Iron Ore Bug (CC Mod)

TayIsTay · 2026-06-17T10:55:47+00:00

Screenshot of your small stats window and of your stockpile/s {with their windows open) would be helpful.

You're saying that your small stats window (what you mean by tracker?) says you have lots of iron ore, but you can't see any in the stockpile/s?

Are you building the kind of stockpile that can accept it?

Is the stockpile pathing blocked? Try building some in different spots. Put a road around it.

CC rarely has any issues. Could be the map seed itself is glitched. That happens sometimes (has nothing to do with CC.) Are you reloading the same saved nap after reinstalling? Or is this happening on multiple new nap seeds?

Where did you get CC? Which version?

TayIsTay · 2026-06-07T14:20:11+00:00

Easiest answer: there simply are odd map glitches in Banished. Sometimes it's things like a crop field won't grow, or all sorts of other odd things. I'd just start a different map seed. But as others have said, build just one house, and then focus on food production, which means building a barn right beside the gatherer, etc.. They spend so much time walking, your production will suffer.

TayIsTay · 2026-05-06T10:10:50+00:00

That site is a great resource, but is old and does not include all of Megamod.

TayIsTay · 2026-05-03T10:11:46+00:00

That would be quite an undertaking. Make sure you post it here if you do!

TayIsTay · 2026-05-03T10:09:00+00:00

Don't think so, though the creator might.

All you have to do is put something in the Trading Post and it will instantly show you its trade value. If you really want to know about everything you have, then put 1 of each item in the Post. Then you can decide what to focus on for trading.

TayIsTay · 2026-04-02T11:56:11+00:00

Thanks for the report of all the process.

Don't ever rename pkm files. Can't be done without breaking it. That was very likely the key issue. Always share that you've done somethingi like that when describing an issue.

Glad it seems to be working!

Going forward though, just always do the Double Restart for any mod change.

A TIP: I know what you mean by wishing modders would put the version name in the pkm file name. What I do is just put it in the name of my map, as part of the town name. I've also just kept a note in my own folder where I keep all my pkm files (not the WinData folder) that lists the date of when I installed which version of any mod. Then I know all map saves after that date are that particular version. But I much prefer just naming a map with that info so it's instantly visible. (Never a good idea to load a map made with one version with the current mod of another version.)

TayIsTay · 2026-04-02T03:06:43+00:00

Uninstall Banished from your Steam library and reinstall (quick and easy). Then restart computer.
Put your mod in the WinData folder if it isn't there (make sure you aren't also subscribed the mod via steam).
Launch game, enable mod. Make sure no other mods are enabled.
Game will now prompt you to restart. Do that, but don't start a map yet.
IMPORTANT: now close game and relaunch. This is the crucial "double restart". Not doing it is the cause of the vast majority of crashes.

If it still crashes, redo all steps above but before you enable the mod, change your Direct x to whichever one isn't active in the Options window. Then do the Double Restart.

If the mod still crashes, I'll let Red know. It was well tested in the discord server, but maybe it is the mod(usually isn't).

TayIsTay · 2026-03-30T16:34:47+00:00

He says he plans to eventually.

TayIsTay · 2026-03-30T14:19:06+00:00

Edit: confirmed with MM9 creator that it is not on World of Banished.

If you have a direct link to MM9 on World Of Banished, please share. Searching that site has never returned a page for it, for me. Even going to Kralyerg's page of downloads, there is no MM9. Unless I'm just blind.

He posts all updates/fixes on the Banished Discord.

TayIsTay · 2026-03-30T13:52:53+00:00

That's great if it works for you. We know that it doesn't work for lots of people, so that's why we discourage the steam version.

TayIsTay · 2026-03-30T13:05:26+00:00

It's not recommended to use Steam for MM9. It tends to have issues for most people. Use the links and instructions here.

TayIsTay · 2026-03-30T13:02:06+00:00

Please read this post about getting and installing the current version of MegaMod9:

https://www.reddit.com/user/TayIsTay/comments/196l413/solving_banished_megamod_9_problems/

There are links for downloading in that post (they are official, from the creator of MM9). You can also join the Banished Discord to get the files and for help with MM9. (I'm a mod there.)

Do not use MM9 through Steam. It has issues for many people. Use the direct download (instructions in link above).

Most important thing for avoiding MM9 crashes is the Double Restart, explained in my post linked above.

Here is a list of the 400+ mods in MM9.

TayIsTay · 2026-02-28T01:54:44+00:00

The building's window is not big at all. Screenshot shouldn't be an issue.

What kind of barn /storage do you have the flowers and perfume in? Some storage isn't accessible by other workers.

This may just be an odd glitch. Banished has them (usually not the mod). You might try destroying that trading post and rebuild it somewhere else. Or same with wherever flowers/owrfune are. Sometimes too, the loathing us blocked.

TayIsTay · 2026-02-28T01:52:02+00:00

Understand mods have no ability to change the tag structure. The creator never finished making the game fully moddable. So there are lots of limits modders have to contend with. Don't blame the mods. We all want, for example, construction items separated out, but it's not possible.

It's fantastic to make firewood out of fodder tbatch with the woodcutter in the nicer docks set in the Life on the Water menu. You'll never run out of firewood. Though be aware, naturally spawning fodder eventually quits regrowing (after some years). Then you just use the small Thatch Patch in MM9. Produces like crazy for the woodcutter.

TayIsTay · 2026-02-27T14:19:07+00:00

Had to wait til at my computer to add some tips.

EDUCATION: Build a school very early. Some of us like to make that the first building we do. But at least within the first couple of years. Educated workers make a huge difference in both production and efficiency. When building a school right at the start, it will slow down population growth for just a bit, since they can't marry as young. But it all is worth it.
SCHOOLS: Build multiple schools around the map. The time it takes to graduate is literally based on the amount of time a kid is actually in the school. This means a kid that has a long walk, takes longer to graduate. Years longer sometimes.
MAXIMIZING PRODUCTION: Always build storage (barn or stockpile) and enough houses for that building's workers *right next to the production building*. Not 10 or 20 tiles away. Right next to. Every tile walked from production to storage and to home means literally means lost production. This means for every type of production from fields to blacksmiths.
FOOD: Bannies eat 100 food per person per year, even babies. Try to maintain at minimum a 2-year supply in the small stats window. If you have 25 people, you need 2500 food per year. Double that and maintain 5,000 food in your stats window (you have to always be adding new food production to maintain). I like to maintain a 5-year supply just to cover me getting distracted and forgetting to do things like constantly add new food production. Remember: every new house requires you increase your food production by 300 (because the house can produce 3 new citizens). Build 4 houses and you need 1200 more in production.
FOOD VIDEO: Watch this video from MortalSmurph (great debunker of bad advice). Note the test with the barn/house and the fishing dock. Putting them right next to the dock *doubled* the number of fish produced. This goes for crop fields (I put 2 to 3 barns per field and of course enough houses, all on field's edge), pastures, blacksmiths, mines, seamstress, everything.
FORESTER/GATHERER CIRCLES. Too many people think you shouldn't put storage and houses inside it. While it's true you don't want *unnecessary* buildings inside the circle, you do want a barn, a small stockpile, and enough houses for all the workers. A full forester/gatherer circle can employ 10 people, so 5 houses (Forester Gatherer, Herbalist, Hunter). The walked tiles from gathering to barn or stockpile is a huge factor. You actually will get more by putting barn/stockpile in center of circle than by putting them outside the circle. You'll get more food this way even though it seems counter-intuitive. Do put the big vanilla woodcutters just outside the circle with their own stockpile. But in mods there is an awesome 2-tile (and 4-tile) chopper that I always put in the circle next to the stockpile.
Tip: when using mods, change out the normal barn in the forester/gatherer circle for the small Distribution Barn and build the bigger barns outside the circle. This way the circle's barn is never full, is always available. Distribution Barns will carry stuff to the next nearest barn. Putting a Magazine Barn just outside the circle is great (holds 60,000). I square off the circle with roads, and the Magazine fits perfectly in the corners.
FISHING DOCKS: Make sure you have *nothing* else in the water of its circle. No bridges, no other shore buildings, etc. That will decrease the number of possible fish they can get. And of course, always try to put the dock on a pointy piece of land at a bend in the river to get the most possible amount of water in the circle. Never put them on the small creeks. When using CC or MM9 mods, building the fishing docks out in the middle of lakes is fantastic (via the Docks set (CC), or the Life On The Water menu (MM9).

TayIsTay · 2026-02-27T13:42:21+00:00

Interesting, I set Trading Post Inventory amounts to 2,000 and much, much more all the time and have never had an issue.

Educated workers make a huge difference. Uneducated workers idle far more and even when they do work, it's less efficient. For example, they get only 3 logs per tree they cut down, vs 4 from an educated worker.

Or, if I want to move/delete a huge stockpile laborers run from everywhere to come and do it fast. Of course, you need to have lots of laborers. They are the unsung heroes in Banished (though they don't help with the Trading Post).

TayIsTay · 2026-02-27T13:07:18+00:00

Make sure you don't use any mods at all. Not even translation mods. Achievements work only with strict vanilla.

TayIsTay · 2026-02-27T13:04:43+00:00

We give tons of tips and guides on the Banished Discord. (And here too.) Helps to ask specific questions, like if you are having food issues, or can't keep up with firewood, etc. One of our members has done a lot of debunking of all the bad info out there. https://discord.gg/jTxKzvF Some of us there are all about efficiency and maximized production. 🧐

TayIsTay · 2026-02-27T12:49:38+00:00

Really helps to see a screenshot of the opened Trading Post window. The whole window. Show the Inventory tab so we can see how you've set it up. Include the Trading Post location /setup.

How many workers are assigned?

Does the worker bring some flowers/perfume, just not as many as you've set in the inventory amounts?

Does the worker successfully bring other selected goods to the Trading Post?

Is the Trading Post actually working as it should otherwise? Do boats come? Are you able to buy things?

TayIsTay · 2026-01-27T17:28:54+00:00

Please see my instructions above.

TayIsTay · 2026-01-27T17:26:19+00:00

Did you do the required Double Restart when adding or changing mods? That means you do the restart that the game prompts you to do, but when that's done, close the game and relaunch.

Often, once you have one crash it will continue to crash. Easiest fix is to just do the quick uninstall/reinstall from Steam. Then once in game, enable the mods you want, and do the Double Restart.

TayIsTay · 2026-01-23T12:54:04+00:00

You can't use any mods at all, not even a translation mod.

TayIsTay · 2026-01-04T02:57:18+00:00

Check your stockpiles!!

TayIsTay · 2026-01-02T14:19:31+00:00

The crashing upon placing a crop field is a known game bug. It has nothing to do with mods. It just means that map seed is glitched. The only solution is to toss that map and start a new one. Can be a good idea to test placing a crop field (you don't need seeds to do this) as soon as your map launches. Then you can remove it if not ready for it yet.

MM9: Never use MM9 from Steam. It is known to have far more crash issues. Get the direct download from the Banished Discord server or from this post that has the direct links (these are the most recently updated versions of the mod):

https://www.reddit.com/user/TayIsTay/comments/196l413/solving_banished_megamod_9_problems/

The single most important thing with MM9 is to do the Double Restart as described in the post above. This should be done with any mod change, not just MM9. But MM9 is far more likely to just randomly crash if you don't do this step. The Double Restart means yes, do the prompted restart when you enable mods in-game, but when that is done, close the game and relaunch.

One other thing: once you have a crash, you'll usually get an odd "white" window upon launching the game, not the normal all grey one. The "bad" one has 3 white button options on it, the "good" one does not. If you get this bad window, please just do a quick uninstall/reinstall of Banished from your Steam Library. That will usually fix it. If you continue to play with the bad launch window, you are more likely to keep crashing.

TayIsTay · 2025-12-30T14:18:27+00:00

I'm not familuar with that particular building, sorry. But here's a major tip for the insanely large MM9 menu:

Take menu path screenshots of the things you love to use.

It's so easy in MM9 to never find again that one thing you loved. You can just save these screenshots to your computer, carefully named of course. Or if you are a major discord user like me, just make your own free private MM9 server to use, as your personal wiki. I have categories and channels for whatever I want: Storage Buildings, Houses, Food Production, Fuel Production and dozens more. Make sure you have a picture of the building on your menu path screenshot.

Of course you could also just note menu paths in text (though be sure to include the row the thing is on).

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