How to Keep Villagers Happy in Medieval Dynasty

The 6 steps to happy villagers

1. 1
   

   Step 1

   Invite Travellers

   • 10village pins, Valley

   • You need the proper level of Dynasty Reputation first.
   • Then look for Travellers, usually at campfires in villages (the village layer has 10 pins on the Valley map), and invite them to the settlement.
2. 2
   

   Step 2

   Give each one a house

   • 11house places

   • Homeless newcomers lose Mood quickly, so house them early.
   • You choose the house, but only people of different sexes can share one.
   • A man and a woman with an age difference of at most 20 years in one house are likely to have a child after a while.
   • The file lists three house types: Simple Small House (3 places), Simple House (4 places), House (4 places).
   • Construction resources may vary with the house foundation.
3. 3
   

   Step 3

   Stock food, water and firewood

   • Store Food, Water and Firewood in the house chests.
   • After you build a Resource Storage and a Food Storage, villagers collect what they need themselves, and you get a notification when they are hungry, thirsty or cold.
   • Food comes from meat, fish, bread and dishes from the Kitchen, vegetables and fruit, and forest mushrooms.
   • Water comes from the Well, rivers, cows milked in the Cowshed, fruit and berries.
   • Firewood burns as Firewood, Sticks, Logs and Planks.
4. 4
   

   Step 4

   Give them jobs

   • 23professions

   • Matching a task to a worker's ability gives better results.
   • Employed workers gather resources, develop Technologies and raise their own skills.
   • The file lists 23 worker professions in 6 skills (Extraction, Crafting, Hunting, Survival, Farming, Diplomacy), and 39 buildings that name a profession.
   • Use the People Management tab to see each villager's age, mood, profession and skills, and to change housing and jobs.
5. 5
   

   Step 5

   Watch Mood

   • -100 to 100Mood range

   • Mood runs from -100 to 100.
   • At the lowest point the resident leaves.
   • Missing food, firewood, water or a bed lowers it, random events move it, and a job, a family and a sturdier house raise it.
   • It also sets how eagerly people work: the speed of production, the stallholders' pace of trading and the rate builders repair structures change by -20% at Mood -100 and +20% at 100.
6. 6
   

   Step 6

   Train the teenagers

   • halfof the adult learning rate

   • Teenagers (14-18 years) can work in production buildings as apprentices.
   • They learn at half the adult rate and add nothing to production, and the building needs at least one adult worker (18-55 years) for the learning to happen.

Common mistakes

• Leaving newcomers homeless. It lowers Mood fast.
• Skipping the storages. Without a Resource Storage and a Food Storage villagers cannot collect what they need on their own.
• Putting two men or two women in one house. Only people of different sexes can live together.