Xiāngjiān

Xiāngjiān is a rural management simulation game about building up a village and improving its prosperity. You construct farms, logging camps, quarries and other buildings to produce basic resources, then process them into more profitable goods to sell at the market. You can upgrade villagers’ homes and workplaces to raise happiness, and unlock policies at the township government to regulate production.

Buildings and production

Your buildings produce, store and process resources. Warehouses show your overall inventory, while workshops turn basic resources into higher-value products. Upgrading a workshop unlocks more products, including clothes, canned meat and canned fish. Livestock farms consume grain to produce meat, and upgrades unlock fur production.

Other buildings have specific operating conditions. Mines produce only on special gray terrain, and a mineral deposit with an abundance of 0 yields nothing. Logging camps cut down nearby trees and produce nothing if there are no mature trees in the area. Fishing harbors need a road running parallel to the shore within two or three tiles, with the entrance on land and one side of the fishing boat in the water.

Markets and village life

Markets let you buy and sell goods, with trade settled at the end of each week. All markets share one trading panel, but building more than one can ease traffic because vehicles go to the nearest market. Each week, every house consumes one unit of food, choosing the type with the largest stock in the warehouse.

The municipal building is where you research and select policies. Plan how your industries develop and work toward building a prosperous new countryside.