# Share a city from A22.5!

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/share-a-city-from-a22-5/32272>\
**Category:** Gameplay\
**Created:** [October 1, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/share-a-city-from-a22-5/32272 "2017-10-01T20:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![genboom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/genboom/32/51397_2.png) [@genboom](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/genboom)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/share-a-city-from-a22-5/32272/26 "2017-11-09T17:31:46Z")

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As soon as I saw this thread I began to think up this project and about 4 days later I had an idea of what I wanted to shoot for. Here is the result…

 ![screenshot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/stonehearth/original/3X/b/f/bf3e813d0ae5bc58612d733536c6aae86da1ca6d.jpg)  
Too many screenshots to upload, so here is a link to them instead  
[https://www.mediafire.com/file/2tg2cn1zwwt3vz3/screenshots.zip](https://www.mediafire.com/file/2tg2cn1zwwt3vz3/screenshots.zip)

Save: [https://www.mediafire.com/file/akxj86cdjqchc7k/Woods%20End.zip](https://www.mediafire.com/file/akxj86cdjqchc7k/Woods%20End.zip)  
Mods: [mods.zip](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/uploads/short-url/gH9WhFGjMQlJqWJNvq5uiH2JxYP.zip) (7.3 MB)

Some mods I wish I had before I started this project:

- [[MOD] Stonehearth Cafe (Cooking And Farming Expansion) 1.95](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/mod-stonehearth-cafe-cooking-and-farming-expansion-1-92/10159)  
For the awesome windmill and variety of extra content
- [[MOD] Roll For Need - loot mod](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/mod-roll-for-need-loot-mod/32158)  
For much more interesting combat

This project was originally started to answer a question I posed in this thread:  
[What is Your Ideal Town Layout?](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/what-is-your-ideal-town-layout/32409/1)

To save time, due to being constantly attacked, I decided I should first design a way to make a wall that can be placed as I need it that can be built in a reasonable amount of time. In solving this problem I ended up making this thread: [My Experience Designing Defenses [Wall Templates]](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/my-experience-designing-defenses/32369)

Also the [Finery Mod v5.6 Jul 22 [A24+] - On Steam Workshop](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/finery-mod-4-6-wip-edgers/31511) inspired me with the edgers to create roads that have more depth to add to the flavor of the town. This ended up being a huge construction project with a lot of challenges.

Some things I had planned to do is make a moat going around the wall as well as a watermill with a waterfall to power it feeding into a small pond that would connect to an underground tunnel system so that I could have street drains in some spots.

Unfortunately this project has become too time consuming to finish in time for stream 300 so I’ve decided to share it now instead. I ended up finding a number of problems during this project and its made progress grind to nearly a halt as I have had to rebuild the entire wall, road and some buildings multiple times. Saving a 100MB game takes a fair bit of time and disk space, I’m up to 15GB for this project and its not even done. Due to this I play with autosave disabled and when I run into problems and a build fails or the game crashes or has a memory leak or the mods don’t work the progress I lost is very disheartening and I have to go back and try again until it doesn’t. Ah well, its alpha but I have high hopes for A23 and beyond.

All in all this was a really interesting thing to work on and I learned a lot from it and had fun trying to solve the problems along the way.

> **Here are the threads I made that came about due to this project:**
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> [Color Coded Orders & Builds](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/color-coded-orders-builds/32424)  
> [Interacting with Physics & Mechanical Structures](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/interacting-with-physics-mechanical-structures/32221)  
> [Shared Stockpile Filters](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/shared-stockpile-filters/32440)  
> [[A22.5 r763 (x64)][M] Merge Road Error](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/a22-5-r763-x64-m-merge-road-error/32474)  
> [Template Image Not Displaying Large Builds](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/template-image-not-displaying-large-builds/32413)  
> [Overwriting Template Names Does Not Update Image (In Some Cases)](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/overwriting-template-names-does-not-update-image-in-some-cases/32389)  
> [Find & Replace Pattern of Blocks within a Template](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/find-replace-pattern-of-blocks-within-a-template/32414)  
> [Rotten food to Compost](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/rotten-food-to-compost/32443)  
> [Template Images Not Displayed In-Game When Placed in Folder](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/template-images-not-displayed-in-game-when-placed-in-folder/32536)  
> [Player Template UI - Tabs / Folders / Flip / Replace](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/player-template-ui-tabs-folders-flip-replace/32601)  
> [Unlock Teir 2 Templates for Ghost Building](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/unlock-teir-2-templates-for-ghost-building/32600)

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