Banished | 2025 Guide for Complete Beginners | Episode 1 | Starting Out

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource. In this Complete Beginner's Guide to Banished, I start a brand new game so you can play along with me as I explain the very basics of the game, drawing on my own experience and the great advice I have received from viewers. This guide is non-spoilery, and does not focus on the "best" or "fastest" builds, perfection, speed runs, perfect optimization and end game focus, but rather lays out the fundaments of the UI, the controls, how to build, grow, trade, some tips and tricks, and the overall strategy of the game so you can best enjoy it on your own terms. I don't prescribe a singular method, but rather expose one way to get going at a manageable pace game so you enjoy Banished! 👨‍🏫Full Banished Beginner's Guide Playlist:    • Banished: Guide for Complete Beginners   🔀Full Series Playlist Here:    • Banished   Check out the game on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/24... Chapters / Timestamps: 0:00 - Initial Setup 0:31 - User Interface (UI) and Controls 0:39 - UI Efficiency 0:43 - Core Gameplay Loop 6:51 - In-game guide 8:22 - Storage (Stockpile vs. Storage Barn) 11:11 - Essential Needs (Food, Shelter, Warmth) 11:54 - Game Pausing 13:04 - Population Management 15:06 - Job Management (Professions & Laborers) 16:28 - Early Game Strategies (Farming, Housing, Resources) 16:59 - Food Production (Farms, Orchards, Hunting, Gathering) 17:57 - Building Placement 22:22 - Food Limits 23:33 - Crop Disease 25:05 - Labor Distribution 27:22 - Early Housing (Boarding House) 27:59 - Benefits of Boarding House 30:51 - Road Construction 33:04 - Game Speed 36:51 - Resource Gathering (Wood & Stone) 47:06 - Gathering as Early Food Source 47:59 - Maximizing Hunting Cabin 48:32 - Importance of Wood Cutter 50:41 - Resource Management Balance 51:31 - Importance of Storage Barn Support: By Supporting the Channel at any level, you gain access to ad-free livestream VODs, and the Retro Ranch and Longplay Lounge video collections! 🎁 YouTube Membership:    / @drincompetent   🙏 Patreon:   / drincompetent   Connect: 🗣Discord:   / discord   🟪Twitch:   / drincompetentgamer   🟦Facebook:   / drincompetent   Merch, Gear and Recommended Doodads: 🎽Merch: https://dr-incompetent.myspreadshop.com/ 🛒https://www.amazon.com/shop/dr.incomp... 👨‍🏫🎮 About Dr. Incompetent's Gaming Channel 👨‍🏫🎮 Dr. Incompetent aims to teach you how to get better at games while having a blast and maybe exposing you to a game you haven't yet tried--or even heard of by producing gaming guides, tutorials, let's plays, and tips, tricks, and strategies. He also tries out recent hits to determine if they are worth buying. He is more than happy to answer any questions you have about the games covered, either live during his Twitch Stream or in the YT comments below. 👶🕹️👨‍🏫🎮 Dr. Incompetent's Heavily Censored Biography 👶🕹️👨‍🏫🎮 Dr. Incompetent is a college professor by day and gamer by night (and day). He has been playing games since his first ATARI, got hooked on PITFALL 2 and never looked back. He focuses mainly on RPGs, Strategy games, Simulations, ARPGs, and... well he plays pretty much everything ;) He thanks you so profoundly for watching! #banished #indiegame #drincompetent