Settlement

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A settlement is an area of land owned by a player or group of players. There are two kinds of settlements, villages and homesteads. A settlement is marked by a settlement token in the exact center of the settlement.

Advantages, summary

  • Spirit guards protecting the settlement
  • Reduced decay on structures
  • Village chat (not for homesteads, unless you're schizophrenic)
  • Respawn at your settlement when you die
  • Control of who is allowed which actions within the settlement area
  • Setting reputations to keep out unwanted people
  • A settlement token to have your bank account at
  • Instant logout when leaving the game inside the settlement (some exception apply)
  • Champions suiciding on a deed get a 50% chance of not counting as a real death

Founding

To found a settlement you must first obtain a deed. Unlike writs, which are created by building a house, deeds must be purchased from a NPC trader. Village deeds at size 10 or more include a free trader. The price of a village deed is (size/10)^2 silver. A size 5 homestead deed costs 5 silver, other sizes currently cost the same as a village.

New settlements have some restrictions on placement. Villages must be placed at least 100 tiles away from the nearest settlement. Homesteads must be placed at least 20 tiles away from settlements with the other villages permission enabled, and 100 tiles away if it is disabled. Settlements can only be founded within your kingdom. On the wild server, this might require building guard towers.

The settlement is centered on the settlement token, and covers its size in tiles in every direction. A size 10 settlement thus covers a 21x21 square (10 + 1 + 10). This area includes the tile borders "outside" the outermost tiles.

Citizens

A homestead can only have one citizen. A village can have many, the exact number depending on the size. Making someone a citizen of a village requires the citizens permission. If the village is a dictatorship, the mayor can also remove citizens. Citizens of a democracy cannot be removed, they must leave on their own volition.

All settlement have a mayor. The initial mayor is the founder of the settlement. Villages can elect a new mayor by a successful vote. It requires 51% of the votes if the village is a democracy, 81% if it is a dictatorship.

Each citizen is assigned a role determining which actions are allowed inside the settlement. Customizing, adding and removing roles requires the manage roles permission.

Guards and upkeep

Settlements are automatically protected by spirit guards. Guards can be light, medium or heavy. Changing the guard level requires the hire guards permission. If the guard level is decreased, it cannot be increased again until a week has passed.

Guards will attack aggressive monsters that enter the settlement area, as well as any character with -30 or lower reputation. Negative reputation is automatically when stealing and otherwise breaking the settlement rules. Citizens with the manage roles permission can also set reputations manually.

Guards demand payment. This payment is calculated as a percentage of the deed price. One month with light guards costs 10% of the deed price. Medium guards cost 31%, and heavy guards 56%. Two months with medium guards on a size 10 village thus costs 2 * (1g * 31%) = 62 silver. Note that the payment happens continuously in small increments, not one big payment once a month.

Every settlement has an upkeep fund, which guards take their payment from. Anyone can donate money to the fund, even non-citizens. If the upkeep fund is depleted the settlement is disbanded automatically. A large upkeep fund reduces decay on buildings and fences in the settlement. If the fund has more than a month of upkeep there is no decay at all.

Permissions

Each role can have a different set of permissions enabled. There are no known permissions that control butchering and burying.

Build 
Plan, color and continue buildings and fences
Also allows lockpicking
Forestry 
Chopping down trees, picking sprouts, planting sprouts
Destroy buildings 
Destroying buildings, building plans, fences and fence plans
Also allows lockpicking
Farm 
Sowing, farming and harvesting fields
Also allows milking and leading animals
Hire guards 
Changing guard level
Citizens 
Making non-citizens into citizens
Manage roles 
Change role permissions and role assignments, change reputations
Also allows disbanding the settlement
Mine 
Mining
Terraform 
Dig, pack, pave and flatten
Expand 
Expand the settlement with a larger deed
Pass fences 
Passing through all fences, even locked ones
Lock fences 
Locking fences
Attack citizen 
Attacking citizens
Attack non-citizen 
Attacking non-citizens
Diplomat 
Form alliances, declare war, make peace
DELETE 
This permission will delete the role if set

There are two additional permissions, which are not linked to roles

Other villages 
This allows new homesteads to be placed within 20 tiles of this settlement, rather than the normal 100. Once a homestead has been placed, disabling this permission will not affect it.
Items and creatures 
This allows _anyone_ to pick up items and tame animals within the settlement (but not inside buildings).

Details

Guard columns are upkeep per month.

Size Price Deed area Citizens1 Light guards Medium guards Heavy guards
5 5s (HS)
25s (V)
11x11 10 50c (HS)
2s 50c (V)
1s 55c (HS)
7s 75c (V)
2s 80c (HS)
14s (V)
10 1g 21x21 40 10s 31s 56s
15 2g 25s 31x31 90 22s 50c 69s 75c 1g 26s
20 4g 41x41 160 40s 1g 24s 2g 24s
30 9g 61x61 360 90s 2g 79s 5g 4s
40 16g 81x81 640
50 25g 101x101 1,000
70 49g 141x141 1,960
100 100g 201x201 4,000
200 400g 401x401 16,000

1 Homesteads can only have one citizen, regardless of size.