Running the Tavern
Summary
With enough Brass, the Tavern store can be purchased by interacting with the ledger sitting on the shop counter in Homesteads.
Once purchased the previous owner will leave, gifting you any items that were in stock at the time. These items will remain on the shelves for you to sell.
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 employed.
Tavern
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 take on the role yourself you will have to balance grabbing drinks from the left with a small minigame to serve, and a small minigame cooking food and serving to customers with the icon.
Entertainers can help improve the rep and gold you earn per hour at a cost. Additional entertainers can be unlocked via perks.
| Name | Haven | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Pastry Faced | Summerdown | Poppyhill |
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 stamina.
To regain stamina, 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 stamina 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.
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.
Stats
Each NPC has 10 Stats, and 4 of these come into play when working in the goods store.
- Barter: Their bartering skill level
- Charm: Offsets and negative Rep from slow service or overpricing
- Speed: Affects the speed of service. Customers have limited patience so the quicker you serve, the better
- Stamina: How long they can work before tiredness affects their other Stats.
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.
Pricing
Customers have a threshold on what they will pay for items. Too expensive, and they may buy it but be unhappy, affecting REP.
Customers love things way cheaper than the base price though. It is worth watching their comments for guidance.
As your rep grows, so does the threshold before they become unhappy.
Stock & Storage
The cupboard in the top left becomes your stock cupboard when you own a store. Here you can store items for workers to us
After opening the stock cupboard you'll be able to see the items you currently have in storage as well as the items in your inventory.
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Along the top of the stock cupboard are the various categories you can tab through. Each category holds a different type of item, helping to keep your storage organised.
To change tabs:
- Mouse: Click on the tab
- Keyboard: Use the tab keys
- Gamepad: Left and right bumper
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Your storage space is limited for each of the categories. Once it's full you can't add any more items to that section of the stock cupboard.
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If you're short on stock you can order more.
Pick what items you wish to order from the list and wait until the delivery day. The items will be dropped off into storage unless you have staff working that day, then they may distribute them for sale.
The more expensive the box you order, the higher the quality of the items inside.