So I just started the game, built a manor house etc. However I made a lumbermill to make planks now all my wood goes there instead of into new buildings. Any trick to this or how do I not make them make every wood into planks?
It let me build the wall just fine, but after it's built, I cannot edit it
That must be one big bunk bed..... Don't know how this happened, must have edited something in front of it while it was upgraded.
The "Build a prestigious burg" goal ask for high density houses and no castle (and no monastery), but high density houses need heavy fortification. How do I get heavy fortification if I can't build a castle?
Hey Foundation enjoyers!
I’m playing around with different seeds and city layouts - wondering if anyone has a ‘go to’ layout that they tend to start with and work out upon? I would love to see some of your layouts and how you start them etc.
I need to build light village fortification for the tax office but I have zero splendo (the village fortification needs 25 labor splendor).
How do I increase it?
I just "finished" my first play through where I was doing seemingly well before I rapidly expanded too quickly and made a food shortage cycle, so I am game to try again.
Rather than just trial and error a lot of little things, I was looking for a guide/video series that is at the "intermediate" level of play, that teaches how to deal with the game systems. I searched for recommended Let's Plays here, and have watched a bit of Keralis and Cappy Bara playing on their youtube pages, but their series were long and felt like I was watching someone vibe playing rather than teaching.
A lot of the Steam guides are good but feel either outdated or fairly barebones and simple. For example, through various guides and reddit threads, I have seen tips like "don't promote pops too early," but I have not seen people list out when it is time to promote or really even talk about promotion much at all, or I have seen things like ~3 wheat farms per 1 mill per 1-2 bakeries is the appropriate balance for food production per building, but that has also been across many different pages and threads and not somewhere concise.
I was wondering if there was something more centralized and dense with this sort of information. I get the basic gameplay loop but am looking to get a little more nuanced before I start trying to make a castle/big city. I really enjoy let's plays, but I would also just rather play the game rather than watch a 10+ hour series.
Thanks!
Hi all,
I recently started playing Foundation again, and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve finally managed to build a city where I can keep my villagers happy and satisfied.
However, I’m having some trouble producing enough wheat, flour, and bread to meet the demand.
My warehouses don’t seem to store any wheat because the windmills take all the wheat directly from the farms. After a while, some bread is produced, but it never seems to be enough, especially when there is a longer period before the next wheat harvest.
At the moment, I have:
3 farms, all with their extensions
2 windmills
1 bakery
Is this setup simply too small, or am I missing something in how wheat, flour, and bread production works? I heard when you play the game on 3x speed there might been an bug appearing. How do you guys set up your production chain to maintain a steady supply of bread?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Pictures taken shortly after completing the monastery aspiration.
Expand your medieval village with new crops, orchards, livestock, production chains, recipes, and grand celebrations in Foundation’s first major DLC.
Grow your rural economy, prepare an unforgettable Harvest Festival, welcome prestigious guests, and build a celebration worthy of the King.
I've searched around and I'm sure that it has been mentioned by this point but I didn't really find anything of note on the subject, but the trade prices in this game make absolutely no sense. It costs more for the raw materials than what you can sell the finished products. There is little reason to ever make a finished goods production building besides simply having an over abundance of raw materials.
Example: Gold Bars. It takes 3 coal and 6 gold ore to produce 1 gold bar at a Gold Smelter. Base selling price of Coal is 1 gold. Base selling price of Gold Ore is 4 gold. Base selling price of Gold Bars is 7. So you actually lose 20 gold by trying to produce gold bars. That's not even figuring in the monthly expense of the Gold Smelter.
Example 2: Jewelry sells for 10 gold. 1 Gem and 1 Gold Bar cost to purchase is 30 gold.
In almost every situation, it's actually better to simply purchase the finished goods than try to make anything yourself. The only limitation here is the amount you can purchase at one time.
Hey folks!
So I have been building a city up and I have now began on the monastery area.. I have build all the building etc, but it's not letting promote any of the monks/nuns so none of the building are being worked?
From my understanding you need 5 manuscripts and they need access to monastic foods? I have the kitchen and the refrectory (and the veggie gardens etc) but none of them are worked because it says best suited to brothers/sisters, but I cannot promote them to brothers/sisters bc they need access to the food and the cloister (I have the cloister that they're using).
What am I getting wrong?
I have only started playing Foundation but I am stuck. The game says I need to increase the happiness from 68 to 75.
How do I know why my villagers only have 68 happiness? How can I increase it to 75?
Recently got back into the game again after a year break. However just cannot get further than the very early stages of the game because I run out of money and death spiral.
I have a tax collector, and from my taxes overview it says that the expected tax revenue is 64 per month. But if I look into the stats on what actually gets collected, only 5 income were generated through taxes every month. I tried this 4 times now with new starts, the numbers vary but the end result is that nearly no one is paying their taxes meaning I cannot expand, cannot sustain my buildings necessary to keep my population moderately happy, and then everything falls apart.
Did they change how taxes function? Am I missing something? Do I need to hire soldiers to throw anyone into the stockades that commits tax fraud against their rightful ruler?
It is not finished yet, i still have to add a Monastery and the Army. But im already itching to build a new town.
I have played this game for many hours and love the aesthetics. However, the warehouse logistics is infuriating at best. If Foundation adopted a warehouse logistics system like "Song of Syx". This game would be up there with one of the best. Just please revamp the warehouse system, its so hard to move goods when you have larger cities.
So, I've had this game since it came out and have never had a single issue. I started working on a city and have gotten it to around 500 people.
Out of nowhere, I can't seem to save the game. Every time I try, I'm presented with the error attached. I can still load my save and play the game, but it won't save any of my progress.
I've tried creating a completely fresh map, and get the error if I try to save those ones as well.
I've also tried to uninstall/reinstall the game and this error is persisting.
Any idea how to fix it?
Thank you.
hii! i was wondering if there is any way to plan out my world before i start. i love this game and i know planning isnt really the way to go (since your city should grow naturally) but i find it way to messy with just putting stuff wherever. id like to make a sort of layout for districts etc before i really commit. i tried the creative mode and then starting a new save but it was kinda tedious and i cant help but go in great detail while i just want to get a rough sketch.
Hi people, lately I've been thinking about starting a new city. I'm in a creative streak lately. Do you have any idea on how should I develop one?
A fortress? An Abbey? A City? On the sea or a rural settlement? Give me suggestions. I'll post progresses in the next days