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General
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What is Viamundo?
Viamundo is a building game in your browser. You get your own island, lay roads and connect workshops into
production chains: from log to plank, from grain to bread, from ore to tools. Over time your settlement grows
through village and market town into a city, and you can trade with other players and found colonies.
Is Viamundo a browser game?
Yes. Viamundo is a free browser game and building game that runs directly in your browser – on desktop, tablet and smartphone.
No download or installation is required. More basics are in the handbook.
Does Viamundo cost anything?
No. Viamundo is completely free. There is no paid content, no premium currency and no advertising.
Do I need to install anything?
No. All you need is an up-to-date browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Edge or Safari.
Does Viamundo work on a smartphone or tablet?
Yes. Viamundo runs on computers, tablets and smartphones – the interface adapts to the screen size and touch controls.
On your phone you can install the page like an app on your home screen (“Add to Home screen” or “Install app”) and play in full screen.
Does my island keep running when I am offline?
Yes. Your economy keeps producing while you are away, for up to 12 hours at a stretch.
When you come back after at least 10 minutes, a return report shows you what happened in the meantime.
Account
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How do I create an account?
Via Sign up with a username, email address and password.
Right afterwards you land on your new island.
Can I sign in with Google or Discord?
Yes. On the sign-in page you can sign in with your Google or Discord account.
The first time, you choose a username; you can link an existing Viamundo account in your profile under “Linked accounts”.
Why do I have to confirm my email address?
So that we can reach you, for example if you forget your password. After signing up you receive a link by email.
You can play for 3 days without confirming; after that the island stays locked until you open the link.
No email? Check your spam folder or request a new one in your profile.
I forgot my password. What now?
Under Forgot password you can have a link sent to you to set a new password.
The link is valid for 60 minutes.
May I have several accounts?
No. Each person may only have one account, and accounts must not be shared or passed on.
More on this in the terms of use.
Getting started
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What is the best way to start?
First build a woodcutter near a forest and connect it to your trading post with a road. After that, the
quests under Goals (key 7) help you: they guide you step by step through all settlement levels and give rewards.
Why is my building not working?
Usually it is one of these reasons:
- It is not connected by roads to the trading post or a storehouse.
- Workers are missing: build houses so that more settlers move in.
- Resources are missing, or storage or the storage limit you set is full.
- A woodcutter has no forest left in range, a forester no free meadow.
Which keyboard shortcuts are there?
1 Select · 2 Build · 3 Road · 4 Clear ·
5 Demolish · 6 Balance · 7 Goals · 8 Empire.
In road mode you switch between dirt road and paving.
I am stuck because resources are missing. What can I do?
Don’t worry: if you are missing a key building such as a woodcutter, sawmill, quarry, mine, smelter or toolsmith
and you don’t have enough goods to build it, the trading post gradually supplies the missing building materials for free.
You can recognise this by the ↻ symbol in the resource bar.
Economy
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How do roads and carriers work?
Carriers fetch resources from storage, bring them to the buildings and carry finished goods back. They only walk on your roads,
so every detour counts. On paving they are twice as fast as on dirt roads, but each paved tile costs one stone.
You get more carriers from houses. With carrier priority you decide which buildings are supplied first.
What do my settlers eat?
Fish and bread. Well-fed settlers pay taxes, and the settlement grows as long as there is free housing. If they starve, some leave one by one.
From village level on, your settlers also want cloth, from market town beer, from city jewellery and in the Hanseatic city wine.
The more wishes you fulfil, the more gold the taxes bring. Prestige buildings such as the chapel, town hall and monument make your settlers more content and raise taxes further.
How do I advance to the next settlement level?
The levels are settlement, village (from 20 inhabitants), market town (from 45), city (from 90) and Hanseatic city (from 140). Besides inhabitants you need
well-fed settlers, the wishes of the current level must be fulfilled, and advancing costs goods and gold.
Once everything is ready, you can advance under Goals. Each level unlocks new buildings and higher upgrade levels.
What do neighbourhood bonuses do?
Some buildings work faster when suitable neighbours stand right next to them, for example a mill next to a grain farm
or a bakery next to a mill. The bonus is at most 50%. The build preview shows you in advance how much a building plot gives.
What happens when a mine is exhausted?
Quarries and mines have a limited deposit. Once it is used up, they continue working much more slowly.
A newly built mine opens up a fresh deposit.
Can I pause a building?
Yes. Select the building on the island and click Pause in the building view.
A paused building stops working, no longer consumes resources and so spares your storage;
with Resume it then carries on as before.
Do I get anything back when demolishing?
Yes, half of the construction cost of all finished levels. If you cancel a construction site, you even get its cost back in full.
If you just clicked by mistake, you can take back the last build or road action for a few seconds with Undo (Ctrl+Z).
What is my island’s speciality?
Every island has a speciality: fertile soil, gold vein, rich ore veins, primeval forest or fishing grounds. It makes certain buildings faster
or their deposits larger, and some buildings only exist there, such as the gold mine or the vineyard. Your speciality is shown under Goals.
Colonies preferably get a speciality you don’t have yet.
What do I need gold for?
For advancing, expeditions, prestige buildings and the upkeep of storehouses and harbours. With gold you can also finish construction sites
instantly and buy goods from the merchant at the harbour. If gold for upkeep is missing, nobody moves in any more.
Are there blueprints?
Yes. In the build menu under Blueprints you find ready-made blocks such as the bakery block, which place buildings and roads in one go.
You can also save an area of your island as your own blueprint. Press R to rotate a blueprint before placing it.
Multiplayer
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How do I trade with other players?
You need a harbour for that (from village level, right by the water). In the Empire panel (key 8) you post offers on the market such as
“20 planks for 10 cloth” or accept other players’ offers. The goods are delivered by ship; the travel time depends on the distance between the islands.
There is also the merchant: he trades any good for gold at any time, but at poor rates.
Can I settle further islands?
Yes. From market town level on, your main settlement can send out expeditions that found colonies on new islands.
You switch between your settlements via the selection in the header bar and ship goods in the Empire panel.
What are alliances?
Up to 10 players can join together in an alliance. Together you build several projects with levels:
the lighthouse (+5% taxes per level), the shipyard (+8% faster ships), the trading office (+10% storage capacity)
and the guild hall (+2 carriers). Each completed level takes effect immediately for all members; the leader and officers
also choose a crest. The leaderboard also shows the strongest alliances at the bottom.
How do I write to other players?
In the Empire panel (key 8) under Messages – or via the message button in your contacts or on a
player profile. Anyone who writes to you too much can be blocked; then no messages are possible in either direction.
Can I give goods to other players?
Yes, in the Empire panel under Contacts → Send a gift. Both settlements need a harbour for this.
You can send 5 gifts per day with at most 50 units – the shipment travels by ship like any cargo.
What is the sea chart?
Under Sea chart you can see all inhabited islands of the world with their specialities and distances.
When signed in, you also get travel times from your settlement, the trade atlas with all open market offers and your
island guide: every island you set foot on (your own, colonies, visits) is collected there as a stamp.
What is prestige good for?
Prestige is the long-term score of your account (Goals → Prestige). It grows with achievements, quests, colonies,
delivery contracts, research and discovered islands. With enough points you unlock titles – from coastal fisher
to legend of the seas – and choose which one appears next to your name on the leaderboard and your profile.
What does reputation with the port towns mean?
Each fulfilled delivery contract earns points with the town. With each reputation level its contracts pay more gold,
and from “Valued” onwards the town sends a thank-you by ship with every level-up. You can see the status in the
Empire panel under Deliveries.
How do I ship goods between my settlements?
In the Empire panel (key 8), under Ships, you set up a standing transport route to one of your settlements:
good, amount and interval. As soon as it is due, the simulation sends the shipment off – even while you are offline.
Both settlements need a harbour for this.
Can other players attack my island?
No. Viamundo is a peaceful building game. Others can visit and look at your island via your player profile,
but cannot change anything. Storage, balance and quests stay private.
How is the leaderboard calculated?
There are 10 points per building level, prestige buildings give additional prestige per level (chapel 30, town hall 100, monument 400),
1 point per inhabitant and 100 points per settlement level, added up across all your settlements.
The leaderboard can also be sorted by inhabitants or taxes.
Help & contact
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Where can I find out what has changed in the game?
We collect all changes under News and patch notes: announcements, improvements and bug fixes per version.
The latest posts are also on the home page, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed in your feed reader. Posts are written in German.
I found a bug. Where do I report it?
Please write to us to the address given in the imprint and briefly describe what you did and what happened. Anyone who reports bugs instead of exploiting them
helps everyone and has nothing to fear.
What data do you store about me?
Mainly your username, email address, your password (only as a secure hash) and your game progress,
plus technical data such as IP addresses to protect against abuse. Exactly what, why and for how long is described in the privacy policy (in German).
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