Housing Need

Overview
In addition to food, all Villagers need shelter from the weather. There are two types of needs in this category, the need for Shelter and the need for species-specific Housing. Both are discussed in this article.

Villagers who have their need for basic shelter get a small bonus to their Resolve. When villagers are housed in a nicer home, specific to their Species, they get a second small bonus to their Resolve.

Technically, villagers never visit their houses; they only ever walk between their workplaces, warehouses, and Hearths. Therefore, houses do not need to be near, accessible by road, or even near the same Hearth as the villager's workplace. However, many viceroys use the areas around housing buildings for the decorations needed to upgrade the Hearth.

Satisfaction
When a new housing building is constructed, any villagers who still need shelter will be automatically assigned to that new house, until it reaches capacity. (The capacity of the basic Shelter building is 3 villagers.) Thus, it requires at least three Shelters at the beginning of each mission to house all of your starting villagers. Viceroys usually aim to have these built before the first storm. Basic Shelters and Big Shelters satisfy villagers' Shelter Need.

When a new species-specific house is built, any villagers of that species who still have that need will be automatically assigned to that new house, until it reaches capacity. (The capacity for all species-specific houses is 2 villagers of that species.) Once a villager moves into their nicer house, their Shelter Need and their Housing Need are both satisfied.

Some viceroys have their entire population's need for shelter satisfied before they start adding any specifies-specific housing.

Note: Villagers of a different species cannot use Species-specific Houses of another species.