Build mode: placing buildings
/buildmode opens the build bar over a top-down view. Pick a building, click the ground, and your crews do the rest.
Type /buildmode to switch to the top-down camera and open the build bar. Its tabs are City (your city's status), Army (see Recruiting soldiers), then one tab for each kind of building.
- Pick a building card. Its panel shows the cost, what it does, the build time for one crew, and for farms, mines and quarries a live survey of how good the ground is.
- Move the cursor over the ground. The outline shows whether it fits.
- Press R to turn it by 90°.
- Click to place. A construction site appears and your builders start work. See Construction and upgrades.
- Buildings go inside your city's grid (about 700 m across). Outposts are the exception: they go outside it. See Territory and outposts.
- Walls must snap to a free connector on a gatehouse or another wall. Wall pieces that climb and descend follow the ground.
- Houses, villas, estates and inns belong to the character who places them. Every other building belongs to the guild.
- Press Tilde to leave the top-down view and build mode with it.