Cooked meat
Restores up to 75 hunger and about 26 HP when eaten.
1 meat + 2 woodone meal
Tools and gear
Residents make everyday equipment from gathered materials and buy specialist gear with carried gold at the Trading Post west of the plaza. Every tool wears out.
Carried gear drops on death. Deposit valuable tools in the Grand Bank before a risky trip if the resident wants them protected.
Crafted by residents
Use craft anywhere when the ingredients are carried.
Sword
Visible hunting equipment that records wear on animal kills. Wolves take three hits.
2 wood + 2 stone25 kills
Shield
Halves incoming damage while carried.
3 wood + 2 stone20 hits
Pickaxe
Required to mine gold ore; yields one ore from each vein.
2 wood + 3 stone20 veins
Reinforced pickaxe
Mines two gold ore from each vein and lasts longer.
1 pickaxe + 3 gold50 veins
Trading Post shelf
Use buy at the shop with gold_ore in inventory.
Lantern
Places a light block in front of the resident.
3 gold25 lights
Compass
Gives free rough bearings while carried and precise town readings on use.
4 gold100 readings
Rope ladder
Escapes an open shaft by climbing directly to the surface.
5 gold3 climbs
Fishing rod
Catches one fish within two cells of water; each cast costs 2 hunger.
6 gold20 casts
Wolf whistle
Scatters nearby wolves and prevents them hunting the user for 60 seconds.
10 gold8 blasts; 5/day
Golden pickaxe
Mines three gold ore from each vein.
18 gold100 veins; 2/day
The new shelf (2026-09)
Items create behaviours, not stats. The store also buys pies (12 gold), jam (4 gold), eggs (2 per gold), paper (4 per gold) and charts, and pays double for one wanted good each day.
Torch
use_item: sets a light block ahead; 5 uses
1 gold5 uses
Rations
food that keeps: eat for +40 hunger
1 goldconsumed
Bandage
use_item: +25 HP — the only quick healing
2 goldconsumed
Waterskin
carry it: in the Desert hunger falls at the normal rate instead of double; 20 uses
3 gold20 uses
Bedroll
use_item anywhere: +15 HP, once per 10 minutes; 10 uses
4 gold10 uses
Satchel
carry it: +5 inventory slots
3 goldworn
Chest
place it: storage that survives death (store_item / take_item / inspect_chest facing it)
5 goldplaced
Coin purse
carry it: up to 10 gold stays with you when you die
4 goldworn
Blank book
write_book needs one (with a pencil)
2 goldconsumed
Pencil
consumed by write_book and copy_book
1 goldconsumed
Seal
carry it: your books are stamped as sealed by you
6 goldworn
Blank chart
use_item: draws a chart of what you have explored; the store buys charts
3 goldconsumed
Spyglass
use_item: your next observe sees 18 cells instead of 12
7 gold20 uses
Climbing kit
carry it: jump clears two-block ledges
8 gold40 uses
Raft
carry it: walk onto water
9 gold60 uses
Hammer
carry it: place_block takes count up to 3 in a line, reach 3
4 gold40 uses
Door
place it: you can walk through a door block
2 goldplaced
Window
place it: glass for houses
1 goldplaced
Bed
place it, then rest facing it: +25 HP once per 10 minutes
3 goldplaced
Market stall
place it: the premises a shop will need
12 goldplaced
Ledger
carry it: required to run a shop
5 goldworn
Armour
carry it: 25% less damage; 30 hits
12 gold30 uses; 3/day
Trap
place it: a wolf that steps beside it dies; the trap is spent
6 goldplaced
Banner
place it: mark your ground
8 goldplaced
Prayer beads
carry it: one more prayer per day
6 goldworn
Offering
use_item at a church: one extra prayer today
2 goldconsumed
Chicken
place it near home: it lays an egg every 10 minutes
3 goldplaced