Medieval Dynasty: How To Create A Perfect Settlement Layout Guide Oxbow

When creating a settlement layout in Medieval Dynasty, it’s important to be methodical when planning out your perfect village.

Of course, you can design and experiment with your layouts however you want! But if you want an orderly settlement that’s both aesthetically pleasing and optimised for production – this guide will be for you.

How To Create A Perfect Settlement Layout Guide – Oxbow

This guide will break down the different steps for creating the layout of your settlement.

An optimised layout is the foundation for a successful village and will ensure there’s space for all your buildings and resource gathering.  

Before you continue, you’ll want to make sure you’ve found a large enough piece of land to settle your village. We’re using the island on the Oxbow map, but anything large enough will work!

Our article on the Best Start in The Oxbow Update may help you pick a starting location.

Step 1 – Leave Space For the Fields

When designing the layout, you’ll want to leave a vast amount of space for your fields. This is where your villagers will be doing most of their farming and resource gathering.

Many players will plot out a massive city, then realise they have omitted space for their fields to be farmed in. You want to optimise the space you’ve got and make room for them from the outset.  

By placing your fields down first, you can align everything else such as your roads and buildings alongside them. If you’re a perfectionist, this is the best way to start.

Step 2 – Laying Down Roads

Following making space for your fields, you’ll next want to design the outline of your village. To do this, make use of the gravel tool.

When outlining each main road and adjacent intersection, you’ll want to make sure you are leaving enough room for the buildings you want to make.

Plan ahead and think about what you might want to plot and where. You can always start fresh, but you don’t want to commit resources to buildings then realise there’s not enough space.

Step 3 – Laying Your Foundations

Following from roads, you’ll want to start laying foundations. This is what you’ll use to make sure you have enough width on your road.

A great tip is to align them with roads to keep them straight.

Rather than eyeballing the width of two imaginary houses, lay the foundations and draw your roads out from there. You can always delete road sections if you’ve gone too wide or not wide enough. Better to be safe than sorry.

Step 4 – Optimise your Building Placements

You’ll also want to be considering how to optimise your building placements. For instance, when plotting your resource storage, place them opposite the fields you’ll be doing the gathering from.

Players who are just placing buildings randomly as soon they get the resources, might find themselves having to walk further when gathering resources, seeking out villagers or even trying to leave to hunt.

Have your storage buildings close to your fields, then have your villagers close to those storage buildings!

Step 5 – Decorate

This is for players who want their village to pop with life. You can place benches or 1×1 orchids throughout to bring a bit of energy and realism to your settlement.

Try placing them along the main pathways and outside houses. Those who are really planning ahead will make sure they’ve incorporated decorations when planning out their road placements and building foundations.

If you’ve followed along then by now you will have the layout for a pretty well optimised settlement. Of course, this grid like village isn’t the only method, you can also have a wagon wheel shaped village too. But the alignment of this method is great for our perfectionism!

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