In Foundation, it can be easy to start to run out of space. It seems like your villagers never build their homes where you want them to, and some of the buildings take up a whole lot of room on your land, like Foundation‘s sheep farms and wheat farms.
One of the best things to do to combat the spread is to increase housing density. This requires a handful of things to do; here is a breakdown of how to turn your two-person homes into bigger buildings that will hold more people in Foundation.
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What Is Medium-Density Housing in Foundation?
First and foremost, housing density is basically how many people can fit in one house at a time. When you start Foundation the houses will be built at standard density, which means two people per home. Medium density brings it up to six per home, and high density is ten people per home. In order for your people to feel secure enough to build more dense housing, you will need to do a laundry list of things first in this relaxing city builder.
How to Upgrade to Medium Density in Foundation
Houses need a handful of items around them to build to and maintain their density in this colorful indie game. The first thing you will need to do is unlock Manor House under Labour in the Progression menu. This will give you access to the Great Hall Manor Home and the Tax Manor Home. Once the Manor House is available, you will need to raise your Labour Splendour number to 25.
Raising Your Labour Splendour
Labour Splendour is the olive-colored star on the top right of your information bar that sits across the top of your screen in this popular medieval city builder. If you look at this star, it will have a number underneath it, showing how much of that type of Splendour you have. To gain more, you need to build decorations for your monuments that have the olive-colored star on them, as shown below.
Get Patrol Coverage for the Houses
Once you have 25 Labour Splendour (and 10 Prosperity), you will need to purchase both the Bailiff Office and the Watchtower from under the Labour list in the Progression menu. Build a Bailiff Office Manor House, assign a Bailiff, then build a Watchtower. You can add additions to the Watchtower to get more Patrolmen and Watchmen to make sure you have coverage of your entire village. Use the drawing tool to cover all the houses in the patrol locations to make sure that the Patrolmen are walking around the city and keeping it safe.
Light Fortification for Upgraded Density
Now that you have both patrol coverage for all your homes, you need Light Fortification. Go into your Fortifications in the building menu, and select the city wall. Make sure all the homes you want to be upgraded are inside the walls, and make sure to add several gates. Watchmen will need to be available to watch each of them, so don’t make too many. Make sure to add the white arrow called Guard Location for the Watchmen to each of the gates.
Once the wall is built in this historical city builder, your houses will begin to upgrade themselves to Medium Density. You might want to slowly expand your patrol routes if you don’t have enough builders to upgrade all your houses at one time.
How to Upgrade to High Density in Foundation
The only thing you need to add to your homes is Heavy Fortification to get to High Density in this PC-exclusive indie game. High Density takes your houses from six people to ten, so it’s well worth the effort. It will take a while to get everything you need for Heavy Fortification; you need to reach 150 Labour Splendour and 100 Prosperity, then use 35 Labour points to unlock City Fortifications. This will unlock the ability to build City Watchtowers. If you build City Watchtowers, making sure each of your town’s homes are in the sight line of at least one Watchtower, the homes will automatically upgrade to High Density. Here is what you need for each one:
- 20 Stone
- 10 Polished Stone
- 5 Tools
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January 31, 2025
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POLYMORPH
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POLYMORPH