Romestead Guide

Ave, Builder

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.

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Best Class (Tier List)

All 8 starting classes ranked — Scholar and Mechanicus up top — with starting kits, skill bonuses, and which fits your playstyle.

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Build Order

Only 5 buildings are available on day one. The real pre-Owl / post-Owl build sequence with the 20-wheat Ceres gate.

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Gods & Offerings

All seven gods (Mars, Ceres, Diana, Mercury, Venus, Vulcan, Minerva), their offerings, and which to court first.

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Building Upgrades & Job Levels

The +3-per-upgrade rule that gates recipes and worker speed. Building Appeal, the Carpenter upgrade hub, and decoration math.

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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.

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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.

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Ceres Quest Chain

Honoring the Soil → Fruits of the Harvest → Honoring the Craft → Declaration of War. Every Ceres quest, what to offer, what unlocks.

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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?"

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Items & Materials

Every confirmed item in sortable tables: sell values, altar worship values, food effects, weapon and armor tiers, trinkets, and boss-drop materials.

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Boss Walkthroughs

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Tin, Bronze & Desert

Why your miner can't extract Tin (Mining Job Level + building tier), the desert route, and crafting Bronze gear.

Mining guide →
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Olive Oil & Dolium

Pottery quest, clay sources, the full chain: olives → paste → pots → Dolium → olive oil.

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Co-op Guide (1–8 Players)

Hosting, joining, general role principles, storage etiquette, and the same-god decision.

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Patch Notes Tracker

Every Beartwigs hotfix tracked with plain-English summaries. What broke, what's new, what's fixed.

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More Strategy Guides

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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.

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Money: Denarius & Quadrans

The two-currency system, the fastest coin (dungeon treasure), passive olive-oil income, and the merchant buy-for-XP trick.

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Food & Feeding Citizens

Why citizens starve next to full farms, how much food each needs, the bread chain, and every Bakery recipe.

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Biomes Guide

All four regions, what each adds, the progression order, surviving the Volcanic biome, and the Swamp & Ruined City roadmap.

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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.

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Raid Defense (the Fallen)

Why night raiders target your Blacksmith, why torches beat walls, Automatic Scorpio turrets, and a first-nights checklist.

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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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All Guides →

Every guide on the site in one index — classes, bosses, gods, economy, settlement, multiplayer, and reference.

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