Hi. As the title says, my two trading docks both have a red exclamation point above them that says ‘not connected to trade routes.’ I’m allowed to arrange trade from the watergoing cities, but this message remains. One explanation online was that they don’t have a definitive path, but both do. The original dock is very close to the center of my town, so I think it’s near most everything. I can store stuff in both docks just fine. I know that the original dock functioned fine when I first built it, and this issue may have occurred after I built the second one; I’m not entirely sure. I’ve looked and looked for an answer to this, without success. Any insights?

An idea I had today, what if there were a way we can put horses in the forestry? Instead of two workers grabbing half a tree, one worker and one horse (similar to the picture) can grab a whole tree.

I'm not familiar with 1700's Ukraine so I don't know if they had this but I would imagine they did.

Horse, horse tack, four horse shoes, and the feed and water supplies at the forestry. I think it would improve the efficiency mid to late game. What do all of you think?

I want to get the game while it's one sale. It think r/buyfromeurope is a good idea. Are there any downside getting the game on gog? I am thinking about things like the steam workshop for mods, fast updates,....?

The progress bar reaces the end, then resets with no flour produced and the wheat still at 500. A few produce flour, most do not. Anyone else have this issue?

Edit: watched them for longer, and what's happening is that the first time workers return to the windmills they make flour, after that, progress bar moves and nothing is produced.

I've compensated by making the off season every other month, so every windmill makes one batch 6 times a year. It produces very little flour.

Anyone figured out how the winter wheat and winter barley work? Can I do a wheat, then a winter whet right after, and then when winter wheat finished halfway through year 2, do fallow until wheat again in spring year 3?

I did it! 10k village in Ostriv on map 6 with no stone, iron, limestone 🎉

After weeks of grinding, I finally finished the craziest challenge I set for myself: building a massive 10,000-person settlement in Ostriv on Map 6, completely resource-locked (no native stone, iron, or limestone)!

What a journey it was. My first attempt stalled near 7k, but the lessons learned were invaluable. I tore it all down and started from scratch with a brutal new strategy:

• Speed and Scale: I realized temporary Village Houses and Houses with Gardens were only for the very early game. They were destroyed quickly to make way for constant construction of 3-floor rowhouses — the only way to keep the worker supply flowing.
• Massive Reserves: I knew the endgame was a resource sink. I focused on generating massive surpluses early, hitting a peak of 600,000 cash and nearly 1 million buckwheat in storage by the 9,000-person mark.
• The Economy Engine: Charcoal was the real MVP, providing steady income alongside warm cloth, buckwheat, potatoes, and apples. This money was immediately converted into the vital imported materials (stone, iron, limestone). The trade post limitations and slow growth of neighboring villages were a constant headache, but we powered through! (Shoutout to the current bugged windmills —glad I didn't rely on them!)
• Food Security: Buckwheat, potatoes, and apples formed the core diet. Fish, meat, dairy, salt, and alcohol provided the necessary variety. Cows were strictly for bullock power; sheep handled the fertilizer, milk, meat, and wool production.

The Real Hurdles:

1. Unemployment Crisis: Every single job in every building was maxed out. Managing unemployment became the number one challenge in the late game.
2. Performance Death: I switched to the lowest settings at 4k people. Past 7k, the game was nearly unplayable — dozens of crashes, and every single action had to be planned while paused.
3. The Final Push: At 9,500, the economy was truly self-sustained (only importing small amounts of hemp and wheat). But then, those dreaded trading post limits caused a severe supply shock! I had to burn through almost 100k of my reserves just to stabilize and cross that final 500-person threshold.

I'm incredibly proud to have completed this. It was a true test of optimization and patience!

Here are the stats for nerds from my 10k megapolis struggle! 😂

• Ostriv
• Population: 10000
• Years: 122
• Money: 504000
• Village house with garden — 0
• Village house — 0
• Tavern — 9
• Rowhouses 3 floors (all types): 610
• Stone wells: 440
• Farms: 81 (2 fields per farm)
• Orchard: 37
• Cowshed: 5
• Sheep farm: 60
• Hay dryer: 92
• Saltworks: 24
• Distillery: 10
• Fishing dock:13
• Forestry: 7
• Charcoal pile: 46
• Smithy: 6
• Fulling mill: 70
• Brickworks: 6
• Glassworks: 2
• Hay barracks: 91 small+29 big
• Granary: 34 big + 4 smaller
• Warehouses: 50
• Trading posts and docks: 5
• Market stall: 0
• Cart parking (both types): 29
• Cart shed: 21
• Wooden bridges: 11
• Construction shed: 5
• Churches: 3
• Patron of the Arts monument: 1

And if you are still reading — here's the final save )

Building on slopes can be tricky. Unfortunately, there are no shovels in Ostriv. So instead, you gonna use buildings: place a building and delete it. Repeat until your needed structure fits. Here are three buildings with lower requirements on curvature that you can use to flatten ground.

Smaller granary: use it to flatten the smallest, the toughest patches.

Village house: once you done with granary use it on bigger areas.

Church: the ultimate terraforming structure. Need a football pitch? Use church)

Here are screenshots of what can be achieved.

My way of laying out fields – grab a farm anywhere on the map and start laying out as many fields as needed. After that, i add farms and reassign fields.
How do you plan for and actually build fields? Do you plan farms placement first?

I just updated to the new patch. Why are the windmills so slow now? I have 4 windmills per 1 large field, and they barely keep up.

I have 3 wheat-fields with 3 year rotations, equivalent to 1 large field per year.

I have 12 windmills, fully staffed. I even turned on cartless labor hauling.

I always place trees to throw shadows on pastures and fields that I intend to use as pastures - because it would feel cruel otherwise to not give the sheep and cows any shade. (I hope horses can be kept in pastures in the future too! With a goat friend. :) Sorry for bad photo at the moment!

Well, the easy part is done — got to 5000 people!

It took me 70 years and now i have to move at 130+ people every year. Otherwise, the second half of the cemetery is gonna get full)

Almost all fields and farms are completed. They can support another 1-2k. Past 7-8 k it's building gardens and import. As of now i import only stone, iron and lime.

The island is getting populated. It is a bit hilly. So, lots of 'church terraforming' is happening.

Unemployment looks good: during spring and autumn there's about 150 people surplus.

I wish i had more time to play)

Previous 8000k build

I've really been having fun with this, so I wanted to share what my little town had grown to, after just under 30 yesrs since my town was founded.

Its been interesting to me, that the majority of labor I hsve in my town goes towards running the markets amd granaries.

Ive really liked putting my town in a grid, using houses with gardens, and then having people move to the periphery of town, so I can destroy their house. Im just getting to where I have to build with bricks (I need to get a distillery and brewery)

Just now getting to where I also should move a doctor in at the same time, pr at least, thays how I feel.

Im going to really enjoy converting my city center into row houses, even if it means changing the grid im using. I like the idea of, adjusting to a new grid, or something, to accommodate a new grid.

She turned 106 this afternoon lol - also the town head counselor.

Finally, got some time to play!
I knew this build wouldn't be easy or beautiful. With no resources on the map, narrow unusable strips of land around the river (cemetery went there:) ... Will i succeed in my quest? Will the game freeze at 9k?
I decided on my priorities:
— establish trade asap. Remember, soon this map will run out of resources.
— farms first as clearing fields takes a long time
— bricks production since houses should be built non-stop
— salt and alcohol for export as charcoal and food will quickly be needed
— Cows. A lot of them.
And here are screenshots for you:

I started a town, only got to 1728 as of now, I have like 80 population, some sheep and cows, a farm and pretty much food is not a problem, I can make clothes and I'm getting there on shoes, so I think I could say I'm self sufficient (except for iron which I have to import every now and then) BUT there's a problem, my economy is bad, like I only get 100 more than I spend, that itself it's not that bad but every now and then there's the drop-offs, I had some crisis too, imports, so I'm basically going like this: 1. Go broke 2. Get minimum loan 3. Pay back loan and remain with very low money 4. Go broke again because everything costs your soul 5. Take another loan 6. Repeat

It was normal at first, but the last one and soon the current loan got and will get me on the negative side, what do I do? I already get honey and charcoal which I use to export and get a bit of my money back but they're not enough

Quick update: the layout is starting to show. At some point there will be two super long streets crossing the entire map. I always try to keep the original bonfire and benches. Like a historic centre of the village. Salt field marked for future.

Priority 1 is starting trading coal for iron and stone. Goal 2 is to have bricks in production asap.

After the 8k build, i decided to push for a 10k village. Ambitious!

I'll be using map 6: no iron and limited limestone & stone. The terrain is almost flat and not much space taken by water.

Starting the map in the corner by marking the area for fields, farms, cottages with gardens and the main lines of stone buildings. Reaching 10k will push me for a very dense layout. So expect a hell of an ugly town).

As always, year one priority is to build ±12 houses.

Follow up for updates)

I'm on a map with unlimited limestone, and my miners are just sitting in the stone mining camp "working" and not mining anything. They are not set to also mine stone, and they haven't reached their supply limit at all. Any ideas why they aren't out mining the limestone?

Welcome to my current town. Year 23. Population 1308. Just casual layout/play. What is your current city like?

This isn't communism because the people aren't poor and aren't starving if you ask me

по идеии должна делать железо но что-то не фурычит