Dawn of Man

This depends on where you choose to begin a game, as you need multiple megalithic stones to create monuments while maintaining a healthy 150+ population in the Neolithic Age.

This allows agriculture with everything except rye and you get the 3 basic domesticated animals: goats sheep and pig.

I achieved this in the Continental Dawn scenario. There are six different sites, some people like to start at one and transfer to another, but you want to end up at "River Fork", it has a large flat plateau for crop planting and megalithic sites around rivers and mountains edge. I was able to collect well over 35 megalithic stones from the surrounding area. Dont do something stupid like me and spell ur name TIM using twenty of them. they are a pain too move out of the way once placed and should ideally be placed in areas that are hard to build regular structures like mountain and river edges surrounding your settlement.



Maintaining an equilibrium between resources will be an eye opening experience.

The number one thing Ive noticed is limiting your resource limits for leather and dry skins to 5 to begin. I cant remember how many times I had 20 dry skins when I needed leather. Limiting both to 5 stops an over generation of either. Increase it as your population grows. 10, 15, 25 50.

You will not constantly need flint if you only make axes and picks with it, none of the spears or sickles, make ten of each if you need the tech points but quit after that. You can mine a depleted flint deposit if convenient by the neolithic.

You should be hunting "manually" constantly. Taking four or five healthy adults to hunt one big beast (mammoth) or attack a group, youths first to aggro a group of adults (bulls or wooly yachs)

Hunting provides your settlement with lots of skins to make weaponry like bows as well as basic warm and leather clothing (which you should set too 125% production, despite having 125% upgraded wool or linen).

Some of the best items too over produce are wool and linen cloth and the clothing they produce, although before the neolithic age warm leather clothes made from dry skins are one of the best things to haggle with the trader since they are worth 10, twice the cost of upgraded wool or linen clothing once in the neotlithic.

Maintain 10 of each animal: goat, sheep, n pig. Increase to 15 if you have a surplus of hay. Deplete if you have low hay reserves.

Crops are dependant if your playing normal or hardcore. Just do barley as a supplement to any other grain on Normal, but if your playing hardcore diversity of crops is key to survival. Barley may get disease on Normal but its not destroying 100% of the crop like it does on Hardcore. Three 5x5 barley, one of flax (for the linen) and a field of each of the four legume plant fields will maintain your settlement of 150+ if your not building with hay crazy.

I'm continuing to expand upon this and am updating this.

A top notch 150+ settlement can be made there.