These videos are incredibly helpful. This is the most informative strategy guide for Banished I've come acrossed since I bought the game. You have excellent stragedies, and general tips and tricks. Thank you so much!

Also, the reason Riley was done being educated first is because the walking distance between the student's home and the school affects how long they will need to stay in school before they are fully educated.

@Pinstar

10 жыл бұрын

I did not know that at the time of making this video, else I would have mentioned it. But yes, this is correct. Thank you for pointing that out!

@mrkimi80

10 жыл бұрын

This is why schools should be located within every high density house areas ^^y

In response to the Trader question. Merchants will turn up but you need Traders to move the good between your warehouse and the Trading post. Much in the same way vendors move everything to the Market. You really only need the 1 I find

To answer the question about whether traders show up in your trading post, I can confirm that, in fact, a trader boat will come and park even if you have 0 stock and 0 traders employed. I haven't tried to see if a trader will show up if all your citizens are dead, though. However, one big advantage of having a trader act as a laborer is that they keep their wheelbarrow, increasing their carrying capacity (take with a grain of salt, I think that's accurate.)

@ThatSubscriber3

10 жыл бұрын

Yes this is 100% correct.

I've logged dozens of hours on Banished and I'm still learning quite a bit from your videos, great insight to some of the fine details without getting too dry or number-focused. As for your question about traders and boats, as far as I know the number of traders you have has no affect on the number of boats that show up. The number of trading posts you have built does affect the number of boats that will show up, this can be interesting to handle because each trading post will have different goods and you probably won't have enough firewood to have at each location. What I typically do when a boat shows up that has something I want is I will slam a bunch of people into trading and quickly fill the trading post to get what I need and then zero-out the goods at the post so they don't try to replenish their stock after the deal is done.

Hands down the best starting guide for Banished. Well done. I've put in tons of hours, have a dozen stable 300 peep towns, and, I learned a ton from this... Thanks!

@ronwilson2018

10 жыл бұрын

Hope this is a game. Too close to being an ancient God to me.

Great series. I discovered this great game recently. I love these old games that just run smoothly on an ordinary laptop. What I prefer to do differently: - I build the flophouse right away. This gives all the sims a roof over their heads before the first winter. They will still have children, but not that many. That's ok to me: a big baby boom early is a big death bust later. I prefer the population to grow more gradually. When the basics are set up, I start to build stone houses gradually. Stone houses consume 2/3 the amount of firewood that wooden houses do. When the flophouse is empty, I destroy it. - Never ever build more than one barn before you have the marketplace. The sims will look for food _only_ in the barn nearest to their house. I learned the hard way, that sims can easily starve to death although there is food in another barn. Also, they hoard food in their houses and don't share it with new houses. Only finish a house when there is food in storage (barn or marketplace) or the new house will be empty and risks starvation. Build houses close to work, but always inside the radius of the marketplace. - I build the school asap. I want _all_ children to be educated. The starting children included. This will slow down the start a bit: the kids will stay in the school for 10 years before they become productive (weirdly, the age of the children goes faster than the seasons, people years are shorter than nature years). But I don't mind a slightly slower start. They will make up for the 10 years of school easily in the rest of their lives. - I prefer to start farming early. Farming can be incredibly productive and the production is reliable. Farms scale easily: just destroy the farm in winter and designate a larger one in its place. Larger farms are more productive. There is a guy on youtube that uses only 7x7 farms. That is wrong. Larger farms use the same amount of farmers per grid square, but produce more. Considerably more. Also, there is a guy on youtube that claims that crop rotation is a thing. It isn't, that was an idea of the developer, but it was never implemented. With two 15x7 farms, an early town will be swimming in food and can export all the venison it produces. Ordinary food is worth 1 thingy, venison is worth 3. I expect nobody will ever read this, but if someone does, use it to your advantage. There is still at least one person in the world starting out with this game.

I just wanted to say, this whole series is brilliant. I just got this game on the steam sale, and was pretty confused until I watched this set. Great work. :)

About foresters and rocks within their area: When a forester wants to plant a new tree on a location already occupied by a rock or a piece of iron, it will remove the obstacle, plant the tree, then dump the resources into the nearest stockpile. This is by no means a viable means of harvesting stone and iron, but it's not necessary to clear a forester's area of stone and iron just to increase the space where trees can be planted.

@Anergyne

10 жыл бұрын

If you check the forester's production tab (select the building, fourth button on the right in the window it opens), you should see some stone or iron being gathered there, unless you removed all of it manually already.

@Pinstar

10 жыл бұрын

Lynneiah Huh, thank you for the information. I knew that foresters could harvest stone and iron, but I was under the impression that it would slow down the tree planting. But if it is all one motion then it wouldn't really matter. I'd probably still proactively harvest all the stone in the forest because I'd need it up front, but wouldn't mind the iron being slow-harvested as it wasn't needed in such quantity at that stage of the town.

@grimmauld

6 жыл бұрын

Lynneiah so that's why i sometimes see small amounts of logs and stones when i check the goods produced by a forester or hunting cabin, etc. Thanks for the info! :)

you should consider revisiting this series in higher quality.

Playing this in 2021. THanks for the content!

when a citizen is walking and your trying to X out his info box a right click anywhere on the map will do the trick instead of trying to chase it :)

In order to answer your question about the trading post, only the first time you need to have a trader. It's like an "OPEN" sign for your business. In that way the boat keeps coming. After that, your trader is only useful for loading / unloading the post.

I was going really good with this.. right until a tornado wiped out all but 8 people lol, building my way back though and enjoying your videos. thanks

Hi Pinstar, I have enjoyed your videos thus far. I got this game about the same time as your video was released but did not persevere as my people just died. I started again after Christmas this year after viewing another video that got me away. I have learned quite a lot from these first 3. I like the trading for firewood but thought you should have been loading gradually up to the 625 limit so there is no delay when the first trader arrives. Great series. Now on to No. 4. Cheers

I know its an Old vid but you just inspired me to play again. Great series so far, thanks for sharing.

Yet again another great Tutorial. I am really enjoying the structure and tactical way of this settlement. Thank you again!

Hey Pinstar! Thanks for this. Just got the game and these videos have helped me a lot in understanding the mechanics in the game!

Great video's even though they have been out for some time. You sure have explained a whole lot of things to me. It seem's as though you recorded a lot of data before doing your videos. The Crossroads plan is a bewdy. Keep up the vid's.

great series. learned a lot. thanks!

well... i started you tactic while i was watching you videos. now i have my village far away of any river on my map... that's kind of bad, but i will try on :D well... had to correct my text, cause a minute later the house next to the school began to burn -.- hope my well will be finnished fast enough :x

I would so have loved this video much more if it had a higher quality. However, pretty nice anyway.

@Pinstar

9 жыл бұрын

This was made very early in my KZread career when I was still new at it and messed up the file to result in a low resolution. I might remaster my first three episodes in 1080p with much better Mic quality.

@T25de

6 жыл бұрын

Me too

@CMDRunematti

5 жыл бұрын

any update on that remaster?

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

I think it depends on the device you're watching it on and your internet speed. On my computer with my internet speed, I can clearly see all the text and images. The weather wasn't a problem. On my mobile device watching it on my phone, I can't see everything. And at my parent's house on their Roku with slower internet speed, I can only see it at 480p which means that even though it's a huge TV screen I can barely make out the text in the game. And when it rains in the game, the whole screen becomes a little bit blurry

Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.

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

I still feel that a well in the first area is essential for anti-fire.

trader boats still visit your trade market if you dont have any workers there. You only need a worker there when you are transporting goods to its warehouse

I would have left a tile-wide space between the central buildings and the houses in the forest village, since it would allow greater freedom for the gatherers and foresters to move about the forest (they don't need to go around it).

i enjoyed this potat qualitat video

love it

Does gatherers produce more from the old/grey trees or it doesn't matter ? What about the herbalists?

"The Dock is Munch more efFISHent" haha

The 3 x Labourer rule was really good. I had already started building one house per two adults, but didn't know about the dead teacher penalty. So, you probably saved me from that trap. I did have one question about the market though. I understand that only households within the markets sphere of influence(SOI) will shop at the market, so house placement is important. But I wasn't sure about the storage barns. Does a storage barn have to be within the SOI of the market for the market to draw upon its contents? In other words if the Fish Barn was outside the markets SOI would the market ignore the fish, or would it still draw fish from it for the market?

@Pinstar

10 жыл бұрын

Nope! The radius only is important for houses. If that distant fish barn is full of fish and there aren't many fish available on the market, a vendor will make the trip to go grab fish and bring it to the market. In later videos in the series (Episode 20+) you'll see Ficklewood spreading out and expanding with several markets, some a great distance from storage barns...yet they'll still manage to stock a little of everything I produce and import. The Vendors are quite diligent!

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

Market vendors will travel anywhere on the map to get the items they need to fill up their market. This is one reason why it has such a high number of possible vendors for each market. However at the beginning of a small village like this, one vendor can keep the market pretty full since there's not so many places to visit

The wood cutter should be placed opposite the stock pile ;)

Pinstar - I'm not sure if anyone has answered your question yet about the traders showing up if you don't have anyone manning the post (and I don't feel like slogging through all the comments on all the videos). I just loaded my post with firewood and venison, then removed all traders from the post. Then I saved the game (in case it didn't work) and shortly thereafter a boat showed up to trade with me. So in other words, as long as the trading post exists, they'll show up. Well, I guess I haven't tried it without any goods, so that might be a requirement for boats to show up, but I doubt it.

@celienFTW

5 жыл бұрын

mmoochable a

Hey Pinstar, thanks for your videos, very informative. What would you say about doing the crossroads start but using stone houses from the beginning?

@Pinstar

10 жыл бұрын

I would question one's ability to gather the extra materials on time. You would need to have your starting area covered in stone to be able to gather the extra required materials fast enough, and an unlucky early onset of winter might cause some people to freeze to death before you can get their houses built. I do admit that I took my time transitioning to stone houses, but at least for those first six, I'd make them wooden.

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

It has been shown that all your beginning villagers just need one house with a fireplace going, to come and keep warm. So if you make one actual stone house and then just put the footprint down for the others until you get more Stone in the subsequent one or two years, you can still start up this cross design using stone houses.

Followed your build to the letter. Was doin fine. Had some issues with food reserves. Nothing major. But each house still had their fair share. As soon as I placed the tailor things went pairshaped and I lost 15 people to starvation, even though there was food being placed into the storage hut. Bit disappointed actually. Maybe this build, two years on, doesn't work? I dunno. But I'm a bit grr...sigh

@druviskruklis3137

4 жыл бұрын

Probably related to to shifting around the jobs not the build itself since it has to be done quite a lot with limited workforce. Without ever having played the game i managed to go for hard difficulty right off the bat using this build.

hey what is your map seed ?

Would it not be better to have the fishing docks barn be in the markets radius to improve distribution of the fish into the town?

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

The market vendor job will go get the fish , so it doesn't really matter that it is in the market's radius or not.

Did you do a colonial charter game

U said the houses in the first forest hub dont need to be in the radius of the market because their storage barn contains different foods and enough firefood. But heres my next question: how is tools and clothing distributed? when u place the market exactly next to the blacksmith and tailor they will bring the stuff to the market, right? how are the people in the forest hub getting tools and clothing then? is this fact negligible?

@boru1982

8 жыл бұрын

Great question.

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

Later on there will be other items the homeowners want but in the meantime, the villager just needs to travel one time to the market to get clothing and another time to get tools. Compared to how often he has to go get food and home supplies if he didn't have a market nearby, traveling and frequently to get a tool and a clothing is okay. The other case would be that this is just episode 3 or around 1.5 hours of the beginning of the game. Probably just around year one or two year two so far. Over time , there may be a market down there that serves that group of homes also.

Sir, you r a genius. Thx for these. Also, please do tell us what video formats you have found work best on youtube

You only need traders when you need to transport goods to and from the trading dock. Just like physicians. You activate the hospital and hire a physician only when a disease occurs. Then you fire them, and deactivate when it's over. So you can keep the trading dock completely deactivated even whilst trading. The only time you ever need to activate it is when you employ traders to transport goods. If goods are already in stock, then you can keep the trading dock deactivated with no traders working. Traders will still come and go, and you can still conduct trades.

@mrkimi80

10 жыл бұрын

I'm going to try experimenting keeping 6 workers / trading post simply because they can use wheelbarrows to transport up to 500 units of goods. If idle workers at trading posts automatically work as laborers I'd be extremely advantageous if they continue to transport goods as laborers using their higher capacity wheelbarrows ^^y

@NIL0S

9 жыл бұрын

I prefer to keep a healthy roster of laborers (they replace any dead specialist automatically) rather than traders, the boats will stay for a long time so it's more than enough to assign workers on the fly.

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is this works for orchards as well. Have the one farmer plant all the trees in the orchard and then move him into another job. The trees will grow on their own and then around year three or four when they're mature, assign a farmer to the orchard again and the farmer will start taking care of the orchard and then harvesting.

guess what game i'm playing next :D

How does your food production go that high? I did almost the same setup (on medium) and people started starving in year three.

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

With medium start , you have already five families (compared to hard start, which you have 4 families) That would be a minimum of three more people that need to be fed. whether doing it exactly like this can keep those extra three people fed I'm not sure but, it's a good experience to try.

I have just been through 7 times trying to do what shows up to now. But everytime I run out of food and 10-12 people die in less than 1 year at year 6. Something must of changed or he is using mods. Since as soon as I downloaded some mods everything started working like he said.

@Vartue

2 жыл бұрын

video is 8 years old bud might want too check any updates and balances since then -.-

The market doesn't need to encompass the food storage in the forest to get those items? I thought it did so I am confused as to how that works.

@nekroneko

9 жыл бұрын

From what I understand of it is this. The circle of influence is the area that housing is affected. This means people living in those homes travel to that market. The vendors working at the market will travel much further (way beyond the circle) to source the food and goods.

@charlieinslidell

9 жыл бұрын

nekroneko The vendors will go to the ends of the map gathering up goods from storage and stockpiles while the market radius is the housing coverage it encompasses. Instead of each person going around the town picking up things it needs for the house they live in, the vendors do it for them in mass quantities. Your people can then just go to the market location to get all the goods, making it much more efficient and time saving.

@nekroneko

9 жыл бұрын

Charles Daussin Pretty sure that is what I just said, unless you meant to reply to LycaNinja.

@charlieinslidell

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah it is, I guess it was just my way of saying it, thanks mate. :)

so the market has everything to do with houses in its radios and not stockpile/barns?

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

Market can pull from anywhere on the map and bring it to that market. The houses in the range of that market then pull items and resources from there for their houses. That means they don't have to use time traveling to some far spot to get the item they need. Now that doesn't mean the homeowner won't go somewhere to get the item but it means that he doesn't have to travel too far, if the item is already in the market.

Unwatchable in 360p in bad weather.. :(

Have you seen anything on why the people age faster than the actual years go by? Nice videos BTW. I got some good tips.

@weko1551

10 жыл бұрын

Citizens age per season rather than per "year." Hope this helps!

@mrkimi80

10 жыл бұрын

The planet in this game obviously takes 5 years to make one revolution around the sun. So everyone experiences only 4 seasons every 5 years. The species appear similar to humans from a distance but they're probably a slightly difference species since 1 year old children can be found walking around. Fortunately this means students graduate from schools exactly 8 seasons (representing 10 years duration)

480p , why dropping quality?

I've noticed in my own games that if you have a home built early enough they graduate from school at 16 17

I know this is an old video and you probably talked about this by now but why would you ever build "wooden" houses?

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

This video was trying to maximize some stats for the first year. Obviously if you don't want to do that and you just want to build and survive then you could start with one Stonehouse and then add stonehouses as needed or as materials become available. While stone houses are more efficient than keeping heat than wooden houses but wooden houses are still a house that satisfies the villagers need, and it's not like firewood is hard to get.

@MrCervasio1

3 жыл бұрын

@@knexus5039 got ya

i was having much greater food issues than you at the start of the video, am guessing that since my forest wasn't as well filled in as yours

dang where is the herbalist!

@knexus5039

3 жыл бұрын

Herbalist is actually not needed in the first one to three years , maybe even one to five years. Sure the villagers do lose health but they still lose it slowly enough, that you could get an herbalist years later and they'll all recover

Why is your video so dark tho.