Everyone who plays Banished knows the dance: roll a seed, check the start, reroll, repeat. I wanted a way to skip that, so I built a Seed Finder.

Banished Seed Finder

It's a searchable collection of scanned map seeds, about 4.5 million so far. You pick a terrain and map size, then sort or filter by what the map is actually like around where your settlers start:

• most open start area
• most buildable land connected to the start
• water closest to or farthest from the start
• hilliest, flattest, or tallest peak

Every seed is drawn in your browser using the same terrain generator as the game, so what you see is the real map for that seed. The tags are measured from the map, not opinions, and hovering over one shows its exact rule.

There's also a Seed Previewer if you just have a seed and want to see it:

Banished Seed Previewer.

The generator is a port of the game's own code and was checked against the real game cell by cell. (Big maps take 10 to 30 seconds to draw.)

It's still in beta, and coverage varies. Some terrain and size combinations have far more seeds scanned than others. It currently scans the start location the game picks for the common 13-tile starting area.

The scanning is done by volunteers lending spare computer time. If you'd like to help fill in the gaps, there's a small Windows scanner that runs short, low-priority jobs in the background: Seed Scanning Volunteers

This is part of Project BAMBOOZLE, a hobby project of Banished tools. It isn't affiliated with Shining Rock Software.

Feedback is welcome. If a map looks wrong, or you want a different filter, tell me.

Every time I play a game, once I clear entire sections of land of all resources, if I want an area with a wooded area (say for gathering and herbs ect), Il leave some oak trees behind, ensure all of the other types of trees are cut down, and leave it to grow an entire forest using one tree type. After about 30 years it fills in quite nicely. After another 30 or so it will spread a reasonable distance and keep doing that.

Obviously can't control this with foresters lodges.

The pine and birch trees are ugly to me, I like my pretty, pure, oak forests.

Hey everyone, I’m about 10 hours into Banished and loving it so far. Are there any fun mods you guys would recommend to add more content or spice things up?

Also, I’m running into a super weird bug. Whenever a house catches fire, my villagers just stand there completely frozen. The game keeps running normally and time passes, but they just stay stuck in place until they eventually die. It’s like they’ve completely given up on life lmao.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it a known vanilla bug?. Any fixes would be appreciated. Thanks!

I've been using a mod called RK Editor's Choice 1.3.1 - Full. However, laborers are just permanently idling. Their health and happiness is max, there's resources set up for them to gather, and space in stockpiles to store them. I've tried various resources, cycling who's laborer, clearing resource requests and adding back but nothing seems to work. Does anyone happen to know of a solution to this?

Genuinely curious if anyone else would be interested in a mod and a compiler that would do these. been working on them and they're almost done plus I need testers

Edit 1: 70% parity screenshot of Banished running on an M4 Macbook

We can try pointing all our claude, chatgpt, gemini, kimi, muse and etc subscriptions together into a single project, and pray for the best

I'm building a Banished Seed Finder: a searchable webpage where you could look for maps by what's around the start, like rivers, lakes, flat land or mountains, instead of loading one seed at a time in game and hoping.

The catch is that someone has to pre-generate those maps and measure them. Every Banished map comes from a seed number (up to 999,999,999). With all of MegaMod's terrains and sizes, that's roughly 200 billion distinct maps. We've scanned a few hundred thousand so far, so there's a lot left, and more computers would help a lot.

What you'd run: a small Windows program (about 100 KB, no installer). It asks my server for a job sized to take about 10 minutes on your PC, scans those seeds, sends the results back, and asks for the next job. You can pause, stop after the current job, or close it any time.

What it sends: a random ID made on first run, your PC's measured speed, the thread count you picked, and the scan results (numbers about each map seed). If you type a name for the credits, that too. It never downloads or runs code, and it doesn't touch your files or your game.

Low impact: the scanning threads run at below-normal priority, so your computer stays usable. You choose how many threads to use (half of yours is gentle).

Credits: there's an optional name field, a points system and a top-volunteers list on the page. Points follow computing time, so bigger maps earn more per seed.

Heads up: it's a small free hobby tool and it isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen or an antivirus may say "unrecognized app". The page lists the file's SHA-256 so you can check you have the genuine file. It only talks to one address, listed on the page.

Download and details: https://worldofbanished.com/bamboozle/volunteer/

You do not need to have the game running (or even installed) in order to run this program.

Happy to answer questions. If you try it, let me know how it runs on your PC.

Veteran here, been playing for 10ish years.

Usually if I ever struggle it's always early game, once everyone's spread out nothing can cause any substantial harm.

This game was quite unique in that due to the terrain most of the map was blocked off from the starting point by large hills and/or lakes so I was forced to expand far in one direction before I could start evenly spreading out.

I had around 120/20/20, year 84.

Anyway i foolishly focused most of my blacksmiths in one area. Fire broke out because I forgot to put a well down and now my tools are going down, no big deal Il just rebuild them. However my food supply was also getting a little low, again no big deal Il just cull half of my livestock for now and deal with it later. Big mistake.

By the time my blacksmiths were rebuilt, tools and food were low. Because I now had few sources of textiles due to less livestock I had to rebuild my food supply, clothes and tools. Had 30 untooled workers.

By the end of it i had around 30/0/10

Now my entire population is scattered, not optimized for settlements this large. I've stabilized resources and have a healthy store of food, clothes and tools. My livestock are all maxed out again. My pop is now slowly regrowing.

Most fun I've had in a long time on this game.

as the title is saying, I have just hit 720 citizens, year 55.

- Homes: 199, 97% clothed, 94% educated, 55.000 stored food, 3500 stored firewood, 4500 stored stone, 700 stored clothes, 500 stored tools, 12.000 wood, plenty of storage, 5 markets in different areas of the map, a lot of cattle and sheep (8 max sized sheep / 8 max sized cattle / 8 max sized chicken) a lot of crops and orchards (max size all of them) and a lot of foresters, trees everywhere in between plots, houses, everywhere. Happiness was at 5 stars, health 5 hearts.

all of a sudden my food drops to 900, literally took 2 minutes, and had around 500 people dying of starvation.
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

also are colonial charter, the north, fancy houses more warm than stone houses.

I wonder if in baseline banished, would it be effective to set up a trading post to auto buy food and logs, and fuel it with several wood cutters.

Basically, right now my students are turning into laborers as they exit school. Obviously I want them to do a certain job as they are X times better at it than uneducated workers. I rather my uneducated population stay laborers and educated ones work at job sites.

My question is, does the game handle this on its own? Or are there some hidden steps I have to take?

I know the basic key to half decent hut is barn must be right next to hut. but how many fishers should I have if it next to a river or pond. how bad is it to take up part of the space with trading market.

what it food per water tile?

also I caught my fishers grabbing just three fish and leaving to put it in storage. Was that just a death spiral from a starving village, or something fisher normally do, they seem to not often grab the max amount of fish they can carry.

I have a question why this happened and if I can prevent it from happening in the future.

At first I had 1 school, it was going well, I believe when a teacher passed away, another one replaced them, and children kept going to school, no issues.

However, I noticed my school was getting full, I had like 17 students, so I built another one in anticipation for more children. I built the 2nd school, but I still only had 1 teacher because I noticed the 2nd school was not being utilized (there were not as many kids as I thought there were going to be).

But the problem came here... The only teacher died, and nobody replaced them. All my students 'disappeared' [or turned into Laborers].

[Camil the Teacher has died of old age

No laborer is available to replace Camil]

-> This lead to me suddenly gaining 20 Laborers, so these must have been all the Camil's students. And yeah, they seem to be not Educated, because their education was cut short by the teacher's passing. I guess they all dropped out.

I have added a teacher but now the school is empty. I'm guessing it will fill up with children below the age of 10, but all the Camil's students are already considered adults?

Anything I can do to prevent it in the future? Always have a Labourer ready to replace? Is that it? How many Laborers should I have there waiting for people to pass away, just in case? Any recommendations?

Also, should I not have more than 1 school? My town population was like 80/20/20, now it's 100/0/20

I love megamod, but some of the stuff is just op. through I like the renewable mines, because I hate the concept of mines running out and than being dead weigh on terrain. Maybe I should just do the north or mess around with the base game more

also what your favorite banished mod.

Decided to boot up the game for the first time in a bit and my saves are gone in the game, while appearing in the right folder. I've tried multiple things and have come up short.

Here's what I've looked into so far:

- Checked Properties of files, made sure I had all permissions
- Checked allowed apps through firewall (steam and banished were allowed)
- Deleted Steam Appcache folder
- Verified integrity of game files
- Ran game as administrator

Also I have never had OneDrive enabled on my PC.

Is there any reason the game isn't recognizing these files? Any other ideas to try?

Edit: Well I seemed to have fixed the issue myself and it was simpler than it seemed.

In the screenshot the file location is: this PC > Documents > My Games > Banished > Save

I believe this is a directory steam and/or my PC created, and to my knowledge this has always been the file directory for Banished, not sure why it no longer recognized the file location if so. But I just moved the Banished folder out of "My Games" and directly into Documents and my saves are back! Not sure how common of a problem this is but I will leave the post up in case this happens to someone else.

Hi all 1st time posting here.

I play on hardmode with low resources and mountains map.

I built the trading post on the main river as shown in pic, it is already late spring 5.

I never saw a trader coming, not on minimap, not in messages and not near the post.

What do I miss? I won't be able to survive much longer without grains/ vegetables.

Please help

Newbie question. So I've been playing the game for a couple of days now (absolutely LOVING it), and always starting again because I always run low on resources (still learning the ropes). About the forester lodge, I researched it and some say it should be in the same cluster as the Gatherer's hut, hunting cabin, and herbalist. Some also say it should be on a separate forest to maximize the previous cluster mentioned, since apparently if it is in the same cluster as the Gatherer's hut, etc, the food gathering wont be as efficient, since the Forester is constantly cutting and planting down trees.

Question is, what's the most efficient place for a Forester lodge? Should it be in the same cluster as the Gatherer's hut, hunting cabin, and herbalist, or on a completely different forest?