The Church

The church is the ruined temple of an ancient god that stands at your graveyard. Once it is working, you hold a sermon there every week, and sermons are the only source of Faith. Its door is in the graveyard, and it is locked at the start.

Church quality

Church quality is the total quality of everything inside, and it sets how many parishioners a sermon can seat. The church starts full of junk that counts against it:

Inside at the start Quality How to clear it
Donation box +1 Stays. Sermon money is collected here.
4 blockages −2 each A small repair at each one: 1 Bronze Detail and 1 Board, Building mastery 2
13 broken pots −2 each One hit each; every pot gives a red tech point

That is about −33 at the start. With everything cleared the church is at +1, and three Interior Bench I (+3 each) bring it to 10.

The build desk

Furniture Quality Materials Technology
Interior Bench I 3 2 Wooden Planks, 6 Bronze Nails Church Cleaning
Confession Booth I 4 6 Wooden Planks, 8 Bronze Nails Church Furniture I
Church Shrine I 2 4 Wooden Planks, 6 Bronze Nails, 3 Pieces of stone Church Furniture I

The desk also offers Improve the Church I for 8 Boards and 6 Pieces of stone. It rebuilds part of the ruin and gives more room to place furniture, but adds no quality by itself. The better furniture, candles and incense on the desk belong to technologies that are not in the demo.

There at the start

Notes

  • Quality only sets the seats. Parishioners are the lower of your happiness and the church quality, and in the demo happiness cannot go above 10. A church above 10 seats nobody extra in the demo.
  • The Faith from a sermon lands on the floor in front of the lectern and has to be picked up. The money goes into the donation box.