Town restoration: the announced loop

The developers describe town improvement as a reclaim-and-restore loop: reclaim a district, then bring back housing, shops and cafes, and infrastructure. They have not established a universal build order in the cited source.

Reclaim, then restore

The announcement presents district reclamation as the step before rebuilding its services and infrastructure. It does not give the requirements for claiming a district, the cost or order of individual restorations, or their exact effects.

Use the district state and available options shown in your game to decide what to restore next. This preview does not prescribe a sequence or claim that one is optimal.

What the game data lists

The game’s own data fills in some of what the announcement left open. It defines 13 town shops, 16 house repairs and 2 wall demolitions; the full lists, with materials and plots, are on the town buildings page.

• Unlocks: Market Stalls I opens the Apothecary, Vegetable Stand and Tailor; Market Stalls II opens the Furniture Maker, Baker and Fish Stand; Market Stalls III opens the Alchemist and Jeweler; Artisans I opens the Builder and Smithy; Artisans II opens the Tavern and Brewery. The Pottery Workshop is not tied to a technology in the data.
• Costs: a shop’s first tier costs Building Kit I, Wooden Kit I and Iron Kit I, from 4 / 3 / 1 for the earliest unlocks to 8 / 6 / 3 for the latest. The second and third tiers cost Furniture, Building and Sculpture Kits plus one material specific to the shop, such as 40 two-star cabbages for the Vegetable Stand’s second tier.
• The kits are factory products (factory recipes). What each shop sells is on merchants and shops, and the orders the shops add are on town orders.
• According to the game’s tutorial, houses give Green Scrolls that you deliver to Linda every Lust day to raise the citizens’ reputation and your maximum happiness limit.

These are the values in the data files, not an observed build order; the gameplay review has not checked them.

Sources

• The developers’ The Town That Probably Exists announcement describes reclaiming districts and restoring housing, shops and cafes, and infrastructure.
• Official demo trailer (video; no timestamp; included for context, not as a verification of the released game).