I've been playing this a bit again. It now has mod support and there are some interesting ones out there that add a little depth. I'm just not sure the player base is big enough to take it much further.
I think I paid $30 and it was worth every penny. I am a big city-builder person though.
Good to hear about the mods. I like what this game is doing and will probably revisit it soon.
Yes you can find some on Steam. There are more on banishedmods.com. They are pretty easy to install. The other thing you need to do is opt-in on the beta for Banished.
First game and everyone just started to die from starvation. I couldn't balance production stuff well. I might of expanded too fast.
It's pretty easy to have everyone die in the first few years. The problem is you end up in a death spiral where people die of starvation, so you actually have more food per person, but you then don't have enough people to produce more food. You have to strike the balance between growing too slow and fast. If you grow fast you might be fine in the short term but you end up with waves of people dying because they were all born around the same time. Grow too slow and then you won't have anyone to replace the people that are dying of old age.
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