r/foundationgame

I made this castle around and inside a large deposit. Fully functional quarries of iron and marble are hidden within. It functions as a hub for military companies, patrolers, and tax collectors not to mention thousands of gold coins!

The plan is to surround it with a quaint little town and then some farms. Name suggestions are warmly welcomed!

the harvest stuff is so pretty !

Moin everyone,

the new DLC is amazing. I love the production chains and new farms. The range of food options makes supplying a city significantly easier. Before I share some more praise, as well as a few points of criticism, here is a quick look at my screenshots:

Image 1: The current Harvest Festival achieving a score of 1,250 points to the King's amusement thereby also completing the challenge in Advanced Mode.

Image 2: A view from my starting point across the lands acquired to ensure success. In the background, towards the top right, preparations are underway to expand the game further in my endless session.

Images 3 & 4: A view from two perspectives of the village center, which was necessary for the achievment.

Image 5: The view from my small island fortress, with the surrounding village serving the agricultural buildings located in front of the bridge.

Image 6: The achievements unlocked in the last few days. Three are still missing. However, these will take longer, as I am currently restructuring everything for my endless game. The most important achievement is at the very top and ...

Image 7: ... The Granary of the Reich. In-game completion of the challenge on Advanced difficulty.

It was a ton of fun, and I had to restart some of the festivals multiple times because I failed at simple requirements and had to learn the ropes first.

Pros: Numerous new production chains and possibilities; the atmosphere during the Harvest Festival, along with the preparations and city customization, represent a successful upgrade to the game.
Furthermore, the new functions for existing buildings and the new tavern structures integrate seamlessly, avoiding any sense that they don't belong.

Contra: Cow and especially sheeppastures can no longer be placed in residential areas, whereas the new farmsteads can.
Meat production has become ridiculously easy compared to before.
The resource overview menu does not allow for additional displays without obscuring general information, such as merchant announcements or the like.
However, what I find most visually jarring is that the sites remain empty after a festival, with nothing left in their place. I would like to see, especially with the floral decorations or the wagons, some unadorned alternatives left behind. Just simple barrels, wagons, crates, or plain flower boxes. That way, it wouldn't look so bare.

Here’s a quick bit of self-promotion: if you need information about the DLC or help with the festivals, you can find it in my latest "SirUratak Basics" video.

In addition, I’ve recorded my entire challenge as a "Let's Play." The first two hours were released here today, and a new installment running about an hour will be released daily through next Sunday. All subsequent episodes will follow the usual Wednesday and Sunday schedule - until we reach the achievement.
And it’s not just going to be fun. Across three episodes, I struggle with the game mechanics and have to learn as I go; at times, there are videos spanning two or three hours where I simply have to build just to stand a chance of achieving the goal. Despite the frustration with myself, that aspect definitely counts as a plus!

Many thanks to Polymorph Games for this DLC; hours of fun will go into it. Thank you!

Greetings
SirUratak

Hi everyone,

I just started the Harvest Festival in the new DLC and my Ongoing Score has stayed at 0 the whole time. The timer shows 6D left and no visitors are coming to the festival.

My current state:

- The first objective, "Hire a Juggler and serve Festive Meals for a Harvest Festival", shows as ticked.

- The second one, "Achieve a score of 50", can't progress because the score is 0.

- The Festive Meals are ready and already on the tables at the food stalls.

- The juggler isn't standing at the performance spots, and both juggling spots show an empty progress ring.

- My population is 238, and about half of them are serfs. The rest visit the Tavern as normal.

- The Festival Grounds are placed next to my Tavern.

Things I'm not sure about:

1. What makes villagers go to the festival? Is it only a certain class (for example not serfs), or do they need a free moment or a need that the festival satisfies?

2. Does the juggler need a specific house or a path to the performance spot?

3. Is there a button to start the festival, or does it begin automatically?

4. Does the score only start going up once visitors arrive?

Has anyone run into this, or can you tell me what I'm missing? Could this be a bug in the new release?

Hi guys and girls, i have a question. Why can one market accommodate 150 resources while another holds 130, even though they are identical?

Hello everyone,

Did anyone else experienced the same problem, my workers just sitting in the shed and do literally nothing for days.

Thank you.

hey my fellow gamer, to upgrade the community farm i need to place the wheelbarrow. where can i find the wheelbarrow?

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

Hi again everyone, just sharing some snaps from the castle im currently working on.

I wouls say it is about 60 to 70 percent done. I still have some decorating to do but my hands are tired already.

i would love your feedback on how to improve my design better.