A town in the temperate forest
Farmed the way this climate allows (wheat, rye and maslin, barley and dredge, oats, pulses), this land keeps a city of about 8,700 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 | 15 km around | 1 day (comfortable) | 170 | 12 |
| 10,000 | 27 km around | 1.5 days (strained) | 550 | 40 |
| 40,000 | 54 km around | 2.5 days (fragile) | 2,200 | 160 |
| 150,000 | 100 km around | 4.5 days (not by land alone) | 8,300 | 600 |
| 1,000,000 | 270 km around | 11 days (not by land alone) | 55,000 | 4,000 |
Build your own city from this place
What it can make
Grain, Flax, Dye plants, Orchards, Herbs, Potato, Maize, Wool, Horses (at a cost), Cattle and hides, Cheese, Pigs and bacon, Goats, Honey and wax, Furs, Timber, Charcoal
What it lives on
Wheat, Rye and maslin, Barley and dredge, Oats, Pulses
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): Aconite Branch, Activated Charcoal, Handful of Almonds, Beeswax Block, Beetle Wing, Boar Perfect Tusks, Boggle Oil, Bugbear Tooth
Hear it
- The town: Fantasy Medieval City (album RPG Ambiences Vol. 6)
- The market: Medieval Village Marketplace (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
- The countryside: Walking in a Forest (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
The same climate
A town in the temperate forest, on a river, A town in the temperate forest, 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.
Open the city builder — MGS Toolbox