Town - Stronghold 3 Buildings
Hovel
Cost: 90/80/65/50/30/20 wood
Housing governs the maximum population your castle can hold. Your keep will house some peasants, but when it is full you will need extra housing for additional workers. Each hovel placed will increase the castle’s maximum population. Peasants are needed to work in your farms and workshops. Any spare peasants will stand around the camp fire waiting for work. There are 6 sizes of hovel available. The largest hovel houses 10 peasants and the smallest only one person. The size of a hovel is dependant on how far from the keep you build it. The largest hovel can only be placed right next to the keep, but the tiniest hovels can be built far away from it. How many hovels you build is a balancing act. Building lots of hovels will mean you have more peasants around your camp fire available to work, but all those peasants will be consuming food, which can quickly empty your granary.
Market
Cost: 200 wood
A market is vital for oiling the wheels of your castle economy. Along with taxing your population the market is the only other way to generate gold. The market allows you to buy and sell all goods from a single location. Clicking on the market will bring up the trading panel. On it, you can view the goods the traders are offering before deciding what you wish to buy or sell. The market also features some advanced buying and selling tools not available in the stockpile, granary, armoury and keep. By setting an autobuy and an autosell price for a good, the market will automatically buy or sell that good at that price, allowing you to concentrate on other areas of your economy.
Chandler
Cost: 50 wood
The chandler produces candles at his workshop. Candles are stored in the {stockpile} and used during church services at the church.
Church
Cost: 500 gold, 100 stone
The church uses candles from the stockpile to hold church services. Church services generate popularity (0, +8, +16, +24, +32, +40) based upon the number of services held. How often you hold a church service is up to you. You can set the number church services held through the popularity panel. Make sure you have enough candles to support the chosen church service rate, otherwise you will soon run out of candles and will no longer receive the popularity bonus.
Inn
Cost: 200 wood
The inn uses ale to quench the peasants’ thirst. The amount of ale drunk by your population has a direct effect on their happiness and your popularity (0, +6, +12, +18, +24, +30). How much ale is drunk by the peasants is up to you. You can set the amount of ale drunk through the popularity panel. As ale is consumed, more ale will need to be brewed at the brewery to maintain the popularity bonus.
Well
Cost: 20 wood
Wells are a necessity to surviving the ever-present danger of fires. If a fire breaks out the well boy will launch into action, dousing the flames with water.
Apothecary
Cost: 200 wood
The apothecary is the equivalent of a modern day pharmacy. Using herbs and spices gathered from around the castle, the apothecary healer helps to dispel disease. The healer becomes especially important during times of plague, or if the enemy is catapulting disease-ridden animals over the castle walls!
Stables
Cost: 100 gold, 100 wood
The stable is where horses are bred in preparation for your knight to take into battle. When a knight calls a horse, it will be removed from the stable and given to the knight to ride.
Engineer's Guild
Cost: 50 wood
The engineer’s guild creates engineer's who then man the oil smelter and pour boiling oil over enemy troops.