Bellwright – Useful Tips and Tricks (Villages, Crafting and Foods)

Here is a bunch of useful tips from devs that may help you to start the game easy.

Tips and Tricks

A couple useful tips that might come in handy:

Make sure to check different villages when hiring. Staying in the first few would limit both your renown gain and options for recruiting.

The game has a soft gate for how many villagers you can have at different stages of progression, so while you can always grind to get more renown and get any number of them, it will get progressively harder without advancing the rest of the game.

There are alternative ways to gain renown like gaining trust levels in villages or building animal trophies, so you can try to do quests in farther settlements to bypass that limit even early on.

You can actually craft Straps with a Toolmaker after building a Village Hall, so it’s an early game grind until you reach that point in progression. You can opt to only spend Straps on the most critical research you need until reaching it.

To plant Wheat, you need a Thresher. It’s unlockable right after a Farm. All you need is a little bit of Wheat from the fields to start your own production.

My personal advice with food is to diversify the production. This way, you get benefits in different areas depending on your needs and have a backup when needed.

Having foraging as a backup is always good, but early on before you unlock a Hunter’s Camp, Trapper is really good as well and isn’t locked during winter.

Small tip on eating: Eat the longest duration item first, then in descending order. You get the buff from all 3 items in the “eaten” queue, but if you eat the meat first, you get all 3 buffs for the longest time.

Quick Way to Boost Dexterity and Bow Skill

Leveling up your bow and dexterity can be a real grind, especially in early versions of the game. But I found a neat trick to speed it up right from the start. All you need is a bow and some arrows, plus an animal corpse.

Here’s the trick: Take down an animal any way you like, then just start shooting arrows at its body at close range. Each shot gives you a +15 boost to dexterity and +30 to your archery skill.

Just remember, don’t loot the animal! One carcass can take 120 arrows before it vanishes. If you loot it, it disappears right away. So, save your looting for later and rack up those skills. Happy gaming!

Important NPC’s

I made a list of NPCs from the towns in case people are looking:

• Haerndean: Blacksmith, Weaver, Farmer
• Bradford: Healer, Weaver, Woodsman
• Padstow: Woodsman, Carpenter
• Farnworth: Innkeeper, Weaver , Laborer, Healer,
• Blackridge: Farmer, Carpenter
• Horndean: Engineer, Blacksmith, Woodsman
• Crasmere: Innkeeper, Laborer, Engineer

More Tips

• Hire settlers who are experts in a certain field initially (avoid hiring generalists). You can remove them later on if necessary.
• Control your chests so that they only hold particular supplies, food, and tools. Put chests close to the production area, label what goes inside, and set the priority to 1 so that it always goes there first. That is, you want items like linen and hides next to the weaver so that your settlers can work more quickly.
• Quit using your cigar. Turn off the smoker if you’re having trouble getting all of your meat or mushrooms to cook. Additionally, construct multiple cooking pots.
• As soon as you reach the stage where you may accumulate supplies, do so and then proceed with number 2.
• Provide your settlers with better tools and rearrange their workload such that your finest worker or craftsperson focuses on their areas of expertise and is forced to read books for the rest.
• Finish reading the books before starting a fight since you will lose experience points if you pass away while still reading.
• Avoid trying to construct too much too quickly or you’ll overrun your territory, wipe out entire woods, and get stuck.
• In the logging camp, or anywhere else for that matter, never gather wood. Make timber out of logs by utilizing a lumberjack location. This is because they cut down saplings and young trees, which inhibits the growth of trees in your region. It’s still better because you get five wood out of every log. Construct many logging camps and rotate them to promote improved regrowth (at the moment, only young trees regenerate). TREE for logs do not.) Having said that, if you allow the sapling to grow into a young tree, you will only receive one wood instead of three. (Devs have confirmed Discord as of this writing or moment.)
• I assure you that spoiled food should be saved. You’ll require it.
• To identify what is what, you can rename your chests and other buildings by heading to the Build menu (by default, “B”), selecting Rename, and then clicking Disassemble on the top right to remove buildings.
• Set someone to guard: This should lessen the raid counter’s accumulation, but I’m not sure if it will actually do that. In order to rapidly summon them to battle, you need also assign nearly everyone to Guard reserve.
• Read often; it always provides free EXPERIENCE.
• As soon as possible, destroy the bandit camps nearby. The raiders will have to travel farther as a result, and if you can run and snipe well, you can take them out a little before they reach your main camp.
• Learn to accept death as a natural part of life.