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Buildings and rooms

Every building field and what it does, rooms and floors, and editing buildings on the map.

Where to edit buildings

• Atlas → Locations lists every building, grouped by settlement. Search by name or type, use the area filter, or tick Hide unnamed locations to hide empty placeholders. Unfinished buildings carry a New tag.
• In Build mode, choose a building to open it, or double-click it to reshape it (see Editing on the map).
• A building with no name, description or residents yet opens in the Location Wizard instead. See The Location Wizard.

Building fields

Name. The building's name everywhere: on the map, on its card, and in what characters are told about where they are. Renaming a building doesn't rewrite old memories that mention the old name.

Type. Chosen from your genre's list (tavern, clinic, noodle bar…). The type changes:

• how characters describe where they are
• whether the owner behaves like a shopkeeper (for shop types)
• who drops by: characters whose favorite places include this type
• the music, when you haven't picked tracks
• whether it's an indoor place or an outdoor one like a park or plaza, which changes how its picture is painted
• whether people who live there also work there (they don't, in homes)

Changing the type later only affects what happens from then on. It doesn't change the jobs of people already there.

Description (up to 2,000 characters). What a person standing there would notice, and what the place is for: the smells, the regulars, the house rules. Every character in the building reads it, every message.

• It's not an image prompt. Saving a description never changes the picture.
• Put the most important line first.
• Don't put secrets here. Everyone who walks in knows this text.

Owner. Shown on the building's card and in the Atlas. When a building is created, the character whose name matches the owner becomes its proprietor: they run its shop and act like it. Typing a different name here later doesn't make that person the proprietor.

Interior Image Prompt (or Exterior Scene Prompt for outdoor places). The picture behind every conversation held here. Describe the room or scene, not the people. Your world's art style is added for you. Regenerate paints a new one (the cost is on the button). The gallery button lets you reuse any image you've made before, at no cost.

Real people and titles like "mayor" or "senator" are blocked in image prompts. Write "a civic official's study" instead of "the mayor's study". See Image safety.

Building Color and Map Icon change how the building looks on the map, and nothing else. Auto uses your genre's color for its type.

Music Tracks. What plays while you're inside. With none picked, music is chosen to suit the building's type. You can also change it in-game from the music player.

Rooms and floors

Under Sub-locations, + Add sub-location adds a room, floor or unit inside the building. Each room can hold rooms of its own, up to three levels deep, with up to 100 in one building.

• Every room is a full location, with its own name, description, picture, music and residents.
• A new room starts empty. Open it to describe it and generate it, or fill it in by hand.
• Rooms are private. Characters in a room know they're inside a building, and that people elsewhere in it aren't in the room with them.
• Characters who live in a room know the building as home, rather than treating it as somewhere they're visiting.
• Deleting a room moves the people who live there up a level, and deletes the rooms inside it.

The Location Wizard can add floors and rooms when you create a building. See The Location Wizard.

Moving between rooms

In a conversation, the up arrow at the right end of the row of portraits opens the room list. Choose a room to go there. If you're mid-conversation, choose the person's small portrait beside a room to take them with you.

Residents

The right side of a building's page lists everyone who lives there, grouped by room.

• Move to room moves a resident into another room of the building. If they also worked where they lived, you'll be asked first, because moving them clears their workplace. Set it again on their sheet if they really work downstairs.
• + Add NPC creates a new resident.

Editing on the map

In Build mode:

• Double-click a building (or long-press on touch) to reshape it:
  • pick a footprint shape and a roof style
  • flip it
  • scroll to rotate, Shift+scroll to resize, Ctrl+scroll to cycle shapes, Ctrl+Shift+scroll to change floors
  • Edit details opens it in the Atlas
• Select lets you drag a box around buildings, then drag them somewhere else.
• Copy (or Ctrl+C on a selected building) places a copy. The copy brings the details, pictures and rooms, but not the people. In the Location Wizard, Start fresh discards the copied details instead.

Building status badges appear in Build mode: amber for buildings still waiting to be filled, green for finished ones.

Deleting buildings

The Eraser in Build mode removes a building after you confirm. The people who live there are archived, not deleted, and keep their memories. Bring them back from Atlas → NPCs → Archived.

A building joins the settlement and district it's placed in. Moving it within its settlement updates its district to match where it now stands.