Building

Building is how a village grows beyond hand-gathering. Huts make room for people, some structures advance your village to its next stage, and camps and farms put those people to work.

Huts

Huts house your villagers. Without room, no new villagers can join at stoke time.

• Holds: 5 villagers each.
• Cost: wood, which climbs as your village grows. The first huts are cheap; later ones cost more.

Build huts ahead of your population so there is always somewhere for new villagers to settle.

The Council Lodge

A camp becomes a real Village when you raise its Council Lodge — the hall where villagers first organise who hunts, logs, and farms.

• Unlocks once your camp has grown past a milestone of villagers.
• Cost: a modest, one-time amount of wood and food.
• Building it advances your village from Camp to Village, which opens up lumber camps, farms, and villager work parties.

This is the shape of progression in Watchfire: each stage has a structure that appears once your village is big enough, and building it carries you to the next stage. Reach for it as soon as it is available — everything past hand-gathering opens up here.

Lumber camp

A lumber camp turns villagers into a steady stream of wood.

• Unlocks: once you are a Village (raise the Council Lodge first).
• Cost: wood, scaling with your village size.
• Capacity: up to 100 villagers can work it.
• Output: each assigned villager produces wood continuously over time, so a full camp keeps wood flowing while you are away.

Farm

A farm does the same for food.

• Unlocks: once you are a Village (raise the Council Lodge first).
• Cost: paid in both wood and food, scaling with your village size.
• Capacity: up to 100 villagers can work it.
• Output: each assigned villager produces food continuously over time.

How costs scale

Every building gets more expensive as your village grows, so each new hut, camp, or farm is a real decision, not a reflex.