Village

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Villages are the primary form of settlement in Caves of Qud.

Static Villages

The following villages are static and will appear in every playthrough:

• Joppa or the ruins of Joppa.
• Kyakukya
• Ezra
• Bey Lah
• Yd Freehold

Procedurally Generated Villages

In addition to static villages, each playthrough will contain the following procedurally generated villages:

• One village in the selected starting biome, if the player chose a non-Joppa random start.
  • The salt marsh village teaches Harvestry, gives +50 reputation with insects and fish, and starts with a pair of croccasins
  • The salt dunes village teaches Fasting Way, gives +100 reputation with reptiles, and starts with an Issachari banner
  • The desert canyons village teaches Wayfaring and gives +50 reputation with equines, tortoises, and vines
  • The hills village teaches Butchering, gives +100 reputation with hermits, and starts with a blood-stained neck-ring
• The following additional villages scattered throughout the world map.
  • 2-32-3 (Avg: 2.5) villages in the desert canyons, slightly more 2 than 3
  • 2-32-3 (Avg: 2.5) villages in the salt dunes, slightly more 3 than 2
  • 0-10-1 (Avg: 0.5) villages in the salt marsh, slightly more 1 than 0
  • 2-32-3 (Avg: 2.5) villages in the hills, slightly more 3 than 2
  • 1-21-2 (Avg: 1.5) villages on the Rivers, slightly more 2 than 1
  • 0-20-2 (Avg: 1) villages in the banana grove, 0 is the most common, and more 1 than 2.
  • 1 village in the Rainbow Wood
  • 1 village on Lake Hinnom
  • 1 village on the Palladium Reef
  • 2-32-3 (Avg: 2.5) villages in the mountains, slightly more 2 than 3
  • 1 village in the flower fields
  • 5-85-8 (Avg: 6.5) villages in the jungle, 6 and 7 evenly common, and more common than 8, which is more common than 5
    • (note that these are not goatfolk villages - those are generated separately)
  • 2-32-3 (Avg: 2.5) villages in the deep jungle, slightly more 3 than 2
  • 1 village in the ruins
  • 1 village in the baroque ruins
  • 1 village on the Moon Stair

Procedurally Generated Village Qualities

Procedurally generated villages will have random names. They'll also have a number of creatures, typically including a village mayor, village tinker, village apothecary, village warden, and a village merchant. One random creature in the village will always be a quest-giver that provides a procedurally generated village quest. If the village is the player's starting village, there will also be a second quest-giver that provides a procedurally generated quest that will start the game's main questline. There will be two generated events which form the 'history' of the village.

Types Of Procedural Village

• The most common type will have be the type described above, with a village mayor
• Parlimentary villages, which instead of having one mayor will have around 3 parliamentarians (which are functionally the same as mayors) as well as a village history about the establishment of their parliament.

Abandoned Villages

The two random events each village generates for their history each have a 1 in 20 chance of causing the village to be abandoned.. Abandoned village factions are hidden and will not appear on the factions screen or in other in-game contexts.

Typically, an abandoned village will have no creatures present, but there are often other remnants and clues about the village's history. For example, the village clay oven might still be usable, and there could be buildings or other structures present. In some cases, there will be explicit clues as to what happened that caused the village to become abandoned.

Example abandoned village monument

Village Discovery

When the player enters a village for the first time (other than their starting village), they'll gain Experience equal to 250 * ZoneTier, where ZoneTier is equal to the regional zone tier of the village's location.

Other Types of Settlements

Some settlements are similar to villages in that they include many creatures, merchants, or other village-like features, but they technically are not quite the same as a village.

• Six Day Stilt
• Grit Gate
• the hydropon

Notes

• To reveal all villages in your world, you can use the villagereveal wish.

Tips

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

• An easy way to locate a specific village is to use a Schrodinger page from the Annals of Qud on the village's faction, which will mark it on the map. With Precognition, this can even be done without expending the item.

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.209.40.