Mechanics

Battle resolution

Combat compares soldiers and enemy groups using attack, defence, attack speed, travel speed, and difficulty values.

Enemy types

32

Soldier stats

Attack · Defence · Attack speed · Travel speed

Building cost calculation

Building resource costs equal the level's base-cost rank multiplied by its resource ratio, rounded to the nearest whole unit.

Formula

round(base cost at rank × resource ratio)

Base-cost ranks

31 (0–30)

Highest base cost

46,800,000

Congestion

Congestion is an automatic side effect of a growing population. It cannot be reduced directly; offset it with positive happiness effects such as the Tavern.

Also called

Overload penalty · Überlastung

What causes it

A larger population makes the city more crowded and noisy.

Can it be removed?

No. Congestion cannot be reduced directly.

What to do

Offset it with positive happiness sources. The Tavern is the developer's example.

Developer explanation on Steam Community

Controls and camera

Shift-click a blue helper arrow to move the camera to its destination. Options can hide helper arrows or enable harvesting without holding the mouse button.

Blue-arrow fast travel

Hold Shift and left-click a blue arrow to move the camera to the location it points to.

Ordinary arrow click

A regular click does not trigger fast travel.

Hide helper arrows

Disable blue helper arrows in Options.

Hide the interface

Shift + F11 toggles the interface.

Developer's 1.0.03 patch notes · Developer's 1.0.01 patch notes

Expedition capacity

Caravans and ships have three shipment sizes that determine how many goods an expedition can carry.

Caravan sizes

Small 1,000 · Moderate 3,000 · Large 10,000

Ship sizes

Small 25,000 · Moderate 90,000 · Large 180,000

Happiness and production

Settlement happiness contributes to global production. Policies, food, buildings, immigration, battles, and foreign taxes each maintain separate modifiers.

Starting base happiness

1

Happiness modifiers

Tavern · Church · Conscription · Battle · Alchemist · Tax · Food · Immigration · Luxury · Foreign tax

Manual harvesting

Holding the harvest input produces resources using click power, resource multipliers, global multipliers, and critical harvest rules.

Starting click power

1

Assumed clicks per second

4

Critical harvest multiplier

12×

Harvest with Space

Click a harvest location, then keep the pointer over it while using Space. Moving the pointer away stops keyboard harvesting.

Hover to Click

Enable Hover to Click in Options to harvest by hovering without holding the mouse button. It does not double resource gains.

Developer's 1.0.02 patch notes · Developer's 1.0.01 patch notes

Population growth

Surplus food and happiness influence population growth, while housing sets the population cap.

Starting population

1

Housing rule

Population cannot grow beyond available housing.

Trade quality

Trade quality adds a cost premium and changes the profit multiplier.

Normal

0% cost · 1.2× profit

Superior

10% cost · 1.6× profit

Premium

20% cost · 2× profit

Worker population tiers

The number of assignable workers is calculated in population bands, with each band contributing at its own ratio.

Population band limits and worker ratios

20: 34% · 100: 12% · 250: 9% · 600: 7% · 1,200: 6% · 2,000: 4% · 3,000: 3%

Displayed workers

The worker total is displayed as a whole number.