The most common sizes of building in the game (with examples):

• 3x3
  
  • House
  • Furnace
• 4x4
  
  • Cookhouse
• 6x6
  
  • Storehouse
  • Lumbermill
• 7*5
  
  • Smith
  • Herb Garden
• 4*5
  
  • Workshop
• 7*7
  
  • Farm
  • Quarry

This makes it a bit strange to find a one-size fits all grid pattern. From testing, 12x13 (surrounded by roads) seems good enough, with some double or quadruple-size blocks to cover a housing block and the largest buildings.

I've calculated the space efficiency of the layouts by counting the number of non-road tiles within the grid square, and dividing it by the total number of available squares (excluding the outer edge of road tiles). The idea being that more non-road buildings within a square is more efficient, and that should help people identify more space-efficient layouts if they want.

This layout is for a housing block that fits within 4 grid squares and provides almost 100% coverage for all services, up to Tier 2 (delete corner houses to get 100% coverage, if that bothers you!)

Add outer ring of houses once the pub is upgraded to the tier 2 version. I haven't gotten far enough into the game to see if there are larger versions of the service buildings.



83% Efficient

These are a collection of single-grid cell blocks. Swap around as necessary and add things like waterpumps, gathering stations etc.

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92% Efficient

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100% Efficient

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92% Efficient

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92% Efficient

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94% Efficient

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This block is two tall, as the 7x7 of a farm or a quarry is difficult to fit in. Quarry can be paired with either a smith or a kiln, while the farm can be paired with a herb garden or a brewery. Bottom can be any 6x6 building like lumbermill or storage


94% Efficient