Banished came out eight years ago in 2014. This solo dev effort not only sold four to five million copies, but also carved out a niche for survival city-building games. The modding support was added to the game only a few months after its release.
This somewhat minimalistic medieval survival village-building game still sees a healthy player base, thanks to its impressive modding community. Though vanilla Banished is fun, it gets stale after one or two playthroughs due to its limited content.
The mods for Banished add a multitude of new buildings to work with, letting players build complex production chains. The new buildings from the mods not only add depth in terms of content, but also spice up the visuals with lots of varied decoration options.
The best Banished mods are as follows:
Players often encounter debilitating death waves as they progress in Banished. This mostly stems from the way aging works in the vanilla game. While the Realistic Ageing mod is not a magic bullet to fix this issue, it goes a long way in making the population much more stable.
The mod makes citizens age one year per in-game year instead of the standard five, along with a bunch of other tweaks to the age limits regarding schools, marriage, child-bearing, and death.
North 7 is a Viking-themed overhaul mod in a Nordic landscape with realistic climate and sunlight, new ambient sounds, wild animals and resources, a complete set of buildings, a reworked trade and happiness system as well as many small changes for a special Banished experience. The mod is well-regarded for its gritty realistic gameplay design.
Colonial Charter: Journey (1.76) offers players a wide array of new resources and production chains. Players will get to build a truly
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