Villages
Settlements can help quick increase on your population in cost of unity ( 0.25 per person ) and quick trade. different village trade different items, and different contract.
it's called settlement instead of village.
Quick trade
quick trade could trade a lot of useful item instantly, like wood to iron scrap, or diesel to coal, etc. if you trade too much, there is a %25 price increase per 2 trade, and will drop to it's original price after some time ( depends how much did you bought ). it cannot be dropped below its original price.
settlement 1:
you will find this settlement at start
adopt pop limit: 10
adopt pop increases slowly, and will stop when reaching adopt pop limit
adopt pop limit could be increased by increase reputation
reputation could be increased by give them gifts
20 wood -> 20 concrete slab
20 wood -> 24 iron scrap
10 c.part 1 -> 10 potato
20 c.part 1 -> 20 pure copper
20 c.part 1 -> 20 rubber
20 diesel -> 40 coal, need 2 reputation
settlement 2:
you will find this settlement 2 or 3 nodes away ( world map )
5 quick trades:
10 c.part 2 -> 40 diesel
10 rubber -> 20 wood
10 c.part 2 -> 60 coal ( very bad trade, prefer not to trade since the first settlement offer 10 gas = 20 coal )
10 c.part 3 -> 20 glass ( only way to get glass before research center 3 )
20 c.part 2 -> 30 chicken ( first way and probably the only way to get chicken )
Contract
See Trade.