A town in the temperate forest, on a river
Farmed the way this climate allows (wheat, rye and maslin, barley and dredge, oats, pulses), this land keeps a city of about 11,000 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 | 13 km around | 1 day (comfortable) | 170 | 12 | – |
| 10,000 | 24 km around | 1 day (comfortable) | 550 | 40 | – |
| 40,000 | 47 km around | 2 days (strained) | 2,200 | 160 | 75% |
| 150,000 | 92 km around | 4 days (not by land alone) | 8,300 | 600 | 95% |
| 1,000,000 | 240 km around | 9.5 days (not by land alone) | 55,000 | 4,000 | more than ships can bring |
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, Fish, Shipyards
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
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: Medieval Harbor District (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
- The countryside: Walking in a Forest (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
The same climate
A town in the temperate forest, 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.
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