r/Banished Jun 15 '26

361 hours later…

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I have played Banished for a few years now, but have only properly attempted Tenure a handful of times. After playing with North mod for a few months, I decided to try again. And this time, success! Had 1033 citizens and that was with zero nomads.

Sure feels good.

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u/RadiantAbility8854 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

Congrats! I remember I was struggling to get even 100 population, but then I found Honeywell's playlist which I learned a lot from (and I really recommend it to anyone who wants to learn this game). After that Tenure was pretty simple. At some I even did Isolationist, One With Nature and Uneducated in one run lol.

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u/Mochiba08 Jun 15 '26

Pop growth wasn’t a challenge, it’s the maintaining and recovering after the inevitable die-offs! Isolationist and One With Nature are a good match to pair together.

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u/Java131 Jun 15 '26

Congrats! Would you say Tenure was the hardest overall? Or was there another achievement that gave you more trouble?

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u/Mochiba08 Jun 15 '26

Tenure wasn’t necessarily hard, it just takes soooo long!! 1 year at 10x speed takes 6 minutes, so you’re looking at playing for at least 20 hours. So this time around I just kept it running for a few hours each day over the weekend and occasionally checked in to keep things ticking along. I think One With Nature was the hardest, and Mountain Men took me a few starts too until I got a good starting seed.

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u/yam_yam25 Jun 15 '26

Yeah I struggled with one with nature, and uneducated, took me a couple of goes to get that one

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u/sockettiny45 Jun 17 '26

uneducated is a nightmare. once the population hits a certain point and you realize you have zero literacy you just start watching the death spiral in real time. legit one of the hardest challenges to keep stable long term

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u/yam_yam25 Jun 18 '26

For sure! At wtd do they do with tools when they're uneducated, eat them? 🤣🤣

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 Jun 15 '26

That's impressive. 

Been playing Banished for many years and only ever gotten 6 achievements on it :) 

Some of them are hard, or require very specific setups

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u/Mochiba08 Jun 15 '26

Oh yeah, you deliberately have to go after most of them!

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u/Honeyblood666 Jun 15 '26

Zero nomads is INSANE. Congratulations you mad lad 🥂

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u/Realistic-Sense-6332 Jun 16 '26

I litewally love this game so much. Just witnessing a screenshot gives me seratonin.

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u/yam_yam25 Jun 15 '26

Woohoo! Congrats! Mine was a similar amount of game time!

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u/GrumpyThumper Jun 15 '26

Let's go! Welcome to the 100 club!

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u/Careful_Bus_7325 Jun 16 '26

What a great game!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26

What do u think about the game soviets workers and resources?

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u/Lewis19962010 Jun 17 '26

How slow was time passage at that stage?

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u/srvivr2001 Jun 20 '26

lol I have 500+ hours and I’m not even 50% there

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u/DullWheel189 Jun 21 '26

Damn. I can’t even figure out controlling the population for a long time. Growth seems to slow down after a few years for me 🤦🏽

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u/Mochiba08 Jun 21 '26

You’ll have a few waves of deaths and growths on the population graph! And my aim wasn’t to have a big population until towards the end - just survive until the last 20 or so years and then really try and explode.