The Village of New Sprout

[Edwin_Blacktallow]

I've recently started a new world and plan on making a whole town, I'm going to record the progress on this thread.

I'm using the river gen mod and have settled in a wooded valley that is crisscrossed with streams. I started with a small shack while I got my bearings, then I followed up by building a wattle and daub cottage that will eventually become a work house when my main house is built.

 

 

Here you can see the progress from Spring to Autumn in my first year. But there where some other projects coming along near by...

(Will post more soon, just gotta take some nice screen shots :P)

 

 

Edited November 17, 2025 by Edwin_Blacktallow

[Edwin_Blacktallow]

Following on from my last post I didn't want these first two buildings to end up being the center of my town. I wanted them to end up on the outskirts as I built larger buildings around a central hub. So I needed to decide where that hub would be. I picked out a location up river and decided to start planing out where the walls would go. I built this gate house half way between the future town square location and my starting house/hut.

The interior is currently un-decorated, you can enter in the small alcove seen in the first photo. A ladder leads up into the wattle and daub living quarter. And the bridge takes you over to the tower which has a similar ladder up to the top. There isn't a great view as the area is so heavily wooded you can only see the tops of the trees.

This building doesn't really server a purpose in my survival world but I think it looks great and I love traveling down the path through my woods and under the bridge.

[Edwin_Blacktallow]

At this point I realized that I was basically just building Riverwood from Skyrim. There wasn't really anyway to avoid that since I was building in a wood... next to a river... So I lent into it and recreated Alvor's Blacksmith. 

But to keep things interesting I turned this building into my tannery and made a stone workshop across the path that became my actual blacksmith... Because reasons...

Thinking of drawing a map/taking a screen shot of the in game map and annotating it so I can show the layout of the town and where the rivers flow. I'll probably do this later tho, when more buildings have been built and the layout is finalised. 

[Loosebearings]

This build looks amazing. especially for just your first year