I found out some helpful things about this game that I wish I knew from the start. It would have made playing easier and less frustrating. I think other players might find this information useful too.
Basics
A small tip that might help some players: Collecting straw from reeds can be tricky. If you’re having trouble, go out the west gate of Gostovia towards the reed area. The reeds you can collect are actually the small plants between the big ones. I thought it was the large reeds at first, but it’s the smaller ones you need.
Trouble finding stones? Walk around with your eyes glued to the ground, you’ll find stones laying around at some point.
Getting used to the time can be a little difficult at the start, try getting the most important things done the moment you wake up so you have more time later in the day. If you need to change seasons quicker because your wood is running low in Winter or you can’t get enough food, during sleep your resources won’t decrease so you can save yourself a few hours of precious wood and food!
Spears
Spears are strong weapons. They’re better than bows and easy to make. Use right mouse button to aim, left-click to throw. Spears fall when thrown, so practice. Crouch with control to get closer to animals. Head or neck hits kill most animals fast. Big animals like Wisents or Bears need two hits. Carry 3 spears. They break after three uses. You might meet dangerous animals while exploring. If attacked, walk backwards and throw spears at the animal’s head. This keeps you safer. Big animals give more meat and materials when killed.
Inspection Mode
Pressing ALT turns on inspection mode, which uses your stamina while active. This mode helps you find items you dropped and spears you threw but can’t see. In villages, it shows people’s names and identifies vendors and their skills, helping you choose who to recruit. As you learn new skills, inspection mode can reveal mushrooms, bird feathers, herbs, and nearby animals. It’s useful for avoiding dangerous animals like boars and finding mushrooms in Fall. Remember, inspection mode only works while holding ALT and uses up stamina.
Skills
Are a big part of the Gameplay. You can level them by doing various things belonging to that skill tree. If you have trouble leveling up Farming to unlock the Food Storage, just plough some Fields and you’ll get it very fast. Getting Skills like Mule will make your life much easier so don’t hesitate to spend your talent points the moment you get them.
Your Own Little Village
Your New Village
You have your tools now and need to find a good place for your village. When choosing a spot, remember you need water, so build near a river or lake. Be careful about animal areas nearby, as animals come back about twice a day. It’s good to be close to forests, mountains, mines, and clay. Take time to look around before you decide where to build.
Getting New People
To get new people to join your village, make sure they like you by getting your Approval to 70%. You also need to increase your Dynasty Reputation. You’ll need more reputation each time you get a new person. Doing main quests, called Chapters, will help with this. Build houses for the new people – two can live in one small house. Don’t forget to give them tools. Put the tools in their workplace. Some tools last longer than others.
Food Storage
You don’t need to assign a worker here but you 100% have to build this building AND the Resource Storage before getting People living in your village or else they won’t have food or wood. Just place food you found in this building’s storage chest and the Food (Demand) you see in your Management tab will tell you how much food you have and what the demand per hour is. Make sure you always have enough food for at least the day.
My Food Storage
Resource Storage
Make sure to build your village before inviting people to live there. It’s very important to put firewood in the storage chest. You might wonder why firewood is needed. It gives villagers much more wood than regular logs, probably because they use it to stay warm. To make firewood, open the crafting menu with Q, go to the Crafting section, and look for Firewood on the right side of the Simple Torch. Converting logs into firewood will save you time and effort in supplying wood to your villagers every day.
My Resource Storage
Woodshed
You have to place Axes in the Woodshed’s storage chest. Yes, axes. They use up their axe after some time and won’t continue chopping (they’ll still play the animations though) wood for you, so make sure there’s always some axes left! If you don’t give them axes they’ll still collect sticks. They don’t make much of a difference in term of wood supply though so you still have to cut around 3 trees per day for the Wood demand. If you keep looking into the Woodcutters storage to see if the logs are there – don’t bother, all logs and sticks your woodcutter gets go automatically to the Resource Storage so spare yourself the way over to the Woodshed unless it’s to supply some more axes!
Hunting Lodge
The hunting system isn’t completely clear yet. Putting spears in the chest didn’t have any effect. However, when a bow and arrows were added, the villager started hunting. Adding a knife to the chest makes the hunter provide leather as well. The hunters don’t seem to take items from the chest. The food they gather or hunt can be found in the Food Storage chest. They also collect feathers.
Similar to the woodcutters, the food collected by hunters isn’t enough to fully support your village. You’ll still need to hunt or gather food yourself to keep up with demand.
Farming and Consequently the Barn
This is a little more complicated than the others. First of all, if you want the AI to farm you NEED a Barn and Assign the one you want to take care of your fields to the Barn as a Field Worker ,if you assign them as Farmer they’ll process the Wheat, Flax etc you got and not take care of your fields. I did that mistake so you won’t have to repeat it.
Next up you need a hoe (the tool) a scythe and (maybe) a sack in the Barn’s storage. I’m not so sure about the sack but I placed one in the chest anyways just to be sure. It also HAS to be a Sack. Not a simple sack. Otherwise you don’t need anything in the chest, not even the seeds or manure as your workers will magically pull them out of thin air. If you’re worrying about the money to get a hoe and scythe, you can steal one from the east shed outside of Gostovia. Just make sure nobody is around.
Next step is making a field of course, I’d recommend making smaller ones because the AI works slow as heck to sow your fields. Mine took two whole seasons to sow a 9×3 field, and I had two people working on that.
Once you got your field placed go to your Management Tab, click or switch to the Fields icon, there you’ll see your Fields, which are numbered from 1 to how ever many you have, select one, open the details with F and you’ll open up the FIeld Management. Just choose what you want to be planted on that field now and click and drag over the Field grid that will be shown to you.
Tadaaa now your Field Workers should go out in the morning and plough, fertilize and sow the field without you doing anything. Don’t try to help them by doing anything on the field btw, no harvesting, fertilizing or sowing with them, it messes the ai up and confuses them. Just let them do their job themselves and you should get the harvest in the Barn’s storage once it’s ready
If your Farmers are stuck doing nothing and just standing around, try reloading and they should continue their work.
Quests
Yes your Villagers sometimes get Quest just like any other NPC, do them if you want to or not, it won’t have any negative impact on you.
Taxes
Because I’ve noticed some people don’t know how to pay their Taxes, during Spring next Season you will get a Quest that says ”Paying your Taxes”, Go to Gostovia and talk to Unigost with the Tax Money and you’ll have paid your Taxes
Houses
Once you placed the foundation you’ll be able to edit the walls and roofs of Houses by pressing E on them with the hammer equipped. Using more expensive Material like Stone to build a house makes it better isulated which means less wood consumption!
There’s a difference of -0,6 Wood Consumption per fully Stone Walled – Wooden tile Roofed House in Comparison to the basic House.
That’s all I know for now involving Villagers, hopefully it helps you start off without many problems.
The Seasons
Spring
Taxes Time!
The Best time for Sowing your Plants and hunting! Unripe Berries are pickable – but if you wait until Summer you won’t get poisoned!
Herbs and a few mushrooms are growing now
- Morel Mushroom – +1.0 Food
- Broadleaf Plantain – +10.0 Health
- St. John’s Wort – Reduces poisoning
Summer
Ripe Berries, more sowing and lots of Game! The Herbs are still here and pickable but the Morel Mushrooms realized it isn’t Fall yet and went back into the earth.
- Berries – +0.5 Food + 1.0 Water
Fall
Delicious Mushrooms, waiting to be picked – just be careful not to pick the poisonous ones!
- Parasol Mushroom – +1.0 Food
- Bolete Mushroom – +1.0 Food
- Bitter Bolete Mushroom (Looks very similar to Bolete) – +2.0 Food & 42% Chance to poison
- Fly Agaric Mushroom – +3.0 Food & 85% Chance to poison
- Wooly Milkcap Mushroom – +2.5 Food & 42% Chance to poison
Winter is coming soon, better spend the last two days of this Season cutting Wood, Wood and Wood!
Winter
Freezing Cold, Animals aren’t found as often, no Harvests and the Consumption of your Wood increases! Great time to cut down those Trees around your house and turn them into Firewood!
- Firewood supplies 8 Demands.
- While Logs supply 4 Demands.
That’s half the time of wood chopping you can save yourself.
Also the perfect time to craft some tools to sell during spring to pay off your hefty Taxes!
Plant Growth
Trees regrow after ~2-3 years while resources regenerate after some time (few days or even seasons) so don’t worry too much about using up resources!
Animals / Hunting
All the Animals you can hunt and how tough they are to kill with a Spear. Might not be entirely accurate with the body shots because I try my best to get headshots, feel free to correct me if you tested it more accurately.
Rabbit
They’ll run from you. Chase those little buggers down because you’re faster and they die in one hit.
One Shot or Bonk anywhere.
Deer
Annoyingly fast. Either headshot them once or prepare to walk after them for some time to finally kill them.
One Shot to the Head or three to the Body.
Foxes
All Bark no Bite, They crouch low to the ground for a second when they notice you which gives you the perfect time to headshot them, if you hit but miss the head then start walking backwards and aiming that next spear because they will bite your ankles if you’re not careful enough.
One Shot to the Head or two to the Body.
Wolves
Awoooo. Headshot them while they announce their presence by howling at you or chug those spears while walking backwards once again.
One Shot to the Head or two to the Body.
Boars
They charge at you before you even notice them, the moment you hear some heavy hooves running at you walk into the opposite direction and chuck those spears at their head. Or just run away, they’ll stop following you after some time.
One Shot to the Head or three to the Body.
Wisent
Tough Bison looking thing. Seems nice and peaceful until he suddenly charges you and takes away half your health. Keep your distance and get those headshots in, he’s somewhat slow so you should get him easy.
Two Shots to the Head or three to the Body.
Bears
Found on Mountains in the South or near Lakes, Don’t know how dangerous because I never risked it. Don’t risk it.
Two Shots to the head or three to the Body.
Injuries
Yes your prey gets injured. If you keep hitting that damn body, your prey will slow down, making it easier to kill them since they can’t run away!
Spears
Your spears break, so make sure you always got reserve with you. You threw your spear somewhere into the void of the forest? No problemo, just go around the area you threw it in and look around while pressing ALT every so often, you’ll stumble upon the spear at some point…even if it’s a season later. When you aim your spear ‘charges’ and does more damage, so always ‘charge’ fully.
Traps
Are worth it, go get em and get some nice free resources. Yes I went and hunted all of them down just for the Guide, thankfully they’re all my Neighbours, Lucky me!
Animal Locations
- Orange – Foxes.
- Pink – Wolves.
- Blue – Wisents.
- Green – Boars.
- Red – Bears.
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