Optimal Marketplace Placement

The marketplace is the single most important building for your layout. Every burgage plot needs to reach its stalls, and food and goods stalls draw from the nearest granary and storehouse. Put it wrong, and you'll spend the mid-game rebuilding.

Three rules

1. Center it on your housing, not on your production. Workers walk to their workplace; townspeople walk to the market.
2. Granary and storehouse close.Stalls are staffed by the nearest storage workers — long walks mean empty stalls.
3. Leave one side open for expansion.The marketplace's service area is generous; planning a future second market means leaving room on the opposite side of town.

Use the walking-distance heatmap

In the planner, toggle Walking distance. Tiles colored green are short walks from your marketplace; red tiles are far. Aim to keep your burgage plots in the green band, with production at the warm edges.