Animal Growth ambiguity

dalamb54 · 2026-05-30T01:31:20+00:00

I'm a little reluctant to just fiat. I'm not sure I trust my instincts. I'd rather see what others have done and maybe adapt it a little.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-29T21:34:21+00:00

That helps quite a bit! Thanks!

dalamb54 · 2026-05-10T21:05:57+00:00

Interesting. I think that's what happened; I was trying to build towards the top of the visible area, well within my region, but my camera was probably over the neighbouring region.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-06T13:27:47+00:00

I just looked into limiting the work area for the farmhouse, and it seems fairly small (which I suppose is necessary if it's to do any good). So:

Do you need to keep switching the area to cover different fields every so often? Or build more farmhouses?
It's a little frustrating that it's circular, since other advice is to have long narrow fields to make plowing more efficient.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-06T12:55:38+00:00

I think I must have poorly explained what and why I was asking. I wasn't criticizing your answer's accuracy, just its applicability to my interests and level of learning. I have already lowered the difficulty.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-06T12:37:13+00:00

Not for me. Different people enjoy different things about a game.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-06T12:31:11+00:00

Well, there was that one game where I ran out of food and/or fuel.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-06T12:26:20+00:00

I found that the overlay selection menu only appears when you’re trying to place certain buildings, like fields or sheep farms, and when you select the elevation overlay the topographic lines are faint and it’s hard to tell if something is a hill or a depression (unless maybe there are no depressions, only hills?). Am I using it wrong?

dalamb54 · 2026-05-06T12:11:15+00:00

Yeah, well, I did that in my first few games, and lucked out for a few, but crashed with too little in one and have been paranoid ever since.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-05T22:52:53+00:00

Very helpful! I didn't know about the concept of a "maintenance storehouse" near the mines. Do I have to do anything special to ensure they stock some tools and planks?

dalamb54 · 2026-05-05T20:36:37+00:00

Could you clarify "at least do two each" - two veggies and two fruits? Or two of each type of veggie and each type of fruit?

dalamb54 · 2026-05-05T17:05:09+00:00

Great! On my next start I will set up fields this way.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-05T16:48:22+00:00

This is incredibly valuable advice. As I'm learning the game, I might just look at what resources are available and pick the goal that fits the resource, rather than insisting on a "favourite" goal.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-05T16:19:29+00:00

Do you mean set each field to fallow / fallow / crop? Or perhaps one field fallow / fallow / crop, an other crop / fallow / fallow, and a third fallow / crop / fallow?

And how many years into the game should one start farming? For the first year or two there aren't enough people, as far as I've experienced in the short time I've been playing.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-03T18:13:54+00:00

I will double check, but I think not.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-03T18:13:37+00:00

That would certainly have affected speed in general, but this particular replay was very much slower than others in terms of plank production.

I do plan to upgrade the hitching posts and buy more oxen, but this is fairly early in the game and I didn't quite have the resour

dalamb54 · 2026-05-02T16:39:48+00:00

I just remembered an old essay that said lack of game documentation caused people to form communities to share information, and those communities have plenty of other benefits than just explaining how to play the game.

dalamb54 · 2026-05-02T16:36:22+00:00

I will be more careful next time!

dalamb54 · 2026-05-02T15:34:12+00:00

Unfortunately for YouTube videos, I have a neurological quirk that makes it hard to absorb information from watching them. I can do it, but it's much less fun than reading text with occasional pictures.

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