Hideout

Hideout gives each player a sheltered opening, then makes the outside economy matter. The central forested zone and start-to-centre connections make an enclosure-like start visible in the terrain, but the source does not create a player wall; Gold, Food, settlements, and relics are all requested beyond the shelter.

Sheltered starts and outer economy · Pandora’s Box 2 Final Release · Standard-size 1v1 example Click to enlarge

Each player starts with 5–6 deer, 5–7 chickens, 5–6 berries, and two to three goats or pigs. A close deer or deer-and-boar package sits at 60–80 m; a boar-or-aurochs group follows at 75–100 m, another branch at 80–120 m, and 6–7 deer at 90 m or farther. Far berries, close and outer herdables, wolves, and bears are also requested outside the protected start.

The central zone is filled with forest while paths connect player areas outward. Seven 55–70-tile forests are then requested in each team area, kept away from start and centre buffers. This supports a strong Wood rating without pretending that terrain-area requests convert to a fixed Wood total.

Hideout requests 54,000 Gold in a complete standard 1v1 layout: one 3,000-Gold medium mine per player and four 6,000-Gold outer mines per player. The large mines begin at 65 m, avoid water, settlement space, tower vision, corners, and the central forest’s 20 m buffer.

The first settlement is requested backward at 75–85 m, with the second aggressive at 90–135 m. Both avoid forest space. Two relics per player begin at least 80 m out and also avoid the central forest, reinforcing the move from safety toward contested exterior ground.