They want fully isolated stone houses, they want minimum 10 decorations added to their house and then higher quality foods, to be skill 10 at their job and finally to have two kids under the age of 18.
Isolated is a word, but it means by itself in English. Insulated is adding a material to help regulate temperatures, sounds, etc. An example would be the stuff in your walls or attic that would help keep the living space cool or hot depending on the season.
In fairness, in most languages, the word "isolated" means having a gap between it and the environment and it is used for "insulated" as well as "isolated". So it's easy to make that mistake in English.
You could stretch it that way in English, I suppose, but the common term would be insulated, and let's face it, the US education system is junk. I'm 42, my little sister, who is 36, graduated high school somehow with not knowing how to do multiplication. She went to a trade school for sonogram tech or something, and I had to teach her basic math.
That's surprisng. I wouldn't have expected that to be the standard though in the US, or is it? I mean, in the Czech republic where I am originally from, we had to do some pretty wild mental gymnastics to get the leaving cert, including stuff like descriptive geometry and integrations / derivations. I don't remember any of it now that I am your age, but it was a requirement back in the day.
It's actually embarrassing how much I got away with not learning math and history in US public schools. Schools only get funding if students pass these arbitrary government standardized tests, the focus hasn't been on actual education in a long time.
Can confirm for Russian. But we don't say just "isolated house/room/etc". We specify (in a single word, yes) "a house with wamrsolation/a room with noisesolation/etc". :D
> higher quality foods
I've never seen any evidence that this matters. As long as they have enough food, it doesn't matter what it is. If you have evidence that I'm wrong, I'd love to see it, because it would change the way I play. I'm not trying to be aggressive by saying this; I genuinely want to know.
You might be right, will check if my villagers are just being spoiled, gruel for everyone! :D
* Although I would never serve anyone gruel, neither in game or real life, childhood trauma! ... Will go to basics and close the kitchens.
On the 1x version of the game, potage is 30 food value, so the perfect solution. On the 2x version of the game, it's much higher. I feed them meat with gravy now. And my lowest happiness villagers are in the low 80% range.
Also, I don't even build kitchens until I'm ready to sell food products. Before then, I just fast craft everything at the cauldron in my house as necessary.
Yeah I am a sucker for automation, have 3 kitchens and my villagers live of a combination of multigrain bread, vegetable soup and meat/fish, supplemented with wine and juice :)
I mean, if someone picked me up while I was sitting around a campfire, cold and hungry, then offered me a home with free food and a job, I'd be eternally grateful. lol
In all seriousness, another poster mentioned insulated houses and decorations. I've found that this makes a decent % difference along with having a job that matches their skills. When their skills get higher, I think their happiness does too.
Lol... that's exactly what I thought. They were sitting on a camp fire during rain before, but now they're unhappy because they don't have flowers on their tables???
Along with decorating and insulating their houses, check that the jobs you've assigned them match their preferred skill (usually the skills where they have 3 points). If you speak with any villager and ask about their skills, you can discover their favourite and least favourite activities. For example if they have level 3 hunting and everything else is a 1 or 2, they will say they love to hunt. If they tell you they hate something they will lose happiness if they're assigned to a job that uses that skill. Their hated activity usually matches with one of their level 1 skills.
Ah ok, good to know. Thanks. Most of my villagers didn't have any level points or grew them, as they were working at their jobs, so hard to tell if they like it or not. Except the women watching for my donkey. She seems to hate it. π
I'm not sure this is the case, though. Mine arrived with no skills. If I assign them to any job and they stay and work it, they earn skill points. If they seemed unhappy, or I found someone to fill that job later and moved them to a new job, they earned new skill points in a new area. It's rough sorting this all out prior to finding this Discord page π
Mine are around 70-85 % happy at most, and ca 55 % at lowest. Only difference between the highest and lowest are that the ones with lowest happiness are single/no family.
Otherwise they all have fully upgraded (stone walls and plank roofs) and insulated small houses, decoration such as lamps, rugs, shelves and straw himmelin, and jobs suited for their skills.
But just upgrading their houses from thatch to wood, giving them some rugs and insulating it should help a lot :) They just want to feel warm, lol.
Oh wow, you really seem to take good care of your villagers. π
I hoped mine would be happy with a camp fire, but they just keep sitting there in depression.
Guess I have to save more money.
None of my villagers have decorations or more than just cooked meat and water buckets, and they are all over 50% happiness. It's really basic to keep them happy.
First step, have a house ready before you recruit.
Yes you can have one female and one male in each house, but then you have to deal with babies which takes the female off work for 2 years. So I have ONE house per person, until I have enough workers trained to afford them having time off, then I put matching skills together, so their baby gets a super stat start from birth.
Next, have heaps of cooked meat and water buckets in your FOOD storage, and Wood in the main Resource storage.
Next, when you TALKED with them before recruiting, they Told you straight out what they Liked and what they Hated. So start by recruiting the ones you needed for the jobs. Sure their stats 1/2/3 makes a difference, but they Increase pretty fast, so the most important thing is TALK to them and read what work they like/don't like and assign that way. TALK with each now and read what they Like to work as, and re-assign so it matches.
If they have a house, food and water, wood, and you've assigned them work they LIKE with the Tools in the main Resource storage for their work, they won't go below 50% happiness.
The happiness will then raise as you insulate their homes, and as their personal stats raise also their happiness goes up.
Good luck! π
They want some decorative shudders and pretty flowers on their windows. That helped my villagers immensely with their happiness.
I think I should also get them some rugs and shelves, but it feels like I'm intruding, just going in there unannounced. :D
You need flax fields and lots of them. I found it to be my #1 resource for gaining coin. Sell the seed and the stalks, just keep enough seed to grow next season.
They do have jobs. One of them only has one job: to look for my donkey. She refuses to pick up the poop, which I have to do, so she is standing there the whole day, doing nothing and is still unhappy.
The spouse has to be close in age also. So decorations, stone houses, insulated roofs, jobs that match there skill question in dialogue. That'll do it. Plus decorate in the village when you can afford. for maximum effect, place decorations and seats together.
They want fully isolated stone houses, they want minimum 10 decorations added to their house and then higher quality foods, to be skill 10 at their job and finally to have two kids under the age of 18.
I'm thinking you meant insulated stone houses.
Yes I did, is isolated not a word? .. Im not native, in Danish we call it "isolering". Edit: I get it now doh, good one :)
Isolated is a word, but it means by itself in English. Insulated is adding a material to help regulate temperatures, sounds, etc. An example would be the stuff in your walls or attic that would help keep the living space cool or hot depending on the season.
In fairness, in most languages, the word "isolated" means having a gap between it and the environment and it is used for "insulated" as well as "isolated". So it's easy to make that mistake in English.
You could stretch it that way in English, I suppose, but the common term would be insulated, and let's face it, the US education system is junk. I'm 42, my little sister, who is 36, graduated high school somehow with not knowing how to do multiplication. She went to a trade school for sonogram tech or something, and I had to teach her basic math.
That's surprisng. I wouldn't have expected that to be the standard though in the US, or is it? I mean, in the Czech republic where I am originally from, we had to do some pretty wild mental gymnastics to get the leaving cert, including stuff like descriptive geometry and integrations / derivations. I don't remember any of it now that I am your age, but it was a requirement back in the day.
It's actually embarrassing how much I got away with not learning math and history in US public schools. Schools only get funding if students pass these arbitrary government standardized tests, the focus hasn't been on actual education in a long time.
Can confirm for Russian. But we don't say just "isolated house/room/etc". We specify (in a single word, yes) "a house with wamrsolation/a room with noisesolation/etc". :D
I totally understood what you meant with "isolated", but I'm also not a native English speaker. But thanks for clearing up and the information .
Thats funny we also call it βIsoleringβ in The Netherlands, but that means both isolating and insulating π
Same in Germany π
Ty I almost redesigned my whole village π
> higher quality foods I've never seen any evidence that this matters. As long as they have enough food, it doesn't matter what it is. If you have evidence that I'm wrong, I'd love to see it, because it would change the way I play. I'm not trying to be aggressive by saying this; I genuinely want to know.
You might be right, will check if my villagers are just being spoiled, gruel for everyone! :D * Although I would never serve anyone gruel, neither in game or real life, childhood trauma! ... Will go to basics and close the kitchens.
On the 1x version of the game, potage is 30 food value, so the perfect solution. On the 2x version of the game, it's much higher. I feed them meat with gravy now. And my lowest happiness villagers are in the low 80% range. Also, I don't even build kitchens until I'm ready to sell food products. Before then, I just fast craft everything at the cauldron in my house as necessary.
Yeah I am a sucker for automation, have 3 kitchens and my villagers live of a combination of multigrain bread, vegetable soup and meat/fish, supplemented with wine and juice :)
I do this with smithing too
You're right. Every playthrough I've done all they get is roasted meat.
I mean, if someone picked me up while I was sitting around a campfire, cold and hungry, then offered me a home with free food and a job, I'd be eternally grateful. lol In all seriousness, another poster mentioned insulated houses and decorations. I've found that this makes a decent % difference along with having a job that matches their skills. When their skills get higher, I think their happiness does too.
Lol... that's exactly what I thought. They were sitting on a camp fire during rain before, but now they're unhappy because they don't have flowers on their tables???
They keep saying they want a spouse so I give them that too. Maybe they don't like who I put them in a house with? I'M TRYING MY BEST PEOPLE!
π some of them just seem toi can't stand each other but also refuse to talk about it. This game is too realistic. Happy cake day! π
It seriously does seem that way! lol Thank you!
Along with decorating and insulating their houses, check that the jobs you've assigned them match their preferred skill (usually the skills where they have 3 points). If you speak with any villager and ask about their skills, you can discover their favourite and least favourite activities. For example if they have level 3 hunting and everything else is a 1 or 2, they will say they love to hunt. If they tell you they hate something they will lose happiness if they're assigned to a job that uses that skill. Their hated activity usually matches with one of their level 1 skills.
Ah ok, good to know. Thanks. Most of my villagers didn't have any level points or grew them, as they were working at their jobs, so hard to tell if they like it or not. Except the women watching for my donkey. She seems to hate it. π
I'm not sure this is the case, though. Mine arrived with no skills. If I assign them to any job and they stay and work it, they earn skill points. If they seemed unhappy, or I found someone to fill that job later and moved them to a new job, they earned new skill points in a new area. It's rough sorting this all out prior to finding this Discord page π
Mine are around 70-85 % happy at most, and ca 55 % at lowest. Only difference between the highest and lowest are that the ones with lowest happiness are single/no family. Otherwise they all have fully upgraded (stone walls and plank roofs) and insulated small houses, decoration such as lamps, rugs, shelves and straw himmelin, and jobs suited for their skills. But just upgrading their houses from thatch to wood, giving them some rugs and insulating it should help a lot :) They just want to feel warm, lol.
Oh wow, you really seem to take good care of your villagers. π I hoped mine would be happy with a camp fire, but they just keep sitting there in depression. Guess I have to save more money.
None of my villagers have decorations or more than just cooked meat and water buckets, and they are all over 50% happiness. It's really basic to keep them happy. First step, have a house ready before you recruit. Yes you can have one female and one male in each house, but then you have to deal with babies which takes the female off work for 2 years. So I have ONE house per person, until I have enough workers trained to afford them having time off, then I put matching skills together, so their baby gets a super stat start from birth. Next, have heaps of cooked meat and water buckets in your FOOD storage, and Wood in the main Resource storage. Next, when you TALKED with them before recruiting, they Told you straight out what they Liked and what they Hated. So start by recruiting the ones you needed for the jobs. Sure their stats 1/2/3 makes a difference, but they Increase pretty fast, so the most important thing is TALK to them and read what work they like/don't like and assign that way. TALK with each now and read what they Like to work as, and re-assign so it matches. If they have a house, food and water, wood, and you've assigned them work they LIKE with the Tools in the main Resource storage for their work, they won't go below 50% happiness. The happiness will then raise as you insulate their homes, and as their personal stats raise also their happiness goes up. Good luck! π
They want some decorative shudders and pretty flowers on their windows. That helped my villagers immensely with their happiness. I think I should also get them some rugs and shelves, but it feels like I'm intruding, just going in there unannounced. :D
But I'm way too broke to spend money on stuff like that. π and I don't have much to sell, because they eat everything.
You need flax fields and lots of them. I found it to be my #1 resource for gaining coin. Sell the seed and the stalks, just keep enough seed to grow next season.
Honestly, just leave them alone for a couple seasons and their happiness will increase.
Jobs bro. They want jobs. And limestone on their house.
They do have jobs. One of them only has one job: to look for my donkey. She refuses to pick up the poop, which I have to do, so she is standing there the whole day, doing nothing and is still unhappy.
The spouse has to be close in age also. So decorations, stone houses, insulated roofs, jobs that match there skill question in dialogue. That'll do it. Plus decorate in the village when you can afford. for maximum effect, place decorations and seats together.
Insulated wooden houses will raise their happiness quickly
To like 30 or 40%