Glossary

Life, Death, and You

A Hearthling forging metal

It is important to know when discussing the intricacies of Haven and Hearth, that nothing is permanent. Everything that is will eventually return to nothing, and that's okay.

Death is an important part of this game, and for some, the most important part of the game. Fear of death, or the excitement of taking life, are driving factors which affect every part of the game. Learning how to work with these factors is key to understanding the game.

Hearthling

All player-made characters are called Hearthlings. Hearthlings start out as Floating Orbs of Purple Energy, and must choose a form and a name before they are burned into the world. Hearthlings start with base attributes of 10, and abilities of 1. A hearthling, much like a human, must Eat, Learn, Rest, and Die. While progressing through the game, not only will your hearthling become more experienced, but you as a player will learn tricks and secrets throughout your time playing Haven and Hearth.

Due to the turbulent nature of this game, it is best to jump right in and start Discovering what this game has to offer.

Life

The Spark of Life

Creating a Hearthling and spawning in the world is an important first step to play Haven and Hearth. Character creation is more complex in haven than in other games, however, and there might be a few important steps you might miss. Be sure to change your hair style and name your character. If one of your ancestors has passed away, you are able to inherit his skills and abilities, granted the proper steps have been followed.

Some quick steps:

• Travel north, following the path to the river
• Following the right path will make you male, Following the left path will make you female
• Visit the reflecting pool to choose your hair style and color (this is permanent)
• Talk to the wizard to name yourself
• Interact with the fire to burn yourself into the world

(Optional Steps)

• Visit the graveyard to inherit your ancestor's skills
• Interact with the skull pole to choose Where to Spawn

Death

A farmer paying his respects

Dying is part of the game. Whether you Swim out too far, Get mauled by a bear, or get cut down by your fellow hearthling, it is best to be prepared for the sweet embrace of death. Death, however, is not the end. While you have lost that Hearthling forever, you can create another and receive a portion of the skills and experience of your deceased ancestor.

If your Hearthling dies, you have several options at your disposal to lament your long lost relative.
Bury your Ancestor
If you have your body, you may bury him to make his passing into the next life easier.

• Not performing any burial rites will net you 15% of your LP and FEP (Base)
• Burying your skull without your body will net your 25% of your LP and FEP (10% extra)
• Burying your body without your skull will net you 35% of your LP and FEP (20% extra)
• Burying your whole intact body will net you 45% of your LP and FEP (30% Extra)

Have your People Celebrate your Life
If you were popular amongst your citizens, maybe they will organize a state funeral for you.

• State funerals grant 45% of your LP and FEP without having to bury a body
• This, however, is an expensive option for the most powerful of warriors and diplomats

Honor your Ancestors
If you are diligent and pray often, perhaps your ancestors will forgive your misdeeds and grant you knowledge and wisdom.

• Lamenting the Departed is another substitute for proper burials of deceased ancestors.
• Every time you Lament your departed ancestor, until the maximum inheritance (45%) has been reached, you inherit a percentage (6% per use) of his Attributes & Abilities.
• The Numen cost of lamenting increases by two every time you use this ability.

Important Notes

• Characters cannot be inherited until eight hours after his or her birth
• You may spawn on your ancestor's Hearth Fire in case it was not destroyed.

Character Sheet

The Character Sheet is where you can learn the most about your character. Essentially, everything about your character is displayed in these menus. this includes stats, skills, quests, and combat moves

Base Attributes

Attributes

Attributes are the most basic stats in Haven, and are gained through eating food and receiving Food Event Points (FEP). Attributes can be both buffed and debuffed by various mechanics in the game, such as wounds, equipment, and certain Activities

Food Event Points

The FEP bar displays the current amount of FEP you have for a specific attribute, as well as how many points are needed to gain another attribute point. Generally, the number of FEPs needed to gain a new attribute is equal to your highest attribute value. For instance, if your highest attribute is strength at 30, then you will have to consume 30 FEP to gain a new attribute point.

Food Satiations

Food Satiations are simply the percent of FEP you will receive from the base food you consume. Every food item falls into a specific food category and has a chance to satiate a food category. As such, the more of a specific type of food you eat, the fewer FEP you will receive from that food. If you have four Food satiations under 50%, the lowest satation will reset to 100%. Food Satiations can be relieved by drinking certain beverages. the maximum Satiation bonus you can receive from drinking beverages is 125%

Drink	Buff 1(Q10)	Buff 2(Q10)	Buff 3(Q10)	Preferred Vessel	Made From	Satiation Debuff
Tea	Forage 1%	Bread 0.5%	Food 0.1%	Mug	Green and Black Tea Leaves	Tea
Milk	Vegetables 2%	Berries 1%	None	unknown [Verify]	Aurochs, Cow, and Sheep	Dairy
Beer	Sausage 1%	Meat 0.5%	None	Tankard	Barley Grist, Wheat Grist	Beer
Wine	Cheese 1%	Fruit 0.5%	None	Wine Glass	Grapes	Wine

Hunger Level

Each food has a hunger value that adds to your hunger level when eaten. Each hunger level has a lower "Food efficiency" bonuses, but takes less time to return to a lower hunger level. The hunger level of food is a flat rate unaffected by quality..

Hunger Level	Food Efficiency	Time to lose 1% hunger	Time to lose 100% hunger	Variety Bonus	Variety Example @15 max stat
Ravenous	300%	2 hours	200 hours	1.097	28.3%
Famished	200%	1 hour [Verify]	100 hours	0.894	23.1%
Hungry	100%	20 minutes	33.3 hours	0.632	16.3%
Content	90%	10 minutes	16.67 hours	0.602	15.5%
Full	50%	3 minutes [Verify]	5 hours	0.447	11.5%
Stuffed	25%	46 seconds	1.25 hours	0.315	8.1%
Overstuffed	10%	7 seconds	0.19 hours

Abilities

The abilities page details your learned abilities, as well as earned [Glossary#Experience Points|Experience Points]] and Learning Points. on this page you can also manage your study report, which is where you study Curiosities

Abilities

Abilities are your Learned skills, and as such are bought using Learning Points. All abilities start at 1, and cost:
$100LP*(currentlevel+1)$
Learned skills are nonrefundable, so choose wisely. Like Attributes, Abilities can be buffed or debuffed by Wounds and Equipment

Study Report

The Study Report is a 4x4 mental inventory, sometimes referred to as your 'mentory', used to study Curiosities at the cost of Experience Points to gain Learning Points. things to know:

• Studying curiosities is a passive activity and will occur automatically as long as curiosities are in your mentory.
• Your Attention is equal to your intelligence, and determines how many curiosities you can study, determined by the curiosities' mental weight.
• You cannot have two of the same curiosities in your mentory at the same time.
• A Personal Claim Bond is kept in your mentory in order to upkeep its presence
• Once an object is finished being studied, you will receive its learning points and the object will dissapear

For more information, see the Curiosity page

Lore & Skills

Lore & Skills is where you spend learning points to buy Skills. These skills enable the ability to create and participate in certain activies, such as the ability to hunt and the ability to build boats. Skills are heirarchical, and as such, you must progress through certain skill trees before you can buy higher tiered skills. For example, before you can buy Mining, you must first purchase Stone Working.

Skills available for purchase are listed under the Available tab. Skills available, but too expensive to purchase are listed red.
Skills purchased are displayed in the Known tab.
Experience Events you have discovered are listed in the Lore Tab.

Martial Arts & Combat Schools

Martial Arts & Combat Schools is where you build, save, and examine your combat cards. Combat cards can be discovered by defeating animals in combat, as well as learned from other players.

Things to know:

• Drag and drop cards into combat slots to equip them. each combat deck can hold up to 10 different cards.
• each card has a value of one point, and each deck may have up to 30 points worth of cards.
• You may stack up to 5 of the same card in one deck. Each stacked card adds extra power to the move.
• You may have up to 5 different combat decks saved, for quick switching between decks.
• cards 1-5 are activated with keys 1-5. cards 6-10 are activated with SHIFT+1-5

Health & Wounds

Wounds are semi permanent damage taken through various activies in the game, most notably combat.

The Wounds menu displays your current list of wounds, their effects, and how to heal them. Some wounds may heal on their own, while some might need special medicine or treatments to cure them. The number displayed next to each wound indicated the humber of Hard Hitpoint damage you have received from that wound. When your Hard Hitpoints reach 0, you die. Generally speaking, wounds will not heal unless you have 8000+ Energy

Quest Log

Your Quest Log displays your Current, Completed, and Failed Quests. Clicking a quest will display quest objectives both in menu and on screen. Having an active quest will display an arrow to the quest givers.

Equipment Screen

Equipment Screen

See Category:Equipment for all equipable items

The Equipment Screen is where players can equip their character with items that will help them flourish in the harsh world, or just look pretty. These items include weapons, armor, clothing, jewelry, tools, and healing items. There are 16 slots for equipment. Some items take up multiple slots, e.g. the Bear Cape that takes up both the headwear and cape slots, and the Pickaxe that takes up both hands. Equipment slots are unfortunately not labelled or indicated by any sort of picture in-game, making it confusing for new players to know what each slot is for. Players thus label the equipment slots using a code that combines which side of the equipment screen the slot is on and how far it is from the top, e.g. 5R is the fifth slot from the top on the right side.

Slots on the Equipment Screen

1L	Headwear				1R	Necklace/Accessory
2L	Shirt				2R	Chest Armor
3L	Gloves				3R	Belt
4L	Left Hand				4R	Right Hand
5L	Ring				5R	Ring
6L	Robe/Cloak				6R	Back
7L	Pants				7R	Leg Armor
8L	Cape				8R	Footwear

Inventory

Your character's inventory is where all items are stored, this is different from the Equipment Screen in that items are not worn on the character.
Your character starts out with a 4x4 inventory grid which can be expanded upon by equipment, adding horizontal or vertical rows of inventory space.

Inventory expanding equipment include:

 Birchbark Backpack --- expands inventory by one vertical column
 Leather Backpack   --- expands inventory by two vertical columns
 Traveller's Sack   --- expands inventory by one vertical column and one horizontal row
 Merchant's Robe    --- expands inventory by one horizontal row

It is important to note that these equipment bonuses stack. For example, wearing a Birchbark Backpack and a Merchant's Robe would modify your inventory grid to 5x5. Thus by wearing a leather backpack, merchant's robe, and two traveler's sacks inventory space is 7x8

Important Note: As of world 10, Verified Players receieve one bonus row and subscribed players recieve one bonus row and column, for a total of 5x5 inventory

HUD

IMPORTANT: Pressing the spacebar on the default client will hide your HUD!

The Heads Up Display (HUD) provides important information about your character's current status.

Hitpoints

Hitpoints are divided into three categories, indicated in the mouse-over as SHP/HHP/MHP.

• SHP
  • Soft Hitpoints. When this reaches 0, your character is temporarily knocked unconscious. If your energy is over 8000, SHP will recover over time, capped by your current HHP
• HHP
  • Hard Hitpoints. When this reaches 0, your character dies. You can see what is lowering your current HHP in the Health tab of the Character Sheet. Some wounds will heal over time, others may require direct intervention, and yet others may not have any current healing methods.
• MHP
  • Max Hit Points. Your HHP can never be greater than this number. It can only be increased by eating certain Foods that increase your Constitution attribute.

Stamina

Indicates how tired your character is. This goes down as you perform various activities, eventually making your character move slower as it goes below certain levels. Over time, your stamina will recover by taking points from the energy bar. It can also be recovered by drinking beverages, such as Water and Tea. Increasing your Constitution will reduce the drain to your stamina bar when using tools or swimming.

Stamina %	Limitation(s)
< 50%	Cannot run at 4th speed.
< 29%	Cannot Dig.
< 25%	Cannot run at 3rd speed.
< 10%	Can only crawl.
< 5%	Cannot walk.

Energy

Energy is a measure of how much work your character can do. The stamina and health bars are refilled by the energy bar. Energy is mainly consumed when you drink water to replenish the Stamina.You can get more energy by eating food.

If your energy is 8000 or above, your energy is in "healing" state. This will regenerate your SHP.

If your energy is 5000 or below, you are unable to do hard labor such as digging soil or mining.

If your energy is 2000 or below, you will Starve, which will slowly drain your health.

If your energy is 0, you will start rapidly losing HHP and die very quickly.

Speed

Speed is how fast your character moves. Generally, the faster you move, the more stamina you consume. Certain Terrains determine how fast you can run at any given time.

From left to right:

Crawl	1.5 tiles per second.
Walk	3.0 tiles per second.
Run	4.5 tiles per second.
Sprint	6.0 tiles per second.

Kith & Kin

Kin Shortcut: CTRL + B

The Kin is the love-heart button. You can add new friends here, view your current ones and quickly see their online status.

In the Hearth Secret textbox, you can create a hearth secret. When you want to make friends with people at long-distance, give them this secret and they will then be your friend, or "kin". Likewise, if somebody gives you their secret, type it in the right text area next to the one you make your own secret in. Note that Hearth Secrets are tied to your hearthling, not to your account.

You can also right click a Hearthling, "Memorize" them, then right-click "Add Kin"

The candle next to their name on the list is their online status - a lit candle is online, whilst an unlit candle means offline. However, if somebody dies, their candle will disappear.

Setting kin colors is an important feature which allows you to group kin and assign privileges, such as theft or tresspassing on Personal Claims or Village Claims

Kin Menu

In the Kin Menu, you can:

• See the online status of kin signified by a lit or unlit candle.
• Invite online kin to a party.
• Privately message your kin.
• Set your own Hearth Secret.
• Add others via Hearth Secret
• Set a Kin's color (Default is white)
• Set a Kin's Display name (For your hearthling only)

As you progress through the game, you may also find yourself cheiftain of a Village or ruler of a Realm. Both of these are also managed through the Kith & Kin Menu, through their respective tabs

Group Party

A party is a group of players that are able to communicate to each other through a private party chat where each party member is assigned a color.

You can invite a player to your party if you are not in a party or if you are the party leader, and this will make you the party leader. When you leave, another player in your party is assigned party leader, and you can also reassign party leader manually by right-clicking a party member. When the party is reduced to one member, the party chat closes.

Things to know:

The amount of party members you can have is limited by your Charisma. [Verify]

Party members have full access to each other's personal claims, so be careful who you add to your party.

Colored arrows point towards the positions of party members

Colored minimap markers give you their exact position

You can see the portraits of party members on the left side of your screen

Clicking a portrait will make your charcater move towards them

Combat

Combat in Haven and Hearth is built around the deck system, with players building a deck of attack, defense and ability cards which are then drawn and selected by the player.

Unarmed Combat

See Unarmed Combat for a more detailed guide.

Unarmed combat is the first close-quarters style of fighting.

Melee Combat

See Melee Combat for a more detailed guide

Melee combat is fighting with a sword and shield or axe.

Ranged Combat

See Ranged Combat for a more detailed guide

Ranged combat is the simplest technique. Simply equip a Hunter's Bow or Sling,

Experience Points and Learning Points

Experience Points

Experience Points are obtained through Experience Events and Quests and are used by hearthlings for a number of tasks, including:

• Performing Hearth Magic
• Studying Curiosities

Experience Events are not limited, and can be randomly activated throughout your daily activities. The amount of Experience Points received is a good indicator of how often you can activate that event. For Example, Quenching Thirst can be activated very often, while Fragrance of Flowers may only activate every few days. In this fashion, it is recommended or encouraged to perform a number of varied activities or often go exploring to activate these events as often as possible.

• You can check which event you haven't done in Character Sheet under Lore & Skills by clicking on Lore.
• It's worth noting that by using Hearth Magic, you may end up with negative Experience Points when any Curiosities in your Study finish.
• Members of a Realm may be allowed to withdraw Experience points from the Realms bank to use as they will.

Learning Points

Learning Points are used to buy Abilities, skills, and Property. You can currently earn Learning Points (LP) in three ways:

Disovering new objects

• For example: picking your first branch off a tree will give you some LP, digging soil, clay for the first time will award you LP. This is the main source of LP for a new character.
• Some actions that generate large sums of LP:
  • Picking tree products: branches, bark, fruits and seeds, boughs
  • Picking forageables such as Spindly Taproot or Blueberries
  • Fishing - every type of fish caught will give you some LP
  • Side Note: Items your ancestors have discovered won't give you Learning Points.

Curiosity System

• Curiosities are items that can be crafted, foraged, caught, or created as a side effect of doing certain activities. They are studied over time in your Study Report, and will give you LP after completion. They will also consume some experience points.

Killing Animals

• Hunting and killing animals in combat gives a small amount of LP, roughly equal to how much damage your character inflicted on the creature
• Do note that the amount of LP received will reduce if you continuously kill the same creature.

Quality

See Quality for more detailed information

Almost all items, as well as many game-world objects, have a quality factor Q, which may range from 1 to ∞, with a standard default quality for most objects of 10 -- for example, all natural-growing trees are Q10.
In general, higher Q items are simply better: high Q weapons do more damage, high Q food provide more FEPs, high Q armor provides more protection.

The in-game effects vary from item to item, with some items like buckets and barrels not having any effect at all. Where quality matters, it usually takes the form of the quality multiplier QM:

$QM={\sqrt {\frac {Q}{10}}}$    

This multiplier is 1x for Q10, 2x for Q40, 3x for Q90, 4x for Q160, and so on. It is a nonlinear increase, which means that it becomes harder and r multipliers. Since Q10 has a QM of 1x, in many places on this wiki you will just see stats given for Q10 objects. You should assume this unless the wiki page you're reading says otherwise.

Softcap

Softcap is a term describing the effect of an ability or attribute on the quality of a product.

Softcaps are put into effect when the quality of a product would be higher than the skill in question. The quality of said product will then be averaged with the softcapping skill level to get the products final quality.The softcapping skill may be a single attribute or skill value, or a combination of several. If the expected quality of the product will be lower than the softcapping skill, the quality will remain unchanged.

Note:

• If more than one stat softcaps a product, the stats combine with a geometric mean, not an arithmetic mean. Ergo: used softcap value = sqrt(stat1 * stat2), rt3(stat1 *stat2 * stat3), etc.
• Quality of built objects is solely determined by the quality of their parts. Softcaps do not apply.

Example:

You are creating a Treeplanter's Pot with clay of average quality 36. However, the quality of a Treeplanter's pot is softcapped by Dexterity.

Thus:

If your Dexterity is greater than 36

Resulting pot will be Q 36

If you Dexterity is less than 36

Resulting pot will be Q (36 + Dex) /2

Hardcap

Similar to Softcap, Hardcap is a term describing the effect of an ability or attribute on the quality of a product.

Hardcaps take effect when the quality of a product would be higher than the hardcapping skill. The quality of said product will be limited to the hardcapping skill's level.

Example:

You are creating a Treeplanter's Pot with clay of average quality 36. However, the quality of a Treeplanter's pot is hardcapped by Dexterity.

Thus:

If your Dexterity is greater than 36

Resulting pot will be Q 36

If you Dexterity is less than 36

Resulting pot will be equal to your Dexterity

Miscellaneous

Maps and Tiles

Haven's basic unit of length measurement is a tile. Roads are paved in 1x1 tile sections, houses take up a certain area of tile, and maps are divided into tile sections.
The mapping tool on your default client works similar those found on custom clients, with the exception being you cannot export the default client's map.
Generally Speaking, your hearthling can load a total of two minimaps around them. They however can only physically see items/objects/creatures in an area slightly smaller than a minimap.

Map structure:

• Minimaps = 100x100
• Local maps = 500x500
• Regional maps = 2500x2500
• Supergrid = 5000x5000

Day and Night Cycle

The Day and Night cycle functions similar to the real world, except roughly 3 times faster (exactly 3.29 times faster). This means every 24 Haven hours are equivalent to roughly 8 Real hours. Day, Night, and time in general serve important functions in Haven. The most notable effect is the absence or presence of Light. Day is four real-life hours, while night is the same. Sometimes at night there will be less light than usual, this is because the moon follows a Lunar Cycle. On a new moon there will be barely any light. When night falls a hearthling will be forced to light fires or any other Light Sources to be able to see.

Along with dynamic lighting, other features are dependant on time. These include:

Certain items spawn at certain times, such as the Dewy Lady's Mantle

Certain Experience events can only be activated at certain times.

Certain Fish spawn at certain times.

Many activites are behind time gates to ensure balance playing, such as:

Curiosities, Silkfarming, Tree farming, Smelting ore, and more.

Decay

Decay is a system of deterioration of structures, commonly measured in Decay Hits (although the measure itself isn't very specific).

There are four main Decay patterns that can be observed:

• Resilient Structures: These items do not decay at all if placed on paved ground within Personal Claim or Village Claim with authority. This category includes all immobile structures and most containers (Cupboard being notable exception).
• Indoor Structures: These items are safe from decay only if placed inside buildings or caves/mines, wherein they will not take any decay hits. This category includes most moveable structures and some containers.
• Fields and Terrain: Sometimes referred to as decaying, these actually transform into different terrains. Specifically Tree radius (and so tree-cutting and planting) and field plowing enables such changes. It happens regardless of claim coverage.
• Carcasses: These always decay, there's no way to prevent it. All unprocessed or skinned carcasses are subject to it.

Decay hits are completely random. Currently there is no good way to measure when decay hits will happen.

Quote from Jorb:

Jorb November 7th, 2010: "Decay Is gone. For everything that stands on a claim, with the exception of things that need to stand on pavement (Immobile structures), which will still decay if they are placed on a non-paved tile. (A claimed kiln will decay if built on dirt for example). Portable stuff that should typically be placed indoors still decays while outdoors. For example: Anvil, Wardrobe, Cupboard, Spinning Wheel, Loom, Meat Grinder, Coinpress. That may or may not be all."

Soak

Soak is a value assigned to buildings that determines how resilient they are to attack. This value is subtracted from all incoming damage to the building in question. In order for an attack to have any effect at all, it must deal more damage than the soak value of the building being attacked. For example, aggressive boars and bears deal more than 25 damage per attack. Therefore, can damage and potentially destroy any building in their way with a soak value of less than 25.

Easy way to calculate minimal required strength to destroy an object with soak:

$(soak+1-tool)^{2}$= required strength

Where tool is: 1 (Axe), 2 (Pickaxe), 4 (Sledgehammer), or 20 (Battering Ram). Note that rams can be operated by multiple characters, further lowering required strength. [Verify]

See the Property:Soak page for all items with some soak data.

Size

How many squares an object takes up. The first number refers to the x or horizontal direction, the second to the y or vertical direction. When talking about objects, size refers to how much inventory space it takes up, whereas when talking about structures it refers to the number of tiles it occupies.

Fuel

Fuel comes in a variety of forms. Some items can only use certain types of fuel, others can use any form. Each type of fuel burns for different lengths of time, called a "tick" One tick has a length of approximately 4 minutes 50 seconds. The exception being the Steel Crucible, where one tick is 40 minutes long.

Fuel is used to power a variety of items.Cauldrons, Alloying Crucibles, Kilns, Ovens, Ore Smelters, Finery Forges, and Steel Crucibles all require different amounts of fuel.

The forms of fuel with the number of ticks are:

 Branch           -- 1 tick
 Coal, Black coal -- 1 tick for Ore Smelters, Steel Crucibles and Finery Forge, 2 ticks for all others 
 Coal, Black coal -- 2 ticks for all others 
 Block of Wood    -- 5 ticks
 Tarsticks        -- 20 ticks