I know how you feel!  Sometimes I open my game and close it right away, unable to summon up any motivation.  Maybe you could just make the ugly houses just to have something as a placeholder and you could then work on all the events and NPCs and stuff, and fix up the houses later?  At that point you will be more motivated because everything else is in place and the houses are already half done?

Or else, make the map as best you can and post in on the forum for feedback?

Or have everyone live underground? 

I start and stop too! But I am really lazy anyway.

My advice on houses is that you probably aren't gonna get them working perfect, because the perspective the tile sets are built to use is pretty weird anyway. Why not look at the built in example maps though if you need to figure out how they are supposed to look?

Thank you both of you, I had honestly forgotten about the engines auto-build option, hadn't used it in a long time. I think I'll use one of those as a base and then play around with it, then once I'm mostly happy with it, I'll post it to the forums and see if I can get any other pointers from people and then edit as I move along from there.

Thanks again guys, lovely idea~

~Kitten ^u~

You are welcome! Good luck! *sprinkles fairy dust on you*

A trick you can do is build all buildings individually in a separate empty map, then paste them into your village map until you get a look you like. When it comes to creativity, remember that breaking things up into steps rather than doing everything at once is always a good idea.

Also, try building a village using the 3D roof sets on tile Outside_C. I find they are far easier to work with than the basic flat tiles, and I think they look much better.