AES Journal: Tatiana's Farming for Fortune
QH Resources & Guides
Good to know, Louis! Thanks 
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AES Journal: Tatiana's Farming for Fortune
QH Resources & Guides
Bessie Hull:
I'm not sure why I'm still just level one, but oh well. I just keep my nose to the grindstone.
Hello Bessie! You probably know this but just in case here are some of my observations regarding experience points (xp). The Experience meter turns blue when it is maxed out. I try not to do any tasks during this period, I just keep wearing the HUD to gain back more room on it. I believe that the last thing I read said you gain back 1 point of room per 30 minutes. Depending on the current level you may have to wait a number of hours before being able to earn the most xp per task so I tend to spread my work out across a full day.
I've also found that doing different kinds of tasks, e.g. harvesting, cooking, grinding, making extracts, provides a better yield on xp than just straight harvesting does.
Hope this helps!
AES Journal: Tatiana's Farming for Fortune
QH Resources & Guides
The month of June saw us establishing a small market presence for the Queen's Hamlet. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing the fruits of your labours out on display and the coins earned are being used to purchase additional fruit trees for the garden. This month it was a peach tree; next month I have my eye on apricots and perhaps another hen.
Myriam and her fellow NPCs have taken over the role of Trader Merchant which was hastily vacated by the feckless Adam. It's always interesting to see what she will offer me on any given day and I've found her to be quite fair in all of her dealings. Though I tend to under-cut her prices a bit with the QH merchandise she doesn't seem to mind, in fact she never bats an eye.
Tatiana:
- Date: June 29, 2019
- Class: Noble
- Level: 8
- Funds: 25s 76c
Mikhail:
- Date: June 29, 2019
- Class: Townsfolk
- Level: 5
- Funds: 8s 03c
The Tea & Toast gatherings continue to be fun & informative with participants sharing the latest news along with their culinary creations. Thank goodness I can work off some of those calories in the garden, otherwise I'd be letting out the waistband of my skirts for certain!
I'm trying to apply my experience gained with G&S to my mid/long term strategy for using AES in the Queen's Hamlet. G&S seems to encourage a bit of industrialization which can lead to pointless grinding for little reward if you're not careful. With AES I'm more conscious of the joys of limited scope and I intend to concentrate on producing key products while buying (or trading for) whatever else is needed from the community. Time will tell if I can stick to this strategy but at the moment it seems like a much more enjoyable way to live my days in the hamlet
Lochmore village on the Isle of Kerrera
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Looking forward to visiting you! I'll be brushing off my tartan
AES Journal: Tatiana's Farming for Fortune
QH Resources & Guides
Both Mikhail and I have embraced the Peasant profession. The coppers earned are enough to pay for our seeds and the double xp are more than welcome. Feeling more secure in our own farming lives allowed us to turn our attention to the QH Co-op as a whole. With the purchase of both a hen and a cow, official QH Jobs were initiated guaranteeing that, at the very least, there will be bread, eggs & milk free for our little farming community as we get established.
Tatiana:
- Date: May 31, 2019
- Class: Noble
- Level: 4
- Funds: 8s 9c
Mikhail:
- Date: May 31, 2019
- Class: Townsfolk
- Level: 2
- Funds: 99c
The inaugural meeting of Tea & Toast was held and it was a whole lot of fun! I definitely learned a lot and I can't remember when I've ever had so much to eat & drink at a gathering. It reminded me of the story Stone Soup as we started out with very little but thanks to the generosity of the community ended up feasting. One of the stated goals of the ACS is to encourage social interaction and this was one bright little event where you could actually see it succeeding.
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 31 May 2019 06:28:40AM
QH Getting Started with ACS
QH Resources & Guides
Revised to add the option of taking a QH Job. Please note that this option is only available for members of the QH Co-op.
QH Job Offerings
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Bessie Hull:
You have a dairymaid in Bessie. She has very clean hands for a peasant!
I'm delighted to have Bessie working in the dairy! With Una looking after the chickens and myself baking the bread we're off to an excellent start.
QH Job Offerings
QH Resources & Guides
Bakery Worker
Items Required for Job:
- Well (provided by the QH or Antiquity)
- Wheat seeds (QH will provide one bag of wheat seeds [10] every twenty days)
- Field (provided by Antiquity)
- Mill (provided by Antiquity)
- Stove (provided by the QH or Antiquity)
Tasks:
- Haul water
- Locate an available wheat field
- Plant the wheat field with seeds & water
- Harvest the field
- Grind the wheat into flour
- Bake bread
- Place the bread into your Harvest Box
Poultry Worker
Items Required for Job:
- Well (provided by the QH & Antiquity)
- Corn seeds (QH will provide one bag of corn seeds [10] every twenty days)
- Field (provided by Antiquity)
- Hen (provided by the QH)
Tasks:
- Haul water
- Locate an available corn field
- Plant the corn field with seeds & water
- Harvest the field
- Feed the hen
- Gather the eggs
- Place the eggs in your Harvest Box
Dairy Worker
Items Required for Job:
- Well (provided by the QH & Antiquity)
- Oat seeds (QH will provide one bag of oat seeds [10] every twenty days)
- Field (provided by Antiquity)
- Cow (provided by the QH)
- Churn (provided by the QH)
Tasks:
- Haul water
- Locate an available oat field
- Plant the oat field with seeds & water
- Harvest the field
- Feed the cow
- Milk the cow
- Churn milk into butter (optional depending on milk supply)
- Place the milk and/or butter into your Harvest Box
QH Job Offerings
QH Resources & Guides
In the spirit of our co-operative, the Queen's Hamlet is now offering a number of jobs that can be performed using the Antiquity Crafting System (ACS). Not only will workers receive experience points (xp) and coins from performing these jobs but they will also share in the proceeds.
The bread, eggs, and dairy products will be distributed free of charge to all QH workers who participate. As they become available, you will find these items located in the refurbished Dairy . As we've always done well as a group on the honour system it is believed that this distribution should work quite well. Basically, if you've contributed something feel free to take an equal number of items for your own use.
It is hoped that as ACS and our usage of it matures we will add more jobs and also enhance these initial ones. We're going to try to distribute the workload while taking into account that people may want to switch/swap jobs depending on current interests.
Let's see how it goes and we'll adjust as we go along. Most of all have fun!
QH Getting Started with ACS
QH Resources & Guides
Rest assured that the QH is up for the challenge, Jacon! We're definitely a hardy bunch. I'm really looking forward to gathering those herbs. Might even try some of that brandy, as soon as I can afford it.
Thank you, Louis for all this fun!
It's true, I left out the pirates on purpose. Didn't want to be corrupting the good farmers of the QH with dreams of Spanish treasure 
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 31 May 2019 04:36:16AM