Banished has gotten a special place in German RU-vid history because the father of German Let's Play a RU-vidr named Gronkh put a lot of hours into this beautiful game when it launched. A welcomed throwback
Ahhh...good times watching gronkh. The indie game 'the forest' wouldn't have received such publicity without him as well. He grinded on like five seasons in this (very) early access game until it finally came out from beta. Lots of annoying bugs in the game back then, but fun entertainment.
Whenever I play a new settlement game (Farthest Frontier being my latest one), I can't help but still think "If only it did X like Banished". That game got so many things right, and is, imo, the industry standard for this genre.
Fisher+Gatherer's hut (in the wooded area) and maybe hunter's cabin is always enough to get the colony through first few years. You don't need to farm from the start.
That is probably because people build small farms, realize they produce about 5x what they need them to produce, and then ignore farms until they start running low and have no room to expand them.
A hunter's cabin and gatherer's hut is more than enough for the first few years. Hunter's cabin is better than fishing hut to start because it gives you leather, which will help give you a head start on clothing later on.
Markets are for mid - late game, citizens canjust use the barns and stockpiles when it's a tiny village. Boarding house is also not ideal, 5 wooden houses is optimum.
@@RoundHouseDictatorBoarding houses are also far more efficient for firewood- they have the same firewood demand as "one" wooden house, while housing 5x as many people.
I was literally just about to rewatch your old banished playlist, but then you posted this, the game is so cool, I'm a massive fan of your content and am looking forward to manor lords coming out (hopefully) later this year, will you be playing it on the channel?
Hello fellow Adam and Eve player! I usually go one higher where they start with having the ability for crops and fruits though it does require often require mods to initially gather food.
You don't need to get a Market up in your town's first year in Banished. A Boarding House start is great for ensuring everyone survives by preventing families from hogging scarce food, and that Boarding House can survive just fine by directly grabbing stuff from the Storage Barn. More important is the initial food building placement (Crop Fields, Gatherers Huts, Hunters Cabins, or Fishing Docks are the best to start out).
This game is beyond legendary. I remember when it first released I sold off my entire Dota 2 inventory to buy it, and I regret absolutely nothing. Games like this are VERY few and far between. To think it's been 10 years almost already since release is wild to me.
some advice for making the start easier... put a clustered group of: 1 gatherer, 1 hunter, 1 herbalist, 2 foresters, 4 houses & the various stores they'll need, off to the side off your starting location, in an initially untouched woodland area, once they're ready to build, put another on the opposite side of your start. by the time both are built, you should have enough food income to last at least a couple of years, gives you a good buffer to get farming up and running before the first starvation wave. just keep an eye on your wood/firewood income, without firewood, you can lose basically your whole town to one hard winter.
Love it! Couple of things: place an orchard somewhere, just to check if you have any seeds for trees. Not sure if you only get farm-seeds with this start. Also, hunters, gatherers and the like all can be in the same area, place a house or two there as well so they don't have to travel that far. Existing forests also have higher yields for gatherers and herbs than newly planted ones. And one more thing: roads need to built as well, they're only blueprints right now. Can't wait for the next episode! :)
I've been slammed with life stuff and just getting a chance to catch up. I had a surgery several years back and during recovery, you were the first gaming youtuber I'd ever watched and it was this series. I love it and would love to see you keep coming back to it. I'm glad you're still here. Bringing awesome games for us. Long live Xandru. :)
I used to love watching you, especially Banished and Prison Architect! Also, I know you changed your channel name at one point but did you change it back?
Love Banished, it's been forever, so glad you're coming back to it. Also, you probably already know this but just a tip to set your food stored maximum qs high as it can go because theres really no reason not to, to my knowledge food doesnt decay if left too long nor is there any negative consequences from constantly gathering food, and it can protect you against a bad harvest or more people eating more than you had planned
one negative aspect of having too much food before you need it, is that food takes up space for other items. it's entirely possible to have so much food that you can't collect more leather or wool , to make clothes with, or other items from the trading posts. even types of food, can be a problem. if you wanted fruit to be able to make wine with, but the warehouses are full of beans (since they grow and harvest fast), then it could be a problem. but admittedly, these would be problems for later on. early on, food is something you must have. without that, it won't matter on clothes or wine products.
Storage is not a problem, just build more barns. Early in the game with low population it's good to set a food limit so those workers become laborers. No need to overproduce much with a small population.
i have already learned something from this video. the farmthing is smartly done. just a bit sad you did not use the Colonial Charter mod, it have so many more features to play with.
If you want the highest success #1. Hunter gatherer directly beside barn #2. Woodchopper beside stockpile #3. One house (this enables an early baby) That is one cycle Then continue cycles of food, resources, human resources. My next would be hunter, next to storage/ Forester next to stockpile/ but at that point you can build the next 3 houses. Don't build houses until you have the firewood and food to stock them....otherwise they take all to stock homes and goes into starvation mode. Every time your adult count goes to an odd number, build another house. By the time it's finished a mate should have matured. Crops are great in mid to end game but not good starting.
@@jodihouts6032 Crops are absolutely great for early game, they are the best way to get food quickly anywhere and fast. Just plop down an 11x11 with 1 worker and you get 800 food in no time at all. 2 workers if harsher weather. There are no standards for building houses, it highly depends on how the player wants to progress. I prefer to build fast and grow fast and so I always have way more houses ready to go constantly. The whole "splitting families" thing that people like to bring up is nonsense, couples will stay together despite not being in the same house and will still have children. Growing slow is a ticking time bomb when you don't have enough people to start compensating for the elderly as they pass away, problems are far more likely to occur that way vs going fast. It's pretty easy to build more food sources once you have enough people.
I go back and play this game about once a year, still absolutely love it. The music will just pop up in my head to get stuck for a few days, and im compelled to go back and cover a map again lol. I'm normally not someone who cares about acheivements at all, but this is the one game where I've been slowly knocking them all down. OP strat is trading firewood, get like 3-4 forester lodges (the only things i build in their circle are a single road in, a gather hut, and a herbalist) fully staffed with 5-6 wood choppers, and you can setup trading posts with 1000 firewood and buy all of the stone/iron/coal and seeds you need.
@@Kitsune-ri8dk exactly. its also renewable, unlike stone and iron. Its hard to get enough stone without trading or ruining giant swaths of land with quarries.
I always try to put my quarries tucked away in little pockets between hills but then that cause them to be a bit far from the main town area of the map, but stone is so expensive to trade too lol. I love this game because it really makes you think.
It's a really good city builder / management game that has held up well for it's age. There are also a load of mods out for the game that you can get.,
Interesting approach. I may recommend for more difficult climates putting off building a market place. While it does have a lot of storage, and vendors become super laborers with an increased carry capacity, starting a field as soon as possible is ideal. I usually still build a field or two in the clearing for the start, and eventually replacing those fields with a market once i clear some bigger areas elsewhere. This mostly helps with bad starting crops, as some need the full season for growth.
I still play Banished all the time. Yet still have trouble getting fully upgraded with tineries and related buildings. I've gotten over 1000 citizens and still end up wiped out due to starvation. Trying to find the happy spot for crop sizes and all that. Sometimes it's just so lag filled even on 10 speed that it's unplayable I use Colonial Charter.
i always enjoy banished videos. the game really holds up so even new video game plays, are still looking at a wonderful game as far as graphics and game concepts.
Wow, I had over 1000 hours playing this game. I always play on hard mode. I always play at maximum speed. I usually give up at 2000 citizens, if I am lucky. Sometimes I cannot always reach my goal. I have played all scenarios and achieved all objectives. I have built 10 trading posts and none. That is not an easy game to play. I have never used mods. Early on I stopped using quarries. They ran out of stone far too soon. With no trading posts you are going to get into all sorts of trouble. Also after a while I stopped building cemeteries. It did not seem to effect happiness too much. I find it relaxing to play now. Note: I saw someone with a population of 7000 on steam. I reckon there was a few shenanigans going on there. I reckon you are playing the game all wrong but what would I know. Anyway have fun. I do enjoy your videos 👍
recently tried to an achievements run on vanilla and the game is SCARY to manage after a while. the slightest shortage of food and my entire area died. all the way to 0. this game is great with mods though
I think I discovered you on your banished playthrough hahaha. This is Fun! Looking forward to this! Maybe a thought that might be helpfull, a herbalist can only gather in "old" Forests. So if you place them near a Forester, the medicinal herbs Will dissapear and the herbalists production goes to 0. Might me also the Case for gatherers, but don't pin me on that. I believe it is even in de description of the herbalists.
I’m noticing graphical screen tearing. Try turning on V-Sync in the options menu, and set your Windows screen resolution to something realistic like 60Hz.
Damn, am I feeling old now. But why not build an gaterer for food first? I had half my citys provisioned by dudes picking berries and shrooms. Other half was hunters and fishermen, I always made it more harder on me than it needed to be. 😂
I should so play this game. It is hanging in my Steam library for many years, played it like 2 hours and it is my type of game (love Timberborn and Kingdom & Castles) Problem is I can say that about a lot of games with my monster like Steam library 😅
You dont really need a market so soon, i think its best to invest in a Trading Post asap, so you can start to sell and buy acording to your needs. Also, the Town Hall is great for 2 reasons, it gives statitstics for your ppl (food production and consumption year by year, etc) and the second reason is that it will occasionally offer some nomads to move into your city, so you can accept them and grow much more quickly. After you Trade some animals with the Trading Post, Pasture 20x20 size is the holy grail to food production, my favorite being sheep and cow (chicken is also good, but not as much as the others). Then, u can start to sell a bunch of meat and buy stone / wood at the trading post, so your workers dont have to run as far as the other side of the map to get those materials, and then, with this, u have completed the end game meta to build all your map
You should play this with banished megamod 9. It makes it a completely different game, and adds an absolute ton of extra content. I could never go back to playing vanilla banished.
Ayo didn't expect to see Banished content in 2023, nice. I have a love hate relationship with this game and people management lol, goes well for a few seasons building the perfect town then all my people start dying =.=
There is a great mod adding way more landscapes. I usually select Plains and check for the lakes. Wish there would be a character update. Their design is just... basic. Else it still is one great solid game.
City builders are really not my genre for the most part, I've tried many times to get into Cities Skylines and never could. Banished however is the one game that I actually sunk hours into and could see myself playing again
LAst year I did a playthrough in the hopes of completing the only achievement I had left: Tenure. After a long, long playthrough, I succeeded and proceeded to use the Debug Mod, to utterly decemate the 2000+ residents with plenty of Tornadoes, Deseases, Infestations and Fires. (you might want to look up: anished Voicetopia When One Apocalypse Isn't Enough) After that, I uninstalled the game, with no intention of ever touching it again
This game had me and my homie in a hold for a lil while till I discovered Cities Skyline,looking back I think I only stopped playing coz of how hard it was
Man you have a lot of screen tearing, you should check your video settings, vsync refresh, all that kind of things... made thevideo quite unpleasant to see, aside from that great cointent on such a classic game
Just a tip, a 10 minute tutorial on the game UI with a paused screen is not very entertaining and imo not a very good way to introduce anyone to any game. I'm a patient man but I value my time. Good luck in future videos.
oh yeah, Banished. Thanks for the video. made me want to play it again. now just have to look in what platform i have the game. was it steam, epic or gog....
Absolutely love this game to the point that I've reinstalled it, the problem is that it does not boot. Looked everywhere online but nothing is working. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?
Humans are so weird. We make a randomiser button for something like a map seed, and then we press it multiple times to make it "more" random. Also nice to see this game again, it's kinda sad that it's a finished game. Outside of mods, the game is going to be as it is forever.
Banished is still the best game of that genre. Its just amazing. Sadly it never got more development and once i reach a certain size the lag is unbearable.
Banished is one of the few pieces of software I pirated and also one of the games I now own properly on Steam. I really didn't feel good about not paying the dev so once I got to a point in my life where I had online payment figured out and spare money I decided to rectify that.
