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Log In Sign Up. Keep me logged in on this device Forgot your username or password? Don't have an account? Sign up for free! Contributed By: Ecstacy Languages: English. Guide Index. Army Cheats. Resource Cheats. Need Cheats. Technical Cheats. First of all, you have to activate the "cheat mode". So I figured out a work-around.

Hope this helps anyone who wants to replay The Settlers before the new one is out. Works on both. Leonardnoooo 15 Nov, am. GG 25 Aug, am. Does the numlock have to be enabled its not working for me. MPeti1 23 Jun, pm. Also, the "play as AI enemy" doesn't work, nor in the base version or in The Eastern Realm, tough it seemed to be interesting.

If someone knows about that, please contact me. As I said previously, I purchased the Gold Edition. At first the Gold Edition seems to be without a manual, however, if you go into your install directory you can find an electronic. I did not find it until after I beat the game, but, oh well! The intro movie can be skipped with a few mouse clicks, after which you will be presented with the main menu.

Just below the final button you should see a number, this is the game version. Singleplayer will bring you to the main story of the game. LAN Game and Multiplayer will begin a multiplayer game not discussed in this guide Profile will bring you to another screen where you can edit, delete, create and select profiles.

A profile is sort of a way of keeping different peoples games seperate from each other mainly for use during singleplayer. This way two or more people can play the main game without interferring with the other person's progress. If only one person is playing this game then this screen holds little use. Options will take you to the game settings like Video, Sound, Mouse Controls and it can show you all the shortcuts hotkeys that you can use in the game.

We will go over a few of them shortly. The game should automatically configure itself for your systems requirements. If not, then you can alter them here. Credits will take you to a list of all the people that made this game possilbe. Exit Game will What more do you want? In fact, most of the shortcuts have buttons in the game that do the same thing. What I will talk about are the most useful of the hotkeys: NOTE: It is best if you play this game with a mouse that has a mouse wheel.

There are a few ways to move around the map you can either move your mouse cursor to the edge of the map or you can hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse. You can alter the speed of scrolling in the Game Options menu. You could also click on the mini map, but, this is not very accurate.

To zoom in or zoom out you can spin the mouse wheel. Campaign will take you to the world map and will show you all the maps that you have unlocked on the current profile as well as any cinematic movies. Here you can replay any map that you have played before. Doing so will not affect the story in any way. Custom Game will allow you to play a map that is not linked to the main story in any way. These maps are one shot games that provide various levels of challenges and fun. The Gold Edition shiped with a map editor which will allow you to create your own custom maps.

This editor is not supported by Ubisoft or Blue Byte and I have not used it myself so I will not cover it in this guide. If you are interested in making your own maps you are welcome to experiment and I am certain that someone on the official forums has plenty of advice for new map makers. Load Game will of course load up a previously saved game. Of course the manual can tell you what each button is but I will add my own experience to the descriptions here as a supplement to the manual.

Please note, that if you are starting from map 1 "Vestholm", then not all of the buttons will be available right away.

This is due to two factors. One, the first few levels are tutorial levels so some aspects are locked out. Two, some buttons are for advanced cities which require you to upgrade your village before they become available.

At any time during the game you can hover your mouse over just about anything and you will get a temporary popup that will give you a breif description of the item.

We will start in the upper left hand corner and work our way around clockwise. This button is followed by a progress bar which monitors your City Reputation discussed later which is measured as a percentage. If you click on the City Information button you will get a drop down menu which shows your current and max population, your current and max number of families called wives in the game To be discussed later , your current and max number of soldiers and your current reputation.

Just below this button will be temporary icons that pop up during the game which show you different things which are affecting your cities reputation.

If the icon is green it is a poitive effect, if the icon is red it is a negative effect. If you click the button you will get a drop down that shows you your potential income due to taxes and your potential maintenance due to your military. These figures are not always accurate. For example, The estimated tax has to physically be collected by your tax collectors which can be killed by enemy soldiers.

The tax is also determined by current retail income which can obviously change as settlers engage in commerce. Soldier's pay can obviously change if you recruit more troops or lose them in battle. Any time you gain or lose funds a temporary pop up box will be displayed with an icon showing the source. If you click on the button you will get an overview of your current storehouse's holdings on all of your resources these will all be discussed later. If you click on the button you will get a detailed drop down of how much of each kind of food you have availabe discussed more later.

Food is required for your city so if you ever hit 0 then this button will have a red outline warning you of impending famine. If you click on the button you will get a detailed drop down of how much of each kind of clothing you have discussed more later.

If you click on the button you will get a detailed drop down of how much of each kind of item you have discussed more later. This button is only available after town upgrades. If you click on the button you will get a detailed drop down of how much of each kind of fun you have discussed more later. If you click on the button you can see how many buildings have been decorated which which decorations and you can see the total number of decoratable buildings in your village discussed more later.

This button is only availabe after town upgrades. This button is not for current numbers of soldiers which can be found in the City Information drop down. This will let you pause the game as well as access saving and loading features and exiting the game. This will let you send messages to other players during your game. Most of the button icons on this panel will match the button icons from the top of the screen.

These buttons will open up side menus which let you build certain buildings. The Resource Gathering, Food production, and Clothing production buildings are available from the beginning. Cleaning supplies, entertainment, decorations and military support buildings require upgrades before they become available.

The last two buttons are the Defense and Roads button and the Demolition button. The Defense and Roads button will let you build wooden or stone walls and gates as well as lay down trails or stone roads. All of these options are available from the start except stone roads which require upgrades.

The demolition button will destroy most any building except the castle, cathedral, and store house as well as any trails or roads. The mini map will show you an overview of the entire map and all the territories you have explored. Any areas you have explored but do not own will be shown in light grey. You can also see small icons on the mini map which correspond to locations of raw materials. This can be very useful for planning your expansion strategies later. If you hover you mouse over any territory you can see its name displayed below the mini map.

This is very useful when you have a quest that wants you to go to a certain area. If you click on the mini map you can center your main view on the area you clicked on. This is not very accurate but it is much faster than scrolling around from one side of the map to the other.

The blue button to the left of the mini map will alter the kind of map you see in the mini map screen. It will also show the gerneral position of buildings and military units. The crossed swords button will select all of your military units inlcuding all swordsmen, bowmen, your knight, seige engines, and all of your thieves.

If your military is spead out and you want to converge on a single spot, then this can be a very useful button.

There will be a more in depth discussion of military units later in this guide. There will also be some buttons that appear to the left of the mini map when any military unit is selected: A Hand stand ground , complex crossed swords attack-move , wagon wheel dismount segie engine.

All of this will be discussed in more detail in the Military Chapter later. The face icon button is the button to select only your knight. When you do this you will get more buttons that appear to the left of the mini map. From top to bottom the new buttons are: The knights active ability discussed later , Build an Outpost only available if your knight is in an unclaimed territory followed by the default military commands. The button on the top of the mini map is the Promotion Button.

This tells you what rank you knight currently is, what requirements your knight needs to get promoted and if you meet the requirements and your knight is in the market place it allows you to promote your knight, thus upgrading your village. Details will be discussed later. The next button is your production menu.

Clicking on this will open up a complex menu which lists all the possible buildings that gather resources, produce final products or have something to do with infrastructure. In any of these sub menus you can click on the icon and then select whether or not to allow this building to continue to produce, or to stop selling its wares and stockpile the equipment either for a quest or just to stop using resources.

This menu can also tell you how many of each kind of building you have in your city. For example, if you want to know why you are running low on wool, this menu might show you that you only have 1 active sheep farm, but, 3 active weavers, allowing you locate one of your weavers and replace it with a tanner for example.

The production menu is much more useful in the later part of the story when your city has grown large or when you have specific quests that ask you to stockpile certain goods.

The shaking hands icon button is the Diplomacy button. Clicking on this will bring up a menu that lists all the other factions on the current map and what your relationship is with each one and if you have any kind of trade relations with them.

This menu is mostly just for show as you can easily see on your mini map what your relationship is with another faction. Allied territories are visible on the mini map and enemies are not. Trade will be discussed more later. The next button is the weather button. This button will show you what month and thus what season you are in. On many maps this is very important as some resources are not availabe in the winter, such as fishing, harvesting, and beekeeping.

Also, rivers and lakes can freeze in the winter months allowing new tactics and strategies to be used in combat. The final button surrounding the mini map is the time button. The game defaults to the standard x1 speed. Clicking once will double this to x2 and clicking again will increase to x3. Clicking one more time will reset the speed to x1 again.

To pause the game you should press the menu button. It can also show you what upgrade level the building is and thus how many settlers call this building home as well as what business this building does.

To the right of this window are two buttons. The person icon button will center the screen on a settler who works in this building and will toggle through all the settlers who work in this building. The building icon button will center the screen on this building. The Castle, Storehouse, and Cathedral have different building information windows which will be discussed later. The arrow to the right of the portrait will replay the audio file associated with the quest to refresh your memory.

Depending on the quest you may see a magnifying glass button which will center your view, or put a ping on your mini map, to show you where to you need to go in order to complete the quest. Some quests require you to send goods. If so, then a cart with an arrow will appear to allow you to dispatch said goods. If you do not have enough to comply with the request this button will do nothing.

Clicking on any of these will display the current quest details for that quest. Clicking on the same quest again will minimize the current quest details and give you more visible map area.

If you currently have no quests, then this area will contain no buttons. You don't directly rule every single village. That duty falls to your knights. Your knights double as both a powerful military unit and your representive to your subjects. They are your village mayors, your foriegn diplomats, and your army's general. All knights share certain abilities and responsibilities. Firstly, They are the only unit which can claim new territory. They do this by moving into an unclaimed land and then a button will become available next to the mini map which will allow you to spend gold and wood to build an outpost.

The cost of the outpost is always different depending on the map and particular territory. Usually, territories with more resources cost more to expand to. Knights are also the only ones which can perform trade actions. To do this you must order your knight to move next to a freindly village's storehouse. When they are in position new buttons will appear which allow you to purchase certain goods that the village sells. If your knight moves too far away from the storehouse then the trade buttons disappear.

Knights are also the only ones that can explore ruins and shipwrecks. If you order your knight to move next to a ruin destroyed building with a hand icon then a button should appear. Pressing this button will make a horse drawn cart appear which will carry gold to your castle. The amount of gold can range from depending on which ruin you are exploring. Finally, your knight is sometimes required to interact with certain quest related events.

This is done the same way as exploring ruins. This could be anything from breaking someone out of a prison, to digging a water well in the desert. All knights are essentially immortal. They are exceptional fighters and their strength is dictated by your cities moral. If your knight every falls in battle they will be magically moved to the castle where they must heal. Once they are sufficiently healed they will reappear at the castle ready to head back out into the wilderness.

Knights do not require any food, clothing, or supplies of any kind. They are your fastest unit and due to their regenerative abilities make for excellent, early spies at least until you can make thieves. In addition to all of these abilities each knight has a certain set of abilities which makes them unique. Each knight has one passive ability which is always active and always provides some kind of boost to the village. Each knight also has an active ability which requires a button to be pressed and usually only affects a small radius around the knight.

Active abilities need time to recharge after each use. He is known as the Lord of Chivalry. Marcus' passive ability is to reduce the gold cost to recruit new soldiers. Marcus' active ability is to replenish troops torches without being near a castle or outpost My Rating: C Marcus' passive ability is not really a major benifit. If you follow my guide and build your settlement well gold will not be a major issue by the time you need to recruit a large army.

His passive ability is nice. Being able to replenish torches can be useful sometimes, but, most of the time you will have enough troops with you to do what you need to, and, most of the time your target will be an outpost. Once you take the enemy outpost your troops torches will replenish anyway, so, this is just a small time saver and not really a must have ability.

He is probably the best knight to use until you unlock Hakim. She is known as the Lady of Healing. Alandra's active ability is to heal sick settlers in the village market place. Later on when you can get a decent sermon income you will be rolling in gold anyway so there is no point to holding a sermon just for extra cash.

Her active ability is completely worthless for the first half of the game. Settlers only get sick when the population is high or a quest activates a plague on a certain map. At that point you will have the ability to create medicine or purchase medicine from a trader or ally. The only good thing about this ability is that it saves time but not enough to matter.

Personally, though, I like this character from a roleplaying perspective. She is the most paladin like of all the knights and seems to have the most noble of intentions for the most part with the exception of certain story elements which will be discussed below.

He is known as the Lord of Trade. Elias' passive ability is to increase the income from selling goods to your allies and decrease the cost of purchasing. Elias' active ability is to feed hungry striking settlers at your town square.

My Rating: D His passive ability is pretty much worthless. By the time you have enough excess stock to sell to an ally, you wont need the money. When it comes to making purchases it does not happen all that often. His active ability may come in handy on one or two difficult maps, but, the point of this guide is to help you design your settlements so they are efficient and to avoid striking settlers and famine.

Thus, if you follow the guide you won't need his active ability at all. In fact, I would say that if you do need his ability then you should restart the map and try again, and this time choose a different knight. Kestral is known as the Lady of Plunder. Kestral's passive ability is to increase the amount of taxes collected without negative effects. Kestral's active ability is to steal the full income of a building without any negative effects.

My Rating: C Kestral's abilities are all about money. As per the story line she is a mercenary so money is very important to her. Her passive ability can be a great boon for any city just starting out which can help increase the speed at which new settlments grow.

Her active ability is just a variation of her passive ability which pretty makes her a "one-trick-pony". Her rating would be higher if she could do something other than just steal gold. Ultimately, her skills become less useful as the city grows, but, on many maps getting started fast is more important than long term income.

Hakim is known as the Lord of Wisdom. Hakim's passive ability allows you to upgrade any building for less resources. Hakim's active ability is to cause a nearby enemy battallion to convert over to your side permenantly. Being able to upgrade all buildings for fewer resources is an amazing ability and can kick start a new settlement like nothing else.

Fast growth of a city is key to many maps. His active ability is just amazing compared to everyone else. You could essentially have a full contingent of military forces on your side before you are even able to build them yourself and they cost no resources to gain. You still have to pay them of course. Many people think that using Hakim is almost akin to cheating! Thordal is known as the Lord of Song. Thordal's passive ability allows your settlers to gain more families after a festival meet more wives.

Thordal's active ability allows him to entertain settlers near him with his bard-like singing. My Rating: B Thordal's passive ability is quite nice. More families wives in your settlement will increase the overal efficiency which is one of your main goals on every map. I have never been able to max out families on any city so this ability actually has some use on every map.

His active ability is much like Elias' ability. If your settlers can't find any entertainment, then you have designed your city poorly. His rating of a B just goes to show how useful I think his passive ability is. All cities start out by only being able to build a few kind of buildings. Every pomotion allows you to build new building types and, most importantly, to build new military units. The early tutorial maps limit the number of promotions you can get, but, later maps have no limits.

There is a point of dimishing returns however, when getting promoted gives your city no more benifits towards winning the map. To get promoted your settlement must meet various criteria at each level. When your settlement has achieved all the needed requirements you must move your knight to the marketplace and then press the promotion button next to the mini map it should be glowing green. This will cause the promotion proclaimation to appear with a button at the bottom. Pressing that button will promote your knight and subsequently upgrade your settlement.

The first thing you should do here is to build your woodcutters, food suppliers and retailers and one tanner. Also, you should be able to upgrade your castle right from the start of most maps. If you have a stone quarry in your first territory start minning it.

If you don't have any stone quarries then explore and expand to find one. Also, on maps with heavy military activity you should seek out an iron mine and start building your sword smith and barracks. Right before you get promoted you should start thinking about beekeepers and stocking honey.

If you have decent stone income you should upgrade your storehouse and cathedral as high as you can. You will eventually want level 4 in all three of your special buildings and there is no reason not to have them early. You also have access to the festival. I suggest holding one if you can afford it to help increase efficiency. This is when you should start thinking about building 2 of every building because it will help you get promoted to level 5, which is the hardest promotion to get.

If you are attacking any enemy forts with stone walls, the ram is your opportunity to do so. If you are being attacked you can build some stone walls and mount some catapults assuming you can afford them. The next level is the hardest to achieve because you need to have 20 buildings at the rich level. The best advice here is to put your taxes and your troop salary to 0. The no tax boost to reputation should counteract the no troop payment and so long as you don't hold too many festivals you should be fine for money until you are promoted again.

All retailers will eventually become rich over time, the trick is to make sure you have at least 20 retailers thus the 2 of each retailer idea. If you are close to the 20 mark but not quite there, then look at your storehouse and see what raw materials you are heavy on and build something that uses it. Unless you want catapults at level 6, then I recommend not bothering with your promotions any longer.

Keep upgrading your special buildings though as they provide useful benefits beyond promotion requirements. In those cases, you will want catapults which are the next level. Otherwise, Level 5, 6 and 7 really don't offer anything that can help you win the map. Settlements can easily get by without decorations and the theater is not required to get the entertainment bonus to reputation.

A few of these in your army and you can take down those stone walls in a matter of minuets. If you don't need catapults then this promotion offers nothing of use. The decorations are nice, but they don't help you win maps. Really, there is absolutely no reason to get this promotion except to say you did it at least once I did! Whenever you wish to build a building you will be able to place down a plot of open land which reserves this area for the building. A settler will then emerge from your storehouse pulling behind him the required materials to build the structure.

When he gets to the plot he will begin constucting the building. Either he will build it from scratch or he will build on an extention if it is an upgrade. All plots can be rotated by holding down Control plus moving the mouse wheel.

All plots will also try to automatically align themselves to any nearby trails or roads. Except for the castle, storehouse cathedral and walls, every settler that builds a building or upgrade will stay with the building as a new resident and becomes a permenant member of your settlement.

All buildings have a set amount of health and all of them can be attacked by catapults or soldiers with torches. Even your Castle made of stone can be burned by a torch.

If any of your buildings catch fire then they can continue to burn until their health is reduced to 0. Normally the residence of the building will respond automatically to the fire by running to the marketplace and grabbing a bucket of water. If you want to speed up the process or if your main buildings are on fire then you can click the burining building and select the new button that will call all nearby settlers to put out the fire.

After a building is done burning, the residents will repair it automatically. You can speed this up by clicking on the damaged building and pressing the new button to call all nearby settlers to repair the building. As far as I can tell, repairing a building does not cost any resources. You can also repair damaged walls. Without a wall, the enemy troops can just run right past your troops and burn down your storehouse, cathedral or castle. Putting up a wall can slow them down, cause them to use up all their torches, or just make them give up and go home without a fight.

The gate will automatically allow all allies to pass in or out of the gate without hesitation but will not allow enemies through. If an enemy gets inside your gate either by destroying a piece of wall or with a siege tower then they can open the gate from the inside to let their allies in.

When building a wall you can select either the end of a gate or the end of a wall and press the wall button that appears to drag more wall section to be built.

If you build the wall section close to a cliff or impassible terrain then you will get a special icon that looks like a wall section with a red arrow pointing diagonally down. If you build the wall section when you see this icon then the wall will automatically meld with the impassible terrain making a seal at that point. If you dont make a seal then enemy troops may be able to walk around your wall. The gate portion costs 10 wood.

The wooden palisade can be attacked by rams, catapults and soldiers with torches. Troops cannot stand on the wall. The stone gate can be upgraded with a Stone Trap which costs gold and 5 stone. The stone trap will cause damage to enemies that are trying to enter your gate. The stone wall costs 1 stone per section. The stone wall can only be attacked with rams or catapults. Troops especially archers can stand on the wall for extra defense. Wall towers inbetween sections of wall can be upgraded with mounted catapults.

A mounted catapult costs gold and 5 iron. These mounted catapults are able to attack any siege engine within a very large range. They come prebuilt with 10 stones of ammo and can be automatically resupplied by nearby ammo carts. I have not been able to target a mounted catapult even with another catapult. The enemy AI will retreat most of the time when they see you have mounted catapults because they know it is a lost cause.

I take that back I did see the AI attack one of my catapults once, but, his catapult was destoryed at the same time mine was so it was a draw. I still have not been able to target one myself though. You can click and drag a straight section of trail almost anywhere that a settler could walk. If you click and drag short pieces in different directions you can make a curved trail.

If the trail turns red that means there is some other object blocking it. The stone road requires town upgrades and costs 1 stone per section.

The cost will be displayed as you are laying out the road. You can overlay a stone road on a trail to upgrade it. Stone roads impove the speed of travelers even more than trails so it is very useful to upgrade trails to your outter most buildings as soon as possible to increase the rate of resource gathering. They send out a settler from the building which travels to the nearest resource within a large radius of the building.

The settler engages in some animation and then takes the resource back to the building. When the building is full of resources, one of the settlers living in the building will take the resources back to the storehouse where a retailer will use it to make finished goods. You will know what resources are within radius of your building because all acceptable resources within radius will be surrounded by a green highlight. If that highlight is not there then the resource is too far away for the gatherer to go.

All resource buildings start at level 1. Each building can be upgraded to level 3. The storage of the building also increases as does the mode of transport. At level 1 the settler will transport the goods on their back and walk to the storehouse slow. At level 2 the settler will use a cart faster. At level 3 they will use a horse drawn cart fastest and greatest capacity.

There is rarely ever a reason not to upgrade a building to level 3. All resource gathering settlers only have 1 need; food. As a general rule, you should always place resource gathering buildings on the outskirts of your village, away from the marketplace. Most everything in this game requires some amount of wood to be built or upgraded. Those few things that don't need wood will need stone instead.

Woodcutters obviously need trees in order to cut wood. One tree equals 1 unit of wood. Trees do grow back over time. It is possible to have too many woodcutters near each other and thus they deforest an area. The trees will grow back eventually, but, the key is to spread out your woodcutters so the growth rate is equal to the deforestation rate.

Trees do not have an icon on the mini map but are quite obvious to find. If you build a building or trail over a tree it will be gone forever even if you destroy the building or trail. You have been warned. Wood is also used by broom makers and carpenters, but, they use so little wood that you should not really notice it.

They hunt wild game animals. The general icon for game animals is a Deer, but, the game animals could be moose, reindeer, boar, or anything else the designers think could make good eating. Regaurdless of the type of animal being hunted, the icon will always be the same. Game animals are used for Food meat , Clothing Hides and Soap animal fat. Unfortunately any one of these retail items will use up an entire animal carcass 1 unit of game animal.

Most settlements of any size can be sustained with 3 hunters each with their own game animal resource. Game animals will repopulate themselves over time, but, it is possible to overhunt in an area. The general rule of thumb is to put one hunter per icon.

It is needed to build stone walls which are the ultimate in city defense. Stone is also used to upgrade your three main buildings and to build roads. Stone quarries show up on the mini map. Stone does not replenish itself. Each quarry starts with stone. Generally, one would put 2 stone cutters next to each quarry. This will double your stone income. This is important when your quarries are in outter territories. If your outter territories are taken over by the enemy then all of your bulidings in that area are destroyed.

Most of your settlements can get by with a single stone quarry for all of your upgrade needs. If you plan on building long stone wall sections or lots of stone roads then a second stone quarry should be mined.