Construction

The construction menu

A broken, a burning and a burned building

Buildings are constructed by Builders, which are employed at the Hall and Warehouses and will construct them or carry resources to the construction site during working hours. They are generally constructed in the order they were placed. Buildings can be moved at the cost of 5 Wood. They can also be removed but this will not refund any construction materials.

Buildings can also be upgraded, which will add space for another worker and increase productivity by 10%. Upgrading a building beyond level 3 requires a lord to have the second level of building knowledge. Buildings will continue functioning while they are being upgraded.

Certain buildings require knowledge to be constructed. If a book containing the required knowledge is stored the building will appear in the construction menu but will be greyed out until a lord gains its knowledge. If the last lord with the knowledge to construct a building dies all already constructed buildings that require the said knowledge will no longer function.

Buildings require Tools and a lord with the knowledge required for its construction for repairs. If a building hasn't been repaired in a long time it may catch fire.

Buildings can be given priority via a button in the bottom-left corner when the building is selected. If a building is given priority workers will be automatically reassigned from other buildings to it in case of a shortage of workers and if the manager does not give instructions all day another free lord will do it.

Hall

The Hall

Every city starts with a Hall, which hires 3 Builders, 2 Servants and serves the same storage and wage functions as a Warehouse. The Hall starts managed by the king but the manager can be changes as with every other building. The Hall is also the target for some rebellions.

The Hall cannot be manually destroyed.

Resources buildings

Resources buildings produce basic resources and are operational between 9 AM and 6 PM. All resources buildings require a manager.

The resource production of fields scales with how much of the building is located on fertile soil. Fertile soil is visible on the map and will be highlighted in green when constructing a field. Fields are harvested every 3 days and may perish without sufficient rain. Every 10 days the fields must be fertilized using Wood equal to half of the field's construction cost.

Mines can only be constructed over iron deposits. An arrow will point to the deposits when trying to construct Mine.

Building	Cost	Produces	Workers	Upgrade cost		Requires knowledge
				Level 2	Level 3
Lumbermill	15 Wood	Wood	1	20 Wood	15 Wood 5 Iron	No
Rutabaga Field	40 Wood	Rutabaga	3	Cannot be upgraded	Cannot be upgraded	No
Rye Field	80 Wood	Rye	3	Cannot be upgraded	Cannot be upgraded	Yes
Hop Field	40 Wood	Hops	3	Cannot be upgraded	Cannot be upgraded	Yes
Mine	30 Wood	Iron	1	80 Wood	100 Wood 10 Tools	Yes
Herbalist	25 Wood	Herb	1	10 Wood 5 Iron	10 Wood 2 Tools	Yes
Pig Farm	40 Wood	Meat	1	30 Wood 10 Iron	50 Wood 10 Iron	Yes

Production buildings

Production buildings refine basic resources into more advanced resources and are operational between 9 AM and 6 PM. All of them have space for only one worker unless upgraded and require a manager.

Building	Cost	Produces	Upgrade cost			Requires knowledge
			Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Brewery	20 Wood	Moonshine Beer (requires knowledge) Flavorful Ale (requires knowledge)	20 Wood 3 Iron	20 Wood 5 Iron	10 Wood 15 Iron	No
Mill	20 Wood	Flour	20 Wood 3 Iron	25 Wood 5 Iron	10 Wood 5 Tools	Yes
Workshop	25 Wood	Tools Dagger	30 Wood	25 Wood 5 Iron	20 Wood 10 Iron	Yes
Alchemist Lab	40 Wood 5 Iron	Medicinal Salve Nectar (requires knowledge)	40 Wood 10 Iron	20 Wood 10 Tools	10 Wood 15 Tools	Yes
Coal Furnace	30 Wood	Coal	25 Wood 5 Iron	35 Wood 5 Iron	45 Wood 5 Iron	Yes
Paper Workshop	30 Wood 1 Tools	Paper	35 Wood 1 Tools	40 Wood 1 Tools	45 Wood 1 Tools	Yes
Armor Forge	20 Wood 10 Iron	Shield Light Armor Heavy Armor (requires knowledge)	15 Wood 15 Iron	10 Wood 5 Tools	15 Wood 5 Tools	Yes
Weapon Forge	20 Wood 10 Iron	Mace Spear Axe (requires knowledge) Sword (requires knowledge)	10 Iron 3 Tools	5 Iron 7 Tools	5 Iron 10 Tools	Yes
Melting Furnace	60 Wood	Iron	50 Wood 10 Iron	70 Wood 10 Iron	90 Wood 10 Iron	Yes

Service buildings

Service buildings either allow characters to satisfy some of their needs or are required to unlock additional actions. They cannot be upgraded and are operational between 5 PM and 11 PM. Service buildings that sell resources can be ordered to not sell a certain resource or to sell them only to soldiers or peasants.

Building	Cost	Effect	Workers	Requires knowledge
Tavern	25 Wood	Sells alcohol	1	No
Drug Den	15 Wood	Sells nectar	1	No
Market	25 Wood	Sells food resources, medicinal salves and daggers Resources can manually be disallowed from being sold	1	No
Altar	30 Wood	Praying at an Altar replenishes 10% of Piety	0	No
Warehouse	15 Wood	People deposit and take resources from a Warehouse (this does not require workers) Peasants receive their wage at a Warehouse (this does not require workers) Workers construct buildings	3	No
Library	40 Wood	Required to learn and rewrite books Only one building can be constructed	0	No
Temple	100 Wood 10 Iron	Praying at the Temple restores 30% Piety Praying at the Temple gives the "Morning service" thought (+8 Mood) for 8 hours Each building can support 40 people Priests perform weddings and funerals and visit the sick Homeless people will sleep in the temple Lords can deliver sermons whose effectiveness scales with the lord's Persuasion Sermon of Faith can turn agonistic characters into believer and believer characters into fanatic Sermon of Doubt can turn fanatic characters into believer and believer characters into agonistic	1	Yes
Scaffold	20 Wood 5 Iron	Enables Punish actions (this does not require workers) Workers search for criminals and sentence them with the selected punishment Each worker can intimidate one vagabond, preventing them from committing crimes next day People who are around the building when a punishment is carried out will gain the "Execution spectacle" thought, which gives a Mood bonus that scales with the punishment Has a Terror option which can be set for a certain culture or everyone, and has the following effects: Workers will punish everyone in the following order: vagabonds, unemployed, peasants Average happiness and migration will decrease Unhappy peasants will not become vagabonds and vagabonds will not become cutthroats	3	Yes
Chancellery	50 Wood 5 Tools	Workers can be assigned as managers to other buildings Requires the constant presence of a lord to function Each worker uses 1 Paper per assigned building Workers from other chancelleries can be used in place of a lord but management bonus will be reduced by 20%	5	Yes

Army buildings

Army buildings are used to support the army. All of them are available from the start and cannot be upgraded.

Building	Cost	Effect
Barracks	30 Wood 5 Iron	Provides sleeping space for 10 warriors
Training Ground	10 Wood 10 Iron	Allows training warriors Requires a manager
Night Patrol	Free	Marks a circle area around it for patrolling during evening Constructed and moved instantly Best placed near warehouses and housing buildings
Day Patrol	Free	Marks a circle area around it for patrolling during daytime Constructed and moved instantly Best placed near lumberjacks, herbalists and buildings that use prisoners

Housing buildings

Housing buildings provide living space to a certain category of people.

Building	Cost	Living space	Houses	Notes	Requires knowledge
Dormitory	30 Wood	10	Peasants		No
Lord's House	20 Wood 5 Iron	1	Lords		No
Peasant's House	15 Wood	2	Peasants	Gives the "Separate housing" thought (+10 Mood)	Yes
Prisoner Ward	25 Wood	21	Prisoners	Contains an Altar inside Requires a worker Required to give resources to prisoners	Yes

Roads

A city making use of roads

All roads cost 4 Gold per square and increase the movement speed of all characters on it by 30%. Multiple pieces can be constructed at once by holding down the mouse button. Holding Shift at the same time will ensure the road in constructed in a straight line.

Decor buildings

Decor buildings do not cost anything to build or move, are constructed instantly, can be placed inside other buildings and do not have any effects. They are divided into 5 subcategories: Plants, Lighting, Statues, Intimidation and Other. Floors can be constructed repeatedly by holding down the mouse button.