In Colonization, much of your population is made of Free Colonists.. . However, when placed in a settlement, these colonists, as well as indentured servants, converted natives, and others, can take on any role available.. . That is, colonists can take up one of the various professions in a settlement, from harvesting raw resources in nearby tiles to working in one of the many buildings that convert raw materials to finished goods.. . Thus, there is a lot of flexibility in assigning roles to your colonists: one minute they can be focusing on mining silver from nearby mountains, and another minute they can distill sugar into rum.
