In order:  
1) Town overview with as much of it included as possible.

2) Main street, the emptiness to the right is in progress.... obviously.

3) Farming/Rural Neighborhood #1

4) Church with a small courtyard, and a small graveyard. It's located behind the town hall.

5) Just a nice aesthetic shot of a neighborhood :)

6) Market #1 and one of my more industrial areas.

7) Mayor's Estate. Entirely roleplay because there's no way to really do a nice estate, but I can pretend.

Not gonna lie, I've gone AFK many a time while just waiting for things to build, otherwise I would have gotten bored so much sooner \^-\^''

My biggest achievement, despite having this game for YEARS, I've always really struggled with the economy and figuring out how to trade in a way that works. This save I finally figured it all out and I haven't need loans one time!

Current complaints: Pavement could be better, it's a bit frustrating that in multiple places it triggers pavement bottom for the item (the gate for my mayor's house, the shop stalls) but there's still a gap of ground where the gravel path appears and it's too small for me to draw more pavement. In the same vein, I'd love if I could draw pavement under buildings without 'space occupied' triggering. My trading post (only visible in the bird's eye view at the opposite end of main street from the Town Hall) for example.

Questions: How did some of you get such nice first person POV pictures? I don't know much about modding, but googling did bring up other things that seem to... just be mods? Can someone who's computer savvy explain this to me? I've modded Skyrim, Minecraft, and The Sims, so I imagine there's no reason I wouldn't be able to figure out modding Ostriv, but I'm confused at the terms I'm seeing online.

It's been a long journey. I bought the game in March of 2021. I'd play for a bit and run out of steam, then abandon the game for a bit (sometimes years). Then, I'd come back and get to be all excited over all the new changes and updates. This is the first time there's enough in the game for that steam to keep going solidly for a proper town to start developing (though to be fair, back in '21 there weren't enough features for a solid town to develop anyway haha). I'm just super proud of my little town and thought I'd share my progress so far!

My Town - 1742, Pop. 345