Fishing, hunting, and raising animals provides food all year long, gathering might too but I can't remember for sure right now. Always build more barns before they're all full, and cluster homes around markets. Stone houses are worth the extra cost, otherwise you'll suddenly find yourself out of firewood one winter with people freezing to death. Build hospitals before you need them, and give people lots of pathways so they're not too clustered together, or else disease outbreaks will kill a lot of people.
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