Early Game Layout — Year 1 Settlement

Your first year is about three things: food, fuel, and the path to Level-2 burgage plots. Everything else is a distraction. Here's the skeleton.

The Year-1 build order

1. Hitching postfirst — you need oxen to move materials.
2. Logging camp at the forest edge.
3. Granary and storehouse side by side, near where the market will go.
4. Marketplace next to the granary and storehouse.
5. Well centered in your first burgage cluster.
6. Four burgage plotswith vegetable gardens, all tight to the well and inside the marketplace's stall coverage.

The shape

Think of it as a small dense cluster: storage and market on one side, residential on the other, the well in the seam. The logging camp lives on the outside, near the trees. Workshops come in Year 2 once you have leftover plank supply.