This adds a new level to Banished that many city-builder games don’t include. In such an instance you’ll need to build such buildings and a forester to replant trees, a quarry to find stone in the ground, and mines to collect stone and coal from mountains. But as time goes on you’ll find yourself cutting down all the tress and breaking apart all the rocks, leaving you dry without any resources to continue building. You’ll notice that especially early on, you will find all the resources you need simply by collecting what is in the area. You can choose which types of items to make from the buildings that make them You can make hide coats using the leather collected from the hunting cabin, or wool coats using wool produced from a flock of sheep, but if you mix the two together you’ll have a warm coat that lasts long so your workers can work in the cold longer. Iron tools are made from logs and stone, while steel tools add coal and last much longer. Do you want to be one with nature and simply gather all of your food from surrounding areas, or would you rather be a purely agriculture driven town that grows all of its own food? The various ways to collect food allow you to decide how your town will grow.įor tools and coats you first have to decide which type you’ll be making, choosing which materials to use in order to do so. This allows you to focus on what you want to focus on. Food can also be collected from the rivers and ponds using fishing docks, as well as from hunting with a hunting cabin and farming with various seeds and trees and livestock, the amount of which you start with depends on your difficulty setting. With any building that has a circle you want to make sure that you avoid placing two of the same buildings in the area or you run the risk of over-using the area, actually decreasing your productivity rather than increasing it.

The people who work here will gather berries, roots, onions, etc. The most profitable, and what you should focus on early on, is gathering from the surrounding area using a gatherer’s hut. A yellow circle will appear telling you what areas are under effect by the buildingįood can be gained from many different resources.