It’s funny to me how many people square everything off OCD style in their settlement. I’m always a fan of just throwing my buildings around wherever they seem to fit. Clumps of buildings with a common area and doors coming together near a road, which isn’t ever straight. It looks more natural than a 21st century looking neighborhood looking place.

What people don't seem to realize is you can build in multiple spots as storage is interconnected. So build your town wherever then build a house and a storage building near the lonely mountain. You can even stick a blacksmith, a second inn and food storage up there.

Idk why no one builds atop the mountain plateau? It’s just West of the Unstuck spot you said. SW from Gostovia-West of Unstuck intersection-there’s a triangle of road…. I built my whole village up there. From the triangle North, to the edge of the plateau, I’ve mostly cleared of trees, for houses, buildings, and farms. My chateau is on the edge of the flat looking over the valley. I cleared the slope down to the river (left of Gostovia looking down at the map) so I can see the river. It would be a ski slope if that were in. Lol. You can see forever from up here. No problem fitting in everything needed nearby. Except the mining camps I built. And a fishing camp on the river. I haven’t played that in a year. Just updated itself to version 2.0, so now I need to get to decorating, thank you! Lol. If I need more room for buildings or farms I can keep nibbling towards the Unstuck spot shown… I chose my spot because I built houses along the roads and my house on the scenic edge of the plateau for the view, and infilled farms etc between them. I don’t have YT videoing figured out yet but maybe I can screenie the map and some pics onto Steam?

After hearing about the comment regarding different soil giving different crop yields, I was really curious to see if this was true as while I like the immersiveness of it, it does limit where I can base-build if I want farms. I did a lot of looking into any and all of the patch notes for this game that I could find and found no mention of soil fertility or varying crop yields aside from that one perk you can invest in. Just to be extra safe, I even performed in-game tests where I would plant several 2x2 (4 plot) farming areas throughout the map to test the different soils. My conclusion from the test is that soil DOES NOT affect crop yield in any way whatsoever. Farm and build wherever you like! Here is my test details: Seed Used: Flax, which yields either 1 (higher rate) or 2 (lower rate) flax per harvestable quadrant. There are 4 quadrants within every flax seed plot. Total yield can technically vary from 4-8 per plot. Soil types and Total Yields per 2x2 (min yield 16, max yield 32): - Unbroken Greenery soil ('Perfect soil'): 24 - Unbroken Greenery soil 2: 23 - Patchy soil (Green and brown): 21 - Patchy soil 2: 25 - Patchy soil 3: 20 - Pure Dirty soil (no grass): 23 - Beach Sand (coast of lake with no grass): 25 - Pure rock terrain (Not gravel like on coarse dirt, actual rock textures): 23

The unstuck option no longer teleports you there! It gets you unstuck nearby where you are stuck. Hopefully people know this by now, I know it's an old video but it's high in the recommended for searching.

Best thing to do is to start small in the beginning and then explore for a permanent spot. my favorite spot is where the small stream meet the small island in the middle of the map, plenty of everything. collect rocks in winter (easy to spot). assigned workers to cut trees because trees are not being cut but logs and sticks will appears in resource building, same with mining. best method to make money, collect and sell berries in spring and summer, craft iron tools and arrows in fall and winter. build one resource building close to 1st village and use that as trade depot.

Why is Kermit making gameplay videos now?

Love how well spoken and to the point your videos are. Not to mention the little bits of comedy, Well done my friend and thanks for the content.

I just started the game and set up a little lodge in the rocks overlooking the initial town. The distance to the water was an issue until I could afford a water skin, but otherwise it seems to be working out. It's got an amazing view, which was a big selling point.

I had no idea that farm yields varied depending where you plant. Useful info many thanks. I always pick every green berry I can lay hands on and put them in a chest in one of my houses by next spring you have rot to make fertiliser.

OMG, the 4th spot is the first spot I picked because I looked at the map and said this looks like the best place to be in the middle of all the trade routes lol....

I built my settlement up the hill from gostovia. It's right next to a mine and near the lake (you're number 2). There's a mountain and a forest surrounding it. Once you leave Gostovia in the direction of the carriage, turn left and go up the hill. There's a wide open plain.

laying farms first at the first lake was SUPER clutch info. ty.

I have over 100+ hours in the game. One important item in picking a base location is it's proximity to other towns. Once you reach tier 3 everything and have your palisade, walls, storage and crafting buildings, and houses built. With max villagers, you'll find you will have nothing to do except run around selling the stuff you craft. I found I needed 4 - 5 towns no too far away because I could easily clean out all the money from multiple vendors in multiple towns in a single day. (Remember 3 day season)

I decided to build my village in your #5 Lonely Mountain spot (after going with the big open spot W of Gostovia during my first run and finding it painfully dull) and I love it! I have my building settings at 200% and have been able to build a sprawling, bustling village in this spot. I love having the mine at the center of the village - a convenient source of minerals with each change of season and the location is convenient to towns and resources (except straw, but believe me folks - you will have more straw than you know what to do with later in the game, especially if you do much farming). I just wanted to mention this in case anyone finds that spot appealing but worries it isn't very realistic for a mid-large size village. Go for it, it's an awesome spot. Thanks for pointing it out 🐸.

Personnaly, my village is build west to gostovia, split in half on the on the end of the river (next to a tiny island) coming from your 2nd spot village lake. This spot have basically everything you want. River to fish and drink, reeds at west and east kinda close, rocks, berries, woods, boars deers and rabbits. Lands are pretty flats, and a bit higher lots of forest and trees. You re pretty close to denica, and not far from gostovia, and if you cross the river you re front of the Branica/Baranica duet. Also you re between 3 mines (2 mines at 600/700m and the last one 800).

#3 was where I picked on my very first play! I built at the top of the hill there, and expand down closer to the shore.

Try to build in the flat lands with a stream between. Located south of lesnica and northwest of jezrica where the land terrain curves when you look at the map. Its near a cave in the west side with 2 clay spots north east and north west. All animals nearby including bear, wisen and wolf. Lots of trees and berries

Love the idea of #1. Doing a restart today, going to give it a shot. All this running around is killing me, sounds nice to have at least one teleport option.

The Salty Mountain, that's definitely the name of my town by the mine

I started at location #2 on little more than a whim. Of course being new to the game, my only reason was that it's a good central location and it has a body of water. I'm glad I decided to build there from the beginning. Not having to worry about trekking across the entire map to get to a particular village from time to time is a huge help.

Position #3 to the north, has many wolves, bison and bears. # 3 is my preference . Great video!

I like the lake. The vibe of being out in the woods on a mountain slope, with a private lake, perfect location.

I like your use of the word "crick". People here in PA say crick, too!

Been looking forward to this one for some time.

The game was just recently added to gamepass so I finally started playing it. With that being said, I know I'm late to the comment section, but.... If you follow the stream North from "the perfect farm", you should run into a bunch of rock to harvest. I've found that most creeks have plenty of rock resources along the banks. Especially to the north. Thanks for the tips! 👍🏻

Your town does not need to be in one central location. You can have a mine and house at an entrance to a mine #5, farm and barn at #3, a fishing village at #2 and so on. All the resource building share inventory so just place those in strategic locations across the map where you can access them. Now once bandits are in the game that could change and it would be wise to have a palisade around your whole town in one central spot.

I started my village to the North East of Hornica on the North East shore of the furthest South East lake. Along the stream running East from the lake is a cave and along the stream running North from the lake is a clay pit. The land between those two streams is fairly level and has an abundance of all resources. There every type of animal nearby. Hogs, wiscent, rabbit, deer, lynx, and fox run through the area. There are bear across the Eastern stream from the cave and wolves to North.

I just started this game; what luck I chose #3 as my spot to plop a house. Thank you for this video! Gives me more ideas!

You ! You made me buy this game !!! subbed and liked ! (waiting for download) - I see that the game is really "downing" in updates , the work on it is really amassing. - game downloaded ! and in 2.7 minutes lol c u next life :p

You make the best videos, thank u!! I love this game too. You just earned a new subscriber! Are you located in Wisconsin??

Funny your 3rd Spot is the Spot I choose first in the game and your fifth spot the second :P So I agree with you :D

I doubt lonely mountain will be my main place, but it's definitely going to be where i place my mining and farming houses!

At the 4th spot if you walk to northwest town rolnicia there is tons of stones on the slopes you can see much more in winter. I’ve actually built my base south of baranica and branica next to the big river and small creek. I’m planing to add house and storage and mining house next to the cave at the 5 th placd

I did one to the east of #1. More of straight east of the cave, just past the hills in the flat treeless area. Close to the tax town, good building room, and close to everything but water. The water is a slight annoyance having to run over to the stream.

Been looking for a vid like this

Best starting place is west of Gostovia, where the road Y's just west of the bridge. There are ample resources and space for farm land. there are trees, rocks, clay, berries, mushrooms, plantains and St John's wart gallore. A hunting shack near the hill will yield you plenty of meat, and an excavation shed will give you more than enough clay and stone to get started. Later it is a good idea to explore an outcrop at the cave at No 5. I build two houses, a barn, a mine and both resource and food storage near the cave and had a family that farmed and a family that mined live there. Works great, especially with shared storage, because I can take from those storages to either of the two nearby villages. The importance of being near other villages is underplayed in this video, I think. Much of your time will be spent traveling to various traders to sell your goods, this means the shorter the trips the better. Being near Gostovia, you have four traders in that village alone, and two in the village just across the river. There are also two in Danica(Denica?), anyway it will save you a ton of running around. Especially early on when inventory space is limited and you are doing a lot of quests.

I loved the LOTR reference 😂❤. Very well done sir, I’ll be looking for a beginner’s guide.

I built my village just past the second bridge to the west of Gostovia. It’s a great flat spot right on the river at the edge of the forest with just about everything you would want.

I actually started at #4 and decided to move to #2, but more to the west next to the little stream. These are all great ideas, the other one I have seen is very very south below Hornica right next to the mine (SE corner). The one thing I learned really quick about #2 is wolves and Boar will attack your NPCs and follow them home. As of right now they cannot hurt your people but I planned to put Palisades around my town in prep for the bandits. While I agree with @jeff Burnham about the unstuck, I feel they need to either get a fast travel feature or get the horse/ox riding put in very very fast. I have been trapped in my own home and food storage due to a dumb@55 NPC blocking it, so I had to use the unstuck a couple times.

We actually live in the swamp and I'm surprisingly happy with that ^^

thanks for the video. the lake location is really beautiful

I chose to place my village down stream from #5. I'm on the main body of water, there's rock deposits, st. John's Wart, Broadleaf Plantain, some decent land for farming, reeds, and in the woods immediately to the East there's Wisent, Deer, Rabbit, Fox and occasionally Boars. You're just a short distance from the northern Iron mine and 4 villages. Tons of leather and sticks make selling torches a rich source of early income and when you're ready you can shift to iron arrows.

I plonked my first one slightly to then east of Rolnica, at the river bank, near that island surrounded by the river. It went quite well, for a good long while.

I just started and build my town directly across the river from tje perfect farm spot. I'm probably gonna expand across the river into that spot for my farmland. Im glad I instinctively picked that then

I built on the south side of the lake in entry #2. Been pretty happy with it so far.

Thanks for the video

I built across the water from site 3, at the crossroads. First build ever. I would have chosen a more central location had I known, but it worked out fine and got better once I got a mount.

I picket number 3 on instinct. Nice

I would love to see you build a fortified settlement t the last location. Sort of a helms deep feel. Great Guide!

The first town I built was really close to your Farming location. I started at the intersection with the bridge and built towards that open area.

Just started on Ps4 not that long ago but, my favorite spot is almost directly south of the last one mentioned on the other side of the river just south of the bridge. I do have a satellite mining spot for that mine. Its pretty flat with an obscene amount of trees that have to be cleared but its pretty flat with moose, deer, boar, and numerous other things relatively close. Honestly there aren't any major downsides except maybe rock not being the most plentiful but even that isnt a big deal. Although the first village isnt my favorite town to trade in, there are definitely a number of advantages especially early on.

So glad Ray Romano finally started a KZfaq channel

spot i picked was next to the small lake south west from first spawn. theres a little road that ends near the lake, in the pine forest. lots of stuff, only thing i gotta really run for is straw, i do that when i do trips in town. next to this lake/pine forest is a big field (for later game farming)

I built by the third place, but up by that little pond. Nice big flat area and not too far from the quest guy and a bandit camp.

sold me on the unstuck, thank you

This is my first build. I picked the north mine. Not a bad spot at all the only problem I have had is building a sub village to the west on that island for a fishing hut

I did my best worksouth of the river, West of gastovia, but not so far as that open plain. It's closer to the second bridge west of Gastovia. There's a lot of open land but also lots of timber, rock and reed near by.

great video my friend.

Fun game ! Glad they added achievements since the last time I played !

Really surprised you didn't include that spot south of the river crossing to Baranica where the land juts out northward. Nice and flat on front end with all the resources and centrally located. I've played 3 games and keep scouting the map each time and always end up there. But of course these are subjective..

I alsow make my village next to the mountain lake, just on the other side of yours, coz its much more flat and close to clay and Denica village. Another + is that theres a small creek, and i love sound of it : op

Well #2 is pretty dangerous due to wolf and dangerous animals so be prepared ! My favorite spot is between Gostovia and Denica when the main road split in two. The location is perfectly centered and near every villages (exept of hornica and jezerica), the place is rather safe (angry wild boar but... you can deal with it ^^) huge plain for your crops, an exellent hunting spot just after the river near to denica, beautifull forest, a tone of stone. It's pretty far from mine but... we can't have everything isn't it ?

Lonely Mountain looks intriguing..

Well done

I built around the small pond just up the hill to the north of spot 3. There is bison at the top of the hill 👍 also a crashed cart with some lootables every season including a water skin.

I've got my village to the East of Gostovia, where the little stream or creek is there, to include a crossroads. I'm really digging it at the moment as there as a waterfall a little bit up the stream with a bit of space for an estate right next to it. Depending on how many building slots I've got left after I finish this village I may try and do a second one at your #4 or #5... #4 seemed interested to seem, like some kind of water town, or something

#2 mountain lake. Build on the south side. There is a road going down to the lake shore. Make a good town around there.

The only issue is reeds for me, I can only find them near the starting village, i cant find any at the lakes

Doesn't all the land produce the same? Maybe its just on console, but I haven't noticed any difference. Each crop seems to take a set time no matter where you put it. Is there something in the code that spells out soil type affecting yield or growth time? Thx.

I just started this game and I picked spot #4 for exactly the same reason: If I were to build a trading empire this seems the most logical spot to start. Whether that plays out that way remains to be seen though.

Hahaha.... I took Option #4 without even knowing it. I placed 2 16x16 fields for all my crops and just built the town around the road with the Tavern as the center of town (since there's not a Chapel we're able to build).

I settled the third spot you mentioned, yeah, it's a slog getting stone, so I lengthened the seasons to 6 days to compensate, I was able to find stone rather quickly, somewhere around 2 days without rest I think? Had enough to build a stone house, spare tools and more tools to sell. Got enough to buy the pickaxe matter of fact.

The "unstuck" feature was never designed to be used as a means for fast-traveling. The devs built that into the current version because its still in its alpha build and it's quite easy to get stuck in an area where you can't move out of. Location #2 is idyllic but not practical. Most of your story line centers around the town where you pay your taxes, so that means you have to do a lot of running back and forth, through a known area where packs of wolves operate, if you build your settlement by this lake.

I built just slightly west of the Unstuck location. I just followed the road until they intersected kinda close to the mountains. Tons of woods, pretty flat area. Didn't really know about farmland yields so I'm not 100% sure but on a 3x3 spot I'll easily get over 50 cabbages. The only slight issue is that water is a bit further away than I'd like. Although the cave is very close though as well as Sambor is often hunting in that area so it's nice not to have to go running all over the place. Plus with Gostovia being so close I can easily go there and steal their rye and wheat in the spring and summer and make a killing as well as have way more food than anyone can eat.

I am building my village at your number 3 spot. And it is great for everything

I made my lil shack a few 100 meters to the right of the first town (Gostovia I think) I tried to make it closer but I wanted to be as close to the water as possible. Crazy to think my 18 year old character built a house with a lake view in a day and 28 years old me is struggling in real life.

My current base is NNE of No. 4 and SSW of the cave entrance of No. 5. All the advantages of both, even if it takes a little long to set up due to clearing the forest.

I built in the swamps east of Branica. But I have an excavation camp at the Lonely Mountain

Not sure that stream near #5 is deep enough to drink from. I tried to drink from it while out there mining salt and was not able to.

I like north east of Hornica. Close to mine and close to clay.

Great video again. Do you have a video explaining how to move from one place to another ? I build 5 buildings and now realise that I picked a wrong spot. Just destroy and build again ?

My village is near #3 but up at the little pond. It’s a great spot

I keep hearing about considering soil quality but ive seen nothing in game to indicate crop yield is affected by soil. How are you coming to the conclusion that" the perfect farm" has good soil?

That Cave spot by Branica is quite interesting.

Dude i was thinking in my mind like.....he sounds like Kermit...then i looked down to a comment you replied to and seen the damn icon...I- i am too baked for that

Oh man I can't wait to see how this game will look like with 3rd person, the devs said they're implementing it by the end of this year so.

#3 is the best if you ask me. Anywhere North along that road and I prefer being up closer to the small pond to the West. The wild boar there are a constant supply of meat. I let them attack me and it only takes one chop to them with the axe to kill one.

Them: So where did you build your town, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5? Me: Yes. In all builder type games I've played I use the entire map, different locations for different purposes. In my latest playthrough I built my first house close to Gostovia, but my main village will be elsewhere. I don't know where yet, was the reason I watched this video.

5 iron mines 1 NW of Hornica, 1 E of Hornica, 1 NE of Jezerica, 1 SSW of Lesnica, 1 NE of Branica

If you build a settlement by the mine. Do the bears stop spawning?

Unfortunately the unstuck location is no longer in effect so bare that in mind. As for the resr it still valid and still looks wonderful.

My first village in beta was a disaster by the waterfall and steep hills - next time 14 months later i landed in spot 3

been trying to use the unstuck trick, and im pretty sure theyve fixed this. so the unstuck area does not work anymore.

I find it a little funny how i took one look at the map my first time playing and immediately decided to settle at the 3rd one on this list lol

better place next to a mine is the mine just south of lesnica. I have a little village there. Kina farther away from water but its only like a 30 second run to the river.

I have my village on the opposite side of that mountain lake. There is huge flat area for farming, and there is a village near. So selling stuff to that village is easy and fast.

Correct me if I'm wrong. But your workers don't actually need to be near a resource to gather it. In other words they would manage to gather trees even high up the mountains. Or would be just as efficient at getting clay nowhere near the water

Is there any action or war style in this game? I mean, is there any chance to build a castle, army, group of soldiers to conquer the other settlements? Is that allowed?

10:40 "The soil over here is excellent, the farm yield is very good(...)" - is this a real thing? Do different soil yield differently or you are just role playing? :)