Part 3

Master the interface of The Settlers: Rise of an Empire. Learn about resource displays, building menus, the mini-map, and essential UI buttons for efficient gameplay.

This section provides an overview of the user interface elements in The Settlers: Rise of an Empire, explaining the function of various buttons and panels.

Resource Overview: The storehouse holdings display provides a summary of all resources. At the bottom of this popup, you can see the current total and maximum storage capacity of your storehouses.

Resource Buttons:

• Food Button (Apple Icon): Shows the total amount of finished food available. Clicking it reveals a detailed breakdown of each food type. A red outline warns of famine if the total reaches 0.
• Clothing Button (Shirt Icon): Displays the total amount of finished clothing available. Clicking it provides a detailed breakdown of each clothing type.
• Cleaning Supplies Button (Brush Icon): Shows the total amount of finished cleaning products available. Clicking it provides a detailed breakdown of each item type. This button is only available after town upgrades.
• Entertainment Button (Musical Icon): Displays the total amount of entertainment available. Clicking it provides a detailed breakdown of each entertainment type. .
• Decorations Button (Decoration Icon): Shows the total number of decorated buildings in your village. Clicking it reveals details on which buildings are decorated and with what, as well as the total number of decoratable buildings. .
• Prosperity Button (Treasure Chest Icon): Provides a breakdown of your town's prosperity, including the number of rich or poor buildings and the total number of taxable buildings. .
• Military Button (Crossed Swords Icon): Displays a dropdown of current military supplies like swords and bows. This does not show the number of soldiers, which can be found in the City Information dropdown.

System Buttons:

• Menu Button (Top Right Corner): Allows you to pause the game, access saving and loading features, and exit the game.
• Chat Button (Below Menu Button): Available only in multiplayer games to send messages to other players.

Construction Panel Buttons (Right Side of Screen):

• These buttons often match icons from the top of the screen and open side menus for building construction.
• Resource Gathering, Food Production, and Clothing Production buildings are available from the start.
• Cleaning Supplies, Entertainment, Decorations, and Military Support buildings require upgrades.
• Defense and Roads Button: Allows building wooden or stone walls and gates, and laying down trails or stone roads. Stone roads require upgrades.
• Demolition Button: Destroys most buildings (except the castle, cathedral, and storehouse), trails, and roads.

Mini Map Buttons (Lower Right Corner of Screen):

• Mini Map: Shows an overview of explored territories. Unexplored areas are dark grey, explored but unowned areas are light grey. Raw material locations are marked with icons. Hovering over a territory displays its name. Clicking centers the main view on that area.
• Map Type Button (Blue Button Left of Mini Map): Toggles between a territory map (showing resource icons, territory borders, buildings, and military units) and a terrain map (showing cliffs, fertile ground, forests, and rivers).
• Select All Military Units Button (Crossed Swords Icon): Selects all military units, including swordsmen, bowmen, knights, siege engines, and thieves. Useful for converging units but may interfere with specific unit tasks.
• Unit Control Buttons (Appear Left of Mini Map when Military Selected): Include