Field guide

Hearth and Hamlet Guides

Practical Hearth and Hamlet guides for beginners, first-hour progression, worker allocation, Food and Gold, and raid defense.

Practical help without invented numbers

These guides focus on decisions a player can act on: what to watch in the opening minutes, when to move workers, how to protect Food while pursuing Gold, and how to prepare before raids become a crisis.

The current strategies apply to Demo v1.0.46 and avoid exact ratios that may change at launch. They focus on resource direction, worker opportunity cost, capacity, and readiness—decisions that remain useful even when individual numbers move.

Start with your current problem

  • New to the game? Read the Beginner Guide.
  • Unsure what comes first? Use the First-Hour Progression Guide.
  • Production has stalled? Open the Worker Allocation Guide.
  • Food disappears whenever you expand? Read Food and Gold.
  • Raids are interrupting growth? Prepare with Raids and Defense.

The goal is not to play the kingdom for you. It is to make the consequences of each choice visible before a shortage compounds into a stalled settlement.

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