Beginners Guide

This guide will feature a helpful path to follow to get you started on your quest to build your first great kingdom.

Event Log - Top Left


This is a scrolling list that will change whenever something new happens.
 * Click on the blue icon to edit the Kingdom name
 * Below the kingdom name is the type of kingdom
 * Click on the white icon at the bottom of the Event Log to expand/collapse the box

Time Controls - Top Left



 * The first button on the left pauses time (hotkey: spacebar)
 * The second button makes the game move at regular speed (hotkey:1)
 * The third button is 2x regular (hotkey: 2)
 * The fourth button is 3x regular speed (hotkey: 3)

Version Number & Menu - Top Right

 * The Version Number is unimportant, and can be mostly ignored.
 * The Menu button is where you will go to exit the game, change settings, save games, and load games (hotkey: Esc)

Kingdom Information - Bottom Left



 * Total number of Peasants
 * Amount of idle Peasants
 * Amount of available beds / population limit
 * Job Priority button
 * Happiness
 * Show/Hide household Happiness
 * Hover over Happiness to get a detailed breakdown
 * Set Tax Rate (from 1 to 3)
 * Amount of, , , and / food storage capacity
 * Amount of, , , and / gold storage capacity
 * Hover over any of the Resources and click on the magnifying glass to get a detailed breakdown

Construction Bar - Bottom Right
In this bar there are five buttons, through which you will build everything in the game.

Placing the Keep

 * 1) The Keep should be placed where it has close access to wood (trees) and stone (light grey rocks)
 * 2) Try and not place the keep on fertile land (green/dark green) if possible so more fertile land is available for farming
 * 3) Being near iron (brown rocks) is also important, especially later in the game

First Tasks

 * 1) Build 2 road segments on the side of the Keep that is away from the trees and stone
 * 2) Immediately build 2 Hovels so you can gain extra Peasants at the start of Year 1
 * 3) Manually cut down trees when needed for buildings
 * 4) Build a couple of farms to start generating food
 * 5) Build a road out to a stone (light grey) and start a Quarry
 * 6) Build a Well to prevent fires from burning your buildings down
 * 7) Build a Forester
 * 8) Build more Farms if needed

At this point you have a continuous supply of food, wood, and stone.

Reaching Mid Game
The next thing to do is to build storage places for you materials so you can have a large supply while working on increasing the town size
 * 1) Build a Small Granary to hold more food and a Small Stockpile to hold more of the other resources
 * 2) Build a Charcoal Maker away from the houses. Peasants like charcoal but will be unhappy if their house is too close to the building
 * 3) Build more houses and farms as needed
 * 4) Also build more storage capacity when needed. Always hover over the resources at the bottom to make sure you have a positive flow of them.
 * 5) Click on wells to see your water coverage, you are at risk of losing buildings to fire if you don't cover everything.
 * 6) Build a Treasure Room and set the tax to 1g to start generating gold

Your town should be growing now and now you can start to expand into other buildings and resources, next it will be important to start thinking about defense.