Tutorials/First Year on Hard Difficulty

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This tutorial will help you survive the first on year on hard difficulty. Please don't feel obliged to follow all the instructions. Experiment, learn from your own failures and find your own play style that suits you.

Basic Map Settings

This basic tutorial will assume the following map settings:

• Terrain type: valleys
• Terrain size: medium
• Climate: fair
• Disasters: on
• Starting conditions: hard

Starting Resources on Hard

On "hard" difficulty you start off with:

• Four families (8 adults 5 kids)
• No wood, stone or iron
• 100 Fire Wood
• 1200 Food
• 20 tools
• 20 coats

In-depth 1st year

The very first thing to do is work out a good location for a Forester's Lodge as this will be the centre of your town for now. Its working area is shown as a yellow circle. You are looking for an area which has no rivers or hills within the circle.

Go ahead and place the building down. Assign just 1 builder and pin the building menu to the screen for easy access.

Now you need resources, so assign an area just out side the yellow ring for clearance. You do not need iron for now, though it will be useful later. Make the selection fairly large (about 20x20).

Afterwards, opposite the lodge place down a Stock Pile. 4x4 will do, but no more than 8x8 for now.

Next you need a Gatherer's Hut. Place it as close as you want to the forester's lodge and within the yellow ring.

If at any point you have not got a clearance job set up but need more resources, feel free to set one up out side your yellow ringed area.

When your first 2 buildings are finished you will assign 2 people to each building type(4 people in total).

Now that we have a small stock of food and wood we can build 2 houses. To avoid people wasting time walking from their house to their workplace, try to place the houses as close as possible.

The next few buildings are the Hunting Cabin and the Herbalist's Hut. Each one can also be built within the yellow area of the forester's hut.

Then it is time to build another house. Just be aware of assigning additional clearance tasks if you are running low on a resource. Trees will grow back on their own.

It is time to increase your storage capacity with a Storage Barn. You will probably later on want a central area for all your crafting buildings. It will probably be best to place it close to the centre of the map, just outside of the forest we are going to deforest with the forester's lodge. Next to that you will want to construct another house and a wood cutter.

If you got things done swiftly you should be seeing winter set in around about the time the last house is being built.

Basic Build Order

Your building order should be something like this:

• One or 2 people set to builder
• (2 people) working at the Forester's Lodge
• Clearing tasks for resources
• Stock Üile
• (2 people) Gatherer's Shelter
• 2x houses
• (1 person) Hunting Cabin
• (1 person) Herbalist's Hut
• 1x house
• Additional clearing taks for resources
• Storage Barn
• 1x house
• (1 person) Woodcutter