A town in the taiga, on a river
Farmed the way this climate allows (barley and dredge, rye and maslin), this land keeps a city of about 3,400 people within a day's cart of its walls. Larger cities need grain from further away, or by water.
How large a city?
| People | Grain from | By cart | Villages | Scholars | By ship to fit in a day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 | 23 km around | 1 day (comfortable) | 420 | 12 | – |
| 10,000 | 43 km around | 2 days (strained) | 1,400 | 40 | 70% |
| 40,000 | 86 km around | 3.5 days (not by land alone) | 5,500 | 160 | 95% |
| 150,000 | 170 km around | 7 days (not by land alone) | 21,000 | 600 | more than ships can bring |
| 1,000,000 | 430 km around | 17.5 days (not by land alone) | 140,000 | 4,000 | more than ships can bring |
Build your own city from this place
What it can make
Grain (at a cost), Flax, Orchards (at a cost), Herbs, Potato, Wool, Horses (at a cost), Cattle and hides, Cheese, Pigs and bacon, Goats, Honey and wax (at a cost), Furs, Timber, Charcoal, Pitch and tar, Fish, Shipyards
What it lives on
Barley and dredge, Rye and maslin
Underground
What a city digs depends on the rock under it: Granite, Volcanic rock, Ultramafic rock (peridotite, serpentinite), Schist and gneiss, Marble, Limestone and chalk, Sandstone, shale and clay, Salt beds, River gravels and sands
Found here
Gathered (Rerum): Activated Charcoal, Beetle Wing, Holly Leaf, Mycelium, Alchemical Resin, Potassium Powder, First Morning Dew, Blood Moon Light
Fished: Freshwater Crayfish, Ice Char, Mirror Carp, Mud Catfish, River Mussel, River Trout, Glass Eel, Grayling
Hear it
- The town: Fantasy Medieval City (album RPG Ambiences Vol. 6)
- The market: Medieval Village Marketplace (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
- The quays: Cold Harbor (on Patreon, Raven tier)
- The countryside: Walking in a Lively Tundra (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
The same climate
A town in the taiga, A town in the taiga, on the coast
By city size
1,000, 3,000, 10,000, 30,000, 100,000, 300,000, 1,000,000
Orders of magnitude for play: sourced figures and Hearth estimates together. Every source, and every figure still waiting for one, is listed in the builder under Sources.
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