Building Placement Guide

Confused on the most efficient placement of your buildings? Here is a simple way to organize your town based on acquiring overall shortest production times.

The methodology behind this is that things like the Bowyer have much longer base production times, and travel time is a much lower percentage of their production time regardless of where they are situated.


These are only organized within categories by base production times, place them according to your own priorities in-game.

Buildings that should be placed NEAR RESOURCES (To free up space near storage facilities)
Woodcutter (Fir, Hardwood)
Forester (Fir, Hardwood)
Masons (Stone, Marble, etc.)
Fishery
Mines (Copper, Gold, etc.)

Buildings that should be placed ADJACENT TO STORAGE FACILITY
Bakery
Coking Plant
Fir Sawmill
Well
Weaponsmith
Copper Smelters
Toolmakers
Breweries
Miller

Buildings that should be placed NEAR STORAGE FACILITY
Bowyer
Hard Wood Sawmill


Buildings that should be placed IN OPEN SPACE (Away from resources if possible.)
Residences
Tavern
Provision's House
Barracks
Branch Office
Guild House
Wheatfield & Farm (Special case, situate them nearer to your storage facility when possible)

Nice thread Thunder, I have 1 question. What is a Bowyer? Also I don't see a reason to have wells close(adjacent) to a storage facility. Finally, altho I normally would not put a fisher near a storage facility either, in Sector 2(north of starting sector) there is a fish pool thats perfect for a fisher and also making a store house not far from it to utilize all that precious wood and speed up production times for any wood buildings you make there as well as the fisher.

I have already leveled my fisher to level 2 there and have friends buff it consistently so I can make even more buffs and reduce my total number of fishers to free up more building licenses. Hence why in the 4th sector(north east of starting sector) I put a storehouse right next to my marble masons to optimize marble production and noticed a fish pool there as well so I made a level 2 fisher there too.

Bowyer = Bowmaker

If your well is closer, you need less of them and you free up people, I see no reason to have them more than two "squares" away from a storage facility. Not a top priority but if you have the space (and by your second or third additional sector you will) It's a good option. I'm not a huge fan of fisheries, I mostly use my bread on population and not restocking them. Even so they already provide enough fish for buffs to buff everything important for the time I'm around in game.

The list is just a guideline for new players, obviously people have their own preferences

please note that I started my reply with "Nice thread Thunder" wasn't attacking your points and it is a good thread but I thought I should comment and note some things of interest. Of course "everyone" has their own preference, but this is an open forum and also those that make threads should be open to learning from others too... and so far as fisheries you are sorely mistaken not to optimize them, but I guess thats your choice/preference for "the time you're around the game"

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please note that I started my reply with "Nice thread Thunder" wasn't attacking your points and it is a good thread but I thought I should comment and note some things of interest. Of course "everyone" has their own preference, but this is an open forum and also those that make threads should be open to learning from others too... and so far as fisheries you are sorely mistaken not to optimize them, but I guess thats your choice/preference for "the time you're around the game"

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You seem to have taken offense to my response, I was just stating why I hadn't arranged things as you had

No offense taken, you titled this thread "Building Placement Guide" so I wanted to share how it can make sense to place fishers near storewhouses since you listed not to. I swap buffs constantly with my friends(lol ask any of them) and I never run out of buffs, double production just seems logical and the whole point for why the game was designed in such a way. By doing it the way I stated above you can keep a good stock of fish for plates and/or bread and only need 2 fishers so you can keep more building licenses free.

Yes of course when the opportunity presents itself you want resource gatherers close to storage, i agree with that

Excellent information! I began CEO last week with some of my very tried and true strategies that had served me well in other games (like Age of Empires/Mythology... many seasons ago) and quickly learned that many of them simply did not apply in CEO. For example, having 1 settler working for each fir wood cutter (vs. being able to throw 10, 20 or more peasants to overcome a poorly placed storage location) has been a challenge for me. However, this thread has been great for me to refer back to when I am planning to layout newly available buildings... especially the "near" vs "adjacent to"!!! Thanks again for helping this old dog learn some new RULES! :-)

umm What about the hunter and butchers? I did not see them on the list anywhere.

Where should the Stable go? Near a Storehouse or no?

Hunter should be near resource as butcher would be near storage.

Stable is a production building so I'd say also near storage imo.

I am having trouble with the hunter? Not sure where to put him..

I would say placing hunter/gatherers near the resources/deposits they need is best.

You want to focus their efforts in the resource rich areas and not have them wandering
around the poor resource areas. Plus you can reduce 'Workyard to Resource' time to near nothing.
Then you only have to worry about 'Storehouse to Workyard' time.

Production facilities need to be near Storehouses.

They have the 'Prep' time instead. And in most cases I've seen, Prep time equals
'Storehouse to Workyard' time. So you'll get double-dinged if you don't keep them close to storage.

You need to make sure you have an adequate number of Storehouses and that they are well placed.
You can easily go overboard on placing Storehouses and waste a lot of licenses (and resources) doing this.

The trick is to develop clumps of resource collection areas and place storage in central locations to as many
of these clumps as possible so they can cover the widest service area.
You're really developing a distribution network, and it needs to be kept tight and efficient.

One problem will be your changing resource availability and needs as you progress the game levels.

New resources will become available and old resources may not be needed as much.
You may need to rearrange your Storehouses every once in a while to adapt to new resource areas
or just throw in a temporary or low level one here and there so you can keep travel times down.

I know it can hurt a lot, but one of the best ways to increase storage capacity may just be upgrading the Mayor's House.
You get a preeety big bang for your buck, and if you need to move a bunch of Storehouses around it won't be as painful
to tear them down if you haven't built them all up to their max level.

I read that all resources/deposits have permanent locations on the map.
(they're the same for everyone and never move)

It would be great if someone had a map of all the sectors showing the location of all permanent resources.
I've looked around but have not been able to find one.

There's a map of Basic to Advanced resources in the Big List of Guides, but it's very hard to read.
(no offense, it's a great map and well done, just hard to read at 640x480)

I'll check it out....