Sengoku Dynasty Village Guide | How to Manage Villagers

This guide tells you how to build a Sengoku Dynasty Village, how to meet your villagers' needs, and how you can build a second village in another region.

A major part of Sengoku Dynasty is building villages in certain places on the map and growing a community of refugees who have fled a brutal war — and you might end up marrying one of them someday, too! Read on to learn all about building villages and meeting your villagers' needs.

How to Build a Sengoku Dynasty Village

You can build a Sengoku Dynasty village by crafting a hammer and building a Bell Tower under the Village Structures group; you'll get access to this after you've completed the first few tutorial quests. You must then place the Bell Tower in a valid location in the world to define the borders of your village.

Your village can only be built within a finite space that is marked by a blue border surrounding it. However, you can eventually unlock the ability to build more than one village.

Villages must have housing for your villages and storage buildings for the various items you need. Some production buildings have the ability to double as housing for one or two people as well.

It's important to note that you can build additional furniture beyond the minimum requirements in many buildings. Houses, for example, can have additional beds. Production buildings can often have additional work stations, too, allowing multiple people to work out of one building in whatever configuration you'd like.

A Note on Villager Resource Sources

VIllager Resource Sources are items that can be collected by your villagers automatically. They are defined by the region of the map the Bell Tower is placed in. If you do not have a resource in an area, villagers cannot collect it; this means that you must build additional villages in other regions in order to collect a wider range of resources.

The region of your village is determined by the placement of the Bell Tower. Even if you build a village right on the border, it will always be one of the two regions; you cannot cheese the system by trying to access the Villager Resource Sources of two regions with one village.

How to Get More Villagers in Sengoku Dynasty

There are three ways to get more villagers in Sengoku Dynasty:

1. Recruiting refugees in the camps outside of towns or in the wilds
2. Rescuing refugees from Enemy Camps
3. Completing certain quests; occasionally, the quest giver will be free to join your village once the quest is completed (such as the quest "Of Rice and Men" in Aratani)

Your main source of getting new villagers will be the refugee camps outside of towns since these can have as many as four villagers at one time. As far as I can tell, it appears that new refugees will move in at the start of a new season.

How to Manage Your Village

There are three important things to handle when managing your village: housing, employment, and needs.

First and foremost, every villager needs somewhere to sleep. Once a villager is recruited, you'll need to assign them to a free bed. Remember, additional beds can often be built in houses and even in some production buildings!

Secondly, villagers should have jobs. They don't strictly need a job as far as I can tell, but you may as well put them to work — villagers can collect resources much faster than you can, even if you have maxed-out perks.

Finally, there are the needs. New needs unlock when you reach certain population milestones as indicated by the needs menu at the bottom of the Dynasty menu.

There are the needs and how to fulfill them:

• Meals: Food for your villagers. This can be as simple as raw crops, but cooked meals are much more efficient. In the early game, simply cooking up Gobo instead of leaving it raw will be much more efficient.
• Heating: Villagers will need Firewood (or other wood objects to burn) in order to cook and stay warm.
• Beverages: Your villagers will want water and other drinks; you can maintain this need with a few Wells at first, but you'll eventually want to move on to producing more complex drinks such as Tea and Sake.
• Maintenance: You'll need to have a supply of Planks, Clay, and/or Stone on hand so your villagers can maintain their homes and work buildings.
• Health: Villagers will need a supply of healing herbs or prepared medicines in order to stay healthy.
• Security: Guard towers manned by a villager equipped with a weapon will fill the Security need.
• Spiritual: Shrines are required to fill the Spiritual need. You can purchase the necessary items to make a shrine from the Exotic Goods trader outside of the Temple walls.
• Luxury: Luxury goods are fancy items that your villagers want. These can be crafted or purchased. I haven't reached this stage and it's unclear exactly how it's implemented.

You do not have to meet any needs that you have not yet unlocked. For example, you won't have to worry about filling the Spiritual needs of your villagers until you have a population of 29 or greater.

Clicking on an item in your inventory will tell you what needs, if any, it fulfills. For example, 1 Stick will fill 1 unit of the Heating need. Firewood, however, fills 5 units of the Heating need. Needs must be filled on a daily basis or your village's happiness will decline.

You can buy items from the various vendors in towns (or harvest them yourself) in order to make up for any shortages. However, you should strive to have your villagers work to automate the collection of necessary items in order to minimize this busy work.

How to Build a Second Village

You can build a second village in Sengoku Dynasty by increasing your Dynasty Level and following along with the main story quest until you're required to go to the Temple in the south of the map. You must then speak with the Abbot who will give you a second alarm bell, allowing you to set up a second village elsewhere on the map.

As with your first village, this second bell will serve as a fast-travel point. You cannot place it in any restricted areas, including your own villages. Remember, each region of the map has different Villager Resource Sources — it would be wise to build additional villages in areas that will open up access to new resources.

Based on my experience, it seems that all villages share core stats such as food, firewood, and security. Similarly, the village inventory is shared between all villages. However, workers must live in the same village, so you'll have to move villagers to this new village or recruit new villagers there.

I've only gotten up to 2 villages, but the Abbot at the Temple mentioned that I could be entrusted with another alarm bell, suggesting that three or more villages could be built in total.

How to Move Your Village in Sengoku Dynasty

You can move your village in Sengoku Dynasty by equipping your hammer and moving the Town Bell. You must then move all of your buildings one by one by highlighting their floor with the hammer equipped and manually walking them to a new location.

It is cumbersome to move a larger village piece by piece. If you intend to abandon an entire area, it would be better to start building a second village, move the people over, and then demolish the old one. It takes a lot of time and resources to build a village, so try to plan for the future by selecting an area with the right Villager Resource Sources!

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