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This game is unlike any other city builder games that I've played before. It might be challenging at first but after several dozen attempts I was able to grasp how the game works and I was able to reach a town with +200 people for the first time. It was really fun and I really enjoyed it.

My first few attempts always ends up in failure. Some of those failures include:
- Everyone dying of old age at the same time and the population crashes
- Everyone dying of cold due to lack of firewood supply
- Everyone dying of starvation due to population growth outpacing food production
- Town runs out of tools supply and the economy grinds to a halt
- Running out of wood, stone, or iron and the economy grinds to a halt
- Forgetting to build a herbalist hut and everyone becomes unhealthy and unproductive
- Forgetting to build a hospital and everyone succumbs to disease outbreaks
- And many more...

Some tips to new players:
- Make sure to set disaster turned off and focus on learning the basic game mechanics for now.
- Choose a map that spawns you in right next to deep rivers and bodies of water as it will make fishing much more accessible. Also plenty of flat land is good too to allow room for expansion. A bad map is all it takes to ruin your play through.
- Always go for gatherers, hunters, and fishermen for the food supply in early game as they can produce food all year around regardless of season. You can go for crop fields, orchards, and farms later once you're in midgame.
- Build a wood cutter and stockpile firewood asap before winter comes or else your people will freeze to death in early game.
- Make sure to build storage barn right next to gatherer's hut, hunters cabin, fishing dock, crop fields, orchards, and farms as it will significantly decrease travel time and boost productivity.
- Make sure to build a storage shed right next to forester, wood cutter, tailor and other non-food related production buildings to decrease travel time and boost productivity.
- Make sure that your town is in a state of food overproduction and you have a lot of storage barns before you decide to expand the population (aka before you build more houses)
- Take the expansion slow and steady, make sure to build one or two house at a time. Avoid baby booms as it will mean your town will eventually end up mass dying of old age down the line.
- Make sure to stockpile tons of wood, stone, and iron before expanding further
- Make sure to have overproduction of firewood before expansion or else the firewood supply will run out due to rapid expansion and everyone freezes to death
- Once you're in midgame, build Markets in the middle of your town and build stone roads to improve the transportation of foods and commodity, school house for increased education and productivity, coal mines for steel tools (better tools results in better productivity), and tailor to clothe your folks and be able to work better in winter.