


The player can choose to replant forests, mine for iron, and quarry for rock, but all these choices require setting aside space into which you cannot expand. Some resources may be more scarce from one map to the next. No single strategy will succeed for every town. There are eighteen different occupations that the people in the city can perform from farming, hunting, and blacksmithing, to mining, teaching, and healing. These merchants are the key to adding livestock and annual crops to the townspeople’s diet however, their lengthy trade route comes with the risk of bringing illnesses from abroad. Instead, your hard-earned resources can be bartered away with the arrival of trade vessels. Any structure can be built at any time, provided that your people have collected the resources to do so. Building new homes is not enough-there must be enough people to move in and have families of their own.īanished has no skill trees. Keeping them healthy, happy, and well-fed are essential to making your town grow. They are born, grow older, work, have children of their own, and eventually die. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. Wandering nomads can join your town to grow the population quickly, but allowing them in increases the chance of illnesses from far off lands! Taking fish and game faster than they reproduce will lead to extinction, and your starvation. Although your foresters can plant new trees, the cures for many diseases can only be found in forests that have existed for decades.įarming for many seasons in one place will ruin the soil. But necessities have a price-Cutting down forests reduces the deer population you can hunt. Your tailors can make clothing, your people can build houses and burn firewood. Surviving the winters will be among your greatest challenges. However, sustainable practices must be considered to survive in the long term. Options for feeding the people include hunting and gathering, agriculture, trade, and fishing. The objective of the game is to keep the population alive and grow it into a successful culture. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy game, set to be released sometime in mid to late 2013, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land.
