How to get more inhabitants?

I love this game very much. I’ve played many hours now and I feel I sort of master the mechanics of the game. On vanquisher difficulty though I’m not able to get more than around 700 inhabitants. Do you guys and girls have any tips for me?
Much obliged, Martijn

If you have enough free housing, plenty of food and the desirability is good then immigrants should come. There is currently a population cap of 1k to help with perfornance. Devs expect to remove that nearer to full release of the game.

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it also helps to have 100% family rating since people that want to raise families will come
AND birth rate is higher as well.

Also happiness rating plays a part. People want to come to a town that is happy
because of entertainment and plenty of clothes and shoes and luxury items.

As well as plenty of food. I think it’s 6+ months store

주민을 얻는 방법이 없는 걸까?
노예 제도를 만들 거나 주민을 사냥하는 방법은?

As said above to encourage more immigrants. And no, there’s no slavery in the game.

Thanks for your replies! Although I think I have those things sorted out really. But I’ll try to make my villagers even more happy then!
So you guys are able to reach 1000 inhabitants? For me that’s very difficult, because in the later game the better equipped raiders always kill about 15 soldiers/workers per raid.

Need triple/quadruple walls and upgraded towers/barracks. For a pop of 1000 I have 5 upgraded barracks and lots of towers (40+)

Yes, i have reached 1k pop in all my attempts (all only on “Vanquisher”). If you have enough food and houses you have no problems until the bubonic plagues hit you.

If you struggle with your Food production i would recommend the following:

  1. Build a field

  2. 2x worker 1xClover - for the first 3 years (or until the lower 2 indicators get to 0)

  3. combine clover + another “fertile positive plant” until your field reaches 100% (there are 2 different crops in addition to clover which boost your fertility). You will get some food during these years but not a lot.

  4. Start real production at or near 100% fertility. You always get some fertility due to your waste collectors. After all of your fields hit 100% fertility you can increase the usage of 2 of your biggest fields because you get waste from your collectors.

Have fun with 1k pop. :slight_smile:

It depends. For normal raids (which you can’t pay of) it’s enough to have double walls, some towers (not 40+) and i have 1 and a half barrack - around 32 soldiers. During these normal raids no single soldier dies if you equip them with all you can: Big Axe, Platemail, Crossbow and Shield. Those Soldiers are killers and they don’t die from crap. I always place them in front of my walls if i am fast enough, otherwise on the inside waiting until the enemy breaks through.
You only need enough Towers to hit every space outside your walls. 2-3 Towers at every Gate. With that and my soldiers i have no problem with the normal raids.
The raids you can pay off are something else. You need 4-5 Full barracks to not loose a lot during there raids…