The Almanac

What every Warden should know. The numbers below are the customary defaults — a Fold's host may have tuned them.

Grain & Coin

The world settles continuously. Whenever your Steading is touched — by you or by the game — the elapsed time's production and consumption land at once, prorated to the hour. You never "miss" an upkeep tick; the world simply catches up with you.

Income, per day

  • Fields: 4 Grain per worked Acre.
  • Workings: 3 Coin per worked Acre.
  • Tax: 0.1 Coin per housed Folk.

Mouths, per day

MouthGrainCoin
Folk1
Levy20.5
Rider31
Enginery (crew)12
Ironclad33

Soldiers eat double because soldiers always have.

Folk growth

Fed Folk with free housing grow +2% per day; fed Folk without free housing grow +0.5%. Starving Folk do not grow.

When it runs out

  • Empty granary: each unfed day, 5% of your Folk die and 10% of your forces desert, biggest eaters first. Starvation is public — the whole Fold learns your granary is empty, and your neighbors will do the arithmetic.
  • Empty treasury: unpaid forces desert at 10% per day until the payroll balances. Quietly, at least — bankruptcy shows only to you, until someone's Whisper finds it.

There is no debt. The ledger simply takes what the treasury can't cover.