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I thought you couldn't build things like farm plots or refineries within city limits. Anything labeled "exterior", basically.

No, what I meant by "more regular harvests" is that I want two fields growing at different times. For example, one getting harvested while the other is about halfway through its grow cycle. I feel like I'd be able to maintain a better supply of food that way and have to buy less from town (seriously, at the moment I'm buying all the dried meat from both nearby taverns just about every day. Sometimes I snap up the dried fish as well).

Interesting note on the timing of electrical lights. I'll probably just stick up some torches and call it good.

I saw I could upgrade farms; I just want to build a second wheat farm so I can have more regular harvests and possibly enough of a surplus that I can brew some. On the other hand, that's basically what the cactus will be for. We'll see.

I...never even thought about putting some lights up. Will any lights do the trick or do they have to be some sort of special growing lamps?

Okay, things have recovered. I now have 15 dudes in my burgeoning faction, including a seasoned Shek warrior. We did have something of a setback when a surprise attack by starving bandits somehow overwhelmed the entire crew (including previously-mentioned Shek warrior; in fact he was one of the first to go down), but fortunately they settled for only taking some of my food, rather than all of it. I was able to recover with the help of one of the Squin townies, who rushed out to perform first aid and drag the worst-wounded to their sleeping bags.

That was quite a few attacks ago. The Starving Bandits are now officially my enemies; I guess I finally killed too many of them. They sometimes send raids but each time my dudes are able to fight them off a little better than before. I have both a wheat farm and a cactus farm up and running; once I get enough wheat I plan to build a second one. The walls are not quite complete, but they're filling in nicely and the potential avenues for attack are getting smaller and smaller. The last time the Dust Bandits showed up to make demands, my leader sent them running by breaking their leader's jaw

Over near Squin, one of my copper miners has proven to be remarkably badass. Despite a severe lack of training (something I have since rectified somewhat using equipment) he has proven to be surprisingly good at fighting off occasional hungry bandits. One time, despite a single-digit melee attack and almost no skill in his weapon, he managed to sever a bandit's arm. I mean, okay he has to run for the city if there's more than one or two, or if they're nastier foes than Hungry Bandits. But he's still all alone and virtually untrained. I need to bring him to the settlement sometime.

I'm about to send my leader on another recruiting trip. I bought some maps from town, and there's some villages and a city to the south. Hopefully I'll be able to bring home an extra set of hands or three.

Blocking also buffs dodge by 20 points.  What I like to do is set my fngs to block, put them in the heaviest high-coverage armor I can afford then let them get beaten into the ground until they hit 30ish block or dodge.  After that they can defend themselves pretty solidly and start leveling up attack.

This is basically my logic. If I let the scrubs run in and get thrashed, they'll just get knocked out before they can learn much. If I set them to block they'll last a bit longer and build their defensive skills a bit more before their inevitable beatdown. Only once they can look after themselves will I worry about letting them learn how to hit things.

In one of my earlier games, I did the "five nobodies" start and took dudes of each race. I explored North of Hub and came across a Holy Nation city, where the guards flat out demanded that I turn over the non-humans on my team. I tried to run and what seemed to be two entire squads ran me down and slaughtered my dudes.

Forgive me if I'm not planning to go back there with non-humans any time soon.

Anyway, it's the surviving I most worry about. Even my band of scrubs can leave hungry bandits dying in the sand - I shudder to think what will happen to them if they try to tackle someone really dangerous that might then decide to watch over the bodies for a few days. Even with a really good medic, I feel I'd lose dudes.

Random question: when my base was raided by ninjas I managed to lure a few of them close to town and loot what was left after the guards took them down. I saw that they were equipped with twin katanas in their primary weapon slot. Is there any mechanical reason for this?

Attack the knight! Canto to (13,13) if I live.

(18,13) and Tiena Ociel.