Romestead Guide
The complete strategy hub for Romestead — the survival town-builder from Beartwigs and Three Friends. Boss walkthroughs, build orders, god offerings, automation chains, co-op roles and a live patch tracker. Built for the players who hit Steam reviews looking for answers.
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Beginner's Guide
First hour walkthrough: profession pick, surviving night one, the early-game traps every new player falls into.
Read guide → ⚔Best Class (Tier List)
All 8 starting classes ranked — Scholar and Mechanicus up top — with starting kits, skill bonuses, and which fits your playstyle.
Compare classes → 🏗Build Order
Only 5 buildings are available on day one. The real pre-Owl / post-Owl build sequence with the 20-wheat Ceres gate.
See order → ⚡Gods & Offerings
All seven gods (Mars, Ceres, Diana, Mercury, Venus, Vulcan, Minerva), their offerings, and which to court first.
Read pantheon → 🏭Building Upgrades & Job Levels
The +3-per-upgrade rule that gates recipes and worker speed. Building Appeal, the Carpenter upgrade hub, and decoration math.
Read guide → 📦Storage System
Why your logs won't go in chests. The two-tier storage system (carried items vs inventory), Material Storage, and the Lumber Yard 3-log cap.
Read guide → 🍲Watermill Guide
How to unlock the Watermill, why your wheat won't go inside (chest-outside staging), Manual Mill vs Watermill, and the L2 directional variants.
Read guide → 🌿Ceres Quest Chain
Honoring the Soil → Fruits of the Harvest → Honoring the Craft → Declaration of War. Every Ceres quest, what to offer, what unlocks.
Read guide → 📝Quest Index (every quest)
Every world quest mapped by god, with offerings and unlocks. Plus a reverse-lookup table — "I want to unlock X, which quest gets me there?"
Read guide → 💰Items & Materials
Every confirmed item in sortable tables: sell values, altar worship values, food effects, weapon and armor tiers, trinkets, and boss-drop materials.
Read reference →Boss Walkthroughs
Guardian of Minerva (The Giant Owl)
The day-one progression gate. Beating the Owl unlocks the Carpenter's Workshop, Blacksmith, Feathered armor, and more. Available immediately; not feasible without gearing up.
Boss guide → 🦷Cyclops
Where to find the Cyclops (hint: NOT "The Eye" dungeon — every other guide is wrong). Granite Tooth drop, Tectonic Armor, and the Virgil's Poem chain.
Boss guide → 🔥Pyzifax the Satyr
Volcanic biome boss. How the Declaration of War drops from a Satyr you kill, surviving the fireball phase, and what he still drops post-patch.
Boss guide → 🐦Great Phoenix of Arabia
The mobile Volcanic firebird (1200 HP). Why a bow beats scrolls (its resistances), how to summon it, and surviving the phase-2 fire storm.
Boss guide → 🤖Talos Prototype
The Temple of Vulcan endgame boss (1800 HP). The four-weakpoint puzzle, smashing laser statues with thrown stones, and the phase-2 confinement.
Boss guide → ⚙Automation: Wooden Carts & Logistics Tent
The two automation tiers explained. Wooden Carts come from the Carpenter; the Logistics Tent is now a Giant Owl reward (moved from Pyzifax in 0.25.1_7).
Read guide → ⚙Tin, Bronze & Desert
Why your miner can't extract Tin (Mining Job Level + building tier), the desert route, and crafting Bronze gear.
Mining guide → 🌿Olive Oil & Dolium
Pottery quest, clay sources, the full chain: olives → paste → pots → Dolium → olive oil.
Crafting chain → 👥Co-op Guide (1–8 Players)
Hosting, joining, general role principles, storage etiquette, and the same-god decision.
Multiplayer tips → 📝Patch Notes Tracker
Every Beartwigs hotfix tracked with plain-English summaries. What broke, what's new, what's fixed.
Latest patches →More Strategy Guides
Skill Tree & Favour Points
How to earn Favour Points, the 60+ talent tree, resetting with the Canteen of Youth, and why your character carries across every world.
Read guide → 💰Money: Denarius & Quadrans
The two-currency system, the fastest coin (dungeon treasure), passive olive-oil income, and the merchant buy-for-XP trick.
Read guide → 🍞Food & Feeding Citizens
Why citizens starve next to full farms, how much food each needs, the bread chain, and every Bakery recipe.
Read guide → 🌍Biomes Guide
All four regions, what each adds, the progression order, surviving the Volcanic biome, and the Swamp & Ruined City roadmap.
Read guide → ⚔Weapons & Armor Tier List
The full gear ladder (Wooden → Flamen Volcanalis), which weapon type to use, the boss-drop sets, and what to equip at each stage.
Read guide → 🛡Raid Defense (the Fallen)
Why night raiders target your Blacksmith, why torches beat walls, Automatic Scorpio turrets, and a first-nights checklist.
Read guide → 🌱Best Seeds
What makes a good world seed, reading a seed map, finding your seed with .worldseed, and why rerolling costs nothing.
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Every guide on the site in one index — classes, bosses, gods, economy, settlement, multiplayer, and reference.
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