Thatched Cottage — Wiki

A residential building of the Medieval Era. Produces 1.2 Population and 0.4 Happiness.

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- Zone: Residential
- Era: Medieval Era
- Produces: Happiness
- Produces: Population

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Overview

Thatched Cottage is a residential housing tier of the Medieval Era that shelters citizens and anchors the surrounding district's demand for goods and services.

It belongs to the mid game, as districts begin to specialise, so placing one signals that the district around it is ready to grow past simple subsistence.

As a housing option it competes for the same plots as smaller and larger homes; choosing Thatched Cottage trades footprint and upkeep for the population it can hold.

Gameplay

The value of Thatched Cottage is in the Happiness and Population it returns to the city; route that output toward the districts that are starved of it rather than the ones already satisfied.

You get the most from Thatched Cottage when shops, civic services, and a leisure venue all fall inside walking distance — happy residents are productive residents.

Watch upkeep as the city scales: when a newer tier unlocks, retiring an older Thatched Cottage in favour of it can free both the plot and the running cost for something denser.

Interior & support

Step inside Thatched Cottage through the Hearth / Kitchen view to see how its residents live: the kitchen and hearth set the household's mood, and a well-supplied home reads as a calm, lived-in interior rather than a bare shell.

Era: Medieval Era
Category: Residential
Produces: Happiness
Produces: Population
Interior: Hearth / Kitchen

Achievements & highscores

Population is a headline highscore, and housing tiers like Thatched Cottage are how you push it — denser homes raise the resident count that progression milestones and the city leaderboards reward.

Update history

Documented as part of the residential, civic, and leisure wiki backfill (ERAPOLIS-994).