First steps

The start

A new game begins with 4 villagers, placed near the map’s starting flag. No buildings, no resources. Every building is available right away in the build bar on the left of the screen.

On the New Game screen, choose the map (Picness Valley) then the difficulty:

Difficulty	Cold sensitivity	Hunger	Fatigue
Easy	20 %	20 %	20 %
Normal	50 %	50 %	50 %
Hard	100 %	100 %	100 %
Custom	your choice	your choice	your choice

The first minutes

1. Plan a storage. Nothing is harvested while no storage or building site has room for it. Place a Small Storage Area: it needs no materials, only clearing.
2. Put your villagers to work. Select them (hold left click and drag), then right-click a tree, a berry bush or a rock: they take the matching job and carry on by themselves.
3. Build a house. Without a house or a cellar, your villagers can neither eat nor warm up. A Simple House keeps a little food and firewood.
4. Get ready for winter. Firewood comes from the Woodcutting Workshop, which splits logs. A year lasts only 4 minutes at normal speed.

Tip

Right-clicking a building site makes the selected villagers carpenters: they work on it until it is finished.