Thank you for the typo notices!
1. Corrected the Problem
2. To make things easier since day schedule is rather subjective as in before 06:00 the next day can still be considered the night of the previous day.

I've noticed two small issues with your laws signed section in the first few days.

1. You have corpse disposal listed twice, once on Day 2 and once on Day 4.
2. Day 1 law is only emergency shift since it takes 18 hours. Day 2 is extended shifts and child labor. Day 3 is only fighting arena which takes 36 hours so no laws are signed on Day 4 and Day 5 is both corpse disposal and organ transplant.

Okay thanks! I think I get it. I see the trick with the dismissal and re-assignment of the engineers speeds up the workshop construction massively, enabling earlier research. Also, I neglected to read the bit under the spoiler in the city planning guide. So thanks for that too.

For #2, the re-employment was for the wood crates but doing a complete removal of all engineers off of it then back on it while the Workshop is being constructed.

This forces 10 engineers to build the Workshop while the remaining 5 (including the one that finished building the street) to get back on crates for extra wood.

To explain the complex stuff, the complete reset of engineer reassignment ensures that the Workshop is being built with the full 10 while avoiding any idle engineers who may travel back to the Generator.

The Perfect City Planning does explain how to avoid emergency shift deaths, it is all explained in there.

However, the New Home will need to follow instructions this guide. The Perfect City Planning is about design concept and other tricks you can perform to get more efficiency.

Oh, one other thing. I seem to be *always losing someone on an emergency shift on the very first day. I thought this guide was good for suffering no deaths. I did read another authors guide that said that emergency shifts do cause deaths.

Hi Laguna Queen. I'm new to the game. I read your Perfect City Planning guide and I'm trying to follow this but a lot doesn't make sense to me, maybe just newbie misunderstanding.

1. You say in your perfect city planning that two workshops are normally built on the 3rd ring to be later moved out beyond the 5th but we start here building them on 5th?

2. You say to employ 14 engineers on the crates south of the steel wreckage and then when the resources are available for the workshop (15 wood, 5 steel) to dismiss them and re-employ 10. First of all, re-employ 10 where? Constructing the workshop or re-employed back on the crates? Also, I checked the stockpile and I already have the 15 wood and 5 steel needed for the workshop, without any further resource gathering? This is even after the one engineer on the street has finished building that??? So should I just immediately assign 4 engineers to workshop construction and 10 to crates or.... ???? I'm a bit confused.

Please read more carefully. The street extends out to the 4th ring then goes up by 1 tile or 2.

Can't seem to work out the placement of the 1st workshop since it is not connected to the street and has no space for the gathering station

Did you read the https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793028492?

It goes into more details on Emergency Shift. If not, then I will look into it.