The most important thing to know as a beginner is that the speed control is like alcohol: it will absolutely ruin you if use it too much. I have a town of 500 that I grew over 85 years at 1x speed. It's meditative and manageable.
@@acoupleofgsanrandaneaniandann 85 in-game years. I have plenty of things to do outside of gaming. Playing Banished is just one of the things I like to do to relax and have fun. I spend 30 minutes, maybe a few hours at a time on managing my town, only playing occasionally. I play other games, as well, and only for a short time in the same way. Over months and years, my save files get complex and I find it to be far less stressful when I find half an hour to watch my town go through a few seasons. Playing games is not work for me; it's leisure time. I'm not trying to win or beat records in my free time.
Thank you, I will keep this in mind. I've just started playing the game and I started getting overwhelmed within the first hour of playing lol. I'll keep it on slow speed until I get the hand of it.
@@Tinthia82 It makes you think through your decisions which is especially helpful in the early game when mistakes can lead to doom so quickly. I'm sure you'll have a much more pleasant experience this way!
I've never played a game like this in my life. Did the tutorial and had so many questions, like the farmers per field question which you answered in the first min lol. I'm only 5min into the vid but you've already answered multiple things and taught me multiple things and IU figure I better comment before I get to the end and don't actually leave one. Two years later this vid is still helping people. Much love to you and your family.
It's a great game, has withstood the test of time for sure. Tons of mods out there when you're tired of vanilla game. One thing to note is the "variety" food aspect, you only need 1 type of food within each of the 4 food groups. Fruit, Veg, Grain and Protein. It's best to only maintain 1 of each so the food spreads more easily. Once you have markets, the vendors will travel all over the map as far as required in order to stock everything in the game. So if you grow beans and cabbage across the map from each other, vendors will travel to each to get some of both. So keep it simple and maintain the 4 foods you need and just repeat the crops, orchards and pastures over and over so each vendor has plenty close. Your vendors will thank you if they could. You can obviously ignore this advice and just provide every option in the game, but it has no advantage whatsoever, yet plenty of disadvantages. Always consider food options that have multiple uses first. Ie... animals that provide both clothing options and meat. Also foods that can be eaten and also used for ale, etc.
One thing that I would do differently is not set my firewood limit so high! Youcan always select the “stop work” option and reassign him temporarily as a builder to keep them working. If you don’t reassign him, he will also act as a labourer while he can’t work as a woodcutter. But the problem with setting the limit so high so early is you use up all your wood to make firewood, and you end up with an excess of firewood and a shortage of wood. Also, if you struggle with clicking the wrong job assignment, you can also directly assign jobs by clicking on the relevant building/field and directly assign the relevant job from that menu as well!
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching the video and I was getting frustrated actually xD , so thank you!!! The woodcutter keeps on working, he becomes a laborer when he hits the limit. 500 firewood when you have just started the market and houses... of course you don´t have enough logs!!!!!!!
Tried 10 times this game before looking for a tutorial. I have to say that you helped me a lot for understanding the mechanics and now I got it. My Town is thriving beyond the points you showed here. Excelent video and great content.
My current game reached a population of 4243 people before the game decided that smallpox was on the menu and wiped out roughly 1000 settlers. I'm also running out of forest on the map. So, I'm hoping that the little people figure out they can heat their homes with coal. I started on the hard setting. hunters, farmers, tools, gatherers, and houses were the first things I put in place.
Yes, true! My pain! I started banished just two days ago, and boy! It's killing me mentally. I often watched some banished gameplay and I thought I can do it. When I started playing, first gameplay, my people died because of starvation (I don't know how to gather food and I did have a fishing dock but was not enough. (I also forgot that there's a gathering hut)), so they died. I watched a gameplay again and noticed that they put two gathering hut first before forester and herb something (because I build the herbalist first because my poor mind thought it also gather food). I did it in my second time, they still died, BECAUSE I DIDN'T BUILD MORE HOUSES AND JUST BUILD FIVE AND NOW THE KIDS HAVE GROWN AND THE ADULT HAVE DIED OF OLD AGE! They all died of old age, I tried building more houses but was too late, the Childs that have become adult is already 30+ and didn't birth to another offspring. Yes, they didn't starve but still died on natural causes. The third time, I got my lesson. BUT! they still died, I overpopulated them and my food decreases instantly. I hope this toturial would help me.
the third time, I also rushed the school, that's why I don't have much laborer. I just realized how important the laborer in the game. And I rushed the housing, mining and trader that killed my town. I think the trade really did kill me, because I trade the foods. Hope this would help new commers too. Don't rush the school in the first years until you have enough laborers or workers. You can start building church for the people's happiness, as long as you have enough stone resources, and cemetery, so that the people that died of old age can be buried, you can build it big.
the number of times i've gone from 600 people (90%+ educated), 100k+ food 10k+ tools and wood... to everyone starving because i accepted 20-50 nomads... this game is brutally difficult even on the easiest start mode. (and that's a good thing for the type of game it is...)
thank you for making this video i was considering uninstalling this game untill i came across this video it helped alot now i have a funtioning city and its super helpfull thanks
Just got the game and I'd love for you to play again, while streaming so I can watch and learn! There seem to be a lot of deer; isn't there a hunter? Would the fisherman's place be better on a bigger river? why or why not? Thanks
yo i honestly don't know why i biught this game but playing it while watching this video actually hamde it so easy, lowkey felt like i was playing with you lol
The laborers are getting wood and stone. When a normal job person doesn't have work, then he also becomes a temporary laborer (eg, a farmer in the winter time).
i have assigned many builders but none of them are building the blacksmith and my tools are runnning out, pl help they cut the trees , remove stones , iron , build everything else but not blacksmith even if i prioritize that part
... in which case, try fewer builders, more laborers. Prioritizing moves the site to the front of the queue, but delivering materials to site is laborers' work, not in the builders' work queue at all; builders work first on buildings that are ready to go, then on road-making, and only after that turn to helping out the laborers.
@@zedorda1337 Maybe not very clear, i meant it more in general, in real life. I think the word is often in a context i find too pushy/stressing e.t.c. that is why i said it.
IMO the very first tip should be, pause the game while you figure things out , like where things go, what crops to use, etc.
Strategic pause is such an underutilized tool in single-player games that allow it💯!!!
The most important thing to know as a beginner is that the speed control is like alcohol: it will absolutely ruin you if use it too much.
I have a town of 500 that I grew over 85 years at 1x speed. It's meditative and manageable.
85 years IRL? Some of us have things to do.
@@acoupleofgsanrandaneaniandann 85 in-game years.
I have plenty of things to do outside of gaming. Playing Banished is just one of the things I like to do to relax and have fun. I spend 30 minutes, maybe a few hours at a time on managing my town, only playing occasionally. I play other games, as well, and only for a short time in the same way. Over months and years, my save files get complex and I find it to be far less stressful when I find half an hour to watch my town go through a few seasons.
Playing games is not work for me; it's leisure time. I'm not trying to win or beat records in my free time.
Thank you, I will keep this in mind. I've just started playing the game and I started getting overwhelmed within the first hour of playing lol. I'll keep it on slow speed until I get the hand of it.
@@Tinthia82 It makes you think through your decisions which is especially helpful in the early game when mistakes can lead to doom so quickly.
I'm sure you'll have a much more pleasant experience this way!
@@bradchambers5886 I did, thank you! Although I still had a problem with people dying, but what I actually found useful was to build a gatherer's hut.
I've never played a game like this in my life. Did the tutorial and had so many questions, like the farmers per field question which you answered in the first min lol. I'm only 5min into the vid but you've already answered multiple things and taught me multiple things and IU figure I better comment before I get to the end and don't actually leave one. Two years later this vid is still helping people. Much love to you and your family.
Thanks it is one of my all time favs and glad to help
It's a great game, has withstood the test of time for sure. Tons of mods out there when you're tired of vanilla game. One thing to note is the "variety" food aspect, you only need 1 type of food within each of the 4 food groups. Fruit, Veg, Grain and Protein. It's best to only maintain 1 of each so the food spreads more easily. Once you have markets, the vendors will travel all over the map as far as required in order to stock everything in the game. So if you grow beans and cabbage across the map from each other, vendors will travel to each to get some of both. So keep it simple and maintain the 4 foods you need and just repeat the crops, orchards and pastures over and over so each vendor has plenty close. Your vendors will thank you if they could. You can obviously ignore this advice and just provide every option in the game, but it has no advantage whatsoever, yet plenty of disadvantages.
Always consider food options that have multiple uses first. Ie... animals that provide both clothing options and meat. Also foods that can be eaten and also used for ale, etc.
any reason for 7*7？
One thing that I would do differently is not set my firewood limit so high! Youcan always select the “stop work” option and reassign him temporarily as a builder to keep them working. If you don’t reassign him, he will also act as a labourer while he can’t work as a woodcutter. But the problem with setting the limit so high so early is you use up all your wood to make firewood, and you end up with an excess of firewood and a shortage of wood.
Also, if you struggle with clicking the wrong job assignment, you can also directly assign jobs by clicking on the relevant building/field and directly assign the relevant job from that menu as well!
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching the video and I was getting frustrated actually xD , so thank you!!! The woodcutter keeps on working, he becomes a laborer when he hits the limit. 500 firewood when you have just started the market and houses... of course you don´t have enough logs!!!!!!!
Tried 10 times this game before looking for a tutorial. I have to say that you helped me a lot for understanding the mechanics and now I got it. My Town is thriving beyond the points you showed here. Excelent video and great content.
Thank you so much, this is so helpful 🙏
Tysm man for this tutorial
Awesome tutorial, thank you. This will help me a lot, which me luck I'm about to start again lol.
Thanks for the tutorial I learned so much👍
Man, What a tutorial!. Thanks buddy.
My current game reached a population of 4243 people before the game decided that smallpox was on the menu and wiped out roughly 1000 settlers. I'm also running out of forest on the map. So, I'm hoping that the little people figure out they can heat their homes with coal. I started on the hard setting. hunters, farmers, tools, gatherers, and houses were the first things I put in place.
use debug menu, simple lol heheh
@@messiDoMarPe There's a debug menu? I better look into that. thanks.
very well done all praises
For school timing, build when the first child is 9, just keep the info screen for that child up for reference.
Yes, true! My pain! I started banished just two days ago, and boy! It's killing me mentally. I often watched some banished gameplay and I thought I can do it. When I started playing, first gameplay, my people died because of starvation (I don't know how to gather food and I did have a fishing dock but was not enough. (I also forgot that there's a gathering hut)), so they died. I watched a gameplay again and noticed that they put two gathering hut first before forester and herb something (because I build the herbalist first because my poor mind thought it also gather food). I did it in my second time, they still died, BECAUSE I DIDN'T BUILD MORE HOUSES AND JUST BUILD FIVE AND NOW THE KIDS HAVE GROWN AND THE ADULT HAVE DIED OF OLD AGE! They all died of old age, I tried building more houses but was too late, the Childs that have become adult is already 30+ and didn't birth to another offspring. Yes, they didn't starve but still died on natural causes. The third time, I got my lesson. BUT! they still died, I overpopulated them and my food decreases instantly. I hope this toturial would help me.
the third time, I also rushed the school, that's why I don't have much laborer. I just realized how important the laborer in the game. And I rushed the housing, mining and trader that killed my town. I think the trade really did kill me, because I trade the foods. Hope this would help new commers too. Don't rush the school in the first years until you have enough laborers or workers. You can start building church for the people's happiness, as long as you have enough stone resources, and cemetery, so that the people that died of old age can be buried, you can build it big.
@@empressyukii4183 Good tips thx
I like the video style you recorded in.
Thanks for your video.
Glad you liked it!
the number of times i've gone from 600 people (90%+ educated), 100k+ food 10k+ tools and wood... to everyone starving because i accepted 20-50 nomads... this game is brutally difficult even on the easiest start mode. (and that's a good thing for the type of game it is...)
It's a brutal game but one of my favs
thank you for making this video i was considering uninstalling this game untill i came across this video it helped alot now i have a funtioning city and its super helpfull thanks
Enjoyed the tutorial but the layout of your town would jar me so much, gotta make it pretty too!
one tip would be i unassign all the farmers during the winter
thanks for your vid
Appreciate the vid cousin! (No, not literal cousin) bought this game years ago when it came out but never played it
Just got the game and I'd love for you to play again, while streaming so I can watch and learn! There seem to be a lot of deer; isn't there a hunter? Would the fisherman's place be better on a bigger river? why or why not? Thanks
yo i honestly don't know why i biught this game but playing it while watching this video actually hamde it so easy, lowkey felt like i was playing with you lol
Where are houses i this videos, i have them in front of barn around 6 houses, where do i place them if i choose to remove and build new for them
13 year old blacksmith ... Holy Mackerel
Already like this
Fish dock should be on the lake you get more fish
Yeah, that river placement irked me. The more water within the circle, the better.
Any idea what the seed is for this map? Great video by the way:)
I will see if I can find that
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@@sbatomic1210 much appreciated thank you
Just a quick question that I am lacking understanding. If everyone is assigned a job, who is out collecting the wood and stone? Did I miss something?
The laborers are getting wood and stone. When a normal job person doesn't have work, then he also becomes a temporary laborer (eg, a farmer in the winter time).
"beginning tutorial"
"47 minutes long"
"PART 1"
oh boy 😳
It's overly long and he waffles on about too much stuff while simultaneously making mistakes and not knowing the UI. Very bad tutorial TBH.
@@shoailwaniya yep, doesnt know UI, yet does a tutorial, What a joke
Left assigning extract resources to 9 minutes in. HOW?
In my pc this game have no sound what shoud I do now please tell me
Thank god you started by saying it is intense.
I found this on a list for "easy beginner city builders" which was obviously a lie Lol.
What is this seed?
i think they change the game, now i can't make labors do more the 1 work so if you have 7 farmes you can't have 4 fisherman. you need to chose
Nice vid
forgot houses n fishing! u dont always need select in the box u can select the building n assign
they should've changed the question mark symbol to a person symbol or something else
i have assigned many builders but none of them are building the blacksmith and my tools are runnning out, pl help they cut the trees , remove stones , iron , build everything else but not blacksmith even if i prioritize that part
You are probably missing a material needed for the building.
... in which case, try fewer builders, more laborers. Prioritizing moves the site to the front of the queue, but delivering materials to site is laborers' work, not in the builders' work queue at all; builders work first on buildings that are ready to go, then on road-making, and only after that turn to helping out the laborers.
@@RSimpkinuk57 appreciate the reply but i left the game due that problem months ago
my builders aren'rt building blacksmith pl help
So everything is very, very important and very, very critical, if I’m following you, right? ;)
LOL btw I need to play that game again I miss it
i like your tiny farms. probably not the most efficient, but they look nice.
Efficiency is overrated, have it viable (profitable) and take a load of.
@@zedorda1337 Maybe not very clear, i meant it more in general, in real life. I think the word is often in a context i find too pushy/stressing e.t.c. that is why i said it.
Lol
Citizen is the big problem frim this games...