Guide to Communications

Towers

Type of Tower	Image	Description
Utility pole		Will only work with 2 tiles inbetween each pole. Cannot be diagonal. Be extremely careful building as it cannnot be deconstructed and only destroyed with a catapult or canon/explosives. Building a good telegraph line: Click to expand! First setup the telegraph in the desired location. Typically the corner of a building. Build the utiliy pole adjacent to the telegraph on the otherside of the wall. Use spare materials to map out your utility pole line. Create the telegraph at the other end. Build your new building around it. Construct the telegraph lines and make sure to place a telegraph printer next to each of the telegraphs. (Make sure to load paper into it.)
Cell Tower		Must be within 30 tiles of another tower to work. Requires power.

Utility pole

Will only work with 2 tiles inbetween each pole. Cannot be diagonal. Be extremely careful building as it cannnot be deconstructed and only destroyed with a catapult or canon/explosives. Building a good telegraph line:

Click to expand!

First setup the telegraph in the desired location. Typically the corner of a building.
Build the utiliy pole adjacent to the telegraph on the otherside of the wall.
Use spare materials to map out your utility pole line.
Create the telegraph at the other end.
Build your new building around it.
Construct the telegraph lines and make sure to place a telegraph printer next to each of the telegraphs. (Make sure to load paper into it.)

Cell Tower

Must be within 30 tiles of another tower to work. Requires power.

Devices

Screaming: the best form of getting help, but its better if your a woman.
Bone horn: blow it to signal a charge or an enemy invasion.
Campfire: use cloth/leather sheets on a campfire to cause a smoke signal with a range of 40 tiles to attract help or friends.
Lanterns: lit lanterns can be used for limited communication for certain situations. (Use a telescope to see them from a far)
Messengers: these are men who dedicate their lives to delivering letters to people who need them in time usually on horseback.
Telegraph: to use a telegraph it must be within 2 tiles of a communications pole, you need a telegraph and a telegraph printer with paper in it to actually send messages. Doesn’t need power
Cameras: a simple form of relaying information through photographs, either for keeping memories of the past or for spying on enemy nations and war journalism.
Stationary phone: must be within 2 tiles from a utility pole in order to work. (Not working currently)
Stationary Radio: requires power and a microphone in order to respond to calls, it has a set frequency which you can change at any time.
Mobile Radio backpack: requires no power and takes up the backpack slot.
Mobile phone: must be within 50 tiles of a mobile tower to work. Shift click the phone in hand in order to see watch your phone number currently is. Does not require power only a signal.
Walkie Talkie: small version of a radio and can be place in a pocket or coinpouch slot.