Happiness
The happiness of your people is another factor which has a big impact on your village’s prosperity. But how do you control it?
Each person is born with their own natural disposition, but there are several factors which influence it over the course of their lifetime:
- Their overall health
- The amount of work they are doing
- The presence of particular buildings in the village, such as an onsen
- Luxury stores, such as sake and tea
- The number of children they have, especially those newly born
- The level of protection the village have (having ronin wandering about make the villages feel secure
- Whether or not they are in mourning
The most important factor out of all of these is the villagers’ health. Keep health up and you’ll keep the villagers happy.
Mourning
A person goes into mourning when someone close to them dies. A mourning period lasts for about 18 months, and its severity depends on the death in question -- whether it’s a child, a spouse or a parent, etc., and how they died.
Whilst everyone will probably go into mourning at some point in their lives, and you can’t control it directly, you can lessen its impact. By keeping health high, especially during periods of bad weather, you will reduce the number of deaths from disease, and by protecting the village during times of widespread poor harvests you will reduce problems caused by marauding bandits. You will notice that there is a big dip in happiness whenever there are many deaths simultaneously in the village. This is caused by widespread mourning and depression at the village’s poor fortune.
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