Why is it that villagers insist on building roads over practically anything else? And priority for stone is also still too low. Yes, I lay out a lot of roads to begin with, but I want them to help with my town layout so I know where I’m going to place my buildings. Villagers dive right into work - on the roads most of the time rather than prioritising house, storage, etc. And this stone has been marked as prioritised for nearly half a year now and hasn’t been touched yet. I assume the villager died through lack of water as the wells are still waiting for stone to be harvested to build them.
To my mind roads should be the last thing that villagers build, not one of the first. This is a new town in v0.8.2b, but it’s been like this all through development really. Probably should have mentioned it earlier.
Finally started working on the rock just before year’s end.
Ironically, villagers will insist on building roads first when they are initial dirt roads, but then take their own sweet time upgrading those roads to cobblestone/stone roads later, even when I have plenty of workers available and stone piled up in the stockyards.
And if you want to stop work on Everything else early in the game, lay down roads and residences: those two items seem to take priority over all storage, production, food, or any other structure no matter how critical any of them are to your town development.
yeah but that is because that stone has to be moved there. dirt roads do not have that.
I watched this closely and it is the stone that slows it way down.
That means there’s no remedy for it at the moment, because trying to store Stone in a stockyard near the roads just doesn’t work, even aside from the problem of having roads all over the place that need upgrading.
In other words, the game manages to reproduce the real-life speed of road repair by the average Department of Transportation in the USA by default . . .
