One of the most satisfying aspects of Frozenheim is the city building. Watching your settlement grow from a single Jarl’s Home into a thriving village filled to the brim with life never gets old. Throw in some military buildings to keep everyone safe, and you should be good to go, right?
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Well, kind of. Frozenheim is not a difficult game per se, it’s just a game that rewards efficiency. You can build a hodgepodge village and it will probably do fine - unless you properly mess up and people burn you at the stake. As with most things, sort out the little things, and the big things fall into place.
Happiness is one of the most important systems in Frozenheim. The your higher Happiness, the quicker your population grows. This lets you assign more workers, expand at a faster rate, and recover from military blunders and defeats quicker. Happiness makes the world go round, and Houses are the foundation of it all.
Houses are pretty miserable by themselves. They have no happiness modifiers, they just exist. The moment you place another house nearby? Things start getting interesting. This is the Neighbourhood bonus. The more houses that are near other houses, the higher their Happiness - to a cap of three. Try and dedicate a medium-sized chunk of land to building up your neighbourhoods. Keep them away from resources and large buildings to make it easier.
Neighbourhoods are all well and good, but that spicy +3 Happiness modifier can only get you so far. You are going to need to build more buildings if you want to make the most of the population growth. Thankfully, there are plenty of buildings that interact with houses.
Wells are the easiest to set up, but throw in things like Elder Halls,
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