How to Appoint a Governor

Appointing a governor is the next step in running your settlement. You can select a governor from members of your clan. This is done

What skills are good for governors?

There are a few skills that make some companions more suited to being governor than others.

• Steward
• Medicine
• Engineering
• Trade
• Leadership

These perks give governor’s bonuses once they have levelled them up sufficiently. The title that certain companions have is also important. Certain titles like

• The Swift
• The Spicevendor

can give boosts to settlements through their associated stat boosts. The culture of your governor is important too. If the governor is from a culture that the settlement is from, it will increase loyalty by +1, but if the governor is from a different one, it will decrease by -2.
     

After appointing the right governor for the job, the next thing that you are going to want to do is invest in your settlement. With investing, you can build new structures, upgrade existing ones, and even set a “Daily Default” option.

How to Increase Settlement Food

If your settlement is running low on food, there are a few things you can do. You can build and upgrade that settlements granary. Putting gold into the reserves will also help increase the speed at which buildings like the granary are built.

You can also choose the Irrigation option as the Daily Default option to increase the food production for your settlement.

How to Increase Settlement Security

Increasing settlement security is a good way to stop people from attacking it, and if someone does, it will be able to defend itself to a certain extent.

You can increase the defence of a settlement by building and upgrading the Barracks and The Training Fields. These buildings will make sure that you have the maximum number of troops possible defending your settlement and make sure that they are well trained.

You also have the option to garrison some of your troops in settlements. The garrison is separate from a town’s local militia and has a separate unit cap.

How to Increase Settlement Prosperity

There are a few ways to increase your settlement prosperity. First is to make sure that it doesn’t get raided with all the previously mentioned information so that they can keep producing goods.

The second thing you are going to want to do is to upgrade buildings within that settlement that affect the income of it. Setting up a caravan from your settlement with one of your clan members is also a good way to add another source of income from your settlement.