Brave new Town

Lets go and join a group of exiles as they build starting from a single house into a busy town, in the game of Banished!

Unlike CityVille, or Farmville (for you casual gamers), this game is a test of balance and governance. But with less politics. The challenge of the game is to make the people alive, and increasing. The townspeople are

the main resource here, as they gather food,build,mine and etc. To keep townspeople alive, the player must have sufficient food to prevent starvation, firewood and clothing to prevent freezing, a hospital and physician to halt a disease, shelter to stay and well's to stop a fire. It's easier said than done, as most of the time, the player experiences scarcity of a recourse, either too much food but the people is freezing vice versa, and there are no extra remaining people to do the work. Every minute of the game is important, and assigning an idle villager to the right task makes a player last longer.

A graveyard

My first try of the game, I assigned at least 50% of my total villagers to gather food. Later on as my village became larger, my people one by one started to starve, and eventually dies. Like every 3 seconds there will be a notification saying that a villager has dies of starvation. "Well!, its time to leave this city"

Second try of the game, I assigned more villagers to gather food, via fisheries, few to farms. My village lasted longer than before and is also larger. But as I acquire new villagers, food started to deplete fast, disease came, death rate increased by 1 death per second. "Goodbye, scumbags! On my way for another village..."

Blacksmith provides tools for the villagers

Third try, I'm starting to have my grip on the game, assigned 70% of my villagers to farms, and the remaining

The Yellow marks are needs of the people, that is lacking

5% as fisherman's, hunters etc. In short, food is my priority. Major problems occur, execpt of starvation. Workers are loosing tools, people are starting to freeze. Good thing though, as time passes in the game, population increase, and I was able to fill out jobs to fulfill the needs of the people. That is then I realized, I made such a big town! Later, since food is staple as well as other major needs, I gave focus to other resources such as coal, wood, stones iron. All has gone well, until, my population reached 300, and woodcutters and blacksmith are not able to provide enough tools and
firewood. Death rate also increased, not because of my folly, but because of a villagers old age. That is the start of where I'm in now. From 300 people I'm down to 150. I'm still thinking of ways on how to boost villager count to provide my people with proper needs to further expand my town.

By the way, my towns name is Fort Salt Lake!

Top View of my town. Back when my Current Pop is 300

Here's a sample game play of me playing Banished

This is during the time of Winter in the game. You will notice me clicking rapidly on a window, that is to reassign villagers in a specific job. Since its Winter, Farmers wont be able to harvest anything, to I'm reassigning them to be a fisherman temporarily.

Join me in this game, and test how good you are in organizing a small town!