Provinces (game feature)

Provinces are settlements built and run by players. A council claims land, puts up buildings and keeps the settlement supplied. Other players can take jobs, bring food and materials, use local services and apply for citizenship.

You do not need to own a province to take part. Visiting an existing settlement is a good way to learn before starting one yourself.

Visit and find work

Type valley to see claimed provinces. Use the world atlas to plan your route. In the game, province <name> shows a claimed province's public information.

At a settlement, look around and read the signs and service boards. What you can use depends on the buildings, their condition and your standing with that province.

• Jobs — mission search finds work across provinces. Visit a job board and read board before accepting.
• Food and materials — bring goods the settlement needs. Check its offer and storage space before depositing or selling.
• Crafting — use workshops, sawmills and smelteries as your skills and local access allow.
• Rest and blessings — inns offer food and rest; fuelled shrines offer services to players with enough standing.

Useful work builds local reputation. mission status shows your standing and when you can apply for citizenship.

Councils, citizens and settlers

These are different roles:

• Council members are the player owners. A council has up to five members. They manage building work and the treasury and vote on major council decisions. Each character can belong to one council.
• Citizens are players whose application the council has approved. They get access to benefits and services, but citizenship alone gives no council vote. You can be a citizen of more than one province.
• Settlers are the local population housed in the settlement. They need food and pay taxes. They are not players you invite to the council.

The founder invites another player with council invite <player>. That player joins with council accept. Read help council before changing membership or voting.

Claim your first province

Running a settlement takes regular work and supplies. Talk with the people who will help you before claiming one.

1. Create a council with council create <name>.
2. Find an ancient claim stone at an unclaimed province in the outworld.
3. Read help claim and make sure you have the claim price in your own purse.
4. Use claim at the stone and let the ceremony finish.
5. Use the new enter exit. You receive a Storehouse plan, and the province begins with a funded treasury.

The council can later claim more land. Every existing holding must first have an Advanced storehouse and another Advanced building. Further claims also need silver, materials and an elapsed cooldown; completing the buildings is only one requirement.

Build your first storehouse

1. Use province map to see the lots. Look at a lot to check its terrain and building options.
2. Wield a pick or axe and use prepare ground on a suitable lot.
3. With your Storehouse plan, use build storehouse to place it.
4. Check wanted and progress at the site for the current stage's needs.
5. Deliver materials, wield a hammer and use build to contribute work.
6. Return as stages become ready. The foreman signs off ready stages at Creation-day inspections; time calendar shows when those fall.

Inside the completed storehouse, the blueprint loft sells more plans. Use list plans and buy plan <number or name>. Plans are bought from your own purse. Read the building's requirements before buying.

Deliver materials

At a construction site:

• build deliver supplies the current stage from province stores.
• build deposit stone supplies stone blocks from available sources.
• build deposit iron and build deposit steel supply bars from your hands or vehicle.
• wanted and progress show what is still needed.

Only the current stage's shortfall is taken. Stone from quarrying, mining or clearing ground is left as blocks or piles; it does not appear in the storehouse by itself.

At the storehouse yard, deposit all block or wagon deposit stone puts stone into the shared stores, up to their free space. value <item> previews an offer where supported.

Private bins and shared stores are different. Logs, timber and planks normally go into your private bin when deposited. Basic resource chunks, firewood bundles and stone blocks go to shared stores. Use stores for the shared stockpile and bin in the vault for your personal materials. Bin access and size depend on local standing. Check help provinces before selling personal materials into the shared pool.

Choose useful buildings

Read each lot's description for terrain requirements. Build a supply chain your group can keep running.

Building	What it is for
Storehouse	Shared resources, private material bins and building plans.
Food Hall	Buying catches, cooking meals and managing the food supply.
Farm, Pasture and Fishery	Producing food. A Fishery needs water beside its lot.
Smokehouse	Preserving meat and fish and adding food-storage space.
Housing	Homes for settlers who eat food and pay taxes.
Inn	Meals, rest and a place for council members to deposit treasury silver.
Workshop	Equipment work and crafting services.
Sawmill	Processing lumber and helping with timber and plank work.
Mine and Smeltery	Extracting ore, then turning it into usable bars. Deeper mining brings more danger.
Shrine	Offerings and blessings tied to its chosen element.
Stables	Mount and hauling services. Plans need an Improved storehouse.

This is a starting list. The blueprint loft and help provinces describe the other buildings and their requirements.

Improve the settlement

The current building tiers are Restored, Improved and Advanced. Higher tiers add services or improve what a building produces.

Finish the Advanced storehouse before starting other Advanced buildings. With the right plan, use build upgrade to review the materials, commission and upkeep. build upgrade confirm starts the project and spends the listed plan, silver and components.

Construction takes repeated work and inspections, not just one command. Unfinished Advanced work can wait between visits without losing work or gaining stalled wages, but the existing building still needs upkeep. Cancelling it returns only the current stage's delivered materials; earlier work and starting costs stay spent. Read the cancellation preview before confirming.

Keep it running

Use these checks when you visit:

Command	What to check
province	Overall health, food and morale.
province dashboard	Problems needing attention and work in progress.
province buildings	Building tiers and condition.
stores	Shared materials and free storage.
province balance	Treasury income and costs.
province census	Housing and population.
province log	Recent settlement activity.

Keep food available for the settlers and silver in the treasury for wages. Council members can use province deposit <silver> at the inn; this is a permanent contribution. The amount is in silver.

Repair at the building's outdoor lot. repair shows the cost; repair confirm spends the materials. Your role or standing must allow the work. Neglected buildings lose output and may close until repaired. Neglect does not demolish them, but a large repair costs more than routine care.

The settlement tracks Economy, Population and Defense. Productive work, food and housing, maintained buildings and activity in the territory help these measures. The province view shows where your settlement needs attention.

Work more than one holding

province map <number or name> and province buildings <number or name> let a council inspect another of its holdings from elsewhere. The map lists your holdings and their numbers. province <name> is the separate public view.

Further help

Type help provinces, help claim, help council, help build, help wagon or help artisan progression in the game. Read Province missions for jobs, deposits and citizenship. The game rules apply here too.