So I've completely forgotten to blog for a long time... but want to start again so here we go!
I started playing Banished a little bit recently. I needed something that I could play for a few minutes at a time, pause at a moment's notice and just start and stop randomly around little kids.
Having a lot of fun with it, my first few new playthroughs didn't last more than three years in-game. All my villagers kept succumbing to harsh the Winter weather. So went a different tactic starting with stone houses instead of wooden and that seemed to do the trick.
I'm now up to year 41, and have 100 villagers. I haven't had any disasters, even though I'm sure I had them set to on, so not sure if they start after a certain amount of years or a certain amount of villagers?
(I just found out I can check by going to Options>Map and it says they are on, so will have to keep going to find out when they start.)
Everything is going smoothly, I have cattle, sheep and chickens. 4 different crops and 2 orchards. I'm bringing in stone, iron and coal via trade which seems to be working nicely at the moment. My food storage keeps growing, so much that I've had to stop production of crops and have limited my fishermen and foragers.
I know it's early on but it's getting a bit boring how nice it's all going so thought I'd set up a few challenges for myself.
In no particular order:
- Get to 1000 villagers
- Get all crop and orchard options
- Finish as many achievements as I can from the Achievements section within one map.
- Create a second save of my game and just let it run without interference for at least an hour on 5x speed to see what happens.
I also decided to put a brewery behind the main cemetery for some good horror story vibes.
