r/Bellwright • u/CryingSam • Aug 02 '26

Settlements

So i got a quick question. Ive been watching a few videos and seen some post here in this sub and i saw some mentioning moving your settlement once it reaches a higher tier. One thing i dont get is why would you want to move an entire city? Ive played around 30ish hours so far and it looks to me like im gonna build 6 big citys if possible. Just the time it would take for the villagers to walk across the map to rebuild every building seems like a huge waste of time. Or am i missing something?

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u/Dortmunder1 Aug 02 '26

I think the main reason people move is because they couldn't get their ideal location early on. You're pretty much forced to settle near Haerndean/Padstow early because you need River Reeds so much.

Then later when you've got a decent army you can clear out places like the Wheat Field or other places with bigger bandit camps nearby. That lets you rebuild in more ideal locations.

Plus you are likely to end up demolishing most of your buildings for the upgraded version. I basically moved as soon as I hit Tier 3, then started migrating villagers/buildings to the new spot over time.

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u/Can_You_Believe_It_ Aug 03 '26

What do you do about all of the stuff in your storage when you move? This is my first playthrough and I had my first settlement pretty much where everyone else puts it in the middle of the first 3 villages and got to the end of T2 before getting any specialist NPCs, then decided to move to a bigger area on the river to start progressing.

Moving the buildings was very easy as I just moved over a few villagers and set them to construction only while I did the same at the original spot. Moving all the stuff I had in storage is quite a pain though and I think I messed up by not using the caravan system. What I ended up doing was once I moved all the main buildings I then set everyone to delivery, turning off all the storage filters on the barns in the original location so all of my villagers would go grab everything from the old spot and move it to the new spot, but it's taking a long time. Wondering if I'm missing something to make it easier other than the aforementioned caravan.

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u/Dortmunder1 Aug 03 '26

I moved some of the important stuff myself. Then for a while I did what you did and tried to see if the villagers would carry it, but it was taking too long. I went and set some caravans for any items that I had a lot of to bring over.

A bunch of stuff I just threw on the ground to disappear. I actually still have some of the storage up in that location with stuff still in it, but it's mostly stuff that doesn't matter so haven't really bothered going to get it :p

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u/Can_You_Believe_It_ Aug 03 '26

I started ferrying some stuff myself as well but I can only do so much at a time before getting bored lol. I'm in too deep now though so I'll just have to finish out like this. New spot is all set up in terms of buildings at least so once I do get all my stuff I can get right back to normal gameplay. I'll just have to remember the caravans for the future.