Question, where do I get the language file for castaways? I want to make a spanish translation, but cannot find it anywhere. (If it already exists, let me know, as well as other translations that may exist)

I just downloaded castaways and extracted the files, but now how do I get the game to run?

I recently tried out Castaways, and love it. I just, am a bit confused on what to do, exactly. Are there any tips anybody could offer me to play more effectively without having my people die from starvation all of the time? Great work, Aprone, you rock, man

A good strategy is to move a lumber yard and a storehouse out to another location that is near forests.  Moving out far to build a second settlement can be tricky, but if you pull it off then you will continue to gain lumber at a very fast rate throughout the game.

I've made some progress, yes. 

I'm curious Aprone. Did you create your own game engine and base all your work on it or do you program everything from the ground up? Yes, you never really start from the beginning and use snippets here and there but given how fast you are at pushing these out I'm wondering if you either simply devote a truckload of time to creating these games of if you use some kind of RAD framework.

I don't think firewood is a separate resource. I don't remember if it takes from lumber or logs. The tutorhouses show how much firewood they have.

For mission 5, my first priorities, after the essential 4 buildings, are getting a fisherman, butcher and doctor. I then try to wall off the most vulnerable spots and build farms and houses at the same time. As you can imagine, this is kinda slow. It helps to have them going at the same time, and close sites as needed (if people start starving, close the walls/houses; if you can't keep up with the invaders, focus on the walls to direct them away from your settlement).

I don't remember when/how I dealt with getting metal. Lately I've been using the kcode just to see how it works, and that pushes back the need for metal considerably.

And if you're ever going to build multiple storehouses/taverns/etc, mission 5 is probably the best time to try it. Speed is crucial, but the deck is stacked against you on that count, what with the cold slowing down food production, and the most powerful things (walls, tomes, metal, horses) taking the longest to produce. More storehouses, sawmills and quarries will buy you lots of time, so I'd build those as soon as it isn't wasteful to do so.

To be honest, I've only completed mission 1 and 2 so far. On mission 3 I worked a lot with walls, but I apparently built them to close to each other, so that I hadn't enough space to build my buildings. I couldn't get every catapult, which obviously didn't provide any help for my settlement. I'm not even sure if they should.
CAE, Thanks for your advice. As a side note, normal houses also show the stocked up fire wood.
Unfortunately not many people are still playing this game. I'm sure Aprone's second release of it will be much better, but in my opinion the old one is also very good, maybe sometimes a bit difficult to keep the overview and to complete the mission request, but it's certainly good enough to be played!

Hi.
Yepp you are correct SLJ. You have to build the ship actually.

I'm looking forward to a fully implemented online mode!

I have the most trouble with mission 3, still.
Building walls fast enough to keep out the enemies is incredibly difficult.

Hi.
"Blasting GD:
I imagine more teamwork, being able to walk with your characters instead just controlling them all like a board game, and tasks which requires other online players to help you. It would be really cool if you had full control over the different characters, so you have to run with supplies, build things and make all the other tasks which the computer controlled characters are doing.

I had a lot of fun yesterday playing the game. I failed, but learned, and I got into the game again pretty quickly.

I wasn't aware there was going to be a castaways2. Does anyone know when it will be released? I loved building my settlement in Castaways, just not the zommies. So I am hoping Castaways2 will have more resource/population management and that there will be a way to play without zommies.

Mission 6 kicked my everything.
I did get one game going quite well, but right as I went to save, my battery died, as the laptop had somehow come unplugged without my knowledge.

(I'm curious about what changes you made to the graphics! )