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'''Buildings''' in ''[[Foundation]]'' are a necessity to growing the village. When starting a new game, the initial buildings, (specifically the [[village center]] and [[builder's workshop]]) are forced by making them the only buildings available to construct. After these first initial placements, the building tree will open up, with [[quests]] that guide further construction towards specific buildings.

Construction of any building begins with the opening the building menu:

From the menu there are two methods of finding the desired building: The Search box in the top right, or the building type filters at the bottom of the menu:

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[[File:Lumber Camp Blueprint.png|200px|thumb|A lumber camp that not yet been placed]]

Once the building to be placed has been located and selected in the build menu, a blueprint will show in the world under the cursor. The blueprint has 4 key parts:

* Building visual - shows the position and angle of the building when placed

* Blue line - the outer boundary

* Green arrows on the boundary - Access points, blocking these will prevent villagers from entering the building

* Central arrows - Indicates the current placement activity. The default activity is move/place (arrows pointing in four directions), however, when ctrl is held this will change the movement mode to rotate on the Y-axis.

At the early stages of city building, the rotate and place commands will be all that is required in most situations, alongside right click (or esc) to cancel/delete the selected part. There are two further controls to be aware of:

* Shift + Left Click - Allows the building/part to be placed, but retain the blueprint to place again. This allows for the rapid deployment of multiple buildings/parts of the same time without having to individually reselect them

* Left Click + Drag on Vertical Arrows - This allows for the resizing of building parts. Only modular buildings are able to have their parts resized.  

===Modular Buildings===

Modular buildings can be built and adjusted to adapt to needs (or aesthetics) as the village expands. The first two modular buildings are the builder's workshop (which can be extended with a [[sculptor's workshop]]) and the market. With exception to [[quarries]] and the builder's workshop, modular buildings start by designating a center point to start from building from. All modular buildings will have one or more mandatory requirements that will prevent the building from constructed if not provided; the [[Rustic Church]] must have a door, core and bell tower in order to be constructed.

As of version 1.8, construction has the additional requirement of resource bundles: a package of resources that must be completed in order to construct a specific stage of a building. Many early buildings will have a single bundle of all materials required for construction.

More advanced buildings and modular buildings will have multiple bundles to the construction. Although resources may be brought for any bundle as part of the construction, builders can only complete work in bundle order. If bundle 2 is complete, but bundle one is not, building will not be able to begin; similarly is bundles 1 and 3 are completed, but bundle 2 is not, construction will stop on completion of bundle 1.

Where multiple bundles share a resource, resources brought to the site will be allocated in bundle order.

All buildings have a monthly maintenance cost that need to be covered in order to ensure the village can thrive. Not meeting this cost will result in the village haemoraging [[gold coins]], which, in turn will prevent the addition of further buildings and the ability to purcahse new [[territories]].

 

Once the initial [[territory]] has been selected on the map, the village center must be placed; placing this in the center seems the most logical from an access standpoint early on: all [[villagers]] will congregate here while not working so travel to work etc is roughly even. If the resources (berries and stone specifically) are towards the central point, moving the center off the side may be better. Once placed, the initial resources will be supplied:

 

* [[Villagers]] (8)

 

 

* [[Sawmill]]

 

The objective at stage is to become self sustaining; this means a functioning market selling food and a well for water. Placing a well is sufficient for water, for a functioning market and gathering hut and granary are necessary to gather, then store berries ready for collection by the market.

To reduce construction bottlenecks and have a continual supply of goods constructing the lumber and stonecutter camps first, then the gathering hut and well will ensure a flow of base resources and partial villager satisfaction. The market and sawmill can then be built together with the granary placed last.