Best Buildings To Prioritize In Foundation

Summary

Build a Church early for happiness and religion. Costs 25 coins.
Prioritize Warehouse and Granary for trading and storage.
Start with Fisher's Hut for fast food, trade, and efficiency.

Foundation is a challenging game to start off; there are tons of buildings, loads of choices, and few villagers in the beginning to choose from. In order to keep a town going, players will need to make everyone as happy as possible, build up their defenses and trade routes, and a whole lot more.

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By Will Hinck

It can be overwhelming to start off, especially if players choose to skip onboarding to zoom through the tutorial and right into the game. Here are the best buildings to build as soon as they have gotten their basics up and running in Foundation.

8 Church

For the Soul of the People

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While people need food, shelter, trade, materials, and loads of other things, they also have a need for religion in their lives. If players look at the individuals in their village, they each have a menu of things they need and want; this includes refined foods, basic foods, shelter, water, and access to church service. They can unlock this with 25 coins at the very beginning of the game in the Clergy path of the Progression menu.

7 Storage

Warehouses and Granaries

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Storage is one of the most important buildings, especially early in this beautiful indie game. Players will need at least one of these buildings as early as possible in order to start trading; without having a storage space in one of these, they cannot sell items with other towns, store very many of each kind of item, or buy items from other towns either.

Thankfully, these are unlocked in the Common Path without needing to do much of anything but building some Sawmills and Lumber Yards. Warehouses are used for materials like stones, wood, tools, and planks, while granaries are only used for food items like wheat, bread, berries, and similar.

6 Fisher's Hut

Fishing in the Common Path

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While the tutorial of this relaxing city builder pushes players to get berry picking started first, the best thing they can actually do to start their town is fishing. Fishing, as long as their territory borders some water with fishing spots in it, gets far more food faster and needs only one villager instead of three to max out.

It's the fastest way to get food early game or late game, keeping the town full without taking up very many people, much land, or much time at all. Also, most importantly, fish are a great early-game trading item that Trotbury will gladly pay for.

5 Tax Office

A Manor House Sub Building

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While taxes aren't the most fun thing to think about, they are super important in Foundation. It will be the most reliable source of steady income for most of the game. When players access the Progression menu for the first time, pick up the Manor, then build one as a tax office with a defensive tower attached to get the money flowing in quickly. A tax building can be built in the first month if they are careful with their priorities and resources, getting the coin flowing quickly.

4 Tons of Wells

A Base Building in Food

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Wells are a great way to tell villagers where it is safe for them to build their homes in this great city-building sim for beginners. If they paint some land with the Residential painting tool, and their villagers are not building their homes there, it's probably because it is too far away from job buildings and wells.

Placing a food stall tent and a well in a new area is a great way to get people to build in a location they have been avoiding before.

3 Stonemason Hut

In the Common Path

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Polished Stones are a good item that can be sold to early-game trade routes. Both Northbury and Trotbury will buy each one of these stones for three coins each, and they are so easy to manufacture.

All players have to do is get the Stonemason Hut, which is unlocked in the Common Path with 10 Prosperity and 50 coins, and then build it using wood and cloth. While they most likely won't have sheep yet to make cloth, they can buy a few off of the trade routes to make sure they can put these buildings together in this cozy indie game.

2 Forester

A Base Building

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It's way easier than it might sound to run out of trees to cut down for wood and planks. If players don't have a forester or two replanting as often as possible, they will want to get on that in this cozy game where players have to worry about the environment.

A single Forester can replant several acres of land, giving them an endless source of wood throughout their playthrough.

1 Wheat Farm

Farming in the Common Path

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While there are some faster ways of producing high-quality foods for everyone's villagers, bread should be the first one they work towards. Bread is used to upgrade trade routes, and it is needed for several quests that will pop up while they're playing.

They can unlock Farming in the Progression menu, and you only need a little money and 10 Prosperity to start their very own wheat farm.

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