifflerunderhill7006]

On your first house, the treasuries increased your max gold storage, which would have let you open that next trade caravan. Just fyi. Lovely to see you!

[@jonahpool3610]

Please make this a series! Love this!

[@InfernoK]

Been waiting for John to play this for a while, nice one man

[@jamessutton7544]

Love this play through!

[@OtterSpace975]

37:35- You guys need some jobs me- Oh, well, he probably will notice his lack of wood, and will assign them to woodcutting 37:40- Stonecutting is a noble, noble career (Already has 3 stonecutters) me- How do you even... 37:46-What else do we need... it's honestly probably planks right now (He says with 2 carpenters, one woodcutter and NO WOOD) me- *Internal screaming intensifies* 40:30-Why have I got no wood Me-Well, it only took him 3 minuets to notice. At least he isn't Elysium.

[@bulktrout7984]

The absolute confusion when Jon thought the fisherman caught bread was hilarious.

[@UltimaPowers]

Anyone else get annoyed by Jon plopping his church right on top of the route into town? That was a really nice straight line and he had it lined up nicely parallel with it until he turned the church 90 degrees. Gah! Now everyone coming into the town has to walk round it! Still interesting looking game, I like the trade system that lets you set inventory buy/sell limits. Very nice inventory management system.

[@anthonyrossetti8379]

Nice I'm glad to see a new video up

[@3DiversionsDeep]

1:17:25 Yes, you can make a loudicrous megatower! Just pull up the upper bit when the two green arrows appear and be ready to dump hundreds of logs into the new tower of babylon!

[@blakelandry]

Please keep making this a series~

[@cavemanfreak]

This video, and the game, is spot on.

[@ZinTyPhoon]

You can change the height of different parts of your buildings like the towers and cores by hovering over them with your cursor and selecting the green up/down arrows above that part and dragging. Also, people WILL build houses in undesirable areas if you have it zoned as residential and desirable areas are already taken.

[@GoffMoff]

Definitely want a live stream of this!

[@V8HiluxZX6R]

This dude sounds like Nish Kumar... Spot On!

[@daddawashere]

Kenshi would be a great game for you to do a lets play on. It's a post apocalyptic rpg/rts. Somewhat like what I would have expected the original fallout devs to have had in mind. You really ought to look it up!

[@octodionis]

I think he already played it at some point

[@nessuno1984]

@@octodionis He hasn't made a video playing Kenshi so doesn't look like he has played it.

[@TheSurprisePizza]

Take a drink every time Jon says "Spot on."

[@AndreFonseca0]

This video was "spot on"!

[@maple1748]

im pretty sure the treasury you built in you're first manor added to the gold cap since it went up from 500-1500 and back down when you destroyed it.

[@sofiagurevich4507]

This seems like a more complex Age of Kings. I love it.

[@shadushio9682]

Jon, I'm sure no one would begrudge you a Wargroove series or miniseries. If they do, just mention the doggies. :)

[@re--dacted]

Could you stop playing new games, please? I'm not made of money. Edit: That is the cutest fucking house.

[@reformednerd5185]

Start a KZbin yourself, and mark the games off as a tax expense :D - that's what I did haha

[@AVCadar]

This game is gorgeous! Can't wait to play it. I wonder when it will be ready...

[@briankelly1240]

Custom outfits for the villagers is a great idea so you can tell what jobs they are doing!

[@samuelmarekmracka]

I like how Jon buys the spot with literally the least usable space so that he can have a doom fortress there

[@hebl47]

Jon, the top thingy* on the walls goes the other way round! Aka. face away from village unless you have some ulterior motives. (*You can tell I'm an avid Shadiversity watcher with my vast castle vocabulary)

[@motokuchoma]

"Don't think about it too hard" describes capitalism in general.

[@Kraktzor]

Ok, this looks adorable!

[@gr8witenorth61]

bloody flamin 'ell, im only a week behind you...... doing a great job, make more !!!! chat on !!!

[@FeardoGaming]

Just a nice looking game so far.

[@therealcrisis8439]

so Jon built his own personal Whiterun, which is pretty damn cool I think.

[@ImSiddis]

Spot on.

[@gargoyles9999]

Welcome to the Foundation D-class

[@matthewknight388]

Is Jon the foundation manager or an SCP that is being studied?

[@gargoyles9999]

Matthew Knight I'm guessing manager with all the containment breeches

[@zippysqrl]

New drinking game: Take a drink every time Jon says "Spot on".

[@Simtar123]

Brilliant game with tons of potential

[@juliajs1752]

Oh nice, I was curious about this one!

[@killiberke]

Your walls are facing the wrong way. Oh Jon!

[@seanyeske]

This very much reminds me of The Settlers 4, aka my favorite game ever. Gonna buy the hell out of this game after it's progressed a bit.

[@TimTeboner]

A Stonecutter's camp? "Who controls the British Crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We dooooo! We dooooo!"

[@tealcformerfirstprimeofapo22]

This game is very aesthesitcally pleasing

[@radu0011]

this game actually reminds me of Civ City: Rome (with the needs making the civilian better and his house bigger, thus paying more taxes; and also with the organically made roads) and also in some regards, it feels like Cities Skylines (with the residential zones automatically building houses instead of building them yourself) What obviously makes the game unique is the modular building mechanics, basically allowing you to make your own buildings however you want. However, paradoxically, most buildings in the game don't support this modular building mechanic: houses are basically the same, the warehouse, the fisherman's hut etc.

[@FunkyFyreMunky]

Town center? Stone resources to mine? Berry bushes? Jon, you need to show us your Age of Empires II skills. It got an expansion a year or two ago and still has a decently thriving community to play online.

[@huntermcdonald9928]

John, have you ever played CivCity: Rome? It's a fun little city builder set in ancient Rome. Seems like something right up your alley.

[@sarsmask]

14:20 Feeling extremely called out rn

[@davidherron9151]

I wish that these games had very very rare occasional monsters that sometimes get disturbed by your endeavours ..like for example ...you mine a mountain.for gold a smaug like dragon comes out and then starts demanding live stock and then the villagers for lunch each week like a unreasonable tax! this cause,s your popularity to diminish and so on if you refuse he attacks with fire to your settlement. thus requiring you to recruit a special knight to deal with the issue , or even another player charges you to borrow one. Then just other one off random stuff like that... maybe some of the wood land requires dark magic spells to be cleansed from it since wood cutters are getting caught up in the roots of living trees that fight back. legendary animals that are very difficult to catch and who,s hides or antlers are highly valued. such stuff makes it far more interesting

[@justifiedjester]

How the hell do I get 1000 gold, builds treasury, max gold =1000. Stone house demolishes treasury.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Loving the cutthroat market economics of medieval england

[@lordgong4980]

This is just a lovely game

[@lesparke]

22:06 who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? Charles does!

[@rekadd]

this reminds me a bit of banished

[@mattevans4377]

Reminds me of Civ City:Rome Good luck with the full game Jon, you'll need it if this game turns out how I think it will....

[@asbestosfish_]

_I hoped so badly this would be Civilisation meets Overlord for a moment._

[@shadushio9682]

Ainz Ooal Gown would tell Sean Bean to stop interrupting, then Albedo would go crazy. XD Edit: ...Oh, the Overlord game series... wonder if any will get my nerdy reference?

[@airwerty101]

Shadushio SASUGA AINZ SAMA

[@asbestosfish_]

Shadushio _of course we bloody did, it’s one of the most popular anime of the past three years. Almost everyone has seen the damn thing. You aren’t special because you made a damned reference! _*_PISSING BLIMEY!_*

[@shadushio9682]

@@asbestosfish_ Not trying to be special. ;)

[@CesarTheKingVA]

Hey Jon, you should really take a look at foundation again. It's one of my favorites, and it's very very different after a bunch of updates

[@inoch07]

Sometimes when he says "wood", I hear "water". 20:50

[@tinyman1144]

so you remember in ck2 when you built that new city and assigned a random guy to build it up yeah that's basically who you're playing as in this game

[@sgtwolffang7]

Banished is another fun town builder :)

[@commanderbrad1199]

I would like to see more of this when it has more content

[@TheLearningDroid]

Jon - me and my partner are both sure everyone else has yelled at you over this. But really... you didn't notice your gold max go up when you BUILT TREASURIES and then you LOST 500 GOLD WHEN YOU DESTROYED THEM..... you didn't notice? at all? really? omg jon.... now I know why Claire has issues sometimes with your awareness.

[@patrickbo2045]

You must be new -1 perception

[@tommenno]

@@patrickbo2045 I think we can bring that into a -2 now.

[@timothymclean]

Also, they're called "treasuries". Those usually hold treasure.

[@bg3929Z]

... Did anyone else think Jon was talking about "Splenda", the sugar substitute, rather than "Splendor"? Honestly, sweets would be SUCH a valid form of currency!

[@ryancunningham7305]

Wow, this just showed up in steam for me today. I didn't get it but it's a little creepy. IT'S FOLLOWING ME RUN!

[@maglorian]

Jon, you can extend the towers by dragging them upwards!

[@sotnosen95]

I love how Jon's first soldier is named Jeanne of all things. Let's all hope she doesn't end up like her historical counterpart.

[@olevsumeria]

When Jon had the wooden Manor the gold cap went up to 1500, then with the stone one it fell back to 500. Weird.

[@jeffreyhackimer5673]

This game looks amazing!

[@TheEJackUK]

you can drag the towers to make them taller. Go on, make yourself the doom tower you really wanted, towering over everything (inc the mountain) :P

[@steveisthecommissar4013]

Jon built the walls backwards ahhhh that’s the Jon I know build it wrong but still impressed

[@YHLGguitargeek]

So basically just Castle Stories but on hexes? I can dig it.

[@Jigundus]

Jon I feel the reason it took so long to get people building houses down south is because you kept extending the real estate up north. Because who wants to live in a backwater area with nothing really out there, when there’s plenty of room to live in the more developed part of town.

[@IGameChangerI]

@8:43 bourgeois economics in a nutshell. The extra value is created by labour Jon! Read Das Kapital to understand.

[@edocsil123]

MORE OF THIS

[@pastabad4939]

Jon play kenshi an open world single player rpg with no story in a post apocalypse world

[@Silberkreuz]

Please not. It is incedible boring to watch.

[@TimTeboner]

@@Silberkreuz It's time consuming to get anything done, but with good editing I think it'd be fine to watch.

[@martijnkwant5314]

8:26 It just works okay? It just works..

[@midonik16]

Seeing how this is the most recent video I figured I'd ask here, are you intending to play Return of the Obra Dinn? It's an amazing "detective" type game released last year, I'm sure you'd enjoy it. Also Perception 0 will make the playthrough longer.

[@spcld2k]

Prequel to Stellaris. Foundation before it became part of the mega empire!