Buildings

Buildings are your main way of meeting the Needs of your Villagers by way of gathering, farming, production, and consumption. They occupy map tiles, constrain the movement of Villagers, and offer a variety of capabilities to help your settlement survive.

Blueprints & Construction

The Reputation icon shimmers when you can choose new Blueprints.

Buildings require you to obtain their Blueprint. You start the game with a few Blueprints, which you learn about during the Tutorial. You can choose additional Blueprints by gaining Reputation, buying from Traders, and from Glade Event rewards. A small number of Blueprints are Essential, meaning they will always be unlocked at the beginning of each settlement. You can buy upgrades in the Smoldering City to add a few more Blueprints as Essential for every map (for example, Human House, or be able to choose an Essential Blueprint when Embarking.

Builders

Buildings are constructed by Villagers that aren't assigned to work anywhere else, and they become Builders. If you need a Building built quickly, you will need to dismiss several workers from their workplaces. If no Builders are available, a hammer icon will appear above all Buildings that are awaiting construction, letting you know that you need to dismiss a worker somewhere or the construction will never finish.

Construction Toolbar

The construction toolbar at the bottom of the screen, also showing the tooltip over the second icon for Camps, which looks like a mushroom and leaf. Hold your mouse over an icon to see the tooltip.

Buildings are constructed by selecting from the options at the bottom of the screen and then clicking on the game map where you wish it to be placed. From left to write, the construction icons contain the following options:

1. Roads, which are not Buildings, but improve Villagers' ability to move between them
2. Camps, and you start most maps with the same 4 options: Woodcutters' Camp, Stonecutters' Camp, Harvesters' Camp, and Scavengers' Camp before being able to choose more Blueprints
3. Food Production, for example for farming and cooking Recipes
4. Housing, and you start every map with at least the option for the basic Shelter
5. Industry Buildings, which produce Resources, sometimes by themselves but usually with Recipes
6. City Buildings, which includes Hearths, Warehouses, and the Trading Post, but will also contain Buildings which provide Services when you have choose their Blueprints.
7. Decorations, which are also not Buildings, but used to upgrade Hearths

Next to the construction toolbar are the buttons for marking trees (the axe icons). To the far right is the button for destroying Buildings, roads, or deposits.

Range

Selecting the Ancient Hearth shows the range within which Housing must be placed to be functional.

Depending on the Building you've chosen to build (or move), the game may reveal one or more special overlay areas, highlighting, or icons:

• the range of the Hearth may be shown when placing another Hearth, Houses, or Decorations
• the range of gathering or farming when placing a Camp or Building that requires Fertile Soil
• highlighting of tiles that contain Fertile Soil when placing Farms
• icons of nearby relevant Resources when placing gathering Camps and Mines
• highlighting of Trees that have been marked for cutting in a different color when in range of the Woodcutters' Camp

Most Industry Buildings typically do not need to show any of these things. (The Mine is an exception). For example, when placing a Provisioner, there are no overlays or icons shown.

Workers

Most Buildings have space for two or more Villager to work. Selecting a Building open its panel on the right side of your game window. There, you can assign or dismiss Villagers as workers. In general, because of internal building storage,

Storage

Most buildings have internal storage, where (a) gathered or produced Resources are kept until a batch can be taken to the Warehouse or (b) input Resources are brought from the Warehouse for processing.

Hearth

Hearths are Warmth specialization buildings that reduce Hostility and cannot be built close to other Hearths. Every few minutes, workers take breaks and return to a nearby Hearth to eat and rest. During a break, they consume at least one item of food and try to fulfill all their needs. If a villager has multiple needs tied to complex food, they will consume more than one meal.

If the fire goes out all villagers will lose 20 Resolve. To keep up the flame, a Firekeeper and a steady supply of Fuel are needed. You can decide which type of fuel will be burned in the Hearth by selecting it and using the checkboxes next to the fuel types in the selection UI.

Hearths allow up to 3 additional fuel to be sacrificed to gain additional bonuses:

• 40 Wood per minute can be sacrificed to give -50 Hostility
• 20 Coal per minute can be sacrificed to give -80 Hostility
• 20 Sea Marrow per minute can be sacrificed to give +25% Glade Event working speed
• 15 Oil per minute can be sacrificed to give +25% global production speed

Every settlement starts with an Ancient Hearth and can construct additional Hearths from the city buildings menu.

Main Storage

The Main Storage is one of the two starting buildings and stores a large amount of goods and protects them from the rain. Workers always deliver and take goods from the Storage nearest to them.

Every building has its internal storage, where produced and gathered goods are temporarily stored. When the internal storage reaches its limit, the goods in it are transported to the Main Storage by a worker. While transporting, it’s important to keep in mind that villagers have a limited carry capacity (depending on their profession and active perks), so they might need to walk multiple times between their workplace and the Main Storage.

Goods kept in the building’s internal storage are inaccessible to other villagers or production buildings, and have to first be transported to the Main Storage before they can be further distributed or consumed.

Roads

Roads increase the speed of all villagers traveling on it. Each square requires 2 seconds to be built.

Road	Cost	Speed increase	Description
Path	Free	5%	A simple path.
Paved Road	1 Stone	20%	A road made out of stone.

Camps

Camps are starting points for villagers to gather resources from deposits in an area around them. Attempting to place a camp will highlight its collection area and the resource nodes that can be harvested. All camps take 14 or 15 seconds to be constructed.

Woodcutters' Camps can be set to cut only marked trees or to avoid opening glades.

Camp	Cost	Specialization	Resources gathered
Woodcutters' Camp	2 Parts	Woodcutting	Wood
Harvesters' Camp	10 Wood 3 Parts	None	Reed Plant Fiber
Scavenger' Camp	10 Wood 3 Parts	None	Eggs Roots
Stonecutters' Camp	10 Wood 3 Parts	None	Clay Sea Marrow Stone
Foragers' Camp	10 Wood 3 Parts	Farming	Grain Insects Vegetables
Trappers' Camp	10 Wood 3 Parts	Meat Production	Eggs Insects Meat

Food Production

Farm fields can only be constructed on fertile soil around food production buildings. Food production buildings receive Farming specialization bonuses.

Building	Size	Cost	Specialization	Effects
Small Farm	2x2	2 Planks	Farming	Can produce Vegetables and Grain from a small area of farm fields nearby
Smokehouse	3x3	5 Planks 2 Fabric	Meat Production Warmth	Can produce Jerky, Pottery, Incense

Housing

Housing buildings have to be constructed near the Hearth and satisfy the need for Shelter and usually Housing. All housing buildings take 40 seconds to be constructed.

Housing	Cost	Shelter places	Housing places
Shelter	10 Wood	3	0
Big Shelter	4 Planks	6	0
Beaver House	8 Planks	2	2 Beavers
Human House	4 Planks 2 Bricks	2	2 Humans
Lizard House	2 Fabric 2 Bricks	2	2 Lizards

Industry

Industry buildings can produce various Recipes.

• Brewery has the Brewing specialization

Building	Cost	Recipes
Crude Workstation	5 Wood	Bricks Fabric Planks
Brewery	2 Bricks 2 Fabric 2 Planks	Ale Pack of Crops Pickled Goods
Makeshift Post	5 Wood	Pack of Building Materials Pack of Crops Pack of Provisions
Smithy	5 Planks 2 Bricks	File:Simple Tools.png Simple Tools Coats File:Trade Goods.png Pack of Trade Goods

City Buildings

Blights Posts and Hydrants can only be constructed if the game difficulty is at least Veteran.

Building	Cost	Effects
Small Hearth	5 Bricks 5 Planks 1 Wildfire Essence	Same effects as the Ancient Hearth. Can't be constructed close to other Hearths.
Storage	2 Bricks 2 Plant Fiber 1 Parts	Stores a large amount of goods and protects them from the rain. Workers always deliver and take goods from the Storage nearest to them.
Trading Post	10 Wood	Traders from the Smoldering City can station here and offer their wares.
Tavern	20 Planks 8 Fabric 4 Bricks	Satisfies Leisure, Brawling. Gives the Gleeman's Tales perk.
Blight Post	3 Bricks 4 Planks 2 Parts	Produces and uses Purging Fire.
Hydrant	1 Bricks 3 Planks	Stores Purging Fire.

Decorations

Decorations are used to advance hubs. All decorations take 10 seconds to be constructed.

Decoration	Bonus	Cost
Bench	Comfort	2 Wood
Barrels
Fence
Fence Corner
Bush	Aesthetics	1 Planks
Flower Bed
Fire Shrine	Harmony	1 Planks 1 Fabric 1 Bricks
Lizard Post