Foundation is an excellent gridless city builder, where you can build your own village as you progress towards increasing your Progression level to unlock new structures. There’s a lot to do in this game, and getting the hang of it all quickly can be a challenge without proper guidance.
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Even if you’re a fan of the genre, getting used to all the mechanics can take a while. That’s why these beginner tips will help you get up to speed in no time, so you can skip the boring stuff and get straight to building the best-ever settlement.
You Can Place Structures Over One Another
Unlike grid-based city-builders, this game allows you to set up structures inside other structures, provided that they aren’t blocked by anything. For example, if you’ve marked a residential area with houses that feature some open space in the front, you can build a tiny structure, such as a watering well inside of it.
While you can always expand your territory to get some extra space to build everything for your needs, sometimes, there’s not much choice but to squeeze everything together in a tight place, especially when you’re trying to save up gold without spending it on new territory.
Focus On Increasing Labor, Kingdom, And Clergy Factors
There are two other types of factors, besides the regular Progression in the game. These factors are Splendour and Influence. Each category, which includes Labor, Kingdom, and Clergy, has different quotas for Splendour and Influence.
Increasing your Splendour in a specific category unlocks new types of structures in the Progression menu, and Influence can be used as a currency to purchase these structures and build them in your settlement.
An easy way to increase your Splendour and unlock more structures is by setting up more sub-buildings. You can do that by selecting an already-built structure, and then editing it. You can then select sub-buildings to add to it, and some sub-buildings can grant you Splendour for setting them up. You can spot these sub-buildings that offer Splendour through the Star icon next to them on the build menu.
Keep Employment On A High To Increase Immigration
The best way to attract more villagers to your settlements is by keeping everyone employed. If you have many unemployed villagers, the average happiness of your settlement will drop, which makes it difficult to increase taxes and earn gold.
You can set up several production structures that can allow you to keep your settlers employed, which will, in turn, attract more people to your settlement. You can spot these newcomers near your village center, and clicking on them will add them to your settlement.
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Try Your Best To Save Up Gold
Keep in mind that certain structures require some gold to keep running every month. If you’re unsure where most of your gold is going, it is likely that a large share of it is being paid for the upkeep of certain structures and territories.
Buying new territories also requires a fixed upkeep amount, which will be deducted from your coins every month. You can also choose to abandon territories to decrease the upkeep.
The best way to gather gold is by selling resources and through taxes. You can unlock more trade routes via the Royal Book, which allows other kingdoms to buy and sell resources to you. There are also one-time events in the game where certain kingdoms will require a fixed amount of resources, and you can trade with them for money or some other type of resource.
Food Variety Makes Everyone Happy
More quality food will increase the happiness of your villagers, but it isn’t so easy to get. The best way to get good quality refined food is by setting up wheat farms, mills, and bakeries to get bread. You can also set up hunter’s huts and butcheries to get meat and increase the variety of food. For the rustic food category, you can set up gatherers to collect berries.
If you keep feeding only berries to your villagers, the average happiness of your village isn’t going to go up drastically. To make sure everyone is happy, and your kingdom is prospering, you need to sell both rustic and refined food at the market stalls throughout your settlement.
Simply storing different varieties of food in your granary isn’t enough. You have to sell the food to the villagers through market stalls to fulfill the food requirement. You can set up multiple stalls, preferably in a residential area, to make sure the entirety of your population has access to food.
You Can Limit The Resources That You Don’t Need
As you progress in the game, you will encounter many resources that can either be used as is, or you’ll need to refine them in order to use them. A good example of this is wood, as you can use it for building, but it’s also used to craft planks, which is another type of building material.
Sometimes, the workers at the sawmill are hogging up all the wood to make planks so that you don’t have any left in your warehouse to build your buildings. In such cases, you can just head to the sawmill and pause the manufacturing process to stop it from picking up every piece of wood.
Similarly, you can also unassign the workers from the sawmill and have them work some other place if you’ve got enough planks in your warehouse. This can be an incredibly effective tactic to use when you don’t have enough unemployed workers.
Keep An Eye Out For Events And Quests
Occasionally, you’ll notice certain quests popping up in your settlement, or near your manor house. You can click on these quests to know more about them. These quests can be anything such as simple tasks like transporting a resource to another kingdom or building a new type of structure.
However, these quests can only be accepted for a limited time. Whenever such quests appear, there will be a short timer on top of them, which makes you unable to accept these quests once the timer has run out. Fortunately, you’ll encounter these quests often, so you have to keep your eyes open and accept them before it’s too late.
Immigrants also appear with a similar timer on the top of their heads near your village center. You have to click on the icon above their head to add them to your settlement, otherwise, they’ll leave.
Increasing Your Population Will Also Increase Their Needs
As you progress, you’ll eventually have to increase your population to fill up all the unemployed slots in the buildings. But, increasing the population will also drastically increase the requirements of your villagers, making it difficult to keep everyone happy while also making a profit.
The best way to go about it is to only accept more people when you have a stable supply of food and other requirements, such as service and protection. Increasing your population while your village is already suffering will only make things more difficult for you, but rejecting new immigrants while you focus on your current settlers can help you in the long run.
Immigrants will keep coming as soon as your employment is high, and your villagers are happy, but restoring happiness from a low with an increased population is much more difficult.
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