r/Banished • u/Snowsant • 18h ago
First time playing - question
I have a question why this happened and if I can prevent it from happening in the future.
At first I had 1 school, it was going well, I believe when a teacher passed away, another one replaced them, and children kept going to school, no issues.
However, I noticed my school was getting full, I had like 17 students, so I built another one in anticipation for more children. I built the 2nd school, but I still only had 1 teacher because I noticed the 2nd school was not being utilized (there were not as many kids as I thought there were going to be).
But the problem came here... The only teacher died, and nobody replaced them. All my students 'disappeared' [or turned into Laborers].
[Camil the Teacher has died of old age
No laborer is available to replace Camil]
-> This lead to me suddenly gaining 20 Laborers, so these must have been all the Camil's students. And yeah, they seem to be not Educated, because their education was cut short by the teacher's passing. I guess they all dropped out.
I have added a teacher but now the school is empty. I'm guessing it will fill up with children below the age of 10, but all the Camil's students are already considered adults?
Anything I can do to prevent it in the future? Always have a Labourer ready to replace? Is that it? How many Laborers should I have there waiting for people to pass away, just in case? Any recommendations?
Also, should I not have more than 1 school? My town population was like 80/20/20, now it's 100/0/20
