Thank you for making this video! For the longest time, I've tried to make villages after villages trying to survive and grow my city. However, I repeatedly failed to the point where I quit the game for about a year until I came upon this video. After following your step-by-step tutorial I've been able to make a growing city and it's all thanks to you. Amazing video, keep up the great work!
One thing I've picked up is spacing, facing, and sequencing for speed on the first 9: 3 groups of 3, that get left space for the other 3 in the block. Benches right away. I would differ just from observing on the camp location - plan on it being the first village square around which will be town hall - where the builders come from, where to locate cart support construction - Town hall set to face street forming the spine of street running straight from square, two cart sheds facing the street beside the door to townhall, across the street facing it is the trading post, with a pair of booths, one each side of door, space for warehouse out back. Farm Granary are next facing pair away from the square, granary gets 2 booths like the trading post. Next out the fields T the street. Each of the 3 blocks of 3 houses can form a sword hilt with the farm-trade-gov street as the blade. Make sure central square is big enough for the big church and school if possible, or to locate the first tailor, weaver, oil maker, ect. If the blade is North or 12 the forestry-clay pit-charcoal-smith are at 2, housing spokes at 3, 6, and 9. Leg 3 has two houses facing the 3-9 street, one facing the 12-6 street. Leg 6 has two houses facing 12-6 street, one 3-9. Leg 9 two houses facing 3-9, one 12-6. A series of L's, sequencing their build so that the houses closest to the camp center get build first. Fields - 3 face 12-6 street, 4th faces 6 in the 730 position of the four fields - this is the hay-hemp field, with hay racks, and sheep shed facing 6. Will run and send a pic. Notice even in Alpha5 the normal windows-print screen screen shot method works unevenly compared to other games/programs - seems it doesn't work at all if game is on pause. Like to see them have a control-F9 function, like Stellaris has that hides the interface for nice pure screen shots of villages. Hope they eventually let us name our village or give us a pick of names like the original Pharaoh did with family names. One thing JC The Beard taught me was to make sure to know where the map entry is by ghosting the camp along the board edges, making sure you are not on the wrong side of the river, to avoid having to build a bridge to get trade - a little green square will show up when you move the camp over an edge line. Also make sure the same when/if building the new smithery to make iron from iron ore - which I'd not recommend. A little bit of evolution in thinking from my last posts on the other video, from watching this one. What is fascinating about this game is the period its set in and where - down to the date it starts 1721 - Peter the Great named and founded the Russian Empire in October of 1721. This is right after Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War. Knowing this is a game made by Ukrainians, I'm guessing that probably isn't coincidence. Nor the fact there's no military content on purpose as stated by the developer. Brings to mind an piece I read that summarized a Ukrainian ideal paraphrased "Having your own garden and trees, sitting-tending-peacefully enjoying that". People resting on the benches, having rest periods in a game. This game embodies that ideal, let's all share it a bit. The lighting, music, and overall visual tone is pitch perfect. Just finishing Orlando Figes short summary work on the History of Russia, which of course incorporates what is now Ukraine. Can't help but think how this relates to the tradition of the commune - the kind before the 20th century - can really get an appreciation from the village perspective on the unbalancing effects outsiders-taking crops, ect.
Well I for one am looking forward to your village progress and seeing how things develop! Sounds like you are really putting a lot of time and effort and thinking into it! For me the printscreen works fine btw. But I guess that's different for everyone. I do know about the map entry thing. But it has never been a thing for me. Most maps don't have Iron Ore so building a smeltery is only worth it on the maps that do. Otherwise its much cheaper to just import iron. Well you have read up on your history! I don't think much in this game is a coincidence. Lots of things are well thought through and really helpful to the game and the experience. So hopefully the dev's can keep working on this game for a very long time! Thanks for sharing all this!
@@PatmosIV Figured out my print screen problem - have to press the windows key first, then print screen key - works fine now even on pause. Started needing this sometime back when my Steam F12 stopped working. So my approach worked pretty well, got my nine by sometime in September with two working charcoal pits too. Still some refinement to work on - don't build the char pits UNTIL there's wood available. Need to refine selective cutting also. Figuring out how to get village Cross aligned can be tricky AND avoid non-square house plots. Sold on going to 20x50 field size. Might consider making my initial house groups to face a street axial to the spokes on the cross to further shorten walk distance. The square quite well. I built up my cart stock on it a good deal - something like 4 - this way I can always force maintenance on about 4 carts. Next time will build 4 sheds, but just order 2 carts for each to start. Bought metal parts to get more carts soon and early. Put stalls around the square. Square has Townhall & Trading post. Need to get my trading dock in sooner if I can. Wish we could set manager pay separate - had some trouble getting one of my women to take the farm manager job. Have to be more careful on how much I buy next time. Also, think I will space the camp slightly further from trees and make my house plots just a little bigger - more food, more square-space. I'll put together a pdf of this first run to 9 houses. Fun to watch the harvesting up close. This game is really makes me want to iterate to improve. Will be continuing to guide off your videos - 20+ years of gaming, I've found the Dutch punch way above size on contribution 👍. Probably can say the same about the Nordics also. Follow Steath17 some on GameLabs (Also Ukrainian devs with Darth Vader helping them of Darthmods fame) naval games - great sense of humor.
Thank you so much for your nice words! I’n really happy the video helped! I hope you can create a great village and have lots of fun with the game! Always feel free to ask any question about the game!
Thanks you sir for your tutorials you have single handedly made me understand the game and how to build 9 homes before the winter ❄️ that got me a good start...which made me want more........This game has now taken over my life in a good way I can't even sleep....... I love this game.... to me it's one of the greatest games ever made but no one knows it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 USA California here!!!!!
Thank you for your kind words! Glad the video helped you! I hope you can build great villages now in Ostriv! Just make sure you don't get to caught up in it, there is a life beyond gaming;-) How is California today? Still on my list of places to visit some day! Greetings from the Netherlands!
@@PatmosIVyes California is a little cold right now and a lot of people are getting sick from the you know what.... the but other than that it's okay to visit but that's my point of view I'm more interested in the UK..... You guys have more passion in everything you do and I just think that's better... And you guys are a lot more intelligent overall in my opinion
@@FFxtomkat Well i'm not going to visit before the whole covid thing is over. And even then it might still take a while haha. Well the UK is our neighbor. Only separated by a small sea. But since they left the EU not everything has improved for them, so I happily stay in the Netherlands! I don't really know about intelligent etc. That's mostly a matter of perspective and has a lot to do with cultural stuff. And comparing those will reveal quite a few differences between EU country's and the USA. So comparing them is quite hard.
@@PatmosIV yes sir I do want to send you some pictures of my pescatarian village, map 7 ..let me know the app to send you some pics, I have over 20 fishing docks with over 50 men fishing to at least.. feed my town with fish that one resource along with the slaughtering of the cows sheep chicken and old horses and pigs... I've never had so much fun with this game all my people, well not all of them some of them have seven sources of food and it makes me so happy... when I first started playing about 2 weeks ago, a lot of them were starving and moving out.. I want to start making boots and clothes and start exporting them because that's a good way to make money and I want all my people to have five rated clothing and boots and I want everybody to be happy and have many sources of food that's my goal it's so fun to try to attain it, I'm so happy and glad that you love this game just as much as I do!!!!!!
Sounds like a great town with good foodsupply! Really want to see it! Feel free to send pictures to my email: patmosiv@outlook.com. Looking forward to it!
Great tutorial! Especially the sound quality and your "nordish" English accent is very clear and easy to understand. Only your mouse movements and clicks are sometimes too fast for me to follow. But overall, it was quite interesting to see the lots of changes and new stuff after about 4 years, when I played Ostriv the last time. Greetings from Thailand. ;)
Thank you very much! Really glad you enjoyed the tutorial and my English! Sorry my mouse and clicks are a bit to fast. Hope the tutorial can still help! Maybe another game after 4 years to enjoy it yourself! Greetings from the Netherlands.
at 29:42 it took me a few goes at deciphering what you were doing. I had to pause and rewind a few times before I figured it out (with the options for "Laborer by Cart" and "Carter" 😂 I hope these options will become clearer as I play a little more
Haha well it can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning. But you can build Cartsheds where you can store 4 carts (they get build by the carpenter, you can order them by clicking the plus icons in the cartshed) Laborers (villagers without an assigned job that will do all shortterm jobs in the village) will use those carts if they can. If you open up that option, you allow a certain building to hire laborers with carts to transport stuff for them. The Carter is a building where you build carts and assign people to them that will then be the only ones to work that cart. They can also be hired by buildings if you check the box for the carter. But the carter needs 5 workers permanently and, while carts in the shed can be operated by any free laborer. I hope this clears things up a bit! Enjoy Ostriv!
You can move clay pits these days. Also I find it odd this is even an issue to build 9 houses, since I build 9 houses + a farm in order to allow for new villagers as soon as possible. Not that it matters now days since making farm houses allow you to get the first harvest and trigger new villagers in the first year. I find the thatchery an odd choice early since the city start with a stockpile and I think you can build all 9 houses with the stockpile, all you need is wood and clay. The game is extremely generous with time for allowing to build the houses. Though I think speed is bugged, so simply don't speed up the game.
Thank you very much for your comment. Great to hear getting to 9 houses isn't an issue for you. Then you can give yourself a great start each time and build great villages. Unfortunately not everyone is that proficient with Ostriv. I made the video for those who requested it and do have some trouble getting to 9 houses. All I hope is that this video can help them get a better start. I choose to build a thatchery since the amount of resources needed per house differ a bit, since the size of each house is different. I've seen times where I ran out of Thatch. Furthermore the woman don't have anything else to do, so I'll give them work there and build up a little stockpile. And since there is enough time to get it all done, why not? I'm very happy for you that the game is so easy for you and you get it all done. This video is to help people who have a lot of fun gaming, but sometimes need a little help to get started or know a way to do stuff in a game. Which with several games includes me. That why I try to help people in this video, I need that kind of help sometimes to.
Hello, Could you possibly make an updated version of this? I am currently trying to follow your directions to a T and am at the end of june and only have 2,5 houses while you had 3,5 at the beginning of june. Please help! Thanks
Hi Jessica! Thank you for your comment. It should still be pretty accurate but I have a solution. I uploaded this new video a few days ago. I started completely new on the new map. I think this will help. It shows everything from the start! ruclips.net/video/0E9-AbE4Swo/видео.html Let me know if this was helpful! Enjoy the game! I hope you can build a great town!
Great video :) I started a new village after the last update and always just barely get my 9 nine houses in time lol I think I'll try more benches next time and see if it helps :D
Thank you! I found that out too after I created the video! Its good to add it here in the comments so people know. Thank you for taking the time to tell us!
I couldn't put the clay pit exactly where you did because there were red dots. I had to put it on the other side where there are green dots. I thought maybe you might be using an earlier version and they changed the map slightly. I checked the date of this upload and saw it was 1 year ago so that's it. Just a slight difference in the map due to the dev adding clay quality to the map. He is doing a great job considering he is in a war zone! I hope Ukrain defeats the Russian invaders. Poland could be next if Ukrain falls! Any of the former soviet block nations.
Yeah those are little changes they made. I think the claypit would go a bit different now. Most of the core mechanics are still the same though. The Dev is really doing an amazing job. Let us all hope the war ends soon, That peace will come back and he can focus on developing his amazing game.
Thank you! And thank you for the idea! I might do that! Im also thinking about a video to explain certain industries and how to set them up and what you need for them.
I never struggled getting the 9 houses built, but took a few tries to get a farm running on year 2.... now I'm struggling with profit. (First attempt to trade, I built a trade dock, which was kinda useless. Apparently trading post is the way to go.)
Haha well I believe there is a little overview of my economics settings in this video? Together with how I set it up and trading some Charcoal to Derkachi you can make an easy positive balance. Without making them miserable haha
Haha very true! But this guide is purely for those that need some help to get started. You will find many more video's and villages in Ostriv on my channel that do have different layouts and styles and not just the grids!
Winter is coming so three families moved out. I think they made the 4th map tougher since you made this. It also seems to take longer to build. I even got one of the men out of the log camp and hired him as the last worker. Maybe you should redo this after you make sure you figure out the changes.
That is most unfortunate! I have not heard of them making changes to the time buildings take to build etc, but could well be. I'm still recovering from my illness, but I will do a rerun of this once I'm back to full health and post it for you. Then we can see if things changed and what can work with the current updates!
I agree, I just bought this game and I followed this guide but I can only get to 4 houses before winter hits. I actually restarted 3 times and same results. I even pause between changing jobs for my people.
@@helamanploeg1325 really sorry to hear that. Guess you played map 4 too? I will make new starting video’s the upcoming days. I will try to do one for each map, but I will redo map 4 first.
@vincewilson1 @helamanploeg1325 Tomorrow Sunday 7th 2024 A new starting guide for map 4 will go live at 16:00 CET. I've recorded it today. Got 9 houses and the basic industries up before winter. I hope this helps!
Hi! Thanks for your comment! Sorry to hear it is not really working out for you. When constructing building there are a few factors to take into account. 1. The number of builders. You assign them in the beginning in the main tent, later in the government house. The more you have the faster they build. 2. Building resources. They have to get the building resources and transport them to the building site. So make sure in the beginning your claypit is close to where you are going to build. So keep they starting camp, claypit and also the forester close to each other so walking distance is as short as possible. 3. Later in game having enough carts available will help speed up production because they can use the carts to transport more goods to your construction site at the same time. 4. When you start the game, immediately pause the game. Then place the buildings like the forester, claypit etc. When you are happy with the placements, un pause. Otherwise you could loose half a month were nothing happens. I hope this helps a bit. Otherwise feel free to ask more!
That is most unfortunate.. Here is what you can check: 1. Build a market stall 2. Assign goods to it. Most preferably those you buy with the granary from your villagers like cucumber etc) or stuff you have like potatoes etc. 3. Assign a worker to it. It will collect the goods to sell at the marketplace from the granary. Then you have all you need for a working market. If you have all this and it still doesn't work, there might just be a little bug or something. But this should really be all you need.
Really? Thats tough. Did you take all the walking distances into account to? From the forestry to the trees, from the carts and claypit to the houses and forester. Walking distance from the first encampment to your first houses? Everything matters and walking distance has quite the impact.
@@PatmosIV yea I took that into account. I placed the forestry, each home, and settlement exactly how you did, on the same map. The only thing I can think of is that my computer is not fast enough or something lol
Thank you for your comment! I'm really glad this video helped! I'm working on a series of tutorials for the game. For trading, managing the economy etc. I already did a tip video with 10 tips. Tip number 5 is about the economy to help you make money. You can find the video here: ruclips.net/video/J7O8L613GYc/видео.html The economy tip starts around 14:30. I hope this helps already. If you have more questions then feel free to ask and I will give a longer answer!
Thank you very much! I will do a remake of this as soon as I'm healthy again. Maybe I can make one for each map as a little help for people who get started on different maps.
idk if you know but there is a button to make there gardens bigger so they grow more vegetables… Thx for this clearly video. Oh and how about firewood?
Thank you so much for your comment! I do know about the F1 button and then expanding the gardens. For this little tutorial I just kept it simple. But its a great addition to gain more food from gardens, so thanks for pointing it out! How about firewood? Well firewood is produced in the forestry. You can sell it in a market place. That really helps to distribute it around town. Building a few warehouses around town filled with firewood and a marketplace close by is a really smart thing to do. As long as your foresters can chop some trees, they will also create firewood.
Started the first game-I didn't make enough houses and so I lost a bunch of families. The second game I made enough houses but ran out of food and lost a bunch of families. The third game I didn't make enough houses or food and lost a bunch of families. The fourth game I'm going to string up a bunch of peasants as an example to the rest of them.
Ghehe sounds interesting! Maybe not the best solution! Would like to know how it ended up with this solution! Maybe my Ostriv 10 tips video could help you out?
@@PatmosIV Yes thanks for the tutorials. I just got the game last night so I'm still working through the first mistakes everyone makes. I look forward to a working town.
People stop looking for a job if you lower their wage to much. Then they think its not worth going to work. In alpha 4 you could lower it as much as you want. In Alpha 5 that changed. It is a bit trail and error, but if you put normal wage on 1. And labor wage on 0,8 then almost everybody should work, especially in the beginning. You can go even lower, but then there is a chance some might not work. I hope this helpes!
Good question. Did not have the time to look into that, but I guess it remains the same for now, since the deeper economic mechanics did not change. So probably set wages to 1.10. labor wages to 1.0 (and then on the farms etc. raise it to 130%, so laborers will go there first) lowers all rent to 0.15. lower the purchasing price for citizens to 20% and the price you buy it from citizens to 10%. Then set wealth tax to 5 or 10, and set the threshold to 30. Basically all will be cheap for them but they will also not be paid that much. This allows them to accumulate some wealth until 30coins and all above 30 will start to flow to your coffers with the wealth tax. This way I never have to deal with workers not wanting to work, rarely have to give money to villagers in support. all excess money comes to the villages coffers for me to use while trading. And of course just export Charcoal and some clothing or something for some additional funds. But having around 1500-2000 the whole game is perfect. Game is not about making you rich, its about building a functional town. So that is how I would do it, but there are many different ways that work! As soon as I'm back to full health, I will start working on an Economy explained video for Ostriv.
Thank you for making this video! For the longest time, I've tried to make villages after villages trying to survive and grow my city. However, I repeatedly failed to the point where I quit the game for about a year until I came upon this video. After following your step-by-step tutorial I've been able to make a growing city and it's all thanks to you. Amazing video, keep up the great work!
Thank you very much for your comment! This is exactly why I made the video. Really glad is was of help. Enjoy the game!
One thing I've picked up is spacing, facing, and sequencing for speed on the first 9: 3 groups of 3, that get left space for the other 3 in the block. Benches right away.
I would differ just from observing on the camp location - plan on it being the first village square around which will be town hall - where the builders come from, where to locate cart support construction - Town hall set to face street forming the spine of street running straight from square, two cart sheds facing the street beside the door to townhall, across the street facing it is the trading post, with a pair of booths, one each side of door, space for warehouse out back. Farm Granary are next facing pair away from the square, granary gets 2 booths like the trading post. Next out the fields T the street. Each of the 3 blocks of 3 houses can form a sword hilt with the farm-trade-gov street as the blade. Make sure central square is big enough for the big church and school if possible, or to locate the first tailor, weaver, oil maker, ect. If the blade is North or 12 the forestry-clay pit-charcoal-smith are at 2, housing spokes at 3, 6, and 9.
Leg 3 has two houses facing the 3-9 street, one facing the 12-6 street.
Leg 6 has two houses facing 12-6 street, one 3-9.
Leg 9 two houses facing 3-9, one 12-6.
A series of L's, sequencing their build so that the houses closest to the camp center get build first.
Fields - 3 face 12-6 street, 4th faces 6 in the 730 position of the four fields - this is the hay-hemp field, with hay racks, and sheep shed facing 6.
Will run and send a pic. Notice even in Alpha5 the normal windows-print screen screen shot method works unevenly compared to other games/programs - seems it doesn't work at all if game is on pause.
Like to see them have a control-F9 function, like Stellaris has that hides the interface for nice pure screen shots of villages.
Hope they eventually let us name our village or give us a pick of names like the original Pharaoh did with family names.
One thing JC The Beard taught me was to make sure to know where the map entry is by ghosting the camp along the board edges, making sure you are not on the wrong side of the river, to avoid having to build a bridge to get trade - a little green square will show up when you move the camp over an edge line. Also make sure the same when/if building the new smithery to make iron from iron ore - which I'd not recommend.
A little bit of evolution in thinking from my last posts on the other video, from watching this one.
What is fascinating about this game is the period its set in and where - down to the date it starts 1721 - Peter the Great named and founded the Russian Empire in October of 1721. This is right after Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War. Knowing this is a game made by Ukrainians, I'm guessing that probably isn't coincidence. Nor the fact there's no military content on purpose as stated by the developer. Brings to mind an piece I read that summarized a Ukrainian ideal paraphrased "Having your own garden and trees, sitting-tending-peacefully enjoying that". People resting on the benches, having rest periods in a game. This game embodies that ideal, let's all share it a bit. The lighting, music, and overall visual tone is pitch perfect.
Just finishing Orlando Figes short summary work on the History of Russia, which of course incorporates what is now Ukraine. Can't help but think how this relates to the tradition of the commune - the kind before the 20th century - can really get an appreciation from the village perspective on the unbalancing effects outsiders-taking crops, ect.
Well I for one am looking forward to your village progress and seeing how things develop! Sounds like you are really putting a lot of time and effort and thinking into it!
For me the printscreen works fine btw. But I guess that's different for everyone.
I do know about the map entry thing. But it has never been a thing for me. Most maps don't have Iron Ore so building a smeltery is only worth it on the maps that do. Otherwise its much cheaper to just import iron.
Well you have read up on your history! I don't think much in this game is a coincidence. Lots of things are well thought through and really helpful to the game and the experience. So hopefully the dev's can keep working on this game for a very long time!
Thanks for sharing all this!
@@PatmosIV Figured out my print screen problem - have to press the windows key first, then print screen key - works fine now even on pause. Started needing this sometime back when my Steam F12 stopped working.
So my approach worked pretty well, got my nine by sometime in September with two working charcoal pits too. Still some refinement to work on - don't build the char pits UNTIL there's wood available. Need to refine selective cutting also. Figuring out how to get village Cross aligned can be tricky AND avoid non-square house plots. Sold on going to 20x50 field size. Might consider making my initial house groups to face a street axial to the spokes on the cross to further shorten walk distance.
The square quite well. I built up my cart stock on it a good deal - something like 4 - this way I can always force maintenance on about 4 carts. Next time will build 4 sheds, but just order 2 carts for each to start. Bought metal parts to get more carts soon and early. Put stalls around the square. Square has Townhall & Trading post. Need to get my trading dock in sooner if I can. Wish we could set manager pay separate - had some trouble getting one of my women to take the farm manager job. Have to be more careful on how much I buy next time. Also, think I will space the camp slightly further from trees and make my house plots just a little bigger - more food, more square-space. I'll put together a pdf of this first run to 9 houses. Fun to watch the harvesting up close. This game is really makes me want to iterate to improve.
Will be continuing to guide off your videos - 20+ years of gaming, I've found the Dutch punch way above size on contribution 👍. Probably can say the same about the Nordics also. Follow Steath17 some on GameLabs (Also Ukrainian devs with Darth Vader helping them of Darthmods fame) naval games - great sense of humor.
I just bought the game, watching this was so helpful. Granary to buy local foodstuff... I never would have thought of that. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much for your nice words! I’n really happy the video helped! I hope you can create a great village and have lots of fun with the game! Always feel free to ask any question about the game!
Thanks you sir for your tutorials you have single handedly made me understand the game and how to build 9 homes before the winter ❄️ that got me a good start...which made me want more........This game has now taken over my life in a good way I can't even sleep....... I love this game.... to me it's one of the greatest games ever made but no one knows it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 USA California here!!!!!
Thank you for your kind words! Glad the video helped you! I hope you can build great villages now in Ostriv! Just make sure you don't get to caught up in it, there is a life beyond gaming;-)
How is California today? Still on my list of places to visit some day! Greetings from the Netherlands!
@@PatmosIVyes California is a little cold right now and a lot of people are getting sick from the you know what.... the but other than that it's okay to visit but that's my point of view I'm more interested in the UK..... You guys have more passion in everything you do and I just think that's better... And you guys are a lot more intelligent overall in my opinion
@@FFxtomkat Well i'm not going to visit before the whole covid thing is over. And even then it might still take a while haha.
Well the UK is our neighbor. Only separated by a small sea. But since they left the EU not everything has improved for them, so I happily stay in the Netherlands!
I don't really know about intelligent etc. That's mostly a matter of perspective and has a lot to do with cultural stuff. And comparing those will reveal quite a few differences between EU country's and the USA. So comparing them is quite hard.
@@PatmosIV yes sir I do want to send you some pictures of my pescatarian village, map 7 ..let me know the app to send you some pics, I have over 20 fishing docks with over 50 men fishing to at least.. feed my town with fish that one resource along with the slaughtering of the cows sheep chicken and old horses and pigs... I've never had so much fun with this game all my people, well not all of them some of them have seven sources of food and it makes me so happy... when I first started playing about 2 weeks ago, a lot of them were starving and moving out.. I want to start making boots and clothes and start exporting them because that's a good way to make money and I want all my people to have five rated clothing and boots and I want everybody to be happy and have many sources of food that's my goal it's so fun to try to attain it, I'm so happy and glad that you love this game just as much as I do!!!!!!
Sounds like a great town with good foodsupply! Really want to see it! Feel free to send pictures to my email: patmosiv@outlook.com. Looking forward to it!
Great tutorial! Especially the sound quality and your "nordish" English accent is very clear and easy to understand. Only your mouse movements and clicks are sometimes too fast for me to follow. But overall, it was quite interesting to see the lots of changes and new stuff after about 4 years, when I played Ostriv the last time.
Greetings from Thailand. ;)
Thank you very much! Really glad you enjoyed the tutorial and my English! Sorry my mouse and clicks are a bit to fast. Hope the tutorial can still help! Maybe another game after 4 years to enjoy it yourself!
Greetings from the Netherlands.
@@PatmosIV *...clicks are a bit TOO fast. haha
@@NipapornP You can probably correct me on that mistake quite a few more times!
i have roughly 136 hours in this game and still found this helpful. thanks for the content.
Thank you! Great to hear it still was helpful!
at 29:42 it took me a few goes at deciphering what you were doing. I had to pause and rewind a few times before I figured it out (with the options for "Laborer by Cart" and "Carter" 😂 I hope these options will become clearer as I play a little more
Haha well it can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning. But you can build Cartsheds where you can store 4 carts (they get build by the carpenter, you can order them by clicking the plus icons in the cartshed)
Laborers (villagers without an assigned job that will do all shortterm jobs in the village) will use those carts if they can. If you open up that option, you allow a certain building to hire laborers with carts to transport stuff for them.
The Carter is a building where you build carts and assign people to them that will then be the only ones to work that cart. They can also be hired by buildings if you check the box for the carter. But the carter needs 5 workers permanently and, while carts in the shed can be operated by any free laborer.
I hope this clears things up a bit! Enjoy Ostriv!
Thanks!! This video is very helpful
You are very welcome! Glad this video helped!
Loved the previous one and this one is great too!
Thank you very much! Means a lot to me!
Amazing video, thanks!
Good to hear! Thank you!!
You can move clay pits these days.
Also I find it odd this is even an issue to build 9 houses, since I build 9 houses + a farm in order to allow for new villagers as soon as possible. Not that it matters now days since making farm houses allow you to get the first harvest and trigger new villagers in the first year.
I find the thatchery an odd choice early since the city start with a stockpile and I think you can build all 9 houses with the stockpile, all you need is wood and clay.
The game is extremely generous with time for allowing to build the houses. Though I think speed is bugged, so simply don't speed up the game.
Thank you very much for your comment.
Great to hear getting to 9 houses isn't an issue for you. Then you can give yourself a great start each time and build great villages.
Unfortunately not everyone is that proficient with Ostriv. I made the video for those who requested it and do have some trouble getting to 9 houses. All I hope is that this video can help them get a better start.
I choose to build a thatchery since the amount of resources needed per house differ a bit, since the size of each house is different. I've seen times where I ran out of Thatch. Furthermore the woman don't have anything else to do, so I'll give them work there and build up a little stockpile. And since there is enough time to get it all done, why not?
I'm very happy for you that the game is so easy for you and you get it all done. This video is to help people who have a lot of fun gaming, but sometimes need a little help to get started or know a way to do stuff in a game. Which with several games includes me. That why I try to help people in this video, I need that kind of help sometimes to.
@@PatmosIV "...sometimes to." ...to...what?
Probably just my bad english. Just meant that i need help to ever so often.
Hello,
Could you possibly make an updated version of this? I am currently trying to follow your directions to a T and am at the end of june and only have 2,5 houses while you had 3,5 at the beginning of june. Please help!
Thanks
Hi Jessica! Thank you for your comment. It should still be pretty accurate but I have a solution. I uploaded this new video a few days ago. I started completely new on the new map. I think this will help. It shows everything from the start! ruclips.net/video/0E9-AbE4Swo/видео.html
Let me know if this was helpful! Enjoy the game! I hope you can build a great town!
great vid! big help. thanks for sharing 😉
You are most welcome! Thanks for the nice comment! Enjoy it!
Great video :) I started a new village after the last update and always just barely get my 9 nine houses in time lol I think I'll try more benches next time and see if it helps :D
Well hopefully this video helped to make it a little easier;-)
Thanks for the tutorial!
No problem!
The clay pit can be deleted and placed elsewhere now, with . 4.7. At least I was able to do that.
Thank you! I found that out too after I created the video! Its good to add it here in the comments so people know. Thank you for taking the time to tell us!
@@PatmosIV "..out to after"? What do you mean?
I couldn't put the clay pit exactly where you did because there were red dots. I had to put it on the other side where there are green dots. I thought maybe you might be using an earlier version and they changed the map slightly. I checked the date of this upload and saw it was 1 year ago so that's it. Just a slight difference in the map due to the dev adding clay quality to the map. He is doing a great job considering he is in a war zone! I hope Ukrain defeats the Russian invaders. Poland could be next if Ukrain falls! Any of the former soviet block nations.
Yeah those are little changes they made. I think the claypit would go a bit different now. Most of the core mechanics are still the same though. The Dev is really doing an amazing job. Let us all hope the war ends soon, That peace will come back and he can focus on developing his amazing game.
Thank you helped alot!
You are welcome! Thank you for your reaction!
Very nice and helpful you should make an advanced one for best economy strategy.
(Just an idea)
Thank you! And thank you for the idea! I might do that! Im also thinking about a video to explain certain industries and how to set them up and what you need for them.
I never struggled getting the 9 houses built, but took a few tries to get a farm running on year 2.... now I'm struggling with profit. (First attempt to trade, I built a trade dock, which was kinda useless. Apparently trading post is the way to go.)
Good to hear! Making a profit can be tough. Do you change the wages and rents etc after you have build the Town Hall? Cause that can help a lot!
Working on that. I've yet to find a profitable balance... maybe because I'm naturally scared of making the people miserable ^_^@@PatmosIV
Haha well I believe there is a little overview of my economics settings in this video? Together with how I set it up and trading some Charcoal to Derkachi you can make an easy positive balance. Without making them miserable haha
Nice and useful guide, thank you! Though I fear that your placing everything into optimally efficient and ugly grids betrays your Germanic heritage ;)
Haha very true! But this guide is purely for those that need some help to get started. You will find many more video's and villages in Ostriv on my channel that do have different layouts and styles and not just the grids!
Winter is coming so three families moved out. I think they made the 4th map tougher since you made this. It also seems to take longer to build. I even got one of the men out of the log camp and hired him as the last worker. Maybe you should redo this after you make sure you figure out the changes.
That is most unfortunate! I have not heard of them making changes to the time buildings take to build etc, but could well be. I'm still recovering from my illness, but I will do a rerun of this once I'm back to full health and post it for you. Then we can see if things changed and what can work with the current updates!
I agree, I just bought this game and I followed this guide but I can only get to 4 houses before winter hits. I actually restarted 3 times and same results. I even pause between changing jobs for my people.
@@helamanploeg1325 really sorry to hear that. Guess you played map 4 too? I will make new starting video’s the upcoming days. I will try to do one for each map, but I will redo map 4 first.
@vincewilson1 @helamanploeg1325 Tomorrow Sunday 7th 2024 A new starting guide for map 4 will go live at 16:00 CET. I've recorded it today. Got 9 houses and the basic industries up before winter. I hope this helps!
My builders build so slowly, my forestry was done in april, why is that and how can i fix this
Hi! Thanks for your comment! Sorry to hear it is not really working out for you.
When constructing building there are a few factors to take into account.
1. The number of builders. You assign them in the beginning in the main tent, later in the government house. The more you have the faster they build.
2. Building resources. They have to get the building resources and transport them to the building site. So make sure in the beginning your claypit is close to where you are going to build. So keep they starting camp, claypit and also the forester close to each other so walking distance is as short as possible.
3. Later in game having enough carts available will help speed up production because they can use the carts to transport more goods to your construction site at the same time.
4. When you start the game, immediately pause the game. Then place the buildings like the forester, claypit etc. When you are happy with the placements, un pause. Otherwise you could loose half a month were nothing happens.
I hope this helps a bit. Otherwise feel free to ask more!
Yeah ty but mine still says “No market”
That is most unfortunate.. Here is what you can check:
1. Build a market stall
2. Assign goods to it. Most preferably those you buy with the granary from your villagers like cucumber etc) or stuff you have like potatoes etc.
3. Assign a worker to it. It will collect the goods to sell at the marketplace from the granary.
Then you have all you need for a working market.
If you have all this and it still doesn't work, there might just be a little bug or something. But this should really be all you need.
I did exactly what he did and they haven’t finished a single house by the time he built two…
Really? Thats tough. Did you take all the walking distances into account to? From the forestry to the trees, from the carts and claypit to the houses and forester. Walking distance from the first encampment to your first houses? Everything matters and walking distance has quite the impact.
@@PatmosIV yea I took that into account. I placed the forestry, each home, and settlement exactly how you did, on the same map. The only thing I can think of is that my computer is not fast enough or something lol
Oh well. Do you pause the game often to place the buildings and then unpause when things are done? A lot of people forget that too!
THANK YOU!!!!
You are most welcome!
Great video helped me alot but how do i keep money and manage the economy well every time i try it seems i lose money never gain lol
Thank you for your comment! I'm really glad this video helped! I'm working on a series of tutorials for the game. For trading, managing the economy etc. I already did a tip video with 10 tips. Tip number 5 is about the economy to help you make money.
You can find the video here: ruclips.net/video/J7O8L613GYc/видео.html
The economy tip starts around 14:30. I hope this helps already. If you have more questions then feel free to ask and I will give a longer answer!
I will like and subscribe to support you eve though it didn't work.
Thank you very much! I will do a remake of this as soon as I'm healthy again. Maybe I can make one for each map as a little help for people who get started on different maps.
idk if you know but there is a button to make there gardens bigger so they grow more vegetables…
Thx for this clearly video.
Oh and how about firewood?
Thank you so much for your comment! I do know about the F1 button and then expanding the gardens. For this little tutorial I just kept it simple. But its a great addition to gain more food from gardens, so thanks for pointing it out!
How about firewood? Well firewood is produced in the forestry. You can sell it in a market place. That really helps to distribute it around town. Building a few warehouses around town filled with firewood and a marketplace close by is a really smart thing to do. As long as your foresters can chop some trees, they will also create firewood.
put your game save somewhere in downloads
Don’t think I’ll do that. Why you want that?
Started the first game-I didn't make enough houses and so I lost a bunch of families. The second game I made enough houses but ran out of food and lost a bunch of families. The third game I didn't make enough houses or food and lost a bunch of families. The fourth game I'm going to string up a bunch of peasants as an example to the rest of them.
Ghehe sounds interesting! Maybe not the best solution! Would like to know how it ended up with this solution! Maybe my Ostriv 10 tips video could help you out?
@@PatmosIV Yes thanks for the tutorials. I just got the game last night so I'm still working through the first mistakes everyone makes. I look forward to a working town.
Okay! Well you bought a great game! I hope it works out soon! You can do it! Have fun!
@@PatmosIV Thanks, I'm checking your channel for good ideas. Good luck to you as well.
I hope my channel can help you! Thank you very much for your nice words!
why do people stop looking for job ?
People stop looking for a job if you lower their wage to much. Then they think its not worth going to work. In alpha 4 you could lower it as much as you want. In Alpha 5 that changed. It is a bit trail and error, but if you put normal wage on 1. And labor wage on 0,8 then almost everybody should work, especially in the beginning. You can go even lower, but then there is a chance some might not work. I hope this helpes!
@@PatmosIV thank you man I checked your other video and understood
With the latest update Alpha 5 Patch 4 what would your initial Town Hall Economy settings be as there are new items as well as changes to the game?
Good question. Did not have the time to look into that, but I guess it remains the same for now, since the deeper economic mechanics did not change.
So probably set wages to 1.10. labor wages to 1.0 (and then on the farms etc. raise it to 130%, so laborers will go there first)
lowers all rent to 0.15. lower the purchasing price for citizens to 20% and the price you buy it from citizens to 10%.
Then set wealth tax to 5 or 10, and set the threshold to 30.
Basically all will be cheap for them but they will also not be paid that much. This allows them to accumulate some wealth until 30coins and all above 30 will start to flow to your coffers with the wealth tax. This way I never have to deal with workers not wanting to work, rarely have to give money to villagers in support. all excess money comes to the villages coffers for me to use while trading. And of course just export Charcoal and some clothing or something for some additional funds. But having around 1500-2000 the whole game is perfect. Game is not about making you rich, its about building a functional town.
So that is how I would do it, but there are many different ways that work! As soon as I'm back to full health, I will start working on an Economy explained video for Ostriv.