Welcome to your ultimate guide for Romestead! This walkthrough covers every building you can construct, what they do, and which villagers you should assign to each one. Whether you’re just starting out or preparing for endgame bosses, this guide has you covered.
All Buildings and Villagers
Altar
- Size: 3×3
- Function: Used for making offerings.
Tannery
- Size: 8×8
- Function: Craft flint spears, leather armor, ranged and magic defense gear, crossbows, and boss armor.
- Recommended NPC: Use one with innate expertise skills. Avoid traits that reduce happiness or skills; prefer traits that lower loyalty gain or increase food consumption.
Empty House
- Size: 6×6
- Function: Can be used as your personal home. Place leather bedrolls to set respawn points, or store chests inside.
Logging Camp
- Size: 11×11
- Function: Automatically generates logs. The more trees nearby (including planted ones), the faster production. Does not consume nearby trees.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC with traits that increase food consumption and reduce experience and loyalty gain.
Residential House
- Size: 7×8
- Function: Temporary housing for newly hired or unemployed villagers.
Farm
- Size: 8×10
- Unlock: After unlocking Card God, accept the quest and offer 40 wheat.
- Function: Automatically tends and harvests crops within a 6-tile range to the left, right, or above.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC. Negative traits: increased food consumption, reduced loyalty, or reduced experience.
Material Storage
- Size: 9×6
- Unlock: Defeat the Owl Boss.
- Function: Stores six basic resources (logs, stone, clay, brick, marble, concrete, barrels) plus a 48-slot chest.
Blacksmith
- Size: 10×9
- Unlock: Defeat the Owl Boss.
- Function: Craft melee weapons, shields, melee armor, and boss weapons.
- Recommended NPC: Use one with high expertise. Avoid traits that reduce happiness or skills; prefer lower loyalty gain or increased food consumption.
Carpentry Workshop
- Size: 8×8
- Unlock: Defeat the Owl Moss.
- Function: Must be built near Material Storage. Craft road upgrades, strategy tables (for invasions), barrels, wooden carts, and help construct buildings (requires command).
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC.
Market
- Size: 8×6
- Unlock: After defeating the Owl, complete Mercury’s quest by offering 1 silver coin.
- Function: Buy cheese, fish, empty potion bottles, level 1-2 health potions, and early-game cloaks.
- Recommended NPC: Use one with high experience gain (experience increases by buying, not selling).
Quarry
- Size: 13×12
- Unlock: After defeating the Owl, unlock Vulcan and complete the quest by offering 6 pure copper ingots.
- Function: On plains, mine flint and stone. Level 2 NPCs can mine copper and coal. On desert, level 3 NPCs mine tin. On volcano, level 5 NPCs mine iron.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC (expertise level affects secondary output).
Bakery
- Size: 7×8
- Unlock: After defeating the Owl, accept Ceres’ quest and offer 5 olives, 5 pine nuts, 5 cabbages, 5 mint, and 5 bay leaves.
- Function: Craft advanced food, buff food, and automate bread production.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC.
Pottery Workshop
- Size: 7×6
- Unlock: After defeating the Owl, obtain from Mars’ quest by offering Crystallized Blood.
- Function: Primarily used to craft empty bottles.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC.
Watermill
- Size: 7×4 (plus 2×4 in water)
- Unlock: Complete Ceres’ Bakery quest.
- Function: Automates grinding, no more manual labor. Requires offering 2 Roman cheese wheels, 2 flat cakes, and 10 bread.
Logistics Tent
- Size: 5×6
- Unlock: Defeat boss Pitzfax (located in the desert).
- Function: Automation. No further explanation needed.
Clay Pit
- Size: 12×12
- Unlock: After defeating the Owl, accept Mars’ quest and use a Declaration of War once.
- Function: Clay production speed depends on natural clay deposits within 7 tiles. On volcano terrain, produces volcanic ash.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC (expertise level affects secondary output).
University
- Size: 9×12
- Unlock: After defeating the Cyclops, accept Mercury’s quest and offer 1 Traveler’s Coin and 1 Research Paper (found in volcano chests).
- Function: Unlock advanced technology and mid-tier magic weapons (current endgame). Produces research papers.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC.
Trading Post
- Size: 10×11
- Unlock: Research at the University.
- Function: Transfer basic resources between towns.
Sculpture Workshop
- Size: 8×7
- Unlock: Research at the University.
- Function: Craft furniture. Currently, marble is unobtainable, so it’s mostly decorative.
- Recommended NPC: Use a high-efficiency NPC.
Temple
- Size: 11×14
- Unlock: Defeat Talos Prototype.
- Function: Not yet functional. Currently useless.
Granary
- Size: 4×3
- Function: Stores food and supplies the town’s villagers. Place it in the center of town to avoid hunger issues.
Beer Keg
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: After defeating the Owl, accept Venus’ quest and offer Rebirth of Love.
- Function: Craft beer using wheat and empty bottles. Restores 20 food instantly.
Olive Oil Vat
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: Offer to Ceres at level 1.
- Function: Craft olive oil using olive paste (from grinding olives) and empty bottles.
Wine Vat
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: Complete the Beer Keg quest, then offer 10 grapes, 5 beer, 1 drum, and 1 lyre (grapes found in desert, dropped by satyrs; drum and lyre found at Pitzfax’s entrance or in desert/dungeon chests).
- Function: Craft wine using grape paste (from grinding grapes) and empty bottles. Can be gifted. Provides +2 happiness and +5% loyalty gain, but reduces efficiency by 1. Also dropped by desert satyrs.
Mead Keg
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: Research at the University.
- Function: Craft mead using honey and empty bottles. Restores 40 food instantly.
Fish Sauce Vat
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: After defeating the Cyclops, accept Ceres’ quest and offer 5 scorpion skewers and 5 mortuum sauce with bread.
- Function: Craft fish sauce using fish and empty bottles.
Brick Kiln
- Size: 4×4
- Unlock: After defeating the Cyclops.
- Function: Requires fuel and clay barrels to operate.
Concrete Mixer
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: Research at the University.
- Function: Converts 1 volcanic ash barrel, 1 clay barrel, and 1 water barrel into 2 concrete barrels. Interact with E in front of it (not by dropping items).
Auto Scorpion Ballista
- Size: (Not specified)
- Unlock: After unlocking Vulcan, accept the quest and offer 5 coal, 10 sticks, and 10 planks.
- Function: Provides 5 defense points. Requires manual loading of arrows.
Level 2-3 Auto Scorpion Ballista
- Unlock: Higher Vulcan offering levels.
- Function: Higher levels increase attack power. Level 2 provides 7 defense points; Level 3 provides 9 defense points.
Walls
| Type | Defense Points | HP | Unlock Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Wall | 2 | 200 | Default |
| Stone Wall | 4 | 400 | Vulcan offering level 1 |
| Concrete Wall | 6 | 600 | University research |
Note: Walls do not refund materials when dismantled.
Large Tree Decoration
- Size: 2×2
- Unlock: Venus offering.
- Function: Level 1 provides 4 building appeal; Level 2 provides 8 building appeal.
Fountain
- Size: 3×3
- Unlock: Venus offering.
- Function: Level 1 provides 6 building appeal; Level 2 provides 12 building appeal.
Final Thoughts
And there you have it — a complete breakdown of every building in Romestead, from the humble Altar to the mighty Concrete Wall. Whether you’re automating food production with the Bakery or gearing up for boss fights at the Tannery, knowing which NPC to assign can make all the difference. Got a favorite building or a tip we missed? Drop a comment below and let’s keep the community thriving. Happy building, and may your villagers never go hungry!
More Guides:
- Romestead: Sacrifice Unlocks Technology and Item Blueprints
- Romestead: NPC Attributes and Mechanics Guide
- Romestead – How to Unlock the Temple of Vulcan and Survive the Fire Zone
