Banished Strategy and Tactics Part 2: Tools, Clothing and Education

[@MrBradWilliams]

This is the clearest, most well-informed Banished video I've seen yet. Thanks for the effort.

[@infectedstray2188]

If you aren't a teacher you damn sure should be. Your meticulous use of min/maxing while perfectly explaining it is excellent.

[@Nertz1000]

Sure glad you put these videos out, otherwise I would be totally lost and frustrated at this game by now. 7 years later and still helping new players, good job!

[@michelledunlap6455]

I'm a relatively new banished player and found your crossroads build in a written form on Reddit. I'm so glad I came and found the videos. There are differences between the written and your build here. Following this, I'm much more successful. Autumn year 3 with 7 laborers, ~1500 food, and built through the school. I have started to gather iron outside the forest because there was only one small deposit in. I wanted to say thank you because I have struggled with hard starts but prefer them for the flexibility in building. This is a great guide!

[@rorotho]

Almost a year later and your videos are still helping others out. I just started playing and your videos have helped me learn how to play much more efficiently. Great videos man.

[@Diamondphobe]

Hi from 2021. It's still a really good set of videos.

[@Zaroj]

Again, very good video. Very informative and helpful for a newer player. I really appreciate the detail you are going into in regards to the reasoning behind your build strategy. Also, everything is very concise and in order...good for the OCD LOL.

[@danielbudney7825]

Nice insights. I *had* been putting my housing, stockpile, woodcutter, and barn in the same cluster where you're putting the blacksmith and tailor, but this video clearly shows that using a few forest squares for those buildings doesn't really choke your food at all, and the population boom you get from the quick development is extraordinary. Kudos.

[@Pinstar]

Just to clarify something in the video. I make it sound like gatherable food is a finite resource. As long as there are trees, more gatherables will always spawn. The point I was making is that if you have more gatherers than you do food spawning, they'll pick the forest clean and go idle. Thus, cutting my number of gatherers in half will not cut my food income by half while still yielding me two extra workers to help get the next phase of the town's construction complete quickly. Once the forest is at maximum or near-maximum density (which we'll get to in the next video), the gatherable spawn rate will be high enough to keep 4 gatherers busy year-round. Because (to my knowledge) deer spawning and behavior is not directly related to forest thickness, having 3/3 hunters would be just as effective with or without a fully dense forest so I kept all 3 workers in as I want the maximum income of both venison and leather; both are very useful in a town's early life.

[@MrDidz]

Yep! I actually understood that so it wasn't confusing.

[@alexhood2886]

What are you a furry?

[@pershop4950]

The other case of course is that at the beginning with around 10 or 15 citizens, you don't need full food production or variety yet, whereas you do need different people to be doing different jobs. So at the beginning at least it's definitely a case of you need to switch workers in and out to do different things to get the village going

[@sil.o.5399]

Earned a subscriber man, i love the way you explain how everything works and on what your strategy is based. Great job!!!

[@sy_spam]

Best Banished tutorial I've seen, ever. If I hadn't already subscribed while watching your Transport Fever videos, this would have cinched it.

[@KrylonRhae]

Just a suggestion... turn off the weather effects so it is easier to watch the screen. Good tips and suggestions, a little different from me, but good start.... well done.

[@tekguru6213]

Speaking from a more mature gamer point of view, your tutorials are well informed, articulated and resourceful. Sub/Like

[@Frtla]

Ive actualy laughted (for myself)when i heard you talk in first video . Please accept my apologise ,i feel lke little child now after seeing the brain puted into it . Thank you for helping me out BIGtime and thank you for saying it the way , that even someone that stupid as i am can understand it . Thanx man

[@tiredofstupidnames]

These videos are very helpful. Not sure I'm up to the task of playing on hard yet, but I definitely will adopt these strategies to grow my first city!

[@morbiddinosaur]

I know im on the late train with banished, but still an awesome video!

[@amunderdog]

Am learning also - I just did the toolpocalypse - It was no fun then, they starved to death in a land of plenty.

[@sexymonkey1198]

I'm on an even later train

[@mcshamer]

I'm on the last train!

[@TheRealBirdTamer]

Great tutorial! I think my next town on Banished will run this build.

[@christophershaffer2074]

I purchased this game during the Steam Summer Sale. It had been on my wishlist for quite some time. Your strategies have helped me fine tune my approach to the game. I am always looking for efficient builds. I also think the level you micromanage villagers is very acceptable so far throughout the game. Thanks for taking the time and effort to post this.

[@thebeardedgamer2736]

Another great Tutorial. I'm playing along as you play but my times seem to differ. I was at Summer 3 even before we started to build a school. Not a big problem as it is not affecting the game. Thank you!

[@MiGTenshi]

thanks for teaching us some in depth stuff and awesome tips/tricks.

[@james64468]

I tested that. Even if you put don't work. Traders will show up with or without a worker. The worker just gets stuff for you trade with.

[@NipapornP]

+james64468 What does this mean: "put don't work"? I'm not a native english and can't find a meaningful translation for that phrase.

[@james64468]

Nipaporn P. I cant translate it. I can make it more easy to understand. If you turn off the trading post. The traders will still show up.

[@NipapornP]

james64468 Okay, thanks.

[@pershop4950]

Maybe you meant to say "even if you don't put workers".

[@mralbua53]

Very well made. everything is very clear and on point. I love your videos, man :D !

[@rocker9689]

absolutely flawless video

[@PerfectAlibi1]

15:15 Education is the best provision of old age ^^

[@sirbagelsworth9463]

I think it helped early on that more of your children started at a higher age or something. I'm in Winter and still don't have 12 adults. My cart was a bit further away from my starting crossroads as well, so I was a bit slower, but I had more resources leftover in the end.

[@ohvnaq]

i just played this game today. love your videos. superb!

[@michaelwhalen1907]

Solid walkthrough. Thanks for the tips they definitely helped.

[@michaelwhalen1907]

also my first playthrough the tool apocalypse totally decimated my town. Most games the blacksmith is built later so your video will help new players who will probably make the same mistake.

[@Aqualightnin]

this one was a bit hard to see when the weather effect was in place (first 5-10 minutes) maybe consider turning off weather for future videos, for our sake :)

[@Pinstar]

You aren't the first person to mention the weather effects. I turned them off as of episode 5 or 6 and they'll remain off for the rest of the series. Thanks for the feedback!

[@blueconversechucks]

I wish there weather effects didn't always affect visibility so much when I'm playing it.

[@Crozierization]

Have you compared the efficiency of having the 6 forest node houses inside the forest vs putting them right outside of it? Having closer workers vs having more trees

[@TheSpiikeisme]

I was actually going to skip this video just because of the 4:3 aspect ratio. But these videos actually got into the detail I was looking for. Keep it up!

[@Pinstar]

These were recorded in my *early* days of KZbin. Didn't have a widescreen monitor, used a stick mic for sound capture and Window's Movie Maker for editing. I've since enhanced both my equipment and software, but I try to stay true to the meat and potato tips that made up this very first series of mine. :)

[@TheSpiikeisme]

@@Pinstar lol. I was curious. My brother swears by his 4:3 ratio, he buys them used in Kijiji when they died, only recently changed to 16:9 and every KZbinr has to start somewhere

[@joshuacoleman6245]

great series!

[@tempmike]

Very helpful videos. I've been having difficulty figuring out what to plan/do. Thanks. Liked and Subscribed.

[@basbijlholt71]

Keep making vids.

[@tifforo1]

26:40: Lots of dead trees on the east end of the southern area 26:49: They're all alive now!

[@boru1982]

They're not dead, they're deciduous.

[@tylertrent525]

Gather's Hut is Overpowered. Not having a full labor-force at the Gather's Hut is going to cut your food short by at least 4x. You NEED GH's and you need to fill them up.

[@LJL85]

23:45 in winter 2 the kid is already 5? How I never noticed this?

[@Sallibotz]

Rasa-fraggin!

[@PoppyGaming43]

really you are low on firewood? I reached already the limit ... but i followed the instructions exactly ...

[@Twogugshavingsix]

Fantastically well done guide ! Can't wait to finish the playlist ! Tho I was wondering, do you use the default item limits or do you set them yourself ? If so, what item limits do you use ?

[@pershop4950]

You definitely want your own limits, but that limit depends on how you develop your village. But as a general example I increment food limits in 5000 and then later 10,000. The reason for that is I don't want my people bringing in excessive food when I need them to be doing labor type jobs. Of course the definition of excessive is up to you, but for me it's definitely possible to be making a lot of food sources in the early game. I don't need all that food compared to needing them to work at other jobs , but if I do need it then I increase the limit

[@warcraft8226]

thanks

[@RingxWorld]

pls more vids

[@bazuborg2546]

got a question concerning Banished ..I just placed a milking barn , and realize I need 12 domestic animals..now I got all types of animals ..My question is why isn't my milking barn finishing up building..it stopped at domestic animal..how do I get my animals from the pen into the milking barn..thanxyou

[@MrDidz]

I'm trying to follow your guidance in my own game, though I'm finding it much harder than you make it look. One problem I have is that for some reason I started with one less adult than you did. Nobody has died, so I assume there must be a slight variation possible in the mix of adults and children at the start. The net result is that it threw some of the human resource recommendations a bit out of kilter. Not a big deal but it made things a bit more interesting and delayed the final completion of the crossroad settlement. The other thing thats worrying me at the moment is that so far I haven't noticed any deer in the forest, and my hunters don't seem to be having any luck either. I'm hoping that will resolve itself otherwise the tailor will be a bit short of leather.

[@Pinstar]

Every seed is a bit different, and I've noticed that the seed impact your starting adult/child ratio. Deer availability can be an issue, but again it is difficult to control that. If you are short an adult, you can probably poach one worker off of your hunting lodge. Once a hunting lodge nabs a deer, it can't get another one for 2 months. More workers only increases the chances of getting one, rather than the raw output. 2 workers are almost as effective as 1 in that regard.

[@MrDidz]

Pinstar I was watching your video and where you were getting over 1,000 food from your gathers and hunters. I was getting at most about 300 on my map, and that has pretty much been the theme on my game developed to the point where yesterday I began losing citizens to starvation. The bottom line seems to be that there simply is enough to gather or hunt on my map. I've seen gatherers wandering about doing labouring even though the food reserves are depleted. I suspect it was just a bad starting position or something.

[@Pinstar]

David Hatch Lacking deer spawns will make your hunters under-perform certainly. How thick was your initial forest? If it was too barren, you might not bring in much in the way of gatherables. There are some seeds that this start won't work on. One other alternative is to get your hunter and gatherer built ASAP but assign only 1 worker to each. They'll both be at maximum benefit per person while still leaving you plenty of other adults to build and gather resources.

[@pershop4950]

Although this video started in a spot where it was not mostly covered with trees, but there would definitely be more spots on your map that are probably covered with trees. This is the area where there's more stuff on the ground to be gathered.

[@Lowenssohn]

Nice Vids. Thanks a bunch.

[@louisbrewer1260]

Great video...... I of course am playing Banished with the CC 1.62 "Forge Awakens" mod but this acttually was very imformative! I do have one question....... Do you think you would ever update this series of videos using the newest CC mods?

[@pershop4950]

The CC mod still can start out this way , and as you get more villagers and more Production chains going, then you bring in the CC stuff ,so I don't think there's really any reason to do tutorial on starting out a new village with CC mod.

[@blueconversechucks]

I don't make clothes because I don't use animal products in Banished. I just wanted to see if it was possible in the game. It is. I play on hard and nobody ever dies from the cold. They all have ragged clothes even hundreds of years in. I think they have to "warm up" more often so they are less efficient. I don't think there's any impact beyond that. If I could grow cotton I'd make clothes out of that. One game I bought sheep but I could not figure out a way to avoid mutton.

[@pershop4950]

There are mods that let you know flax and cotton, which lets you make linen and cloth. And then the appropriate recipe for making clothes out of cloth and linen was also added to the tailor, so that would be a great idea for your kind of place though

[@blueconversechucks]

@@pershop4950 wow I miss this game! I haven't played it in about a year. Been too busy. Also I got mad because the workers in my breweries always went to the distant ports and storage buildings instead of the closer ones I built for them.

[@shepdozejr]

WAVE'O'BABIES!!!

[@dirint]

Heeelllloooooo KZbin. I am Pimpstar.

[@florasena]

Just one comment. Laborers, builders and unassigned workers build dirt roads. No need to "assign" a builder to build dirt roads. Stone roads do require a builder however. If the laborers are busy though, the builder will build the dirt roads. Be careful laying out too much road as this cannot be paused. All available laborers and builders will work on the road network before critical buildings such as blacksmith and tailor. I like the way you use the priority tool. www.banishedforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1602

[@mmallory22]

Thanks a lot for the video. Quick question if you're still paying attention after all this time, there were several jobs where you checked to see if someone was educated. If they weren't, would you have tried to get someone who was, or just left it alone?

[@pershop4950]

The game picks and chooses who should work at a job. You have a little bit of influence by trying to put a house near the job, but the game itself can even change who lives in that house, so while you can try to change it, it's a bit more micromanaging than is necessary, only to be foiled in the next 30 seconds or 60 seconds when the game changes which villagers working at that job again. The main thing to know is that you want your educated percentage to be as high as you can, and even if you have a high uneducated percentage then just make additional jobs or buildings to match what you need in your village. For example in the early game , you can feed your people with uneducated farmers. As your population grows, if you still have uneducated farmers, then you just have to make another 25 to 30% more farms to keep up with the higher demand of food. It is possible to play a game of banished with iron tools or no tools and uneducated workers. You just have to adapt your production lines accordingly.

[@britesynth]

Settlement 3 years and the child is 6 years old? 😕 confused

[@grimmauld]

britesynth the children grow to about 4-5years for each settlement year.

[@drawinggamingandstuff8676]

At this point i have the first question: Because u say a blacksmith and a tailor produce more, when they are educated, I try to have them educated. I have to bother with them living in the right house and being an educated person and after some minutes I may work this out. BUT as soon as i built one more house (or some houses) everybody searches himself a new job and a new home. People rotate and all of the sudden my blacksmith, who just was educated is replaced by someone else, who is not. I would have to bother with this everytime i build a new house. How can i make someone stick to the home and job i gave them?

[@drawinggamingandstuff8676]

AND people marry laborers and builders all the time and those occupy my home-slots. For example i built the tailor and blacksmith and a schoolhouse like u did and then i built 2 houses so those people can move near their workplace. but two of them take 1 house each and marry a laborer so the third one has to move somewhere else. and people marry other people and THEN i think they can not move to their workplace anymore without taking their partner with them. and the partner may have a workplace somewhere else. those people are really dumb...

[@zaxcrieofficial]

DrawingGamingAndStuff currently the game tries to optimize the work load for maximum efficiency so if you need x amount of educated workers but you have less than that the game can't reach the optimal maximum efficiency. As it stands the player can't assign specific roles to specific people all the player can do is have the optimal setup.

[@GAMINGWITHBOWZEE]

hey bro.. what's your map number I like this layout

[@Pinstar]

10221982

[@GAMINGWITHBOWZEE]

+Pinstar thanks bro.. u helped me so much ..cant tell u how many times my people starved to death haha

[@weko1551]

If anyone is interested in a written guide to these videos, you can find it here: drive.google.com/file/d/0B4pHrpN8s9bYdTA0anNWWXpkejg/edit?usp=sharing

[@ebkanonymous]

Beware headphone users

[@seva7l630]

I'm neither native speaker, nor hater, but to me, u sound like pretty aged dude like 40-50 years

[@Pinstar]

+Seva 7l I'm actually in my 30's :) I certainly wouldn't call you a 'hater' for that remark. I take it as a compliment. :)

[@MamaMOB]

Just have to say your strategies are great but you talk WAY to much. Even a newborn doesn't need that much explanation and I'm sure most people playing this game are adults with IQ's higher then 12.

[@TinfoilChef]

Personally I rather appreciate his style. Not only is he explaining what needs to be done but he's covering the various why's as well. and if he wanders a bit that's ok too. He's got a relaxed conversational style that I find quite refreshing

+Tinfoil Chef totally agree