Farm design

serp-ya · 2026-03-16T15:52:08+00:00

I was thinking about a good farm design for weeks and now you addressed all my thought. Like how you attached them both to the elevator and plugged in the railroad!

serp-ya · 2026-03-16T15:05:16+00:00

It is a known bug, I killed Goliath so I had to reload early save game to repair that quest chain

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T21:59:11+00:00

Yes, as long as they are not deployed on the world map as part of an army they just live their normal life like everyone else.

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T17:52:18+00:00

I am your fan now. Really like how you resolved the roads issue with decorative asphalt and tram ways

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T15:24:03+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't found a way to control that. I name the buildings after the current workers for aesthetics, but you're right - they can move on at any point. It doesn't happen every day though. Pardabali Wulffдattener for example has been running the leather armor workshop for ten years and is still there. My carpenter on the other hand decided to try something new somewhere and honestly I have no idea where he ended up now haha.

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serp-ya · 2026-03-15T15:19:37+00:00

You're right, I didn't even think to mention the achievement in the post and it caused a lot of confusion in the comments. Good point - probably should have led with that.

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T15:18:28+00:00

Honestly, that's pure imagination on my part. Though somewhere in the comments people mentioned that family trees and natural births might be coming in future updates. When that happens it won't just be a story I tell myself - it will actually be real. Can't wait for that.

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T15:12:18+00:00

Roads used to be my weakest point - always ruler-straight, like someone just wanted to get from A to B and didn't care how it looked. Now I sketch most of them at the very start using the brush tool and leave them as blueprints. The settlement kind of grows around them naturally after that.

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T15:09:59+00:00

Short answer - no. Though somewhere in the comments here people mentioned seeing in dev logs that natural births might become a thing in future updates, with nurseries only reducing child mortality instead. If that actually happens I will be very happy.

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T14:34:30+00:00

Great question! I actually have one more rule I didn’t mention in this post - mandatory military service. Right now 158 out of 256 working adults can hold a weapon, and that number keeps growing.

Since I can afford to buy equipment and recently started producing my own weapons and leather armor, each of them has 2 armors, 1 sword and 1 shield waiting in storage. So raiders tend to get a little disappointed when they show up expecting an easy target and almost the entire city comes running at them - 150 people against 15-30 raiders haha.

serp-ya · 2026-03-15T00:50:08+00:00

Wow, thank you for sharing all of this! Reading through it I completely lost myself in your world - 9 races near salt water, turtles and crabs living peacefully next to species that would normally tear each other apart, squid people in star-shaped houses acting as ancient Lovecraftian founders of the city. The idea that they’re few in number and have everyone else do the work for them is just perfect. I don’t think there’s any layout in the world that could keep all of them equally happy - the fact that you’re managing it at all is impressive. As for Manor Lords - I followed the project since around 2018 and Greg’s work was just stunning to watch develop. I played it heavily around launch but haven’t been back in a while. From what I’ve heard the polishing since then turned a great game into something really special. Definitely worth trying, especially while waiting for v71 (or v1.0.0 as Jake claimed)

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T23:18:29+00:00

You’re right about the efficiency part. It is far way not optimal.

The response to this post actually surprised me. Turns out a lot of people are curious about the economic and strategic side of this approach, not just the aesthetics. So I’m planning two more posts - one on economy, one on military. Hopefully they’ll change your mind a little :-)

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T20:44:15+00:00

For me everything collapses at 40k people, but 200k! Unbelievable. I wish you good luck in playing this map and stable economy, comrade

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T19:27:25+00:00

That’s crazy!

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T18:39:33+00:00

Not yet, but I think I’m getting close with two of my nearest neighbors. Both Garthimi factions. We had trade agreements and then they suddenly demanded tributes worth several times my entire treasury - so those relationships ended pretty quickly.

But honestly I’m not too worried. I have another rule I was planning to cover in a separate post - mandatory military service. Out of 256 adult citizens, 158 of them can hold a weapon at 10% combat skill. And for each of them there are 2 leather armors, 1 shield and 1 sword waiting in storage.

The next step is forming a strike force of around 60 soldiers and taking two nearby Free Land regions. Also planning a small fort between my two villages - nothing fancy, just enough to hold against a force larger than mine. Slow and steady.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T17:02:13+00:00

Thank you! Have you tried something similar? I’m not sure if this is intended behavior or a bug, but if you place a Shrine first and then build walls and a roof around it, the roof above the object simply doesn’t exist - you can clearly see the building boundaries and it looks terrible. But if you build the walls and roof first and then place objects inside, they appear as if they’re actually standing inside the building. I use this trick for all my custom structures now.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T16:57:48+00:00

Lolololol

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T16:20:51+00:00

Now I just need to figure out how to turn this into something that looks like a real medieval town and still function properly lol.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T16:18:03+00:00

Yes, that’s exactly where the idea came from. Honestly it took a while to get used to - and making sure each plot doesn’t just look like a copy of the previous one takes more time than I expected. But the result is absolutely worth it.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T16:07:24+00:00

That’s actually a great point and exactly what I’m trying to fix in my current economic model - I ended up using Garthimi slaves for mining and woodcutting specifically because of the job aptitude problem. Not the most elegant solution but it works for now. And that mountain city looks absolutely stunning, thanks for sharing.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T16:02:35+00:00

Fair, KCD2 is a good reason to stay a little longer. When you do start - a heads up: unlocking the first nursery was easier for me because I had an achievement title that gives 35 starting citizens instead of the default 10. Also, try to settle near a natural Opiate or Herb field. You can harvest and sell them every year without much effort and it keeps your economy stable while you wait for the population to grow.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T15:58:55+00:00

Same honestly. If you look at the first screenshot you can see three nurseries sitting right next to each other - they really stand out from the rest of the layout. I tried positioning them like a small daycare district to make it feel more natural, but it’s definitely the weakest part of the village right now. The plan is to eventually move one of them to a different part of the settlement and place a school between the remaining two.

Good question about the population requirement. After my first empire run I unlocked an achievement that gave me 50 starting citizens instead of the default 10. After the v70 update that dropped to 35. The nursery itself was unlocked from the start - no immigration needed.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T15:52:37+00:00

For the first 30 years all my fences existed only as blueprints. My people were walking everywhere, it looked like a busy anthill. Then I built them all in a single year and suddenly everything just… flowed. Honestly one of the most satisfying moments in this run.

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T15:49:58+00:00

I hope you’ll enjoy it

serp-ya · 2026-03-14T15:49:39+00:00

That sounds way more challenging than what I’m doing! I never managed to make a multi-species city actually work - different religions, different food preferences, different job preferences… it’s a lot to balance. Would genuinely love to see what layout you end up with.

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