Part 2: Hearth and Home

Part 2, Hearth and Home, is the kitchen, farm and home part of the quest book. It has 5 chapters and 74 quests, and nearly all of them are optional. All five chapters open together when you finish Under the Spruce in Part 1, and nothing else in the book waits for them, so you can play them whenever you like.

At a glance#

Each chapter has exactly one required quest, its capstone. Optional quests are there for exploration and flavour; every chapter pays its capstone with a choice of one item from a kit.

Order and pacing#

The five chapters are independent of each other, so you can start with the one that matches your next need. The tasks are mostly item tasks: you collect the item and keep it, and nothing is taken from you. The kitchen chapters are quick to start, but the wine in The Long Table and the long fishing chain in Still Water take real time.

Task counts per chapter: A Roof and a Pot has 17 tasks, The Long Table 22, Fields and Fences 19, Still Water 16 and Shelves and Signposts 17, 91 tasks in the 74 quests.

A Roof and a Pot#

Salt, a knife, a pot, and a fire to put it on.

What you do#

This chapter is the Farmer's Delight kitchen. Place a campfire (Salt and Sense, an optional quest: any campfire counts), then get a cutting board, a knife, a cooking pot, a skillet and a stove. Cook a salad and a vegetable soup, hang tomatoes on a rope, craft a basket and hold 8 foods. 15 of the 16 quests are optional. The only required quest, The Pot That Travels, wants a cooking pot and 16 foods in your inventory, and it does not consume them.

What to bring#

You need Farmer's Delight Refabricated. The pot, board, skillet and stove are craftable in the early game:

• Cooking Pot: 2 bricks, a wooden shovel, a water bucket and 5 iron ingots.
• Cutting Board: 2 sticks and 4 planks. Skillet: 4 iron ingots and 1 brick.
• Stove: 3 iron ingots, 4 bricks and a campfire.
• Vegetable Soup in the pot: a carrot, a potato, a beetroot and a leafy green.

The [Let's Do] [Let's Do] Farm & Charm pot is a cheaper alternative for the kitchen in general (iron and a wooden shovel), but the quests ask for the Farmer's Delight items by name.

Rewards#

Most quests give a Kindling or Traveller's Cache roll or a small food or crop item. The Pot That Travels gives a choice from the Cook's Bundle (16 bread, 2 apple pies or 8 organic compost), a campfire, 3 levels and 2 embers.

Chapter totals: 4 XP levels, 2 embers, 4 loot rolls.

The Long Table#

Bread, wine, tea, and someone to share them with.

What you do#

This chapter covers baking, wine and tea. You set up a Herbal Brews kettle and stove with three teas, make dough and use the Bakery caking station and cake stand, grow grapes, press them and ferment a bottle of red wine in the Vinery barrel, set a table with four chairs, sleep in a village and share a slice. 15 of 16 quests are optional. The capstone, Something for the Road, wants 20 servings of food and five different foods eaten.

What to bring#

• The Caking Station: 3 wooden slabs, 5 bricks and flour.
• The Tea Kettle: 4 iron ingots and 2 sticks.
• The Fermentation Barrel: a barrel and 2 sticks. Red wine is 10 red grape juice and sugar, and fermenting takes 5 minutes.
• Food for the five different foods: eat any food once, and eat five distinct foods for the optional task.

The chapter uses [Let's Do] Vinery, [Let's Do] HerbalBrews and the Bakery mod from the same family.

Rewards#

Candles, a wine glass, sugar and wheat on the way. Something for the Road gives a choice from the Cook's Bundle, 4 levels and 2 embers.

Chapter totals: 5 XP levels, 2 embers, 6 loot rolls.

Fields and Fences#

Things that grow while you are elsewhere.

What you do#

This chapter is about farming and animals. Build a fenced field and gather 32 wheat. Place a Farm & Charm feeding trough and chicken coop. Make cheese with Meadow, first curds and then a full wheel. Grow Farm & Charm crops (corn, lettuce and barley), use fertilised soil and breed animals 10 times. The capstone, A Herd Worth Leaving, wants 16 leather, 16 feathers, 16 white wool and a tamed animal.

What to bring#

• The feeding trough: 4 iron ingots, 3 planks and 2 slabs. It feeds animals within 8 blocks.
• The chicken coop holds 3 chickens and up to 9 eggs.
• The Cheese Press from [Let's Do] Meadow: 5 wooden slabs and 2 sticks. A bucket of milk with rennet makes a wheel.
• Bone meal and a hoe. Universal Bone Meal adds 14 extra bone-meal targets, and RightClickHarvest harvests and replants with a hoe.

Rewards#

Bone meal, milk buckets, fertiliser and cache rolls on the way. A Herd Worth Leaving gives a choice from the Farmer's Bundle (16 wheat seeds, 16 bone meal or an iron hoe), 3 levels and 1 ember.

Chapter totals: 3 XP levels, 1 ember, 4 loot rolls.

Still Water#

The only place she ever admitted to resting.

What you do#

This chapter is fishing and the beach. Sit a minute by water, get a beach parasol and towel, and drink a coconut cocktail. Build a rod, Tide bait, an iron rod and a fishing hook, then make ten catches and collect five Tide items, a crate and a fish display. This chapter has the longest dependency chain in Part 2, 8 quests deep. The capstone, The Rod She Left, is a Tide diamond fishing rod.

What to bring#

• Tide 2 replaces vanilla fishing: 102 fish, 13 rods, a bar minigame and crates.
• The Angling Table: 2 string, 2 copper ingots and 2 planks. The Fishing Hook: 2 iron nuggets and a cobblestone.
• For the cocktail: the Palm Bar from [Let's Do] Beachparty (7 palm planks make 3), and for the Coconut Cocktail an open coconut, ice and a honey bottle. The Mini Fridge turns a water bottle into ice in 60 seconds.

Rewards#

Lucky and magnetic bait on the way. The Rod She Left gives a choice from the Fisher's Bundle (a fishing rod, 4 Tide lucky bait or 8 Tide cooked fish), 3 levels and 1 ember.

Chapter totals: 3 XP levels, 1 ember, 5 loot rolls. For more on fishing, see Fishing with Tide.

Shelves and Signposts#

Where things go, and how to find them again.

What you do#

This chapter is storage, furniture and a home you can find again. Craft 3 Handcrafted furniture pieces and 10 Chipped blocks, a Sophisticated Storage barrel and iron chest with an upgrade, an iron backpack, 8 lanterns and a candle holder, a quiver and a globe. Match Macaw windows and 8 roof pieces; an optional QuestBridge task asks you to wait a minute in a thunderstorm with no sky above you. The capstone, Her Lamps, Still Lit, wants 4 waystones. A sign (Somewhere Obvious) is also an optional placement task.

What to bring#

Materials for the furniture, storage and lighting items above, and enough for 4 Waystones. The chapter uses Handcrafted, Chipped, Sophisticated Storage (Unofficial Fabric port), Sophisticated Backpacks (Unofficial Fabric port) and the Macaw's windows and roofs.

Rewards#

Several Traveller's Cache rolls. Her Lamps, Still Lit gives a choice from the Wayfarer's Bundle (4 warp scrolls, 8 lanterns or 4 maps), 4 more warp scrolls, 3 levels and 2 embers.

Chapter totals: 3 XP levels, 2 embers, 6 loot rolls. See Storage & Logistics for the mods behind it.

Tips for this part#

• Play this part whenever food, farming or storage are your problem. It needs only the journal, not a gate.
• HungerDial makes hunger drain at 65 % of vanilla speed, so every meal lasts longer. AppleSkin shows food values in tooltips.
• Items are never consumed, so one stack of food or one cooking pot finishes many quests.
• Claim each reward by hand, especially the capstone kits.
• Choose the kit item you will use soon: bread for the road, bone meal or an iron hoe for the farm, a rod or bait for the water.

For a full picture of the food mods, see Farming & Cooking.

Spoilers#

Spoiler: hidden quests in this part

A Roof and a Pot (3)

• a pinch, hoarded: have alpine salt (from Meadow) in your inventory.
• the rotten one: have a rotten tomato.
• the second bowl, empty: see the traveller once at a fire.

The Long Table (2)

• something drunk alone: earn the Vinery sommelier advancement.
• the last biscuit: have a Bakery biscuit.

Fields and Fences (2)

• curds, uninvited: have a goat cheese wheel.
• she named this one: have an egg.

Still Water (2)

• not her handwriting: have a message in a bottle (Beachparty).
• the one that got away: have a Tide Midas fish.

Shelves and Signposts (2)

• a door, painted on: have any Macaw door.
• something small watches: have any Clutter item.

See also#

• The Quest Book - how the whole book works.
• Part 1: The Journal - the part before this one.
• Part 3: The Road - the next part of the main road.
• Rewards, Loot Caches & Choice Kits - the Cook's, Farmer's, Fisher's and Wayfarer's bundles.
• Farming & Cooking - the food mods in depth.
• Fishing with Tide - the fishing mod behind Still Water.
• Storage & Logistics - backpacks, barrels and storage networks.