LogFAQs > #898716026

The settlement building definitely needed more polish, but once you've had your fill of shooting people and visiting a draugr -- err, ghoul -- dungeon for the umpteenth time, settlement building's endless creativity is one of the evergreen aspects. Also, as for people stopping attacking your villages, you can induce attacks by capturing raiders (etc.) in those cages.

But yeah, water farms are pretty necessary to get up and running -- that's one of the sad parts of the whole thing. It was even worse before cement was readily available for cheap, though.
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Take me down from the ridge where the summer ends
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