| Enter the Race | Apply for office | Prove yourself worthy of being heard and start climbing the political ladder. In the left sidebar, click Politics to view the office hierarchy. Choose a position for which you meet the requirements, then apply for office. | Onboarding | |
| Hands to Work | Assign a worker to a task | You use your workers to provide services and craft goods in exchange for a salary at the end of each turn. Keep them busy - idle workers still expect to be paid. At your business, left-click a worker portrait. Once attached to the cursor, left-click the task you want to assign them to. Workers perform assigned tasks during their working hours, but you can assign a task before they arrive so they begin as soon as their shift starts. | Onboarding | |
| Homework | Get an Artisan's Toolbox for your house | Inside your house, build the Artisan’s Toolbox improvement. | Onboarding | |
| Business Investment | Build an improvement in your smithy | When you build improvements, you pay a small upfront cost in exchange for benefits over time. Sometimes, you will have to choose between two or more types of improvement. Inside your smithy, select an Improvement of your choice and build it. | Onboarding | |
| Stock Up | Buy something, preferably crafting materials | Nothing comes from nothing, so make sure your workers have what they need. Prices rise and fall with supply and demand, so keep an eye on the marketplace and have a cart ready whenever a good deal appears. To buy crafting materials, send your cart to the Marketplace, place the purchased items in its slots, then send the cart back to your smithy. Make sure to keep your carts in good repair so they don't break down. | Onboarding | Marketplace |
| Pay Day | Change your worker's salary | Open your business and select the Business tab. Use the Salary and Treatment sliders to decide how much your workers earn and how well they are treated. | Onboarding | |
| Fair Treatment | Define the treatment you want to give your workers | Open your business and select the Business tab. Use the Salary and Treatment sliders to decide how much your workers earn and how well they are treated. | Onboarding | |
| Work, Work, Work | Craft an item | Once you have assigned a worker to a crafting task, make sure you have the materials they need in the storeroom. Workers only perform assigned tasks during their working hours, so don't expect anything to be produced before their shift starts. | Onboarding | |
| Climb The Social Ladder | Claim your next title | Humans have invented many ways to order society and rank one another’s worth. In this society, titles come before names and define your rights. As soon as you have acquired enough wealth to be considered a burgher, make it official by claiming the title at the town hall. In the left sidebar, click Town Hall, or open Personal Actions, and select Claim Next Title. | Onboarding | Town Hall, Burgher |
| On Watch | Visit the Prison and serve as a guard | You have done your part: paid your taxes and followed the rules. Sadly, criminals rarely do the same. If you want safer streets, volunteer as a guard for a short time. You'll earn some money while reminding wrongdoers that someone is watching. On the map, find a Prison. Use Filters to highlight City Infrastructure, then select a Prison and choose Sign Up for Guard Service. | Onboarding | |
| Snitches Get Riches | Visit the Town Hall and report rumors | You can obtain evidence by spying on others, though you will need to get a spyglass at your house to do so. Alternatively, you can report rumors to informants, from whom you can earn some money while also having the chance to uncover evidence of crimes! In the left sidebar, click Town Hall and select Report Rumors. | Onboarding | Town Hall |
| Sweet Words | Sweet-talk the person you are courting | After choosing someone to court, right-click their portrait and select Sweet-talk Love Interest. This may impress them and help you win their hand sooner. | Onboarding | |
| More Hands | Hire a worker | More hands get more done. At your business, open the Activities tab. Under Workers, click the + icon in an available slot to hire an additional worker. You can also build the Workforce improvement to unlock one more worker slot. | Onboarding | |
| Self-Improvement | Go to your house and improve handicraft | Different skills for different jobs. As a smith, handicraft affects productivity at your smithy, so best to improve it. At your house, after acquiring the Artisan’s Toolbox, select the action Improve Skills, then choose Handicraft. | Onboarding | Handicraft |
| Promotion Training | Mentor a worker | Apprentices gain experience over time. Once they have gained enough, you can promote them to journeymen, making them more productive and less prone to accidents. This takes time, but you can hasten their progress by mentoring them yourself. At your business, right-click a worker’s portrait and select Mentor. | Onboarding | |
| Law and Order | Press Charges | Once you have obtained evidence, use it to gain advantage over your opponents. Open Crime and Evidence in the left sidebar, select Press Charges, and wait for the accused to go to trial. | Onboarding | |
| Grant Promotion | Promote a worker | After a worker has gained enough experience, right-click their portrait at your business and select Promote Worker. | Onboarding | |
| Patch Things Up | Repair your building | Your building's integrity affects its value, and if neglected, the damage will affect almost every aspect of it. Your workers will become less productive and more prone to accidents, so don't let your building fall into disrepair. At one of your buildings, click Repair near the integrity bar. | Onboarding | |
| Let Them Come to You | Place item in storefront and wait for purchase | At your business, left-click an item in the storeroom, then left-click an empty storefront slot to place it there. Your smithy's appeal periodically draws in customers to buy items from your storefront, so just make sure they have something to buy. | Onboarding | |
| Profit! | Sell at the marketplace | Once the loaded cart arrives at the marketplace, left-click an item in the cart, then left-click the highlighted area to sell it immediately. | Onboarding | Marketplace |
| Off to Market | Send your cart to the marketplace | Use carts to purchase materials and deliver finished products to various locations. If you are ready to sell your crafted goods, load the cart at your business by left-clicking an item, then left-clicking a cart slot; select the marketplace from the map or from the list of buildings, and send the cart off. If you prefer to craft and stock your goods while waiting to make a good deal from market fluctuations, you can send an empty cart to the marketplace to buy materials so your workers can keep crafting. | Onboarding | Marketplace |
| Make Your Move | Start courting a love interest | No one lives forever, and more important than being remembered well is ensuring that your legacy endures for generations. To have legitimate children who will carry on your name, you must marry - and before you can marry, you must court. Next to your portrait in the bottom-left corner, click your dynasty banner to open your family tree. From there, click Begin Courtship, choose someone to court, and begin the path toward marriage. | Onboarding | |
| Step Inside | Enter your smithy | In the left sidebar, click My Business to center the camera on your smithy. Then click the door handle to step inside, or zoom in for a better look and double-click the building to enter. | Onboarding | |
| Home Sweet Home | Enter your house | From learning new skills, to interacting with your family, to plotting and scheming, there's no place better for it than the intimacy of your home. In the left sidebar, click My Property to center camera on your house. Then click the door handle or double-click on the house to step inside. | Onboarding | |
| Practice Makes Perfect | Train your worker | At your business, right-click a worker’s portrait and select Train Skill. Smithy workers with greater Handicraft skill will be more productive. | Onboarding | Handicraft |
| First Things First | Unpause the game | In the speed controls at the top of the screen, use a button or a key such as Space bar to resume the game at a speed that feels comfortable for you. Always keep an eye on the timeline and Upcoming Events to stay informed about your workers' working hours and never miss an election. | Onboarding | |
