A five-day village week

How the week works

precedence

Urgent safety or medical care and essential dependent care → Accepted excursion with commitments handled, or known travel absence → Assigned seasonal Hearthday gathering, for consenting participants only → Weekly shared event → Hearthday personal routine → Baseline workday routine

travel

Place IDs are destination anchors, not routes. Allow travel time after the map exists. No simultaneous visit across distant places; exact arrival times are not yet fixed.

weekly Visits

A phase entry reserves a broad visit window, not an uninterrupted four-hour gathering. Return checks explicitly stated in the event remain required.

hearthday

All shops, markets, routine paid services, paid transport, order collections and public office hours close for the whole day. No buying from NPCs off duty or substitute festival stalls. Existing lodgers keep access; urgent medical aid, necessary watch duties and animal, crop, hive and fermentation checks continue. Private cooking and voluntary shared meals are not commercial services.

childcare

Days 1–4: Elian accompanies Wren before school, teaches mornings, Edda explicitly agrees to lunch-reading supervision 12:00–14:00 while Elian is at the hall, then Elian resumes care. Day 5: Elian remains with Wren all day. No automatic Lucien babysitting or unsupervised evening wandering.

leadership

Khaeli’s late-pregnancy routine prioritises seated work, short accessible visits, rest and optional attendance. Tiredness or weather moves habitat discussion to the hall; no medical crisis implied. Hearthday has no scheduled leadership appointments.

travel Absence

Evren and Seraphine are away through Day 3 daytime after departure. Their own stock is unavailable in person; Orin keeps ordinary supplies available. Delayed return remains an absence, not teleportation.

weather

Unsafe river, forest or ridge conditions move work to gear care/records at home or the usual sheltered workplace. Hive openings depend on weather. Public cancellation notices name the fallback destination.

charcoal

Torren only travels away after a burn is safely finished, secured or explicitly handed over; no unattended burn implied. A live burn overrides social visits.

companions

Only the current 2 tanks / 2 healers / 4 damage roster is eligible. Recruitment is player-triggered and overrides a routine only after work commitments are handled. Practice is not deployment. No new ability kits or companions added.

services

Rootday through Bloomday have predictable morning availability, with posted weekly exceptions. On Bloomday, shopkeepers and notices remind players to stock up for Hearthday. All normal commerce resumes on Rootday; do not shift missed purchases into a hidden Hearthday counter.

inn

Agnes hosts and Hesta controls food. Days 1–3 serve supper until 20:00. Bloomday has no cooked supper while Hesta visits friends; Agnes handles rooms and cold drinks. Hearthday has no public food, drink or room sales. Existing guests use prepaid lodging and provisions arranged on Bloomday; neither resident has an unpaid service shift.

events

Recurring small gatherings are proposals rather than festivals. Participation never creates a romantic relationship or changes a household.

seasonal Hearthdays

The proposed year has 120 days, 24 weeks and four 30-day seasons. Each week-of-year has one assigned Hearthday character: 20 small or quiet weeks and four larger festivals. Optional participation changes only the listed residents and phases. Birthdays and essential care take priority; no occasion opens shops.

voluntary

Gatherings are opt-in; declining leaves the personal Hearthday routine in place. Essential care, rest and urgent needs take priority. No sales, compulsory errands, mandatory gifts or automatic relationship changes.

annual Birthdays

See annual-calendar.v1.json for 40 proposed birthdays and date-specific home visits. A short greeting is enough. No age progression or real-person birthday is inferred. Wren’s birthday includes Elian’s supervision.

Before implementing routes

Confirm travel distances, service signs and exact handovers once the map exists. Keep a public “where today” notice for weekly counter changes. Quest scenes and accepted excursions may override routines, but must restore the person afterward. Shared housing stays as currently recorded; gatherings create no new romances or households.