Tradeposts: Yeah, it may be a mac thing, but no real way to know unless I discover a huge mac based Banished community lol;) The trading post does work on vanilla with occasional crashes, that is what I think of as normal. But if it happens 3-5 times in a row then it gets frustrating lol, waiting for that one time that it actually works.
@Paeng: I definitely began with your 1.07 list, that is what I started with so mostly I don't have a lot of older mods, only ones that I downloaded based on what was suggested to play with The North, before realizing The North wasn't yet a 1.07 mod lol;) Since then I have only loaded the North all on its own to get a feel for the various parts, no long term towns yet. I'm still trying to figure out which of the mods work, solo or in combination even with the 1.07 list.
Up until now I had not been adding mods to a town in progress, I thought that was a no-no but it sounds like you don't have a problem with that! Great news;) Is it still best to add the mod to the WinData, open game and enable the mod, ok the reload, exit, load the existing game, load the mod into the game, quit, exit, restart and load the game? Lots of steps lol, but whatever works.
Here's a question then: Say I want to start two towns, one full of DS Small Village stuff and extras (tunnels, jetty's etc), and a town with Kid's Mission/Tequila/Forest Outpost stuff including the Red Desert terrain Mod. Since I play slowly and have to build up quite a long time before I can actually really build a lot of the stuff included, is it okay to enable/disable the mods as I switch from game to game, without all the moving things around? As long as I keep a list of the mods I'm actually enabled for each game? Is that too greedy lol?
It seems that EB and Maritime stuff needs to be separate all on its own, but I'm still trying to figure that out. And how to include NatDiv and New Flora is really tough, it all worked so well on my first experimental game, but since then has perhaps been part of my problem with lots more crashes. I now have both mods out of the WinData folder and the registry, too bad. Otherwise I'd really like to have both NatDiv and New Flora be in most of my games, I like the extra models and scenery they provide.