Citizen

**Citizens** are what make a town work. Without them, nothing can be built, and the town won't grow. They need to be cared for as they go about their lives. If they're happy and healthy, the population will increase as citizens find spouses, move into new homes, and have children and grandchildren.

The citizens have their own priorities as they go about their lives - they aren't mindless workers. Staying fed, staying warm, and being happy will make them work hard. Being sad, cold, or sick will cause citizens to idle, become depressed or become diseased.

Citizens will go home when they are hungry. They'll stop in at a neighbor's house to warm up in cold weather. When depressed, they will idle in places that make them happy rather than work. They will collect food and fuel from town stores to keep in their homes.

It is important to keep these things in mind when building a settlement, and to make an effort to make the life of each citizen the best it can possibly be. It's one thing to survive, but your townspeople perform best when they thrive.

### Shelter

Citizens require homes to live in. Homes give citizens a place to rest, stay warm and store their own supply of food and fuel. Homes can be built from wood or stone. Wood homes are easy to build, while stone homes are more fuel efficient, but require more resources to construct.

### Health

A healthy town has a variety of foods, and an ample supply of medicinal herbs harvested by an herbalist. Health is essential to the prevention of disease outbreaks. When diseases do occur, hospitals can be used to keep the disease from spreading and reducing the chance of death.

### Happiness

Happiness affects productivity. An unhappy population will idle frequently, decreasing overall production. Some structures increase happiness, such as markets, wells, taverns, trading posts, cemeteries, and chapels. Industrial structures such as mines and quarries will decrease the happiness of those who live nearby. Births and marriages increase happiness, while deaths, sickness, starvation, and freezing will decrease it.

### Warmth

Warmth is essential to surviving winters. The two major components of warmth are warm houses and clothing. A warm house is any house with an adequate supply of firewood or coal. Cold citizens will go home or go to the nearest heated house to get warm if harsh weather forces them to. Clothing is made by a tailor and allows your people to be out in the cold for longer periods of time.

### Education

Educated citizens receive ~30% productivity bonus, can carry more items and are less likely to start a fire. Education helps avoiding fatal work accidents or death by childbirth. Your initial settlers were educated in their homelands, but subsequent generations will require a school house to reach maximum output levels.
Since education only increases your worker's efficiency but not their walking speed, standing jobs such as the blacksmith or the fisherman benefit a lot more from education than do walking jobs such as the forester or gatherer.

### Diet

The ideal diet for maximum health of a citizen consists of grain (corn or wheat), fruit, vegetables, and protein - (meat or nuts). Medicinal herbs can help increase health where diet falls short.

### Tools

Citizens require tools to work efficiently, but tools periodically wear out, especially in high activity jobs such as mining or farming. The town will need a blacksmith to replace tools as they wear out.

### Nomads

Once your city has a town hall, a trading post, and a market, groups of nomads will occasionally arrive at the town hall to request citizenship and join your people. This is a great way to boost your population quickly. The likelihood of a disease outbreak may be increased after a group of nomads joins your people.

## Citizen status

As citizens go about their lives, they will occasionally show an icon above their heads that represents anything adversely effecting them.

 The citizen has no home.
 The citizen is starving.
 The citizen is freezing.
 The citizen is assigned a job, but there isn't a workplace for them.
 The citizen doesn't have a tool.
 The citizen is sick.
## Citizen detail

Selecting a citizen will display their details. You can view their health, happiness, education, job, current action, and other statistics.

Clicking on the follow button will hide the user interface and follow the citizen as they go about their lives.

Clicking on the inventory button will show what the citizen is carrying.

Clicking on the home button will focus the view on the citizens home.

Clicking on the workplace button will focus the view on the citizens workplace.