Town
The Town is rebuilt one plot at a time. Around its streets stand signboards: some mark a ruined house you can repair, others an empty plot where a shop can go up. Walk up to a signboard and press the interact key to see what can be built there. Building is instant: it takes no time and no energy, and the materials can come from your backpack or from shared chests in the same area.
The town opens once you cross the bridge to the port, and its signboards appear as the story moves on from there.
Shops and houses
- Shops bring a trader to town. Each shop has three tiers: you build tier I on a free plot, then talk to the trader and choose Upgrade for tiers II and III. Every tier adds village reputation, more goods or larger stock, a larger weekly happiness allowance and new town orders. Shops come in two sizes: some need a house plot, others a yard plot.
- Houses are repairs. A repaired house gives Green Scrolls, from 1 for the small house to 25 for a block. The town’s houses give 180 in all.
In the game’s own words, “Town orders are the main source of” happiness. Orders are taken at the chalk board in the Town Warehouse on Pride day, and each shop offers two orders per tier, filled with supply boxes packed in the Factory.
Green Scrolls are what raise town quality: hand them to Linda (“New people”) and each scroll adds 1. Town quality is the ceiling on how much happiness you can hold, so the houses are the main way to let your sermons grow. Linda only takes them on Lust day: on other days the “New people” option shows a day icon and cannot be picked. The one exception is the first time, when handing in her quest takes you straight to her offer on any day.
Shops on house plots
8 shops share 7 house plots.
Shops on yard plots
5 shops share 4 yard plots.
| Name | Tier I materials | Goods for sale I / II / III | Orders | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Brewery |  Building Kit I ×6  Wooden Kit I ×4  Iron Kit I ×2 | 8 / 11 / 15 |  Supply: Kitchen Utensils  Supply: Cutlery II  Supply: Appliances II |
 | Builder | Building Kit I ×4 Wooden Kit I ×3 Iron Kit I ×1 | 10 / 18 / 21 |  Supply: Iron Tools  Supply: Steel Tools  Supply: Engineering Mechanism |
 | Pottery Workshop |  Board ×12  Bronze Nails ×8 | no trader | |
 | Smithy | Building Kit I ×4 Wooden Kit I ×3 Iron Kit I ×1 | 10 / 18 / 25 |  Supply: Building materials I  Supply: Building materials II Supply: Engineering Mechanism |
 | Tavern | Building Kit I ×6 Wooden Kit I ×4 Iron Kit I ×2 | 9 / 11 / 13 |  Supply: Preserves I  Supply: Beer  Supply: Wine |
Houses
| Name | Plots | Green Scrolls each | Scrolls in all | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Repair Small House | 1 | 1 | 1 |
 | Repair House | 3 | 3 | 9 |
 | Repair Large House | 7 | 10 | 70 |
 | Repair Block | 4 | 25 | 100 |
Other
Notes
- There are fewer plots than shops. The town has 7 house plots for 8 house-plot shops, and 4 yard plots for 5 yard-plot shops (counting the Pottery Workshop). Each shop can only be built once, and nothing in the game removes a shop, so one of each kind is left out. This comes from the game files and has not been checked in play.
- Repairing a house does not raise town quality or reputation by itself. It only gives Green Scrolls.
- Each shop waits on a technology. Market Stalls I is handed to you by the story once you meet Linda at the port and brings the Apothecary, Vegetable Stand and Tailor; Market Stalls II and III and Artisans I and II are bought and bring the rest. The Pottery Workshop has no technology at all.
- Building never fails for lack of skill. There is no mastery check and no energy cost; the only requirement is the materials.