CE Basics

I have rattled my head over how to build a house for an hour now. I still don't know how to assign jobs to people or crews. I managed to kill some dodos when I activated military guys hunting option and I have made a house floor. That's my progress.
Could ANYONE give me pointers how to continue? Braid was easy-mode compared to this game...

 

Buildings are built in two parts. First, you need to click and drag boxes which represent the floor plan of your building. When you're happy with that, select and place each module you want. You have to place the required ones on the top, the second tier seems to help and I don't know what the third tier does, might just be aesthetics or make people using them happier.

To assign workers, go to your work crews button along the top, you'll see two scroll panes available. The top pane is unassigned workers, the bottom is work crews. Just drag the picture of an unassigned worked down to an open slot on the work crew and they'll be assigned to that crew. If you don't have enough slots in created work crews, you can browse around and put someone who's otherwise useless in that slot by selecting them and clicking "Give Sudden Promotion on the bottom left. NOTICE: DO NOT PRESS THE RED X.

 

If you got the floorplan finished and the foundation shows up but nobody build it you probably do not have enough logs to build it. It needs as many logs as the designate floor plan screen shows before you start placing modules.

 

I still don't get it. There are empty unassigned boxes on top and then these already made work crews below. All read current job: no job. How can I assign job to any particular crew???????

Edit: gotta check Dienes's hint...

Edit2: Yup. Not enough resources. When I chopped some more wood, things started to happen. Thanks Dienes.

 

Check this out - I found it very helpful

https://community.gaslampgames.com/...a-quickstart-starvation-avoidance-guide.8474/

 

Work crews automatically assign their own jobs based off of what you allow them to do (Those little icons on the right side of each crew). Make sure that you are cutting down trees so you have wood and that you have planks which come from Carpentry buildings.

 

Thanks for the heads-up, DrSleepless! That starvation guide sure comes handy when fighting my mortal nemesis, starvation. Another nemesis seems to be brutal pummeling, but that will be dealt later...

 

Excellent

 

I can't get my workers to gather resources, logs, at all. They'll build the structures and diddle around on the farm but they won't chop down trees even after I designate trees to chop (click on tree, clock on little gold ball that pops up on edge of circle between to triangles) Why are they so listless?

 

One issue I've found is if there are lots of jobs running, especially build ones, they will overtake any other job. It seems like the more jobs there are the more bogged down the system gets, so lots of resource ones like chopping trees or mining don't get done. At the moment I would advise doing only one building at a time, and only building when your not gathering resources.

 

ogh .. i was clicking on the little bullet point and not the label. i suggest that you either remove the little bally or make it a link

 

I spent a long time doing that too.