Plots... um...?

I had that bug way back in the alpha.

Isn't that the area with the Treasure Temple underneath it?

There appears to be at least 3 tiers of abodes, sand, grass and mountain. The group of three wheat fields on your map is at the very top of of the grass level, the darker shades of green above are a no-go. You can see what I mean here:

I meant to refer to the OP post, my image was more to provide some proof.

He is referring to the original picture.


The way the system works is, as pointed out, there are 3 types of building. The buildings that can be built on 'mountain' (or the higher levels) are stone-type buildings. If you check your time-line, there is an upgrade imaginatively called "next age abodes", which gives you your first stone house. 

Now the important thing to note here is that the first stone/mountain house is a size 3 house, and the ones you get in future past that point are size 4,5 & 6 respectively. This means that you can't build small houses at high levels, but this also applies to fields, as fields use exactly the same templates as your available houses but have different builders. It's why you can't build huge fields when you only have small houses unlocked. It's pretty silly really, and leaves two options, either it's intentional that fields can only be the same size as your unlocked houses, which seems kinda silly, or that they didn't think plots through properly and were forced into having fields use exactly the same plots as houses. 

I have a couple of solutions to the problem that might work:

• Instead of permanently showing plots, have the option to flick through overlays of different follower types. So you can have a builder overlay that shows house plots, and a farmer overlay that shows farming plots (possible along with an indicator of fertility, such as mid-level grass next to trees/water providing more wheat than a barren mountain-top or sandy beach). The house plots & farming plots can thus be different, and for example, if you want to work on a farming area, you leave the farming on while sculpting/ 
• Get rid of plots for farms, you want to try and avoid big flatlands, stop making everything in the game square. Let the fields grow organically in the same way that settlements kinda do now. Assign a point/multiple points you want farmers to start working, and as the settlement expands they automatically add more farmers to that plot who start expanding the fields outwards in a pseudo-random pleasant organic-looking manner. Hell, even have that a field that has been around longer provides more wheat than a newer one (orchards anyone?), to encourage people to gradually expand rather than do the "make huge settlement, make 50 fields" type flat-land we have at current.