# Banished settings guides

> Graphics, controls, and performance settings: what to change, and what it costs. Player-made Banished guides on QnA.GG.

The page: https://qna.gg/games/banished/settings. Every guide as JSON: https://qna.gg/api/guides?q=settings&game=Banished.

## Guides, most read first

- [Banished: Survival and City-Building Guide](https://qna.gg/g/banished-survival-and-city-building-guide-280e8936.md), by Qloud: How to keep a town of exiles alive through the first brutal winters of Banished and grow it into a thriving settlement: starting choices, a proven opening, food and firewood math, population control, trade, disasters,…