Artes Martiales
The Martial Arts

Artes Liberales
The Liberal Arts


Artes Mechanicae
The Mechanical Arts


Artes Naturales
The Natural Arts

Backalley Pugilism
$i{"2. That, in order to prevent any disputes, the time a man lies after a fall, if the second does not bring his man to the side of the square, within the space of half a minute, he shall be deemed a beaten man."

-- Broughton's Rules (on Boxing), 1743}

To the unscrupulous fighter rules appear to have been made for breaking. Backalley Pugilism gives you new attacks for use in unarmed combat.


Baking
$i{"Acorns were good till bread was found."

-- Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil}

A varied diet is of the essence to the continued survival and flourishing of any colony. Baking allows you to construct Baking Tables and to bake simple bread.


Beaver Skinning
$i{"They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers."

-- Samuel de Champlain, Voyages}

A common sight along the rivers of North America is that of the beaver. Generally of a friendly disposition, these quiet herbivores are known for their thrift and their passionate love of trees. Beaver Skinning allows you to skin Beavers.


Big Game Hunting
$i{"For my part (being one) I must needes say my minde, That Hunting was ordeyned first, for Men of Noble kinde, And unto them therefore, I recommend the same, As exercise that best becommes, their worthy noble name."

-- George Turbervile, The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting}

The forests and backwoods of the New World teem with an unimaginable abundance of wildlife. Big Game Hunting allows you to attack larger creatures, and to carry animal carcasses faster.


Blacksmithing
$i{"In other part stood one who, at the forge
labouring, two massy clods of iron and brass
had melted."

-- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IX}

With the metals refined and ready to use they pass invariably into the hands of the blacksmith. Blacksmithing allows you to forge the crude and simple tools that are the foundation for all further progress in the metallurgical industries.


Botany
$i{"Who has endowed plants with intelligence, to shut themselves up at the approach of rain?"

-- Carolus Linneaus, Lachesis Lapponica}

Botany is the formal study and science of all manner of plants, and a useful thing to know when traveling the wilderness of the New World. Botany increases your chances of finding useful plants and herbs.


Brazier Forging
$i{"But now at last fair fall the welcome hour
That sets me free, whene'er the thick night glow
With beacon-fire of hope deferred no more.
All hail!

Fire of the night, that brings my spirit day,
Shedding on Argos light, and dance, and song,
Greetings to fortune, hail!"

-- The Orestia, Aeschylus}

Brazier Forging allows you to construct defensive Braziers whose illumination can defend any Homestead or Town from whatever horrors may lurk in the dark hours of the night.


Butcher's Thrift
$i{"Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty."

-- Samuel Johnson, The Rambler}

Surely some of those usually discarded parts can be put to some good use? After all, dogs need to eat as well. Butcher's Thrift allows you to extract some extra meat shreds whenever you butcher an animal.


Butchery
$i{Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters-and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown.

-- Thomas Hood, A Butcher}

A pilgrim versed in the ways of the butcher is able to extract more useful meat from animal carcasses. Butchery allows you to cut steaks.


Cabbage Growing
$i{"Cabbages are extremely windy, whether you take them as meat or as medicine, as windy meat as can be eaten, unless you eat bag-pipes or bellows..."

-- Nicholas Culpeper, A Complete Herbal}

Cabbage Growing allows you to plant and harvest cabbages, a healthy, vegetable addition to any colonial larder.


Carpentry
$i{"Sure if they cannot cut, it may be said
His saws are toothless, and his hatchets lead."

-- Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Satires}

Few skills are as important in the early days of a colony as that of carpentry. The noble art of molding, shaping and forging the prime timber of the New World into objects and items useful for the further advancment of faith and civilization is an essential skill for almost any would-be colonist. Carpentry allows you to construct sawbucks and to use them to make boards.


Cauldronmaking
$i{"In the poison'd entrails throw.--
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble."

-- William Shakespeare, Macbeth}

Pots and pans are necessary utensils for every accomplished chef, and among such trappings none stands out more than the great cauldron. Cauldron Making allows you to build Cauldrons.


Childish Things
$i{"London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, my fair Lady."

-- Traditional Nursery Rhyme}

Learn some Childish Things to advance further in the game. Learning Childish Things will unlock some new crafts, and will also unlock the Game Hint on Studying.


Coaling
$i{"Among the substances that are dug up because they are useful, those known simply as coals are made of earth, and they are set on fire and burnt like charcoal. They are found in Liguria, where amber also occurs, and in Elis as one goes by the mountain road to Olympia; and they are actually used by workers in metals."

-- Theophrastus of Eresos, On Stones}

Coal is essential to the mining and metalworking efforts of a colony, and can also be used to fertilize fields. Coaling allows you to construct and light Coal Clamps, which burn blocks of wood into charcoal.


Coffer Making
$i{"But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre."

-- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales}

Having tended and cared for ones plots and orchards a conundrum of storage soon presents itself. All woes laid to rest, Coffer Making allows you to build storage chests.


Colonial Tradesmanship
$i{"For all the rest were poore Gentlemen, Tradsmen, Serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoyle a Common-wealth, then either begin one, or but helpe to maintaine one."

-- John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and The Summer Isles}

The beginning colony requires a full plethora of tradesmen to help it grow and develop. Colonial Tradesmanship allows you to craft some simple tools and is the first step on your way to becoming a useful and productive tradesman in the New World.


Compacts & Constitutions
$i{"We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord [...] Having undertaken [...] a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually [...] covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid [...]"

-- The Mayflower Compact}

Once established in the New World the needs for more formal institutions of societal organization soon present themselves to a budding Colony. Compacts & Constitutions allows you to inaugurate Charter Towns by which to organize members in your hitherto informal community, and by which to exert control over larger tracts of land. Found your $i{polis} by acquiring a Town Charter from a Magistrate of the Royal Company of Hudson's Bay, and use it to construct a Town Bell.


Cotton Planting
$i{"There grew there a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie."

-- Sir John Mandeville, The Travels}

Whilst legends have circulated for a long time in Europe concerning "the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary", it is only with the discovery of the New World variants of this remarkable plant that its uses and the methods for its cultivation have been brought to more extensive application in the fields of agriculture. Cotton Planting allows you to plant, harvest and process cotton.


A Formal Education
$i{"Let the main object of this, our Didactic, be as follows: To seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners may learn more...

-- John Amos Comenius, The Great Didactic}

Nowhere else in the World save in the newly discovered parts of these Indies can the joys of learning be put to better use. A Formal Education reduces the learning time required to acquire new skills.


Embroidery & Silk
$i{"Oh, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check;
Richer, than doing nothing for a bauble;
Prouder, than rustling in unpaid-for silk.

-- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline}

As the colony develops and its members acquire ever more of the riches of this bountiful New World, tastes and fashions change with the tides of wealth and fortune. Embroidery & Silk allows you access to a wider range of more advanced clothing.


Essential Mineralogy
$i{"And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had..."

-- Samuel 17:40, King James' Bible}

Many are the forms, shapes and qualities of the minerals, rocks and stones available to the Pilgrim in the New World. Essential Mineralogy is the first step toward a greater knowledge of the mineral Kingdom, and allows you greater success when searching for minerals.


Exploration
$i{"As I know you will be rejoiced at the glorious success that our Lord has given me in my voyage, I write this to tell you how in thirty-three days I sailed to the Indies with the fleet that the illustrious King and Queen, our Sovereigns, gave me..."

-- Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant Angel}

Beyond the confines of colonial stockades lie vast expanses of a pristine and virgin New World untouched by the ravages of the Old. Exploration increases your chances of discovering items of interest in the New World, and allows you to ascend steeper slopes than before.


Agriculture
$i{"The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude}

While many may undertake the journey to the New World in search of plunder and gold, many more come seeking simply that humbler gold which every summer stands tall in the fields in promise of a rich harvest. Agriculture allows you to till fields and plant Rye.


Fast Moves
$i{"In madness spoke this wight.
So wrong he was, to spare him were not right;
Leave him to me, I will that wrong requite.
When Guenes hears, he draws his sword outright..."

-- The Song of Roland}

Quick reactions are of the utmost importance when engaged in battle or combat. Fast Moves allows you new combat moves.


Fencing
$i{"Fencing (Right honorable) in this new fangled age, is like our fashions, every day a change, resembling the chameleon, who alters himself into all colors save white."

-- George Silver, Paradoxes of Defence}

Not all minds are noble that wield the noblest of weapons, and not only to noble designs do such weapons lend their employ. Fencing allows you to wield Swords and Rapiers.


Field Dressing
$i{"Blood is a juice of rarest quality."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust}

A pilgrim not skilled in the ways of Field Dressing is want and apt to make nothing but a mess where once was a fine carcass. Field Dressing allows you to extract cuts of meat from dead animals.


Firearms
$i{"Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ... the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law."

-- Bill of Rights 1689}

It is an ancient and established right of Englishmen to bear arms in defence of life, property, King and Country. Firearms allows you the means to exercise that right.


Fishing
$i{"These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat."

-- Leviticus 11:9, King James' Bible}

The far flung oceans across which you came hold, parallell to the rivers and lakes of this strange and wondrous land, a teeming multitude of life. Fishing allows you to fish, and to craft a primitive fishing pole.


Flowers & Berries
$i{"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

-- William Wordsworth, Lines Written in Early Spring}

Nature abounds in opulance with wild and beautiful things ripe for the plucking. Flowers & Berries allows you increased successes when foraging for wild flowers and berries.


Foraging
$i{"But perhaps I had better pass over our divines in silence and not stir this pool or touch this fair but unsavory plant."

-- Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly}

Foraging for supplies can be a difficult endeavor under the best of circumstances, but in a strange and wild land unfamiliar to the would-be woodsman the difficulty of this most critical art of survival can approach the Herculean. Foraging allows you your first insights into the wild plant-life of the New World.


French Cuisine
$i{"In the state of society we now have reached, it is difficult to conceive of a people subsisting merely on bread and vegetables. Such a nation if it existed would certainly be subjected by carnivorous enemies, as the Hindoos were, to all who ever chose to attack them. If not it would be converted by the cooks of its neighbors as the Beotiens were, after the battle of Leuctres."

-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste}

Among the civilized peoples of Europe, none are more renowned for their culinary skills than the French. By lending a page from the French cookbook, you too can come to share that renown. French Cuisine gives you access to new cooking recipes.


Game Meats
$i{"Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat."

-- Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War}

Grown and matured in the free widths of the great outdoors, the wild meat of the forest is an excellent source of nutrition. Game Meats allows you to extract extra cuts of meat from wild animal carcasses, and gives you access to some delicious free range recipes.


Gardening
$i{"'All that is very well,' answered Candide, 'but let us cultivate our garden.'"

-- Voltaire, Candide}

What a more humble joy to the well-off pilgrim than a well-kept garden to soothe the mind and relax the muscles. Gardening allows you to plant wild plants acquired through foraging in Gardening pots. The pots need to be prepared with humus and water before anything can be planted in them.


Hideworking
$i{"As to their clothes, observe how little work is spent in them; while they are at labour they are clothed with leather and skins, cut carelessly about them, which will last seven years [...]"

-- Sir Thomas More, Utopia}

Many are the Pilgrims who have succumbed to the at times harsh climes and environs of the New World for a lack of adequate garments and clothing. Hasten not to join their ranks and to become one woeful brother among them. Hideworking allows you to skin the hides of animals, and to construct Drying Frames to cure them.

Hiking
$i{"Men go forth to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves."

-- S:t Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book X, Chapter VIII}

Providence has blessed the manifold landscapes of the New World with more than an abundant crop of tough terrain and imposing heights. Hiking allows you to cross swamps, and to ascend steeper slopes than before.


Hill Climbing
$i{"Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."

-- Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love}

Beyond the swamps and forests of New England the landscape is dominated by imposing heights. Hill Climbing allows you to ascend steeper slopes than before.


Horticulture
$i{"Here, where the world is quiet;
Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot
In doubtful dreams of dreams;
I watch the green field growing
For reaping folk and sowing,
For harvest-time and mowing,
A sleepy world of streams."

-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Garden of Proserpine}

Horticulture is the formal study of plant growing. Having mastered both the science of botany and the art of gardening allows a Pilgrim to undertake the more proper ways of caring for plant life. Horticulture allows you to harvest an extra plant from gardening pots.


Humble Abodes
$i{"Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

-- Alexander Pope, Ode on Solitude}

Having gained a foothold in this strange New Land beyond the seas, the Pilgrim longs again for the comfort of a home. Humble Abodes allows you to construct some fancy building that hasn't been implemented yet, and is the first step on the way towards a greater mastery of architecture.


Indian Tracking
$i{"From his footprints flowed a river,
Leaped into the light of morning,
O'er the precipice plunging downward
Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet.
And the Spirit, stooping earthward
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, 'Run in this way!'"

-- The Song of Hiawatha, Book I}

The Lumberwoods of the New World are an open book to those who know to read its leaves and turn the pages of its seasons. Indian Tracking affords you greater success when searching for plants and people.

Kiln Construction
$i{"These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work."

-- Chronicles 4:23, King James' Bible}

The developed mastery of fire has been the springboard for the advancement of Civilization since man was first cast out of the Garden of Eden, and nothing better serves to illustrate this point than the many wondrous uses one finds in the New World for a sturdy kiln. Kiln Construction allows you to build them sturdier than most.


Labouring
$i{"He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made."

-- Psalm 7:15, King James' Bible}

While fertile and rich as such, the soil of the New World will nevertheless not yield any fruit or treasure unless adequate payment in sweat and blood has first been rendered unto it. Labouring allows you to carry more dug out soil, and reduces the Phlegm cost of digging.


Lace & Fancywork
$i{"O what a sight were Man, if his attires
Did alter with his minde;
And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd
With his desires!"

-- George Herbert, The Temple}

Time turns new to old, worn clothes to shreds and ashes to ashes, and men set their sights on yet newer horizons still. Lace & Fancywork allows you access to a wider range of more advanced clothing.


Literacy
$i{"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

-- Revelation 1:8, King James' Bible}

It will eventually come to dawn on the young Pilgrim that further advancement within any given field or profession will require a certain command of the written language. Literacy allows you to read books, to write on signs and parchments, and also slightly reduces the learning time required for acquiring new skills.


Locksmithing
$i{"And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

-- Matthew 16:19, King James' Bible}

The gift of a key to one's Homestead, Chest or House is one of the most solemn trusts that can be bestowed upon a friend. Locksmithing gives you the ability to craft a simple bolt-lock, which can be installed on gates, doors, chests and the like to prevent it from being opened by outsiders, and also allows you to make new copies of keys for kith and kin.


Aristotelian Logic
$i{"Now 'why a thing is itself' is a meaningless inquiry, for to give meaning to the question 'why' the fact or the existence of the thing must already be evident..."

-- Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book VII}

If Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences then Logic, surely, is its King and Emperor, and whom better to learn it from than its Grecian Father. Aristotelian Logic reduces the learning time required to acquire new skills.


Lore of The Lumberwoods
$i{"Every lumber district has its own peculiar tales. Some have their songs, also, and nearly all have mysterious stories or vague rumors of dreadful beasts with which to regale newcomers and frighten people unfamiliar with the woods."

-- WM. T. Cox, Fearsome Creatures of The Lumberwoods}

The Lumberwoods of the inland, beyond the foam-swept coasts of New England and Virginia, hold an amazing variety of plant- and wildlife undescribed and undiscovered by the naturalists of the Old World, and to none are these plants and creatures so familiar as to the woodsmen, trappers and lumberjacks who penetrate beyond the safe confines of the colonies, and into the pristine wilderness. Lore of The Lumberwoods gives you the ability to chop down trees.


Masonry
$i{"And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter."

-- Genesis 11:3, King James' Bible}

The permanent and lasting settlement will eventually require materials more durable against the winds and weathers than simple wood. Masonry allows you to lay bricks, and to build brick ovens.


Mechanics
$i{"Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci, Notebooks}

The astounding advances of the mechanical sciences over the past hundred years are sure to be of use in the advance of culture in the New World. Mechanics allows you to construct a Stamp Mill usable for easing the task of crushing blocks of ore before smelting.


Metallurgy
$i{"Iron, although it is not the most precious, yet it is the most necessary of all metals for the use of man; notwithstanding it may be disputed, whether the good or hurt it hath done in the world, be the greater..."

-- James Hodges, Treatises upon Metals, Mines and Minerals}

To refine the various ores of the earth into usable metals requires the significant skill and forbearance of the trained metallurgist. Metallurgy allows you to construct and use Ore Smelters.


Mining
$i{"Now when a miner discovers a vena profunda he begins sinking a shaft and above it sets up a windlass, and builds a shed over the shaft to prevent the rain from falling in, lest the men who turn the windlass be numbed by the cold or troubled by the rain."

-- Georgius Agricola, de Re Metallica}

In order for ores to be smelted into metal, they must first be extracted from within the womb of the earth. Mining allows you to construct Mine Shafts and to mine from softened rock surfaces within the mine. Soften rock surfaces by lighting a fire by them and letting it burn.


Mountaineering
$i{"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV}

Farther still beyond sun-crest hills rise tall and snow-capped mountains. Mountaineering allows you to ascend steeper slopes than before.


The Story of Cain & Abel
$i{"And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?"

-- Genesis 4:9, King James' Bible}

The Good Lord has seen fit to record in the annals of his Good Book many a sin committed by man for his flock to read and heed, and for the betterment of their immortal souls. Unto those whose concerns lie in the present rather than in the hereafter The Story of Cain & Abel grants the ability to murder other Pilgrims.


Nuts & Seeds
$i{"Even a blind squirrel somtimes finds a nut."

-- Proverb}

Much of nature's most bountiful harvest comes clad in wooden armor. Nuts & Seeds allows you to find more nuts when foraging.


Pottery
$i{"Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown,
A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found;
'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound,
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command,
Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand:
Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel
The first sharp motions of the forming wheel."

-- John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius}

As the at times harsh nature of the New World transforms and transmutes the young Pilgrim into a man of honor and standing, so the potter shapes and molds the amorphous clay into vases, cups and bowls. Pottery allows you to dig for clay, and to make things from it.


Prospecting
$i{"Now a miner, before he begins to mine the veins, must consider seven things, namely : the situation, the conditions, the water, the roads, the climate, the right of ownership, and the neighbours."

-- Georgius Agricola, de Re Metallica}

... but first of all the vein must be located. Prospecting allows you to search for suitable locations for conducting a mining operation.


Pulleys & Levers
$i{"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."

-- Sir Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica}

The Allmighty Creator has seen fit in his eternal wisdom to endow the world with certain immutable laws of mechanics and of the natural order. The cunning artificer does well to study and employ these principles to further the advancment of both his holy cause, aswell as those of King and Country. Pulleys & Levers allows you to construct looms for weaving.


Pumpkin Planting
$i{"'Cinderella,' said the Fairy, 'I am your godmother, and for the sake of your dear mamma I am come to cheer you up, so dry your tears; you shall go to the grand ball to-night, but you must do just as I bid you. Go into the garden and bring me a pumpkin.'"

-- Cinderella, Traditional}

Some of the native cultivars of this foreign land have begun to prove themselves to be quite useful. Pumpkin Planting allows you to grow and harvest pumpkins from fields.


Quarrying
$i{"All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid..."

-- Samuel Johnson, The Rambler}

No more a solid foundation for a church or a manor is in the New World to be found than that of stone. Quarrying allows you to hew boulders from the mountainous regions of the world for use in many building projects.


The Rights of Englishmen
$i{"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

-- The Magna Carta}

Divine Providence has seen fit to grant all English freemen the sacred Right of self-defense, and the best defense can at times be offense. The Rights of Englishmen allow you to attack other Pilgrims.

$b{$col[255,0,0]{NOTE}: Learning The Rights of Englishmen will remove your ability to purchase Wilderness Spawns.}


Self-Defense
$i{"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

-- Ephesians 6:12, King James' Bible}

Many are the horrors, from beast to man, that lurk the dark corners of the New World. Self-Defense gives you the ability to defend yourself using basic unarmed combat.


Settling
$i{"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."

-- David Ricardo, An Essay on Profits (and the Rent of Land)}

After having gotten initial bearings and orientations in the New World the newly arrived Pilgrim will eventually want to locate a small corner of it to call his own. Settling allows you to Homestead land and construct a small but functional dwelling.


Sewing
$i{"Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun}

Needle and thread can help both mend worn-out old clothes, as well as, in the hands of the accomplished practitioner, create new ones. Sewing allows you access to a small range of clothes.


Mushroom Hunting
$i{"She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else."

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland}

Nothing is more set to aid the budding young pilgrim on his voyage than a few helpful handfuls from the wild larder. Mushroom Hunting allows you greater success in finding mushrooms.


Simple Cooking
$i{"All sorrows are less with bread."

-- Miguel de Cervantes, don Quixote}

The skillful preparation of food is of cardinal importance to any young colony and its members. Simple Cooking gives you some delicious recipies.


Slug Hunting
$i{"Bon Appétit!"

-- French for "good appetite". Interjection to wish someone a pleasant meal.}

The underbrushes of the Lumberwoods teem with life forms of the most particular and peculiar kind. Slug Hunting allows you to find more slugs when foraging for food.


Small Game Hunting
$i{"I Might well mainteine that of all chases, the Hare maketh greatest pastime and pleasure..."

-- George Turbervile, The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting}

With hunting, as with many of the various new and unfamiliar occupations and tasks that the young Pilgrim is wont to undertake upon having arrived in the New World, it is best to start small. Small Game Hunting allows you to catch and attack small animals.


Simple Fences
$i{"Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way
With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school;"

-- Oliver Goldsmith, The Village Schoolmaster}

Having acquired for himself a plot of land to call his own, the wise Pilgrim strives next to defend the land from other comers. Simple Fences allows you to construct sturdy fences to keep intruders out.



Survival Skills
$i{"I consulted several things in my situation, which I found would be proper for me: 1st, health and fresh water, I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether man or beast; 4thly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet."

-- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe}

Between the wailings of the Squonk and the Indian the Lumberwoods are a terrifying place for even the most hardened of European visitors. A fair mastery of Survival Skills is essential when traveling farther afield from the sheltering bosom and protection of Boston.

Swimming
$i{"It appeares that God hath appoynted for a super-naturall signe of the monstruous impietie of the Witches that the water shal refuse to receiue them in her bosom."

-- King James I, Daemonologie}

Everywhere one goes one finds the landscape of the New World strewn and dotted with brooks, fords, streams, lakes and eddies. From the icy cold of Hudson's Bay to the blessed warmth of the Summer Isles and beyond Swimming grants the ability to move in and through water.


Tanning
$i{"Every animal has enough brains to preserve its skin. Dead or alive."

-- Old trapper wisdom}

While the old folksy wisdom of the backwoods may not apply to Rumtifusels or Gumberoos, the saying nevertheless has a distinct essence of truth to it. By mixing the mashed brain substance of an animal with water a tanning fluid can be created which is rich in natural tannins and which more often than not should suffice to transform the skin of that same animal into the finest leather for use in bookbinding, clothes or other purposes. Beware, though that the dried hides must first be scraped with Water of Lime to remove hair, fat and flesh before the tanning can commence. Tanning allows you to scrape hides in preparation for tanning, prepare tanning fluid and construct tanning tubs.


Tasty Pastries
$i{"That from and after the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and sixty four, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for and upon all white or clayed sugars of the produce or manufacture of any colony or plantation in America ... the several rates and duties following...

-- Customs Duties, &c. Act 1763}

With the importation of cane sugar from the Summer Isles and Barbados, new culinary opportunities present themselves. Tasty Pastries allows you to bake a few sugary sweets for those special occasions.


Ascent to the Summit
$i{"To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer."

-- Francis Petrarch, The Ascent of Mont Ventoux}

High above snow-capped mountaintops lies the summit, unexplored and unconquered. Ascent to the Summit allows you to ascend steeper slopes than before.


Larceny
$i{"Whereupon the judge telling him that the tongs could not be lost there, because that was the proper place they should be in, and finding the fellow to be simple, he directed the jury to bring him in guilty only of petty Larceny."

-- Captain Alexander Smith, A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes}

Have things gone missing around the Homestead lately? Perchance were they misplaced? Mayhaps you are growing old, with little pieces of memory daily slipping ever away from within the hitherto safe & sacred confines of your mind? Unto those who will not be growing old Larceny grants the ability to steal items of Homesteaded property.

Three-field System
$i{"There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid."

--Proverbs 30:18-19, King James' Bible}

By learning and adopting the use of the three-field system you can increase the effectiveness of any influence increasing fertilizer.


Trespassing
$i{"All hope abandon, ye who enter here."

-- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto III}

It comes at times to pass that the letter of the law and the directest route happen not to coincide. Unto those unconcerned with coincidence Trespassing grants the ability to enter, open or otherwise examine items and objects of Homesteaded property.


Waste
$i{"I shall, therefore, here only beg leave to remind the student, that waste is a spoil and destruction of the estate, either in houses, woods, or lands; by demolishing not the temporary profits only, but the very substance of the thing; thereby rendering it wild and desolate [...]"

-- Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on The Laws of England}

Among the many crimes against life and property forbidden by the English law the crime of Waste stands out as a particularly egregious assault upon the good moral character and fiber of His Majesties colonies. Unto those unconcerned with His Majesty Waste grants the ability to destroy Homesteaded property.


Venison Cuisine
$i{"Do thy Venison in the water and let it be therein three days and three nights."

-- The Forme of Cury, 14th Century Cookbook.}

While an otherwise long established prerogative of Kings and Noblemen, Pilgrims in the new world find themselves with an unusually abundant supply of fine venison. Venison Cuisine allows you to extract more meat when butchering deer, and also gives you access to some fine recipes.


Weaving
$i{"O, what a tangled web we weave."

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto VI}

No task can more clearly be said to have been the pride and joy of the diligent and loyal housewife since the times of the ancients than the noble art of weaving. As the winter embers draw their last breaths in the furnaces of many a settled homestead, in more still one will still find the lady of the house hard at work with warp and weft. Weaving allows you to weave cloth by a loom.


Whittling
$i{"Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made."

-- Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose}

Since wood is one of the most abundant natural resources in the New World it also becomes a natural choice for the presumptive settler when choosing a material from which to forge his first tools. Whittling allows you to fashion simple wooden objects.


Windmill Theory
$i{"Look, your worship, said Sancho; what we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the wind make the millstone go."

-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote}

In order to efficiently grind significant amounts of grain into flour one must first learn to harness the powers of that most tireless turner of the grindstone; the wind. Windmill Theory allows you to construct Windmills.