Settling

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Settling icon.png Settling
"Allows you to Homestead land and construct a small but functional dwelling"
Requirements:
Skill(s) required:
Proficiencies required:
320 Flora & Fauna icon.png Flora & Fauna
700 Law & Lore icon.png Law & Lore
600 Sparks & Embers icon.png Sparks & Embers
300 Stocks & Cultivars icon.png Stocks & Cultivars
200 Natural Philosophy icon.png Natural Philosophy
Skills Unlocked:
Crafts Unlocked:
Builds Unlocked:
Others Unlocked:

In-Game Text

"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."

– David Ricardo, An Essay on Profits (and the Rent of Land)

After having gotten initial bearings and orientations in the New World the newly arrived Pilgrim will eventually want to locate a small corner of it to call his own. Settling allows you to Homestead land and construct a small but functional dwelling.

Stake Claim

A Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim, also known as a Personal Claim or "P-Claim", is the preferred Claim Type of pilgrims in the New World. It can be marked as your Homestead and allows Fast Traveling from anywhere on your Claim, including from inside Buildings, as well as preventing Decay from occurring on anywhere on your Claim. Pilgrims entering your Claim without your Permission will leave Trespassing Scent icon.png Scents, taking items will leave Evidence Theft.png Evidence of Larceny, and attempting to Destroy icon.png Destroy you Structures will leave Evidence Vandalism.png Evidence of Waste. All acts of Crime committed on a P-Claim will give the Crime! icon.png Crime! debuff to the Criminal, and additionally will trigger nearby Aggressive Defense Structures. A Settling cannot be Salvage icon.png Salvaged.

Homestead

WARNING! Having your Homestead Destroyed while you are off-line will cause you to lose all your Inventory and equipped items!

Your Homestead is your personal link in the New World, which must be tied to either a Lean-to icon.png Lean-to or a Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim. Being at your Homestead will allow you to Fast Travel ... to Providence icon.png ... to Providence. While you can only have one Homestead at a time, you can change it as frequently as you like. It is vital that you protect your Homestead as it is the place where your equipped items and Inventory is stored when you are off-line, as well as having no Homestead will not allow you to log-off and Summoned Criminal's will be instantly killed. With the Larceny Skill learned, right-clicking someone's Homestead while they are Offline will give you the option to "L3wt". Selecting L3wt will show you the you their equipment and Inventory. Looking is NOT a Crime however taking any of those items IS a Crime! icon.png Crime! and will leave Evidence Theft.png Evidence of Larceny.

Claims

Claim Type Commonly Called Skill Required Homestead? Added Benefits
Lean-to icon.png Lean-to "Leanto" Survival Skills icon.png Survival Skills Yes
Stake Claim icon.png Stake Claim "P-Claim" Settling icon.png Settling Yes
Town Bell icon.png Town Bell "T-claim" Compacts & Constitutions icon.png Compacts & Constitutions NO