Banished Strategy and Tactics 10: Builder Shortage!

[@Aqualightnin]

also wanted to share some strategies i use :). you're having a storage issue, i find this is a good time to be pickier about what your people are doing. you're simply overflowing with food right now, you could easily scale back your less needed food building's employee count down (fishermen for a prime example) without affecting your health in any significant fashion, you have tons of "meat" category food to spare. also, i tend to hold large amounts of berries/cherries etc (fruit for brewing) in my trading post when i run into this storage problem. that way my people eat the less valued foods instead and i can flood the market with fruit when i decide to make a tavern for brewing. (pull 200-400 out of the trading post at a time every so often so that the tavern always has some to grab, but you minimize how much citizens "steal" and take to their homes, this works for coal for the blacksmith too), just be sure to leave some fruit in the general storage for health reasons :).

[@Runswithsheep]

Your banished tutorials are by far the best I've found, there are some really bad ones out there but you seem to really know what you're doing. I've learned most of what I know about this game from your tutorials. That said, maybe it's time to upgrade to a widescreen monitor? :)

[@pershop4950]

At this point in time, I could definitely say that you have a decent size of population, but you've put a lot of workers into the food industry. You don't need that much food for this size of village. If some of those workers were changed back to laborers and builders, you could continue on without too much delay. Other than that ,your population and city are continuing to do well from their aggressive start.

[@Flynnycore]

You could reduce the gatherer to 6 and use them as builder and temporary one fisher. That would help with your space problem, too. Thanks for the videos, learned a lot and I feel like an educated worker now :) Would you mind to continue the series?

[@Pinstar]

I may just do that, as my food setup is a little bit *too* efficient. I will continue the series until I feel ficklewood has lapsed into stasis and there is no more insight or tips for me to give that hasn't been covered. There is still more ground to cover though, so don't worry about the series ending too soon.

[@e1337DIY]

Pinstar I ended up with too efficient food gathering too. My storage barns were getting overfilled with fish (my 2 fishing docks were perfectly located and had about 75% water coverage) and mushrooms, so I started tossing the extras into the trade posts, but even still I couldn't keep up. I ended up having to reduce the amount of fishermen and gatherers.

[@knexus5039]

That's one reason I don't set food to 999999 at the beginning. if I have a little bit of a control on how much they work at food then when they have reached the maximum they might go off and do other things to help run around town.... Or the alternative view of having too much food is, you don't need this many food workers right now. Use some of them to do other jobs. For example you could reduce on hunters, gatherers , fishermen, farmers so you still get some of the food but just not so much of it when you don't really need it.

[@drawinggamingandstuff8676]

You play on speed 10x with only 1 labourer all the time. I am just waiting for two people to die. Besides that awesome video.

[@nitzillaproductionstheanyt7929]

I'm surprised you're thinking about Nomads after all your work getting all your citizens educated. (P.S. I know this is coming from seven years in the future but you do say to comment...)

[@doomsday1216]

Sorry if you've posted this elsewhere, but what is the seed number for this map? its amazing and I'd love to play on it!

[@Pinstar]

10221982 Medium Valleys. :)

[@Sweigs10]

How often or space wise should you place a market, everytime you make a forest hub or do you place it where ever there are houses

[@pershop4950]

You could think of it as expanding via hubs. Make a forest hub, make a market hub, make a forest hub, make a market hub, rinse and repeat throughout the map. So it's up to you when you want to do it or why you want to do it. Eg, some people like putting all their farming buildings in one area of the map.

[@Aqualightnin]

Enjoying the series! my only complaint is that there isnt enough of it to watch. any chance you could possibly do 30 minute episodes OR possibly more episodes per week? :)

[@malglove]

Does having multiple traders working at a trading post increase the rate of trade boats that come in?

[@Kingkai13]

No, It only increases the speed of item gathering for the trades.

[@maidden]

Yes, you get about one boat per year on each TP, so the more TPs you have, the more boats will come each year.

[@maidden]

When are you going to build a cemetery? The old people's deaths are affecting your villagers happiness already. Plus, it's a place where they idle and form new couples.

[@psychicumbreon]

maidden They idle and form couples at the graves of their loved ones....odd town!