Banished

Why does my school always have 0 students? There's plenty of children in the town. Is it because everybody is working?

The proper way to do it is to expand at a steady and even rate until you hit a population milestone where the rates of birth and death are matched relatively evenly and at a constant pace. This creates population stability, at which point the game becomes pretty much self-sustainable. From then on, it's watching out for natural disasters (if enabled) and carefully expanding as needed.

>Colonial Chapter Charter
This a million times. If you're new to the game, play the vanilla Banished as tutorial and then move on to CC as soon as you understand the game a bit.


Do you have a teacher? Also, children become students when they hit a certain age and only then. So children past that age won't become students retroactively if a school becomes available.

Can't believe I still have this. Does pic related still work?

The (((merchant))) wants 2,500 shekels for a single bean seed.

I got it working. Currently I'm trying to make bridges so that I can access more resources. My population is aging so I'm trying to get them to reproduce more. I'm also building all the extra buildings like the Town Hall and Hospital. I was about to make a graveyard too. Considering that I just picked this game up, it seems pretty easy. I don't think anything threatens my existence.

It has just begun, user.

I have a wood shortage. I got the bridge in the bottom left up and I'm getting lots of it from there, so it should be fine. I'm going to build up some reserves instead of using them as immediately.

My biggest concern is the aging population. A lot of my houses are abandoned or look like pic related. There's kids so I hope they'll be able to keep the town going.

Drop the poorhouse and the herbalist, getting firewood and food are far more important.

I'm trying to start an orchard. I have the seeds in storage. All the options are disabled. What am I missing?

I made a mine to get coal. The settlers are not carrying anything with them when they leave the mine. I'm not getting any coal even with 9 miners.

I just realized they're leaving the coal next to the mine. Maybe I need some laborers to bring it over.