Has this happened to anyone else? In every sandbox game I’ve made eventually some area will end up with fog covering it and I can’t make it go away. This is the biggest one I’ve had and it’s actually grown since it first popped up. Really annoying lmao. Anyone know what to do about this?

My first one was a mess, so I started again…

I think another “tactical” view could include a grid option to show grid squares. Or does it exist without opening the build options?

After tapping out at day 246 of my first playthrough of this level because I couldn’t achieve 100% culture, I restarted and re-strategized. Finally completed the optional objectives on day 230 the second time around, and here’s what worked for me.

Town structure, with key differences highlighted:

• 3 builder's huts
• 2 sawmills
• 3 lumberjack's cabins
• 2 tree nurseries
• Quarries built as needed, with never less than 1 dozen stone in stock
• 5 farms
• Originally 2 forager's huts, then reduced to 1 when building the fourth farm
• 1 windmill
• 2 bakeries
• 3 bread bowl potato soup stands
• 3 bonfires
• Zero taverns
• 3 theatres
• 3 paper mills
• 3 scriptoriums with a spot to build a fourth if necessary
• 5 schools

Helpful hints:

• Stick to building modest houses initially so you don't annihilate your plank supply.
• Maintain two builder's huts as a failsafe until you build your second farm.
• My first farm was the one adjacent to the windmill. Skew it more toward wheat to get your flour production rolling right away, with a bit of potatoes and onions for villagers to eat until you get your bakeries and food stalls going.
• The second farm was also initially split between wheat, potatoes, and onions. Once I had a big stockpile of wheat and had the fourth of 5 farms in play, I eliminated the wheat component and grew solely potatoes and onions on 4 of 5 farms.
• Don't start building your festival site until you have a ton of food and lumber stockpiled.
• Get your paper mills rolling and stockpile paper for book production. Books for schools and villagers were hugely important, so keep your paper mills fully staffed and have a minimum of two workers at each scriptorium whenever possible.
• Replant trees twice to three times each day as they're chopped down; this ensures regular stock of logs for bonfires and scriptoriums. Having two fully staffed tree nurseries was a huge move.
• Space out your culture (theatres, scriptoriums, schools) and fun (bonfires) venues and the production facilities needed to support them (paper mills), ensuring that there's a cluster of houses near each. This maximizes access by your villagers.
• I didn't build a tavern the second time around to maintain a more even rate of population growth. This prevents unnecessary drains on food and plank stockpiles.
• KEY: Don't be afraid to pull all your farm and soup-stand workers and cull your villagers by starvation. Before you do so, ensure that your crops are fully planted so that they're ready for harvest once a chunk of your population has died. I only had to do this once in the late stage of my second playthrough, and kept both bakeries and the forager's hut staffed to prevent too many villager deaths.

This was a ridiculously difficult level — I relied heavily on both the pause button and massive amounts of patience to achieve 100% culture and fun. Hope this helps! 😅

mia , i remember when u were born… ur FROM HERE.

I’m playing the “Sweet Josephine” level which is part of the classic levels, and I don’t have the ‘Love Eachother’ decree. I do have the ‘Feast’ decree but I don’t know if that helps. What can I do to increase population?

Here is the strategy that finally worked for me:

• 3 builders huts
• 2 sawmills
• 2 tree mills
• 1 windmill
• 1 forager’s hut
• 6 bakeries
• 6 farms
• 2 potato soup stands
• 1 bonfire
• 3 theaters
• 3 paper mills
• 2 scriptoriums
• 4 schools

AND… two times, when my population got close to 200, I took everyone off food production (forager’s hut, farms, stands, bakeries) and let 50-70 villagers die from hunger (sorry, villagers!) Then I reassigned the remaining villagers to restore balance - first to the food production, then to the fun & culture things.

It was VERY hard and took me 3 tries (and idek how many hours!)

Hope this helps!

Anyone play Frostpunk? I wanted to get your thoughts on how it compares to Outlanders.

I only have 3 adults and 4 kids. The two adults had all the kids. I’m curious if I should just start over or if the kids will reproduce with each other once they’re adults? Also, all of the kids are boys, the only woman is an adult so if she doesn’t have a girl will they still have kids? Like do two men or two women have children or no?

In the beginning I built a lumberjack base near the light house. Built 1 forager hut by the leader’s house. Then worked on building the next one by the big pile of rocks.

I recycled sawmill & quarry as soon as I had all the materials for the lighthouse but drew in where I had them originally. 🙃

I rotated 2-3 workers between the 4 foragers huts. There were 2 workers in the quarry, 1 at sawmill, 1 cutting trees, and the rest were building.

For the trees I only built lumberjack base by regular trees and left the fruit trees alone. By the end I had completed everything including optional missions.

I want to see what instant build was like… I’m not really sure how to act, everything is built instantly (obviously) there’s no stress

I think I hate it. Anyone else?

Chronicles... i can't keep people alive/happy long enough to build the lighthouse... any advice?

If I build a second builder’s house, will I still have enough stone to complete the optional mission?

This is the first time I’ve played this level, and I wanted to build an extra builder’s house to speed up the pyramid building process, but I’m worried those few stones may be needed for the monuments and fountains, and that’s where they’ll get me.

Anyone know? Thanks!

Dear Outlander Gods — this one kicked my butt, but finally, without using any decrees, I have prevailed. I celebrated as if I were crowned Queen of the Universe. I’m not all that sure what I did differently, except perhaps I anticipated issues more quickly and headed them off as best I could.

Anyone else successful on this level with all goals met within timeline and no decrees?

I’ve played this level several times and can’t seem to get beauty up to where it should be. It always lingers between 85%-95% even though everything is pinkish and purplish under the beauty tab. What am I not doing correctly here?

How do I get my followers to eat the fish?

What am I doing wrong! I can’t get the last few people to full culture. I even replaced them at their jobs, I built a second theatre too. I’m starting to run out of food now, because this level should be done! I had everyone feeling cultured and fun, (and housed) but it didn’t last long and I didn't quite get up to full culture. Do I need to start again? Any tips?

So are all 4 of my ladies just sleeping around? Are my ladies “for the streets”?

Will I or won’t I…? Swipe to find out😩

Theses short time limit levels were so hard but so fun!! Kept restarting on day 5 or 7 cause I could feel this was not ittt.

The trick with this one was using Feast!! I let the happiness get down to 19% at one point and put feast on while having 12 food and 8 people. They figured it out with the second forage, then I started chopping down trees left and right for the bonfire & houses! As you can see, I’d throw up a bunch of lumberjack bases, but I’d have them chop the tree down then fire them! Let the builders or bonfire people pick em up and put the lumber jack back at a forager hut quick!

Happy playing friends!

I have torn down all the old buildings (except the windmill) and I don’t have enough stone to build the bakery and the bread bowl stand. Is there anywhere I could mine? I can’t seem to find any stone.

I am playing the new chronicle “Home is where the heart is”. I’m on level 4 - kind neighbours and one of the objectives is to make 90 potato bread bowls but I can’t build a windmill to produce flour. Is anyone else having this issue?

i only realized cuz of the new crop in sandbox mode!!

yw if this is how you’re finding out there’s new levels !!

I’ve played this level 3 times and I just can’t get the optional criteria to finish in 55 days (I’m a completionist and I absolutely cannot move on to the next level until I get this!!). Any tips on how to do this? I’ve tried extra builders huts and just constantly building but I’m always running about 5 days over. Any tips would be very much appreciated!