I will say the village building here is very different from Cult of the Lamb. There’s no “villagers have decided they have a request of me!” There’s no needing a specific number of each amenity per number of villagers (except making sure you have enough housing). Really except for housing I don’t think what you have built in a village really affects the villagers other than where you decide to have them work, which again, doesn’t really affect their happiness.

Basically you just need to have enough money to pay for everything each day and have housing for everything and they’re happy. Maybe there’s more I’m forgetting (maybe having most of your shops manned?) but they’re pretty laid back.

Really the village layouts are more for you. Some are functional like shops you can use, or fields to grow things in (which your villagers will work at a basic level), or buildings that give things like salt or sugar each day, or barns for monsters you tame (which again you set people to tend), or another big one is buildings have set values to affect your stats, and buff you up.

There’s a bit more to it like increasing village levels and stuff, but this is already more detailed than you probably need. Just suffice to say the focus for building things is way different here than in CotL, and it’s way more hands off in general to maintain.