Caravan & Followers

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Caravan is a feature that has been added in the big update Rags to Riches. See Development roadmap and have a look at the planned updates.


The Caravan

In Rags to Riches update, the Caravan cart can be obtained in Osbrook or in Oaken Barrel Brewery depending on how you completed the Fate of the Brewery quest. After you obtained the caravan, Verren will acts as a driver and urge you to go to Brynn for the next quest: Gwynnel's Answers. After you finished the quest, Verren will set your caravan's camp on the north-east steppe of Brynn. Talk to Verren and he will ask you to set the Caravan Banner that can be accessed on the book beside your bed in the caravan. With this task, Verren taught the players about how and what upgrade that you can make in the caravan system.

Afterwards you are free to roam, but Verren will advise you to go to Mannshire to exchange Old Contract that he got from random mercenary's corpse in the abbey to the Knud the Mannshire's elder. You can go to the Mannshire and now the caravan system is fully playable by the players and can be used to transport to a node of the map that is not Point of Interest, field with roads, and field near body of water, or nodes that haven't explored by the player or by using the map.


Caravan Features

There were several features that is implemented for Caravan System in Rags to Riches update, such as:

Transportation

  • The caravan's main feature will be to quickly traverse the Global Map. You will be able to move the Caravan to any tile that isn't occupied by a Camp, Dungeon, other Point of Interest, field with road, and field near a body of water.
  • The caravan will only travel on the Global Map screen, you won't see it moving real-time.
  • Moving the Caravan will cost fodder that will be scaled by how far the journey is and your caravan upgrades.
  • After moving the Caravan, there will be a cooldown period during which you cannot use Caravan travel. You can nullify the cooldown with Darrel's Forced March perk.
  • The caravan can only go to a location that you visited or explored by using Maps. Devs explained that they don't want to make travelling on foot completely obsolete either.
  • Caravan has max range that can be upgraded with Caravan upgrade or Followers' perks.

Storage

  • You will be able to store items in the Caravan, just like you can store them in chest in taverns/inns.
  • Caravan chest is shaped in 20*10 slots, which means you can store items in 200 Inventory slots for Caravan chest.
  • You can have up to 4 Caravan chests if it fully upgraded, so the Caravan can store 800 Inventory slots of items.
  • Caravan inventory will only be accessible when interacting with the stash directly, it won't help you manage your inventory in the middle of a dungeon.
  • You can trade your items in the Caravan's chest with merchants if you set camp 2 tiles from the settlement. Vice versa you also can buy items or commodities from merchants and let it transferred into the caravan. If you set caravan camp near the settlement, you can see there is storage icon in the left border of inventory tab if you trade with someone. You can upgrade the Caravan trade range by 3 tiles with Darrel's Safe Routes perk.

Resting Place

  • You can rest and save your progress in your camp.
  • You can get many buffs and healing effect with upgraded caravan.

Other features

  • Caravan is meant to serve as a "mobile home", offering a saving point in the wilderness, and probably other services to help you explore area far from settlements.
  • You will be able to hire certain followers and take them with the Caravan. These followers will stay with the Caravan, you won't be able to bring them with you into a Dungeon.
  • Some Caravan features only available if you upgraded specific schemata in the Caravan's upgrade book.
  • Other Caravan features that can be implemented after you upgraded the Caravan are: Cooking, Crafting, Praying, Food and Herb generating system, and Alchemy.


Caravan Upgrades

In Rags to Riches there are 25 Caravan Upgrades that are shown in the Caravan Book and 24 upgrades that already implemented. Some Caravan upgrades need some materials, ingredients, and loots that can be obtained in the dungeon or other area, while some items are specifically need to be bought on certain merchants and from Verren himself. The upgrade tabs for caravan are divided into 4 categories that are: Provision, Restoration, Traveling, and Communication.

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Provision

Firepit

  • Adds firepit to the center of the camp.
  • Allow to roast basic ingredients.
  • Upgrade materials: Automatically upgraded when Caravan unlocked.

Workbench

Cooking Spot

  • Adds Cauldron to the firepit.
  • Allow to cook proper dishes.
  • Cooking in the camp replenishes Morale depending on the complexity of the recipe.
  • Upgrade materials: Huge Cauldron, Ladle, 2x Coal Chunk.

Alchemy Station

Foraging Table

  • Adds foraging table to the west of the camp.
  • Allow Verren and other followers you recruited to forage herbs, mushrooms, and berries on the surrounding field.
  • Foraging table can contain maximum 4 foraged loots.
  • Upgrade materials: Foraging Supplies, Shovel, Sickle.

Chicken Coop

  • Adds chicken coop and 2 chickens to the west of the camp.
  • Allow your character to harvest eggs in the chicken coop regularly.
  • You can kill and pluck chicken in the chicken coop for drumstick, chicken will not generate eggs if there no chicken left, chicken reappeared proximity in a week.
  • Upgrade materials: Sacks of Grain, Bucket, Cages with Chickens.

Special Spices

  • Adds spices above the cauldron.
  • Allow to passively reduced -75% spoiling speed of ingredients and foods in Caravan Storage.
  • Cooking in the camp now replenishes Sanity depending on the complexity of the recipe.
  • Upgrade materials: Spice box, 2x Ginger Root, 2x Spearmint, 2x Leek, 2 Garlic, 2 Onion.


Caravan restoration upgrade

Restoration

Straw Bed

  • Adds sleeping spot to the Camp.
  • Allow your character to sleep and save, capable of granting Vigor.
  • Upgrade materials: Automatically upgraded when Caravan unlocked.

Praying Spot

Offering Spot

  • Adds offering spot next to the Camp exclusive if you play as Jorgrim, replacing Praying Spot.
  • Allow Jorgrim to pray and granted Ancestors' Gaze buff.

Modest Tent

Training Area

  • Adds two training dummies to the south east Camp.
  • Allow your character to test weapons, abilities, and combat.
  • You can change training dummies armor by click RMB to the training dummies, they can change into unarmored, light armored, and heavy armored.
  • Upgrade materials: Straw Dummy, 2x Straw.

Soothing Incenses

Roomy Tent

Herbal Remedies

  • Upgrade your tent with herbal remedies.
  • Allow sleeping in the Camp to 50% more effective at restoring Health and Bodyparts' Condition also grant 1% Immunity for each hour of sleep.
  • If you installed Foraging Table, increase the bonuses to 100% and 1.5% repectively
  • Upgrade materials: Apothecary Box, 2x Mindwort, 2x Thyme, 2x Burnet.


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Traveling

Hitching Post

  • Adds tethering post to the Camp.
  • Upgrade materials: Automatically upgraded when Caravan unlocked.

Old Cart

  • Adds the main Cart to the Camp.
  • Upgrade materials: Automatically upgraded when Caravan unlocked.

Worn Chests

  • Adds Storage to the Camp.
  • Allow you to store 200 Inventory slots.
  • Upgrade materials: Automatically upgraded when Caravan unlocked.

Sturdy Wheels

Sturdy Chests

  • Adds 1 more chests to the Caravan Storage.
  • Allow you to expand Caravan Storage to 400 Inventory slots.
  • Upgrade materials: Sturdy Chests, 2x Nails.

Fitting Accouterments

Ironbound Wheels

Spacious Chests

  • Adds 1 more chests to the Caravan Storage.
  • Allow you to expand Caravan Storage to 600 Inventory slots.
  • Upgrade materials: Spacious Chests, 2x Rope, 4x Nails.

Custom-Made Gear

Ironbound Chests

  • Adds 1 more chests to the Caravan Storage.
  • Allow you to expand Caravan Storage to 800 Inventory slots.
  • Upgrade materials: Ironbound Chests, 3x Rope, 5x Nails.


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Communication

Caravan Banner

  • Adds flagpole to the Camp.
  • Allow you to raise a Banner and gain buff from it.
  • Upgrade materials: Foldable Flagpole.

Messenger Pigeons

  • Adds messenger pigeon cage to the Camp.
  • For a couple days it will generate messenger pigeon that can be brought to the inventory.
  • You can use messenger pigeon outside the Camp to move the Caravan without needing to talk to Verren.
  • Upgrade materials: Cage with Pigeons, Sacks of Grain, Bucket.

Web of Contracts

  • Adds Pile of Letters near the Caravan Banner.
  • Allow you to gain Reputation if you killing enemies in area of influence of the settlement.
  • Extends the standard time limit for contracts by +1 day.
  • Upgrade materials: Pile of Letters (Can only be purchasable from Verren for 2000 crowns).

Old Favors

Local Informants

  • Adds Hanged Letters near the Caravan Banner.
  • Allow you to gain -25% Ambush chance.
  • Setting Camp reveals the terrain and certain location within 4 tiles.
  • Display Situations and Conditions affecting settlements and dungeons when inspecting them on the map.
  • Upgrade materials: Directives (Can only be purchasable from Verren for 2000 crowns).

Trade Preferences

Followers

Followers are recruitable NPCs that will join you to your caravan camp and your journey. Followers have trade goods that you can buy and specialty perks that can help you, your caravan, and your preparation before going to the dungeons. There will be 6 followers that are designed to be available to recruit, but you only recruit maximum of 3 followers for a journey, and so you can change your followers team at one point in the future to fit the journey or the mission you will face.

To recruit a follower, you need to speak to Verren and you will asked if you want a follower to strengthen the team. If you want to proceed to recruit a follower, Verren will ask you for 1000 Crowns so he can buys a caravan for the follower you want to recruit.

In Rags to Riches update, there are currently 3 followers that introduced and recruitable for your caravan.

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Darrel

A smith and retired adventurer, an ex-follower of Verren's caravan team before the Monastery incident which led to the death of most of their friends. Darrel tried to find peace at Brynn, working and drinking the day away. To find Darrel you need to ask his info to Brynn's bailiffs, then ask the workers to get specific inn/tavern Darrel is staying. Talk and persuade him, then he will agreed and joined you in the Caravan Camp

Darrel's Caravan
Darrel's Caravan

Perks

  • Forced March
    • Pack-up Time -75%
    • Every 7 days, Darrel can be paid to instantly prepare the Caravan for the road, skipping its usual Rest.
  • Familiar Roads
    • Caravan speed +10%
  • Safe Routes
    • Caravan Trade Range +3
    • Ambush Chance -25%
  • Ingenuity
    • For a price, Darrel can increase the maximum Durability of a chosen piece of equipment by 25% (each item can only be worked on once)

Trade

  • Armor scraps and materials
  • Tools
  • Arrows
  • Repair with 100% price
Alda

Alda

If you ask Verren he will gives you info about a huntsman that he knew back in the day that lived far in the woods. If you want to recruit him Verren will gives a point of Ranger's Hut. But when you find the Hut, it's mostly riddled with traps and when you step on one of it, you will alerted the person inside the hut, a woman with a bow aimed to your head. Talk to her about your intention and she will tell you the huntsman is her father and he is long gone. If you persuade her, she will accept to join your caravan replacing his father duty or just to have more opportunity to find his father killer.

Alda's caravan
Alda's caravan

Perks

  • Reconnaissance
    • Every 5 days, Alda can be sent to scout the surrounding area. Alda returns in a few hours, providing leads to all Points of Interest withing 6 map tiles and often sharing some of her hunting trophies.
  • Terrain Knowledge
    • Caravan Range +20%
  • Hunting Secrets
    • Grants "Butchering" 20% chance to harvest pelts, regardless of the damage type used to kill the animal. Killing animals grants +50% Experience.
  • Ranger Brew
    • Every 3 days, Alda can be paid to provide a flask of a special brew. Consuming it grants the following effect for 1 day:

Trade

  • Meats
  • Herbs and natural medicines
  • Salt and other spices
  • Bedroll
  • Hunting trophies
  • Hunting tools
  • Camping Backpack
Leif

Leif

An old Dwarf, a warrior in the past, fellow mercenary Verren knows back in the day. Now he is a quartermaster of a Sentian Group, working his old body and scars to compiling goods and preparing supply for the group. If you want to recruit him, Verren advice you to find and persuade him from his current group which will be difficult. If you go to the Sentian Camp you will meet Leif and 2 bloodied Sentian people that probably his group. You stood there and hear that Leif has bad reputation as a bad omen to band of mercenary or any adventurers. There are many stories telling that he is always the sole survivor of any of their group he joined. Either because luck, wisdom, or cunning strategy, the Sentian company are not amused why they got ambushed despite Leif's warning. Their anger will also pointed at you, and you'll need to do what you do best, paid them or fight them. After you dealt to the Sentian warriors and mage, Leif will applaud of your fighting and ask why are you go so far for him. He will hear your reasoning and easily joined your caravan as your quartermaster.

Leif's Caravan
Leif's Caravan

Perks

  • Personal Training
    • Every 7 days, Leif can be paid (400 crowns) for a training session, which grants Experience and a special positive effect of choice for 1 day:
      • Strength
        • Weapon damage +5%
        • Armor penetration +5%
        • Bodypart damage +10%
        • Experience gain +5%
      • Agility
        • Counter chance +5%
        • Fumble chance -5%
        • Backfire chance -5%
        • Experience gain +5%
      • Perception
        • Accuracy +5%
        • Crit chance +5%
        • Miracle chance +5%
        • Experience gain +5%
      • Endurance
        • Energy restoration +10%
        • Cooldowns duration -10%
        • Experience gain +5%
        • Fatigue Resistance +10%
  • Proper Logistics
    • Fodder Consumption -10
  • Larger Stockpiles
    • Followers' Stock Size +25%
  • Supply Run
    • Every 5 days, Leif can be sent out for a resupply. Leif returns after a period of time based on the distance to the closest settlement, bringing back some fodder and replenishing his own and other Followers' stock.

Trade

  • Salted meat
  • Alcohols
  • Medical supplies
  • Ammunition supplies
  • Tools
  • Backpack

Trivia

  • Formerly the Caravan was called Caravan of Companions.
  • It is assumed that the player leads the Caravan in Stoneshard instead of Verren.


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