Complex Needs

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The Consumption Control Panel Controlling Services and Foods Needs

Overview

Complex Needs are opportunities for Viceroys to boost Villager Resolve when fulfilled. There are 4 types of Complex Needs, they are:

• Complex Food Need
• Housing Need
• Clothing Need
• Services Need

Fulfilling these Needs

Complex Food & Services

All Villagers will eat raw food to survive, but they need Complex Food to thrive and fulfill the Complex Food Need. All Species have different preferences.

Unless forced to with Consumption Control, Villagers will eat only their preferred Complex Food, which they gain Resolve from. If they are forced to eat a non-preferred Complex Food, they will not gain Resolve, but they will also not go hungry.

Services are another opportunity for Viceroys to boost Villager resolve. Services need both a Building and a Good to be used by Villagers. For example, if you have Scrolls in your Warehouse, you also need a Building like a Forum who can disperse these to your Villagers.

The Services need the following Goods to be fulfilled:

• Education: Scrolls
• Brawling: Training Gear
• Leisure: Ale
• Luxury: Wine
• Treatment: Tea
• Religion: Incense

Table of complex food, clothing, and services needs by species

Species	Complex foods							Clothing		Services
	Jerky	Porridge	Skewers	Biscuits	Pie	Pickled Goods	Paste	Coats	Boots	Leisure	Brawling	Religion	Education	Luxury	Treatment
Beavers	—	—	—	+5	—	+8	—	+5	—	+8	—	—	+10	+10	—
Foxes	—	+4	+5	—	—	+8	—	—	—	—	+8	—	—	+10	+10
Frogs	—	+4	—	—	+5	—	+6	—	+5	—	+8	+8	—	+10	—
Harpies	+4	—	—	+5	+5	—	+6	+5	+5	—	—	—	+10	—	+10
Humans	—	+4	—	+5	+5	—	—	+5	—	+8	—	+8	—	—	—
Lizards	+4	—	+5	—	+5	+8	—	—	—	—	+8	+8	—	—	—

Transposed:

Transposed table of complex food, clothing, and services needs by species

—		Species
Category	Need	Beavers	Foxes	Frogs	Harpies	Humans	Lizards
Complex Foods	Jerky	—	—	—	+4	—	+4
	Porridge	—	+4	+4	—	+4	—
	Skewers	—	+5	—	—	—	+5
	Biscuits	+5	—	—	+5	+5	—
	Pie	—	—	+5	+5	+5	+5
	Pickled Goods	+8	+8	—	—	—	+8
	Paste	—	—	+6	+6	—	—
Clothing	Coats	+5	—	—	+5	+5	—
	Boots	—	—	+5	+5	—	—
Services	Leisure	+8	—	—	+8	—	—
	Brawling	—	+8	+8	—	—	+8
	Religion	—	—	+8	—	+8	+8
	Education	+10	—	—	+10	—	—
	Luxury	+10	+10	+10	—	—	—
	Treatment	—	+10	—	+10	—	—

For more information, please see Complex Food.

Complex Housing Need

Main article: Housing Need

On the left, we can see:

1. The "Basic Shelter" need
2. The "Complex Housing" need

On the right we see when hovering over these icons, an expanded panel appears. This panel shows:

• How many Species Specific (Complex Housing) is available.
• How many are "affected" (or live in this housing).
• How many are "unaffected" (Homeless or living in Basic Shelters).
• The average amount of Resolve Villagers are gaining from living in these houses.
• The maximum amount of Resolve Villagers can gain if everyone lives in these houses.

Villagers can stay in Basic Shelters and Large Shelters, but they will prefer their own Species Specific housing. These are:

• Beaver Houses for Beavers
• Fox Houses for Foxes
• Harpy Houses for Harpies
• Human Houses for Humans
• Lizard Houses for Lizards
• Frog Houses for Frogs

All Species Housing give +3 Resolve to each Villager affected, except for Fox Houses, which give +4 Resolve.

Clothing Need

3 / 6 Species use Coats to boost Resolve by +5, these are:

• Beavers
• Harpies
• Humans

New Coats will be used every time a Villager takes a break, much like Food.

For more information, please see Clothing Need.

Services Needs

Main article: Services Needs

List of services needs

The service needs of Foxes and Lizards were changed in version 1.4, so this section is now out-of-date. Please consider contributing by updating it!

Each service can satisfy more than one species. Correspondingly, each of the five species require different combinations of the possible services available. The following shows the relationships between service (and the service-related good) and species.

The service building is also listed for convenience.