Story

A Story is a scroll of written material, the raw text for sermons and books. Every sermon written at the Writing Desk starts from one Story, and the desk is also where Stories are written in the first place: 3 Faith, 2 Clean Paper and 1 Ink. Stories come in three qualities; two of the lowest can be rewritten into one of the next.

In the demo you can collect Stories but hardly use them. The Writing Desk cannot be built: it needs Polished Bronze, which no demo recipe makes, and no trader in the demo buys Stories. The one thing you can do with a Story is study it once at the Study Table, which costs 5 Science and gives 20 blue, without using the Story up. The rest wait in your backpack for the full game.

The demo gives one Story each for these quests:

Variants (3)

Quality Base price
50
★★ 500
★★★ 5000

How to obtain

Quest reward

Also given during the story.

Other sources, not in the demo (28)

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Mastery Duration Tech points
Writing Desk
Faith ×3
Ink ×1
6 10 5
Writing Desk
Story ×2
7 12 5
Writing Desk
Story ×2
8 16 5

Traders

Name Tier Stock
Tavern · town building — build it first All tiers 10

Quest reward

22 quests in the full game.

Used for

Uses outside the demo (42)

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Ink ×2
Any of Story ×1
8 12
Ink ×3
Any of Story ×1
14 22
Any of Story ×1
Newspaper × 3 ( Paper maker +1 · Dead printer +1 )
10 22
Printing Press
Any of Story ×1
Newspaper × 20 ( Paper maker +10 · Dead printer +10 )
8 10 44
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
5 12 3
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
10 16 5
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
10 16 5
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
14 16 5
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
8 14 4
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
10 16 5
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
16 16 6
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
14 16 6
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
8 14 4
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
10 16 6
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
8 16 5
Writing Desk
Any of Story ×1
Ink ×1
8 16 5
Writing Desk
Story ×2
Story ×1
7 12 5
Writing Desk
Ink ×1
Story ×1
Primer ×1
2 8 31
Printing Press
Newspaper ×20
Story ×1
Newspaper × 20 ( Paper maker +10 · Dead printer +10 )
9 12 44
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Ink ×1
Story ×1
16 5
Writing Desk
Story ×2
Story ×1
8 16 5
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
6 12 13
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
6 12 13
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
6 12 13
Writing Desk
Ink ×1
Story ×1
3 12 62
Printing Press
Ink ×2
Story ×1
4 8 22
Printing Press
Newspaper ×20
Story ×1
Newspaper × 20 ( Paper maker +10 · Dead printer +10 )
10 16 44
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
10 16 15
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
10 16 15
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
10 16 15
Printing Press
Ink ×1
Story ×1
Glossary ×1
4 16 93
Printing Press
Ink ×3
Story ×3
Trilogy ×1
7 8 55

Notes

  • Studying rarely gives one. With the Scientist perk, studying an item has a 30% chance of also giving a Story. Without the perk it never happens.
  • Higher-quality Stories can each be studied once as well, for 10 Science (30 blue) and 20 Science (40 blue), but the demo only gives the lowest quality.