Population and how a city grows

Your city starts with 10 people and supports 30, which it reaches in about 8 hours. Your Town Hall has room for 40, and filling the rest of it takes coffee and art.

Your city page lists your population first, with how many arrive an hour. The bar beside it runs to your Town Hall's room, with a white line at how many your city supports, so the empty part is what you have not earned people for yet, and the rate falls to nothing when you have stopped growing. The Town Hall page says the same, and anybody can look at that one.

Put them to work on the Lumber Yard or on whatever your island produces. Anyone you leave idle earns gold instead.

Upgrading your Town Hall is what makes room for more people: 40, then 90, then 140, then 200, and on up. That is a ceiling and not a promise: what actually brings people in is a Coffee Shop and the art on your walls. The more room you make at once, the faster people come to fill it, up to 20 an hour.

Upgrading never moves your population on its own. It opens ground, and people arrive only if something supports them. How many your city can support altogether is its satisfaction.

Each person does one job, and you choose the split.

Cutting wood

One wood an hour each.

Working the island's other deposit

One stone, glass, coffee or mana an hour each, depending on the island.

Nothing

3 gold an hour each. Leaving people idle pays.

Research

1 research point an hour each, at your Research Institute. Its level says how many researchers you can assign. Research consumes no glass.

How many people you can put on a deposit depends on your island's mural, not on your city.