As with any city-building game, getting things wrong at the beginning in Fabledom can cause problems later on. With this list of beginner tips, you’ll be sure to have the best start possible in Fabledom.
How to build the best town in Fabledom
As the new lord of the settlement, it is up to you tobuild and manageyour little people to the best of your ability. This means ensuring everyone is fed, you have enough money, and your residents are happy. It isn’t as easy as it looks, and there are a number of elements you will need to take into consideration in Fabledom for true success inthis simulation game.
Best town layout in Fabledom
Havingthe best town layoutis an important element for any beginner in Fabledom. Mess this up too badly and you’re going to be spending a lot of time trying to sort it later. There are a few things to think about.
So, when starting out in Fabledom, make sure youplan your town. As a beginner, you should use some of the open space for your housing and use the farms as a buffer between the homes and industry. Then, make sure you have lumber yards by your tree area. attempt to keep your stone masons and industry far from your housing.
Bear in mind, as a beginner,you won’t have much spaceon the Fabledom map. Look around the adjacent tiles and decide in which directions you’re likely to expand. I suggest keeping each of the areas separate but with room to grow outward from the centre as you buy more plots.
How to build homes in Fabledom
In the early game, building homes in Fabledom will be one of your biggest priorities likeany city builder. Houses provideone worker but two residents. Each home needsa plot of landwith some items that make the house desirable. This plot can be up to 3×3 with three nice little extras.
Building size and wells
However, there is absolutely no benefit to building a 3×3 plot apart from the appearance. You will save a lot of space and money as a beginner in Fabledom by simplybuilding a 2×2 plot. This reduces walking time, costs, and area.
Keeping your plot sizes small will not only reduce walk time to work but also allow you tobuild fewer inns and wells to cover the homes.Leave small plots open for wells; you can fill an extra space with decorations to further boost happiness.
Sub buildings
In each home, you need to select the sub-buildings they have. This is usually set to random, so make sure you deselect this option when constructing your housing. I suggestusing the garden plotsthat give food, such as the chicken coop and greenhouse. This will help your residents stay fed, even during winter. This will take a hit to desirability, but I’ll cover that next.
Desirability
Some of your buildings will inevitably end up in areas that aren’t all that desirable. You can select the overlay using the menu at the bottom of the screen to view the desirability. A lot of your early-game properties will be grouped up and probably close to the industry. However,raising desirability can be done in a number of ways.
Inns are the best betfor a beginner in Fabledom; they only use one worker and cover a large area. Try to place them right in the middle of an area for a huge boost to happiness. For the houses on the outskirts, you can use the decorations to prop up desirability before you unlock other amenities.
It is essential tokeep happiness above 60%. Anything below this, and new residents won’t arrive in your town in Fabledom. Keep an eye on this and build Inns as necessary. Everyone loves a good pint of lemonade every so often.
Farms are necessary for your successas a beginner in Fabledom, and there are a few key tips to follow. First off, build yourself a few farms of medium size working only vegetables. As a beginner, this should be enough to get you through winter in Fabledom. I would suggest about 40 tiles for success.
Vegetables are the cheapestto upkeep and will be produced until the winter comes around. Building a farm of 40 tiles will cost a lot and slow things down, but you will be thankful for it in the long run. These farms will be your lifeblood along with your little garden farms. Combined, you should have more than enough to survive the year.
Your farm placement is key. If your residents live too far from the farm, they will work less.Use farms as a buffer between homesand other things as they have no negative effect on happiness. verify to build roads directly from homes to the farms and even through them. I noticed the residents in Fabledom love to walk around the farm plots. I guess they’re precious about their shoes.
When winter rolls around, your farms are dead. A common beginner mistake is to keep your farms running during Fabledom winter. Remove all your workers and put them somewhere better,like coal mines.
Try to keep thistucked away from your residences. The struggle is keeping it far away enough to keep desirability up, yet not so far your workers hate the walk. Either way, you need to group them all together and keep them separate from housing. I suggest farms as a buffer.
Make sure you have plenty of all your industrial buildings placed. When winter comes around, you will need plenty of coal, andthe stone becomes a huge elementin the later game Fabledom. Wood is also essential.
Unless you are purposefully trying to clear a patch of trees,build the forester attachment to continue planting after felling. Meeting Bob Barkskin will also help with the replanting.
Don’t be afraid tomove your workers around the various industriesat the beginning of Fabledom. It is unlikely you will have enough residents to keep everything running, so use the overview menu to chop and change. You can also pull people from places like the inns if happiness is high enough, this will prevent the building costing upkeep and give you another pair of hands.
Understanding the Fabledom menus
The overview menu is your friend. As a beginner in Fabledom, you may use this tosee all of your current residentsand all the buildings you have constructed. I would suggest this as your main resource for distributing your workers around the various jobs.
I used this menu topull workers from farms in the winter and quickly place them in other positions, such as iron works and other lacking industries. From here, you can also see the happiness and outgoings of your town.
Making money as a beginner in Fabledom
This is where a lot of beginners will struggle in Fabledom. Until you reach small town level and can start building Condominiums,money can be hard to come by. However, there are a few tips you can use to keep the cash flow strong.
Keep your eyes on your resources, andmake sure you always have space for new residents, and you’ll be fine and dandy. This is supposed tobe a cosy gameafter all, just try to relax.
Leo Gillick
Leo is a Freelance Writer for PC Invasion. He has a degree in English Literature and Film Studies and more hours buried into videogames than he cares to admit. He has worked extensively in the Videogame and Travel writing industry but, as they say, get a job doing something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. He uses his writing as a means to support indefinite global travel with the current five year plan seeing him through Latin America.
