![]() ![]() Grain crops should remain the staple crops however as domestic animals can only eat straw (or grain), both products of cereal crops only. Planting pulses and other non-grain food allows you to spread some of the planting/harvesting workload to winter and summer respectively.When you have crop fields designated, try to not give other tasks like building or hunting when villagers are planting(spring) or harvesting(autumn/fall).When you are able to plant crops, be sure that you set all crop fields to high priority.For winter I find it easier to keep my people close to the settlement to avoid hypothermia and starvation since animals hibernate or migrate somewhere else.Settlement layout not only affects the look of your Settlement but planning ahead for defenses and expandability helps later on in game.In the Paleolithic and Neolithic stages of the game I find having hunting work areas close to your Settlement work best.In this respect sledges, stylish clothes and beer are important with the former additionally boosting worker efficiency. ![]() The priority however should be in removing needless hardship and providing some everyday comfort to lessen the daily toll that ultimately make them miserable. If your villagers are unhappy, build spiritual monuments a range of different monuments works best.In terms of food, a combination of foraging, hunting and fishing is sufficient up to 50 population. As such ensure you always have a surplus of 10+ housing and wool/ skins attire to accommodate more people. Raids will significantly cull your workforce and so high fertility and immigration is essential in recovery. In the early game, particularly in hardcore mode growing your population is key to building a viable settlement.High workloads will result in inefficient and slow work, which can easily cause starvation.Set limits on resources like sticks, logs, and flint, to avoid having too high of a workload.Build a storage tent, to help preserve your equipment and food.Research food drying first, so you can start stockpiling food for the winter immediately.It is going to be all hands on deck come harvest so 75% sickle ratio allows all the adults (elderly included) to pitch in cutting the grass. 50% swords as they are good for fighting but preferably the dogs should be the melee meatshield buying time for your 'archers' to decimate the distracted raiders. Bows are great for hunting and defence so 75%-100% is recommended (kids can't use bows but nice to have a surplus so new arrivals can arm themselves immediately). Spears 50% as whilst those hunting will generally be few in number spears are good for defence against raiders. Depending on livestock numbers a figure between 50-75 for knives is sensible for butchery purposes. Only a relatively small number of people will be logging, mining or fishing hence the 25% for those. In terms of tools provisions a sensible supply provision as a percentage of population size is: 50% spears, 75%-100% bows, 25% fishing tools, 25% picks, 25% axes, 75%sickles, 50%-75% knives and 50% swords. Some examples include dry skins(for tents, skin clothes and bows) logs (for wooden palisade walls) and stone (for stone walls, warehouses and stone huts). Where high demand for a certain resource is foreseen (as a result of gameplay experience) it is sensible to stockpile or concentrate production of certain resources to prevent shortages in future. Generally speaking moderation is key, stockpiling the wrong resources may reduce production of other resources, resulting in bottlenecks in tool production, building construction or elsewhere. One of the basic things you need to figure out is correctly calibrating resource limits.
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