Zones

Zones are areas of the Map restricting Clanfellow movement and/or Work.

N.B. Zones will allow a player to fine-tune their colony but are not an essential function. It is possible to play without using them at all.
Zones as detailed here are a different thing to the Sleep Zone, Work Zone, etc. that the player may place on the Map as Objects.

Each Zone may be a Home Zone, a Work Zone, or both.

• Home Zones - restrict where an assigned Clanfellow will go to get Food, Sleep, and deal with other Needs.
• Work Zones - restrict where an assigned Clanfellow will look for Jobs to do. When looking at a Work Zone most of the Skills will be displayed. The player may toggle each individually to prohibit Jobs of that Skill being done by Clanfolk in that Zone. (Doctor Skill will not be preventable.)

Three options can be used to automatically add Clanfolk to a Zone. The player may also manually add any particular Clanfellow directly.

• Add Family: Adds partners and children of any Clanfellow added to the Zone.
• Add Workers: When hiring a Worker they will be added automatically.
• Add Guests: When a Guest (Traveller) is told they can stay in the Colony for the night they are added here. Limiting which Beds, Food, Water, etc. they will make use of during their stay.

Zones may overlap, do not have a size limit, and do not have to be connected. e.g. Work Zone 1 could be two separate boxes on the Map, while Work Zone 2 could encroach partially into both. Any Clanfellow will be able to walk between Zones at will, passing through areas (Zones or not) they are not members of.

When seeing the Zones popup information the player may click on the "+" button to create a New Zone, then click the Home or Work specific "+" to create the box(es) on screen. If a Work Zone Skills can be restricted. With the Zone created Clanfolk can be added via the Add Member button. (If the Add Family checkbox is selected, multiple other Clanfolk may be added at the same time.)

• Removing Clanfolk already added is simply a right-click on their icon in the grid of assigned Clanfolk.
• Reducing the size of a Zone is done by using the "-" and clicking over the unwanted tiles.
• To remove all Home tiles or all Work tiles the Bomb icon may be clicked.
• Getting rid of the Zone entirely is done using the Bomb" icon in the detail box.