A residential building of the Stone Age. Produces 0.16 Population and 0.4 Happiness.
Related
- Zone: Residential
- Era: Stone Age
- Produces: Happiness
- Produces: Population
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Overview
Stone Shelter is a residential housing tier of the Stone Age that shelters citizens and anchors the surrounding district's demand for goods and services.
It belongs to the early game, when the city is still finding its footing, 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 Stone Shelter trades footprint and upkeep for the population it can hold.
Its larger footprint means it reshapes a block when it lands, so it rewards planning the surrounding streets before construction rather than after.
Gameplay
The value of Stone Shelter 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 Stone Shelter 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 Stone Shelter in favour of it can free both the plot and the running cost for something denser.
Interior & support
Step inside Stone Shelter 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.
Related
- Era: Stone Age
- Category: Residential
- Produces: Happiness
- Produces: Population
- Interior: Hearth / Kitchen
Achievements & highscores
Population is a headline highscore, and housing tiers like Stone Shelter 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).