While it’s possible to move buildings, and even a whole village, in Medieval Dynasty, it can be a hassle.

You can start off on a strong point by first having a general layout plan for your village when you start.

In this survival guide, we’ll offer some advice on how to plan your village layout in Medieval Dynasty.

To see some examples, watch the video below!

1. Determine Layout by Play Style

The way in which you intend to play Medieval Dynasty should impact how you lay your village out.

For hunters, for example, you may want to keep hunting the lodge and its related production buildings close by.

It’s also a good idea to keep the resource storage and food storage nearby, too, for easy delivery.

For farmers, you’ll want to keep some buildings close to your fields.

For example, it’s not a bad idea to have a pigsty and barn close to the fields.

You might also want a kitchen nearby where you can start cooking the food directly from your fields.

Having the food storage building nearby is also helpful.

When it comes to planning housing, make sure that your houses are close to fields for farmers.

Traders may be the most difficult layout to plan.

It’s a good idea to make your resource storage the heart of your village with your production buildings around it.

Then have your markets just off those buildings.

This ensures that everything is close by and not too difficult to move from one to the next.

Efficiency is key here, and that all comes down to layout and play style.

2. Determine Layout with Housing

Your housing is another aspect of your village layout that you really need to think about.

Aside from farmers, who need their houses close to the fields, it doesn’t really matter where the other houses are.

This means that you’re basically free to lay them out how you want.

There are two ways to think about laying out houses.

The first is an authentic-to-the-times approach with a medieval style.

This style means the houses are close together, and many of them share yards or have small, personal, yards.

There wasn’t a lot of city planning or housing development planning in medieval times, so houses were basically built wherever.

It’s a more chaotic approach, but if you’re going for authenticity, then this is a layout that you might want to emulate.

The other approach is a modern take on housing layout.

These are houses that are basically built in a grid format.

They may rest in a line or two and have ample space between them.

if you prefer modern layouts, then you might want this method instead.

You can also do a mix of the two.

Housing layout, aside from farmer’s houses, are completely up to you and how you prefer them to look.

3. Determine Layout by Aesthetic and Landscaping

Finally, keep in mind the landscape around you.

If you want a pretty town, then you may want to lay your town out around the aspects that you find pleasing.

For example, consider keeping trees in the area to add natural beauty.

You may need to travel deeper into the woods to cut down trees initially to avoid ruining the aesthetic of the area.

Hunters will also want to consider land near animals that they want to hunt.

Farmers will want open land, so you don’t have to spend as much time clearing it for the fields.

Traders may appreciate flat land or a large, open, area where they can build all their production buildings in an efficient layout.

So, figuring out how to build around natural beauty can add life to your village and make it look unique.