Finally hit 1,010 population
I finally made it to 1,000 villagers!
I'm using two mods: the stairway mod that lets you build stairs up cliffs, and auto invite population mod, which automatically accepts newcomers. On a map this large, having to constantly find and zoom all the way back to the original arrival point just to accept new villagers gets old pretty quickly.
I deliberately chose a very archipelago-heavy map because I wanted it to have a similar feeling to the area where I live in Finland. We have lots of lakes, islands and waterways here, and there's even a real medieval castle built on an island in my town, so I wanted my city to have that same kind of atmosphere.
The city is definitely not fully optimized. Transporting goods and food around this place is an absolute mess, and somewhere around 930 population I was seriously ready to give up. But sheer stubbornness got me through the last 70+. 😂
Now I have to decide whether to start a completely new city or finally start properly optimizing this one.
Most of my population is still at Serf level, no one is Citizen and I haven't even unlocked/built the luxury market yet, and the "impressive-looking fortress" 😂 on top of the cliff is basically just a tiny garrison for a handful of soldiers. I think it houses 5 soldiers at the moment.
In fact, most of the major buildings are still missing. Apart from the monastery, I've mostly built only the minimum-sized administrative buildings and taverns needed to keep things running.
So this is very much a "1,000 villagers first, make it actually work properly later" kind of city.
Anyway, here are a few pictures of where it stands right now!
(Had to delete my first post, because I realized it had my name in pictures as Willelm 🙈 )
For anyone interested, seed is 51L6Qi000F0Cm