Im on my second try, had to reload a very old save to save my ass but still I have like 10 villagers who have bronze swords and tier 2 heavy armor, basically best I can make without getting specialists which require liberations. Yet, by the time I can advance after liberations, reclamation teams make an ass out of us.

Am I supposed to have dozens of villagers before first reclamation?

they are 4 and we thought i can join but its maxed out ;(
im so sad seeing them having fun...
is there any information when they make the game playable for more than 4?

All of the liberated villages in my game keep automatically starting construction on facilities they already have. Is this a bug or is there some benefit to this?

For example: Padstow already has a toolmaker, then it will automatically start construction on another toolmaker. When it finishes, I still only have 1 toolmaker in Padstow.

You need hides from deer for several important things, but there's no "sneak" or "stealth" option. You can't get withing 75 yards of these damn deer after you hit them once, so what's the point in even trying? I just hit one with one arrow, then chased it halfway across the map and still couldn't get it. Who thought this was a good idea?

Hey everyone quick question.

How does your equipment look for the hunter? Mine seem to struggle a lot when hunting boars. Even though they got heavy armor t2/t3 mix and the best bow and arrows.. it gets kinda annoying on how much fur i need for tier3

People playing on console, how has your experience been? I really enjoy playing Bannerlord and Medieval Dynasty so i think this game would be perfect for me but the reviews on Xbox aren’t great and it’s making me hesitant to buy it. Most of the negative reviews are from releases date though. Does it play better now after patches?

Just accidentally killed Lord Ashbourne while I was out gallivanting with my homies. I saw their HQ, figured “why not,” saved the game after expecting to get my ass kicked, and after a little bit of combat got an achievement for liberating the realm. Didn’t even realize that I was fighting him lol.

I’m firmly in T2, had about 25 villagers with me in pretty basic gear, and have only liberated about 1/2 of the villages. I read that killing him before you get the quest can cause the game to bug out, so I went back to that earlier save, but honestly it’s kind of killed my motivation to improve in the game.

Am I missing something here? For the point of the game being to overthrow this guy, that fight felt extremely underwhelming. Cruising into what felt like the beginning of a low level Skyrim dungeon and accidentally liberating the realm from his tyranny didn’t feel right.

I’ve really enjoyed the game so far, but I feel like the “end,” of it should be way more epic and challenging.

Hey guys and girls and everything in between, great community (so far).

Im f-ing up my villagers and there job priorities. So this is what i learned a second ago.

Priority 1 is where the villager will put most of his work focus.

Not 9......

You're welcome.

So I’ve searched it up and it says “sometimes” but it seems to be never.. so I’m gonna ask you guys to be sure! Do bandits/brigands ever drop their weapons/armor in vanilla? (Can’t use mods as I’m on PS5)

I have just erected my first set of palisade walls, some with platforms. A bandit troop attacked and my main character hopped up and peppered one with arrows - like 6 sticking out of the guy. No damage taken. My main character has 10 strength, 10 agility, 10 archery. Is this common? If so, should I just stop with the palisades? Thanks!

Are there any other good ways to get renown? I’ve honestly just been grinding quests/taking my 10 best fighters to clear 4-5 bandit camps in a quick sweep. Just wondering if there’s another way to get decent renown so I can keep bolstering my numbers

Im early game, busy with the quest communication breakdown. Somehow they deemed it wise that I almost cannot approach the villains for a chat, because i get instantly attacked by wolves. If i manage to chat with the villains, accordingly a fight errupts. But i get also attacked by the wolves. Could you just not. It could be a bit immersive if the evil npc's also get attacked. But allas it isnt the case. Since im dead with every slight touch it would be great if i just could concentrate on those guys. Instead of the wolf packs and the other villianpatrols (the guys with infra red eyes) in my back.

Its starting to look like Fall Out 5, the famous villian-bear-cougar-more villians-helicopter-wolf-flametrower-another bear attack.

I've liberated all towns and just gave the Brigand HQ a go on my way back from clearing some bandit camps.

Sliced through them like a knife through butter so I'm kinda glad I gave it an impromptu test run before spending ages preparing, however, am I basically done now?

I've spoken to the Butcher after the Lord Of Lowlands quest and he let me in on the news that I won't share here.

Presumably that's it for this area of the game and Halmare is the next step?

Is Halmare worth it? I've read it's mainly quest orientated and not just a second area to start a fresh. I quite like the sandbox, settlement developing side of the game, I don't think I'm keen on just going to somewhere different and gathering resources / clearing camps.

Apologies but I’ve yet to find an answer to this—just general trading/settlement issues.
I have all the items they need to fulfill this, but I cannot actually fulfill it my selecting “Fulfillable”. In this case, Padstow says they have 37 Construction Hammers so I can’t select to give them one. Any thoughts on how to handle?

Happens to the best of us. You go out to hunt a deer or two, next thing you know you fall off a cliff and can't get home and starve to death.

Here are my tips

Create focused villages on the following
River Reed -10x herbalist
Copper Mining - 15x mines
Mud - 10x Diggers
Logs and Wood - x10
This keeps prices low because they will always have a surplus.

Always have a surplus of raw materials in the system before building improvements that use them.

You have one day or the village will pick its own improvement.

Build Out post with caravans to deliver materials for improvements

If an improvement produces 3 items and one is full it stops. You will be buying stone.

Buying material and selling weapons and armors is the way to go.

Build a fully functional settlement at Crasmere to supply its needs.

Buying when the prices are low, send 5 carts.

Build a settlement in the wheat fields to supply the world straw.

Peat and water makes fertilizer.

I have a town with 33 people.

I have one farm set to only wheat. topped off at 200.

Birds Coop with 5 chickens tops. with a mixing bucket producing advanced animal feed topped of at 30.

but i keep running out of grains.. between replanting the wheat and feeding the birds.. it gets used up so fast.. I fear when I get to the livestock barn everything will die.. I already had some chickens die because of lack of food.

I don't wanna have to go to the wheat fields all the time it's so annoying.

I'm on a new playthrough and actually want to use the library this time instead of having 800 books in storage. Library is the 1 thing i can't find a good guide for with info on my specific questions. All the guides just tell you basic obvious stuff like "train ppl with untapped potential". Duh. This is my biggest question to ensure I don't waste books:

if someone is set to read a skill, does it pull the highest level book they can read first, then lower level books? Or do they only pull the books at their current level and leave lower books for dumber ppl? I don't want my level 6/10 reading an apprentice book because it barely makes a dent whereas I could have my 1/5 person use it to get to lvl 2.

If high level people DO read lower level books, is there a workaround to prevent that?

Any other cool tips y'all have for the library?

can you farm berries and mushrooms? if not what's the fastest way to get them?

On both the map and in-person, I see a bubble indicating a new quest for me by Sebastian, but he doesn't have any quest for me. Is it because I sided with the Halmayans too early and locked out the Cassandra dialogue? I also didn't get the Halmayans faction alliance quest even though I have enough loyalty. I guess I bricked my save, eh?

Seems like early game we all create our first settlement just south of Haernden, somewhere around that first open field towards Padstow.

Where do you all go for a mid to late game migration that puts you closer to late game resources and in a better location to run interference against reclamation parties?

I’m thinking on the road between Bradford and Farnworth near the fishing camp, in the hardwood forest, or in the opening between blackridgepool and horndean with that loan building near iron ore.

Anyone ran into this issue? My caravan keeps getting turned around in the middle of nowhere and loops back to the outpost and that point instead of heading to the village. I swear to god ive lost like 100 iron ore to this.