How-to guides

Each guide has a goal, a few numbered steps and a note on what can go wrong. They assume you have played the first tutorial and know your way around the claim map. The how-to guides below follow the order a claim usually grows in.

Guide	What it covers
Choose the best mill	Compare the three town mills and send each load where it pays most.
Keep your saws sharp	Read the Saws gauge and file or hire out the sharpening.
Build and upgrade a sawmill	Build your own mill, skid logs to it, set a bid for neighbors’ logs, add levels.
Open a business	Pick an underserved market on the Wanted board and open a business.
Start farming	Break ground, plant crops and keep the soil fertile.
Sell produce at the Mercantile	Sell harvested crops to the town store at a good price.
Buy a Forest Reserve stand	Buy ready timber from the land office.
Replant for the long game	Choose species for each ground type and keep the forest standing.
Enter the Harrison Days fair	Play the axe throw and the crosscut saw for ribbons.
Read the leaderboards	See what each board measures and where you rank.
Run the bot simulator	Run five scripted players and read their net worth.
Regenerate the rules file	Re-extract the game constants into rules.json.

If you are new, begin with the tutorials: From a fresh claim to the deed, then Open your first business.