Every time the bandits attack, two buttons appear, one for the garrison and the other for hiding in houses. By pressing either of them after the bandits’ raid ends, the buttons disappear forever.
I’m trying to picture what buttons you are talking about. Are they in the town center or somewhere else? I just had a game where I was attacked, so I clicked on the town bell but the town center was destroyed. The battle is over and all villagers are now in retreating status hiding in their houses. There are now no workers, and my game is wrecked. If I clicked some button to tell them to hide in houses I don’t remember ever seeing such a button.
I reported this and got one response that really didn’t answer how this happened or if I can recover from it. I believe there is a major bug here.
Update: Found out this hide in houses command was added in version 1.1.1 that was just released.
I am on Vanquisher, the Town Centre didn’t have a alarm/garrison button, and I have no idea where this shelter at home button is.
Just had a raid, the Town Centre was destroyed but I did find the buttons, now everyone is sheltering at home and not coming out to rebuild. Will have to use an earlier save.