New City

[renshin]

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[Kakeku]

lol. You have too many cottage. You should be TH 10 before most of your buildings make to level 5. You have a stonemason circled with iron mines!

Basically, you need one row of cottage and support building structures (sawmill, stonemason, etc), then a row of resource structures. I will post mine in a min.

[Kakeku]

Ok, my print screen is not working because of keyboard setup. Anyway, here is how one way to do it.
Cottage - C, Quarry - Q, Stonemason - M, Woodcutter - W, Sawmill - S, Iron Mine - I, Foundry - F

C C C C C C
w w w w w w w
C S C C S C C S C
w w w w w wwww
C C C C TH C C C C
Q Q Q Q Q Q I I I
C M C C M CC F C
Q Q Q Q Q I I
C C C C C

Basically you need 6 utility structures (S, Q, F) to maximize all resources structures. You change any of the utility structures to meet your needs for wood, stone or iron.

[Syana]

Something like this...

change the resource building to whatever you want.

[Berae]

Something like this...

change the resource building to whatever you want.
Your dike has a hole in it...

[renshin]

Thanks guys. I wish I could redo my old cities.

[Syana]

Your dike has a hole in it...

Your hole has a dike in it...