30 Pro Tips

Temperatures 2 levels underground stay 8-12°C year-round, reducing food spoilage by 70%. Excavate an underground stockpile early.

Multi-layered walls are more effective than a single thick wall. If the outer layer is breached, the inner layer still holds, buying you time to counterattack.

Prioritize Agriculture tech to unlock clay brick walls, then Construction tech for stone walls. Defense upgrades are critical.

Mood below 30 triggers negative events. Regularly supply beer and quality meals to keep mood above 50.

Stockpile at least 300 units of food before winter. Once snow covers the ground, planting and hunting are impossible.

Archers on walls gain a height advantage bonus. Accuracy and damage increase by roughly 30%.

Use a grid layout for underground excavation — leave 1 rock pillar every 4 tiles. It's safe and space-efficient.

Replant immediately after every harvest. An idle field is a missed day of production — maximize rotation efficiency.

Iron items require a full chain: Mining → Smelting → Forging. Build your smelter near iron deposits to reduce hauling.

Beer is the best value-for-money commodity. Grow barley in spring, brew in autumn, and sell in winter for scarce resources.

Specialists for specialties. Assign each task to the settler with the highest relevant skill for a major efficiency boost.

Densely pack wooden spike traps 2 tiles in front of your gates. Raiders take continuous damage while breaking the gate.

Roofs are mandatory. Rooms without roofs count as outdoor — settlers suffer negative mood from weather exposure.

Processed food lasts 3x longer than raw food. Turn barley into bread, meat into smoked meat, and vegetables into pickles.

During summer heat waves, pause heavy outdoor labor and assign indoor work to prevent heatstroke.

Prisoners can be recruited as settlers. Build a prison, hold captives, provide food regularly, then attempt recruitment.

Individual bedrooms grant +10 mood. 4x4 tiles with a table and chair works best.

Place a bookshelf near the research table for +10% efficiency. Assign 2 researchers simultaneously to stack points.

Keep fields to 10x10 tiles max. Larger fields mean delayed harvests and crops rotting in the field.

Crafted item quality depends on the settler's skill. Assign important gear to your highest-skilled crafter.

Create emergency exits and hidden doors. Multiple retreat routes when besieged prevent total loss.

Assign your highest Social-skill settler to trading for better buy and sell prices.

Build multi-story structures bottom-up. Upper walls must align with lower walls or pillars. Overhangs beyond 2 tiles will collapse.

Underground temperature is constant. Build living quarters at -1F with a fireplace for year-round comfort.

Pull wounded settlers to safety immediately. Severe injuries require bed rest; medicine speeds recovery.

A companion's death drops mood by 20 points for all settlers. Try to avoid casualties in combat.

Keep researchers' mood at 50+ and stamina full. Fatigue and hunger interrupt research progress.

Crossbows deal very high damage but reload slowly — best for elite marksmen. Bows fire faster and are great for volley fire.

Herbs and barley are high-value crops. Once food is plentiful, switch to cash crops to boost trade income.

A hillside is the ideal site — level ground for farming above, mountain for an underground base below. Best of both worlds.