Laborer

General Information

Laborers are NPCs that can be hired from a House or Guild Hall to perform various tasks. Each labor hired from a guild hall costs 1000 Silver. Hiring laborers this way will always yield a tier 2 laborer. For higher tier laborers you must send them on jobs to increase their fame, or purchase them from the market.

Once hired, the laborer will occupy space in the house and require furniture and trophies to keep him or her happy. After a 30min "settling in" wait after placing the laborer, they will be able to take jobs. Players can purchase journals from a laborer regardless of how recently they were placed.

You can move Laborers around in your house or Guild Hall with a small temporary reduction in happiness. You may also pick up your Laborer and turn them into a Laborer contract and carry them into a different building or you may sell on the Market

Laborer returns must be picked up within 7 days or they will be automatically removed and cannot be recovered

Journals

Laborers cannot take a journal higher than the tier of the Laborer
Players can purchase a journal from their laborer for varying amounts of silver depending on the journal tier at any time.
Empty journals are available directly from the Laborer or the Market Place. Full journals may also be purchased from the Market Place.
Laborers will only accept full journals to start jobs
When you perform the task of your laborer type carrying a journal in your inventory, it will fill up. Once full you can then hand the journal back to the laborer and he or she will complete the same task over a period of 22 hours. You can hire more than one laborer per house, but you will need additional beds, furniture, and trophies to ensure that they are all happy.
The Tier of journal will influence the resources or trophies returned

For more information on journals see: Journal

Happiness and Yield

Happiness effects the return rates or job yields of laborers. The higher the happiness the higher the yield will be. To fill happiness laborers require one bed each, at least one table in their house, and optionally several trophies of their type or general type to increase happiness further. For example, three T5 laborers in a T5 house will all have their base happiness maxed if there are 3 T5 beds, and 1 T5 table. From there, additional trophies are required to keep them happy. Once their needs are fulfilled, over time the laborer will generate happiness. If their needs are not fulfilled, they will slowly lose happiness over time.

Yield has a max capacity of 150% which depends on the tier of the journal used as well as happiness of laborer
Laborers Base happiness is 100 times their tier (see table below)
The minimum happiness is required to even take jobs from journals to get enough yield to go on the job
The minimum quota of happiness is fulfilled by having beds and tables of the same tier or higher than the Laborer
- Example: Tier 2 laborer will be at minimum quota with 1 bed and 1 table each of T2 or higher (higher tiers don't benefit more)
The laborer meets its cap by having beds and tables of the same tier or higher. Lower Tier will only partially fill their happiness.
Laborers with higher happiness grant additional yield. This is accomplished through trophies.
- Each general trophy grants 5 happiness to each laborer
- Trophies of the same type AND tier do not stack, but additional tiers do.
- If a trophy is the same type as the laborer, they will be given 10 happiness per trophy.
- Anything above that value give an additional 0.5% to the yield, up to a 50% bonus
- Examples:
  - 740 happiness would give a Tier 7 laborer a 120% yield
  - 840 happiness would give a Tier 8 laborer a 120% yield

Base Yield of Base Happiness by Tier
Laborer Tier	Base Happiness	T2 Yield	T3 Yield	T4 Yield	T5 Yield	T6 Yield	T7 Yield	T8 Yield
2	200	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
3	300	150%	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
4	400	150%	150%	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
5	500	150%	150%	150%	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A
6	600	150%	150%	150%	150%	100%	N/A	N/A
7	700	150%	150%	150%	150%	150%	100%	N/A
8	800	150%	150%	150%	150%	150%	150%	100%

Formula for Yield

[math]\displaystyle{ Yield=Min (150, ( Happiness / 2) ) }[/math]

Optimal Happiness

The following is an example of the optimal happiness for each tier of laborer, given they are in the same tier house. Additional upgrades to the house or Guild Hall is required to further their happiness through additional furniture slots.

T2 Laborer in T2 house:
- 1 Bed T2 or higher
- 1 Table T2 or higher
- 3 T2 trophies with one being their corresponding job type
  - For example for a prospector would get the best happiness from, a Copper Ore Sample, and a Adventurer's Handbook. Resulting in 15 additional happiness. To further happiness you must increase the tier of house to add more tiered trophies.

Types

In addition to the listed job Yields, all laborers can also yield trophies for the specific role as well as general trophies granted they are given the corresponding trophy journal when sent on a job.

Type	laborer	Corresponding Journal Tasks	Job Yields
Gathering	Lumberjack	gathering Wood from trees	wood logs
	Stonecutter	gathering Stone from rocks	stones
	Prospector	gathering Ore from mines	ores
	Cropper	gathering Fiber from plants	fiber
	Gamekeeper	skinning hide from animals	hide
	Fisherman	catching Fish from water	fish
Crafting	Blacksmith	crafting at a Warrior's Forge	Metal Bars, Planks, Cloth
	Fletcher	crafting at a Hunter's Lodge	Leather, Metal Bars, Planks
	Imbuer	crafting at a Mage's Tower	cloth, Planks, Metal Bars
	Tinker	crafting at a Toolmaker	Planks
Battle	Mercenary	slay monsters that drop Silver	Silver

Profiting from laborers

Laborers are great passive source of income. There are a few ways you can profit from them but you must check current market prices before doing so. These methods are:

Buying and reselling journals
Filling and selling journals
Sending them on jobs to sell their corresponding job yield (Ore, Wood, Silver, etc.)
Sending them on jobs to collect their job yield to use for other profitable activities such as crafting or refining.
Sending them on jobs to upgrade their tier over time, and eventually picking them up to sell their laborer contract on the market.

Upgrading Laborers

Laborers will acquire fame after each job completed. The fame returned depends the journal type and tier, as well as the yield of their job at the time of being sent out. The yield is in turn affected by happiness of the laborer.

Fame awarded per journal based on 100% yield
Tier	Normal Gathering/Crafting Journals	Trophy General Journals	Trophy Gathering/Crafting Journals	Normal Mercenary Journals	Trophy Mercenary Journals
2	76	76	180	282	847
3	120	120	360	434	1303
4	240	240	720	653	1969
5	480	480	1440	874	2621
6	960	960	2880	1171	3514
7	1920	1920	5760	1594	4781
8	3840	3840	11520	2160	6480

*Higher happiness will result and higher yield and therefore higher fame return. Same is true vice versa. For example gathering journal T2 will yield 125 fame at 260 happiness