Running the Tavern

Summary

With enough Brass, you can run the Tavern in Homesteads by interacting with the ledger.

The Ledger only appears once you have met the Grandmasters in The Circle tomb.

The tavern provides a place to relax and catch up with the locals along with making some brass and rep if you keep it stocked up with drinks and cooked food.

General Tips

• Interact with the sign outside to open and close your store. The store will automatically close if you leave the region and have no workers currently working.

• The important thing about running the tavern is keeping up with customer orders. Drinks are stocked in the barrels on the left and food is stocked in storage on the right.

• Two workers are necessary, one for the drinks and one for cooking the food.

• If you run the tavern yourself you will have to balance grabbing drinks from the left and cooking food to the left. Stacking up multiples of the same drink helps keep it under control. More customers will appear towards the evening hours.

• After customers finish eating food a dirty plate will be left behind. Clean that up to keep the customers from complaining!

• Perks can help improve the rep and gold you earn per hour. Entertainers are an way to provide extra interest for customers (additional entertainers are unlocked via perks).

Ledger

The ledger on your counter has tabs with various helpful pages for running your business

Accounts

Check your profit and loss on a weekly/yearly level, and look at your previous transaction and Rep gains

Staff

• You can hire workers from here. You can change their pay and see their energy levels.
• To regain energy, give them breaks or gift them food. A tired worker has their Stats affected.
• You can also see a worker's happiness level. Pay and energy can affect this, as well as Friendship level.
• An unhappy worker is more discourteous to customers, affecting service reputation and will not gain exp.
• This page also allows you to fire an employee.

Worker Stats

Each worker has 10 Stats, and 4 of these come into play when working in the tavern.

• Barter
• Charm
• Speed
• Stamina

The worker Stats are affected by age but additionally, gain experience to level up the Stats used in their current job.

Certain recipes and items may also increase (or decrease) the worker's Stats.

Rota

The employees' hours may be set here, and who works on which day

Reputation

• You will gain reputation when a customer is pleased with your service and price.
• This fills in for the current region you are in and will give you a perk point when full.
• Any further reputation will keep adding up and will spill into the next region. This means that customers will start to appear from that region as they have heard about your shop.
• Once that region's Rep has been filled, you again get a perk point, and the Rep spills into the next region.
• Any perk points gained can be spent on perks within the Ledger. Every perk comes with a small description and many have multiple stages to upgrade.
• Your earned shop REP adds to your Grandmaster total, building up your Renown levels.

Entertainment

Entertainers provide amusement for customers and some extra rep for any food/drink served. The Entertainment Bonus perk also gains you brass from any orders served while entertainers are active.

Stock & Ordering

Food storage on the right allows you to store food for the tavern. You or workers can then use the food prep station to make the food ready to serve.

After opening the Food Storage you'll be able to see the items you currently have in storage as well as the items in your inventory.

If you run out of cooked food, order from the list and it'll show up on the delivery day. Customers won't order food if there isn't any available.

Drinks can be refilled at any time to a maximum level of 250 uses. A greater range of drinks are unlocked via perks which offer extra rep + gold at a higher cost to fill.