Other than 4 wooden houses I rushed so my colonists could survive first winter, it's stone houses everywhere. As far as I can tell most mod-specific content starts with farming, and right now I don't have any seeds since it's hard start, and I don't have enough expendable material (probably firewood, since it's renewable) to trade. There's some space East from the quarry where I can put some farms over the bridge. That lake South of the village is not connected to main river, but lake West of the village is, that's why planned trading post is located there somewhat awkwardly. Starting terrain is a bit awkward - especially if I want to keep that forested area for forestry use and not cut it all for farms and bigger town. It's mostly optimized to give both forestry centers (forester / gatherer / hunter / herbalist / stockpile / stone houses) enough space and for aesthetics. As far as I can tell most mod features are very late game. It's been 6 years, and so far the only mod features I used are apiary (produces honey from nothing), and pure decorative statue of colonial governor on a llama. Preplanning would also probably be more optimal than building just-in-time, but then I can't be bothered to check wiki, even if there was wiki for mod stuff. It's weird how in some games I'm really obsessed about aesthetics (I can't play factorio after oil processing, it breaks my pretty layouts), and in others it's minmax all the way. This results is much more aesthetically pleasing colony than what some other people on youtube get by building just-in-time. The way I play is that I preplan very far in advance, with paused buildings everywhere, and then unpause them when I want to actually build them. So far nobody died, the colony is short on building materials, which is understandable as it's building very aggressively. I decided to give it a try - hard start (smaller population, and no seeds/animals), but only medium climate settings. Post 1 - Originally published on Google+ on 03:34:44 UTCįirst impressions review: Banished: Colonial Charter mod

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