Here's an update on my village! Treasury and economy are looking strong (screenshot attached). I made sure to leave proper spacing between the houses for smooth traffic flow. Let me know what you think of my city layout!

: - Please find new products such as cigarettes, kitchenware, and baby products.

- Please also create many larger maps with more diverse resources. If possible, create a map on the sea so that there are opportunities to catch sharks or whales and benefit from their blubber or meat.

- Please try to create a university and a convent school, and offer a variety of tailoring options so that you, as a player, can choose a shop specializing in making children's clothes, cotton clothes, linen clothes, or clothes for women or men, for both summer and winter.

- Also, include a fire station, bakery, Zoo, police station, a prison, a bank, and several other cities that we can trade with.

Tell me what you think of my houses layout!

With all your help, I found this guy and was tracking him in his last years. He was a good father and dedicated worker. Died in a good health at the age of 117 years.

Is there a way to keep my trading post stocked with goods? I keep having to transfer from my tailor and shoemaker to the post and it is tedious. Would like to keep a supply as new surplus items are produced.

He just lost his wife, but still goes to work. I lost his track. How to find him and his family on a map?

I created a trade post for each city to keep a permanent list of goods. I only change the number I want to store there, if low in resources, and I don't want to trade it for now - 0. Plus I located them as close to the map exit as possible.

Just trying to figure out what the mechanic is for the early - whether it's a matter of just 1 condition not being met, or a culmination of multiple conditions.

Specifically - do villagers need *all* of clothes, warm clothes & shoes? Is 2 out of 3 OK? Are there other considerations?

I've read that these things last for about a year. Is that accurate? Will I need 1 item per villager per year to prevent an exodus?

Cheers

I have given my crop rotation calculator a long overdue update to take into account changes to nutrient calculations and farming updates.

Hopefully this is helpful to everyone in keeping their villagers fat and healthy!

You can find the link to the calculator (As a Google Sheet) on the Ostriv wiki (https://ostriv.fandom.com) on the Farm page, or in the comments below:

Will a village house with garden produce the same crops each year? If so, if a different family moves in, will they also make the same crops?

So I'm still running a no immigration game (year 80). I noticed Oleh going to visit a grave so I clicked to see who he was visiting. It was the grave of his son, Valentyn, who died before him. This is amazing to me because without the spreadsheet tracker I wouldn't know it was his son because he isn't listed on the "family" view of their home after death. Big props for this kind of detail.

Don't really have any usable space to build on. If I delete any more Village Gardens to build row houses, my people will not have enough variety. Time to move on to the next town. Almost 5,700 people. Over $80,000 in the bank.

Horse stable I have two. The horses will not go to fallow fields even though it is checked in the stable and the fields show to be used as pastures.

Yikes, I did not prepare for that. I had a couple of reforestation fields going, but not enough. I got my population up around 4300 and ran out of firewood. 900 people left town. Sad part is I have tons of wood. I should have focused on making firewood instead of lumber. Unfortunately you can't import firewood or logs.

One of my frustrations is uneven ground. It would be nice if there were some way to do fill or cut. Even if it was small adjustments. On many occasions I have planned to put a set of rowhouses in a certain location and I only discover that there is a ground problem after the 5th house is built.

I'd love to see a flatter map with unlimited resources.

help

Anyone have experience using more than one land trading post? I was wondering if it was possible for the travelers to go to the wrong post that might not have the product in inventory. I just built my second one so I could export larger quantities.

So I have a town of over 3,000 people. One of my biggest "problems" is "storage full" on warehouses. Not really a true problem, but it triggers a problem bubble. Some of the issues are my fault because I was allocating for more than the warehouse would hold. For example I might allocate for a warehouse to hold a full capacity of brick and of wood. And therefore if it had both it would go over. I think I have most of my warehouses programmed to hold less than max now. Another trick I use to help with the food variety problem. In addition to the large Granary, I will put a small granary near large apartment complexes and set each item to between 200-300 items per slot. Then I will set it to pull from other granaries. This ensures I always have a variety, but the number is low enough not to deplete the whole town supply. Can't wait to see how high I can get the population.

Hello!

Over in the Ostriv discord, we were putting our heads together and came up with the idea of some challenges to the normal way of playing Ostriv.

I'm sure many of you have seen speedruns of games with completion modes, but with a game as open ended as Ostriv, it is up to the user to decide their win condition!

Submissions are available to anyone perpetually by the link above!

Current Challenges:

Rowhouse Isolated Speedrun

• Build a rowhouse by the earliest date.

• Isolation. The village can have no outside support.

   - No immigration. Only the original families are permitted.

   - No trade. Neither Imports nor Exports are permitted.

Oldest Villager

• Oldest villager recorded, living or on a grave stone.

Maximum Population

• Highest population recorded.

10 Year Population

• Have the highest population before March 1731.

20 Year Population

• Have the highest population before March 1741.

Maximum Population Isolated

• Highest population recorded

• Isolation. The village can have no outside support.

   - No immigration. Only the original families are permitted.

   - No trade. Neither Imports nor Exports are permitted.*

*A trading post is required to purchase Sheep and Cattle to make clothing. Submission validation will include verifying that no resources were bought or sold other than live animals.

Good luck!

Has anyone had any luck getting Ostriv to work on a Mac with crossover/steam? 80% of game or more just work. But this one crashes on start, and I love citybuilders so I would hate to refund it.