Planning tool

Stronghold 4 Popularity Calculator

A planning calculator for Stronghold-style popularity modifiers, built to help players reason about taxes, food pressure, and settlement stability.

How To Use This

Start with a base popularity value, then apply one possible modifier such as taxes, rations, fear factor, or food shortage. The result is clamped between 0 and 100. Treat it as an estimate for planning and comparison, not as official Stronghold 4 gameplay data.

Read the Popularity Guide for the broader settlement-stability framework.

Estimated popularity 85

What The Calculator Covers

  • Tax pressure and its effect on settlement stability.
  • Food ration and food variety style modifiers.
  • Morale, fear factor, comfort, or public order style modifiers.
  • Weather-driven food shortages and their possible knock-on effects.