Job Board
Players post work for each other here. The board holds the reward until the work is done, so no one has to trust anyone.
| Where | Rare rooms, one tile each; stand on the floor, not the doorway |
| Jobs | Per board: listed, taken, handed in and redeemed at that board only |
| Open jobs | 100 a board, 5 per poster at a board |
| Jobs held | 8 at once; only one asking for exactly the same thing |
Limits are in Reference: Waymark and recon.
Posting a job
A title, an objective, and a reward of up to eight items from your pack. The reward leaves your inventory when posted, and a job board ticket takes its place.
| Part of a stack | Can be offered; the rest stays with you |
| Cannot be offered | Worn, bound, socketed or claim items, and a container with anything in it |
| Notice | What it asks, who posted it and when, the reward; hovering a reward shows it as in your pack |
Job board tickets
The only claim on the job, and like a market ticket: whoever holds it owns it. It passes to a killer with the rest of an inventory; destroyed, its reward stays on the board for good.
| While the job is | Presenting the ticket at its board |
|---|---|
| Open | Cancels the job and returns the reward |
| Done | Collects whatever was handed in |
| Void | Cancels the job and returns the reward |
Kinds of work
Some jobs are handed in for the reward at once; others are taken first, and the game counts the work as you do it.
Handed in
What is handed in is held by the board for the ticket holder.
| Job | What it asks for |
|---|---|
| Deliver | Goods: shards on market terms, or a number of a named item |
| Commission | A forged piece (shape, treatment, material, optionally forged by you), a fused material (affinity or grade, optionally fused by you), or cooked food that has not spoiled |
| Recon | Recon notes proving where you have been (Recon) |
Taken
| Job | What counts |
|---|---|
| Slay | Monsters killed in a fight you won, dealt damage in and did not flee, optionally of one kind, in one biome, at a minimum level, or only those you landed the killing blow on |
| Protect | A fight you won, dealt damage in and did not flee, with the poster beside you, on your side, who took a blow and was still standing at the end |
| Escort | The poster crossing into the destination with you online and within three tiles (max(abs(Δx), abs(Δy)) ≤ 3, same sector); you set out together from the board |
| Hunt | Killing a named character |
| Pay respects | Praying at a named character's grave |
| Desecrate | Desecrating a named grave so it stays desecrated: a ghost that rises must be put down or driven off |
| Lay a ghost | Killing the ghost from a named grave, in a fight you dealt damage in; the desecrator need not be you |
| Supply | DENSITY chits you donate, as a member, to a named faction's HQ reserve (Stash) |
| Rule | |
|---|---|
| Taking | Reserves nothing; any number may take a job, the first to hand it in is paid, and every other taker's progress is gone |
| Overlap | Two jobs asking different things can both count one kill |
| Refused | Your own job, hunting yourself, hunting your own faction |
| Jobs button | Anywhere: every taken job with progress, every ticket with its job's place and state (posted, done, void). Handing in and redeeming stay at the board |
Void jobs
A job whose target is gone: the named character died (for Protect and Escort, the poster), someone else desecrated the grave and it stayed desecrated, the faction was disbanded, or the grave was desecrated with no ghost left to lay. It leaves the board and cannot be taken; its ticket still returns the reward.
Recon
Proof of where you have been, written on a page of a recon book.
| Recon book | Any job board; 10 pages for 5 kinetic chits, destroyed rather than paid to anyone |
| Writing | Tears out a page; written from where you are, cannot be altered |
| A note records | Sector and tile, the room there, the sector's base biome (World), the tile's faction and whether contested, and up to 6 rooms and graves within 12 tiles, nearest first |
| Notes | Ordinary items, tradeable; read within 40 tiles of its place, offers Walk there |
| Recon job | What the notes must show |
|---|---|
| Find a room | A note written inside a room of the named kind within so many sectors (max(abs(Δx), abs(Δy))) of a named sector, still standing when handed in |
| Explore | Notes from a number of the nine regions (a 3 × 3 grid) of a named sector |
| Faction ground | A tile held by a named faction, optionally while contested |
| Contested | Any contested tile |
| Biome | A sector whose base biome is the named one, at least so far from the board |
| Frontier | Anywhere at least so far from the board |
Notes must be written after the job was posted, each from a different tile (a different sector, for biome and frontier). A note handed in is spent: it goes to the ticket holder as the report and cannot be handed in again.
Waymark
Every character carries one from creation: a five-page book bound to you, opened and closed with W or its HUD button.
| Mark here | Writes where you stand onto a page, as a recon note would; anywhere, free; asks before replacing a written page |
| Walk there | Offered by a marked place within 40 tiles |
| Handing in | Not a recon note; cannot be handed in |