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Districts

You can edit a district by clicking on the edit button in the district information panel.

Here you can edit the district area, name, and description.

Create district​

To do this, click the district menu above the settlement name:

districts-menu

and then click the add district button:

add district button

This will open the new district form:

new district form

The general tab contains the basic information for the district. Here you can choose the name, description and area.

District re-roll​

District re-roll allows you to regenerate large areas of land - removing buildings, backgrounds, and decorations, and placing new ones in their place.

You can access this feature when creating new districts (see above).

district re-roll form

The first settings here enable the re-roll, and let you select the average lifestyle of the buildings and people that will be generated.

Decoration​

Clicking the edit decoration button will let you choose how to decorate the district. See the district decoration section to learn what these do.

Building placement options​

These options control how buildings are placed in the district. The material and building placement options are the same as the ones in the create settlement form.

The modifier lets you change how the default buildings will be placed. The options are:

  • Small tents (this is what shanty town districts do internally)
  • Smaller (halves the size of buildings)
  • Bigger (double the size of buildings)

If anywhere in lot is false, buildings will only be placed next to roads. If it is true, they will be placed along all edges, including the interior of the lot.

Road options​

If re-roll roads is enabled, all roads in the district area will be deleted, and new ones will be created. Enabling this then enables the divide lots to area and the dividing road type controls.

The divide lots to area determines the maximum area of lots in the district. New roads will be created, splitting the current areas into two until all areas are less than this area. The dividing road type option determines what road type will be used to split the district.

Building generation (distribution of buildings)​

Here you can control the types of buildings that are created in the district. The sliders here adjust how often building types will appear in the district. This forms a weighted distribution, where the higher the number, the more likely it is to appear. For example, if crafts commercial is set to 2, and residential is set to 1, on average there would be 2 crafts commercial buildings for every residential building.

Here's a breakdown on each of the options:

  • Residential: homes, e.g. lower class home, middle class home, upper class home, mansion
  • Residential commercial: shops you'd likely find in a residential area, e.g. greengrocers, blacksmiths
  • Luxury commercial: businesses you'd find on high street / mall, e.g. tailors, armours, jewellers
  • Crafts commercial: all the other artisans and shops.
  • Industrial: warehouses and other industry you don't want in the settlement center, e.g. tanners
  • Waterfront: buildings you'd expect in a harbour, e.g. fisheries, harbourmaster, ship builders
  • Residential leisure: small taverns
  • Residential services: Services you'd likely find in a residential area, e.g. barbers, doctors
  • High-end services: Services you'd find in a professional working district, e.g banks / lawyers
  • Inn: inns
  • Commercial leisure: larger taverns, bathhouses, and theatres
  • Red-light district: brothels
  • Guard: barracks
  • Religion: smaller religious buildings, e.g. abandoned shrines, religious libraries.

Jobs & unemployment​

Any jobs created during the re-roll will employ any unemployed people in the settlement. Any buildings that exist before the re-roll (outside the district) do not have any job postings filled. This is because the generator doesn't know which ones you are happy to have edited, and which ones should be left alone. You can use the building re-roll to employ people in specific buildings.

So you don't have to guess the residential amount needed to have a low unemployment rate, you can create residences automatically to fill job postings. This essentially checks the available jobs before picking a new building to place. If there are any, a residence will be placed.