To operate the tavern in Crossroads Inn, the player has access to several different types of workers, also referred to as employees or staff. Each worker has a number of potential duties that they can be assigned to.
Workers are divided into two classes of workers, Standard Workers and Special Workers. Standard workers can be hired by the employee management menu. Special workers can only be hired when they are visiting the player's tavern, and the requirements to unlock them and hire them have been fulfilled.
Hiring workers
Worker Overview
Workers perform a range of general functions in a tavern by default.
To hire workers press the Workers Window button on the right panel on the screen and then go to Hire. A list of available workers will appear. You can choose which type of workers you are interested in. Each of them comes with their own traits and a salary they expect.
Standard Class Workers
- Innkeeper*: Combines the skills of other basic employees.
- Labourers: Carry and deliver goods, refill items (torches, candles, firewood), clean floors, clean tables, make beds, plant and harvest farms, repair damaged items, wash dishes
- Caretakers: Serve food and drinks, prepare (simple) food dishes, pour drinks, clear dirty dishes, clean tables, wash dishes (?), make beds, collect gossip
- Kitchen Staff: Prepare food dishes, pour drinks, operate artisan (food and drink production) equipment, wash dishes, collect new recipes from the map interface, collect gossip
- Scoundrels: Operate gambling tables, steal money from patrons, entertain guests (?), watch for trouble
- Watchmen: Watch out for and reduce likelihood for trouble (e.g. fires, robberies, fights), evict troublemakers, break up fights, carry and deliver goods, collect gossip
*Note: an "innkeeper" is a non-hireable employee that is assigned to the player at the start of the game (Martyn in Campaign, random worker in Sandbox).
Special Class Workers
- Bard:
- Adventurer:
- Vedeta:
Worker Duties
Standard Class Workers
- Laborers:
- Carrying
- Carpentry
- Farming
- Cleaning
- Kitchen work
- Manual work
- Caretakers:
- Cleaning
- Waiting tables
- Room services
- Gossip
- Innkeeping
- Kitchen Staff:
- Cooking
- Artisan
- Kitchenwork
- Innkeeping
- Watchmen:
- Watch
- Patrol
- Carrying
- Gossip
- Scoudrels:
- Gambling
- Gossip
- Entertaining
- Stealing
- Watch
Special Class Workers
- Bard:
- Adventurer:
- Vedeta:
Worker Levels
Worker levels (also referred to as stages of development) represent the ability
| Worker | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labourers | Drudge | Workman | Foreman |
| Caretakers | Servant | Maide | Housekeeper |
| Kitchen Staff | Kitchenhand | Cook | Chef |
| Scoundrels | Tinhorn | Crook | Swindler |
| Watchmen | Thug | Bouncer | Veteran |
Worker Management
Worker Window
Apart from allowing you to hire new workers, the Worker Window shows you the list of workers already employed. You can see there their salary, level, mood, and current action they are performing, as well as their traits. The magnifying glass will open a more detailed window, while the eye icon will show you the current location of the given worker.
The window with more details lets you upgrade the worker, fire them, and set what they should focus on. Your workers Fatigue tells you how soon they'll have to take a break. If the level of Loyalty (based on their mood, the way they're treated, and their successes) drops to zero, they will quit their job. Workers can reach in total 30 levels of experience. Every 10 they will need to be trained to become an upgraded version of their profession.
You can also click on a worker with the left mouse button. There you get the option to praise or scold the worker, give bonus, start or stop a break, as well as open the window with more details.
The icon above the worker's head tells you what action they are currently performing; blue background indicates a break, brown - working.
Illnesses
There are three Illnesses that may happen to your worker:
- hangover
- food poisoning
- cold
If your worker is not feeling well, you'll notice green particles around them, and a new information will appear when you open their details window.
There are three ways of curing the worker. They can be sent to a Physician who can be found on a map; they can be sent to bed until they get better; or, alternatively, they will themselves take medicine if its available.
The medicine for a hangover is Lager, for food poisoning it's Medicine, and for cold - Herbs.
Worker Shifts
Worker shift example showing duties settings for one shift. NB each shift during the work day needs to be selected and set up by the player.
Employee or worker shifts can be unlocked using fame points in Tavern Upgrades in Sandbox mode.
Shifts are individually assigned to each worker by selecting the worker and viewing Details (magnifying glass icon), then selecting Duties (checklist icon), then checking the small grey Shift box. This divides the day into three shifts and resents priorities to default settings. Players must then select (✔) the preferred Duty priorities for each shift (sun up, lights on, night/lights off). This may be tailored for each shift during the work day.
Example Shift
The player may assign one shift at high Break priority to manage worker fatigue and happiness and micromanage when staff take breaks to boost staff during busy times. An example shift for a Kitchen Staff member during their allocated break is shown below.
| Duties | Off | Low | Med | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Break | ✔ | |||
| Cooking | ✔ | |||
| Artisan | ✔ | |||
| Kitchen work | ✔ | |||
| Innkeeping | ✔ |
Shift Limitations and Bugs:
Some irregularities surrounding worker shifts are known. These include:
- As of Patch 2.0.6, Tinhorn workers will not take breaks from the gambling table, and must be manually told to break, even when not assigned to gambling duties
- As of Patch 2.0.8, Kitchen Staff with Artisan duties turned off will still do Artisan tasks
- Currently there is no way to save or copy shifts
- Shifts are also reset to default if the Shift option is de-selected, and shift settings are not remembered
Worker Traits
All workers or employees are assigned four traits, which may be hidden or revealed to the player.
Traits can be positive or negative. In general, traits can effect work speed, how often the worker goes on breaks, their salary, and their actions and attitude with respect to events and player decisions. Initially the quality of workers available (their levels and their traits) will be poorer, until the player unlocks various upgrades by reaching higher fame. This means that workers early in the game tend to have more negative traits (smoker, drunk, slow, etc.). Over time (after gaining fame and unlocking employee quality upgrades), the quality of workers with improve, although existing potential employees in the "hire" pool will not cycle immediately.
| Positive | Negative | General effect |
|---|---|---|
| Speedy | Slow | Work speed, time taken to rest |
| Smoker | Stops to smoke regularly | |
| Drunk | ||
| Cheerful | Gloomy | Constant bonus or malus to mood |
| Workaholic | Slacker | More or less likely to take breaks |
| Smart | Dull | Faster or slower rate of experience / level gain |
| Persuasive | Increase earnings (Guest will play longer on gambling table) | |
| Chaotic | Work quality varies | |
| Gossiper | Collects more gossip (stopping work temporarily) | |
| Tough | Sickly | More or less likely to fall sick (reduces job speed and quality) |
| Loyal | More loyalty | |
| Brave | Cowardly | More or less likely to (put out fires? Break up a fight?) |
| Sly | ||
| Perfectionist | Perfectionist | Work speed lowered, work quality raised |
| Greedy | Worker costs more money to hire (for worker level + traits) |