Farms, campfire, forge, nine pets
Sanctum stronghold
Steam marketing calls it a stronghold of allies; Steam achievements name the player home the Sanctum. The live loop is craft, cook, farm, and recruit, then walk back into Mirkea. Official stills document three stations: a farm with chicken coops and quarry plots, a Campfire cooking UI with Burrow Broth and Concentration, and a Forge upgrade UI for a Lifebloom Polished Band. Workshop requires a Workbench, an Alchemy Table, and a Woodfire Stove. Nine Lives requires nine pets. Those stills pair with the achievement-named stations: farm, Campfire, and Forge.
Farms and production
Green Thumb harvests your first crop. Industrialist builds 7 different production buildings. The still shows chicken coops and quarry plots with a minotaur on the path, so your 3x3 pairing walks this yard rather than a separate town.
Campfire
Cooking UI lists Burrow Broth, throwflasks, and Concentration beside health and stamina. This is the rest-and-meal station, not a second forge. Rest, eat, and walk back into Mirkea; no published recipe book exists beyond that frame.
Forge
Tinkerer upgrades a combat item for the first time. Permanent Edge maxes a combat item. The captured UI names a Lifebloom Polished Band. Those upgrades travel if they are equipment; the building that made them does not.
Nine companions
Moon Cat
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. EA news says 9 unique pets; Nine Lives unlocks 9. Keep the row until Mudtek publishes a live list.
Silver Cat
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. Count contract is the EA news 9-pet line.
War Cat
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. Faithful Companion unlocks the first pet of any species.
Ember Hound
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. Species grouping is Cat, Dog, or Bird from that table.
Hound
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. Not a first-party portrait dump.
Fangra Cub
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. Keep it in the nine-count until Mudtek publishes a live list.
Frost Owl
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. The magic-burst still shows a blue bird in combat, species unnamed there.
Parrot
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count.
Blight Crow
Name listed on wiki.gg for the nine-pet count. Completes the nine-count used by Nine Lives.
Achievement-named workstations
Tools of the Trade is any first crafting station. Workshop then names Workbench, Alchemy Table, and Woodfire Stove. Patron maxes a facility. Wayfarer's Gate builds a waypoint. Industrialist builds seven different production buildings. Those five achievements are the skeleton: a first bench, a three-bench workshop, production variety, a maxed facility, and a waypoint. MacGyvered It is the first crafted item, which may happen at whichever bench you placed first. Tinkerer upgrades a combat item once; Permanent Edge maxes one, matching the Forge still of a Lifebloom Polished Band. Upgrade materials beyond that named band are unpublished. Drop a first station, finish Workshop’s three benches, harvest once for Green Thumb, then decide whether the Forge or another production building is your seventh Industrialist structure.
What stays when you join a friend
Hero level, equipment, inventory, and spells travel. Story, recruited allies, and buildings stay per world. A Lifebloom Polished Band that is gear goes with you. Chicken coops, a waypoint, and Sanctum Society’s five NPCs stay in the host Sanctum. Play Industrialist on the world where you placed the seven buildings. A New Ally and Sanctum Society put people into this space, which is why the extras banner talks about a stronghold of allies rather than a lonely crafting menu. EA news says Early Access adds 9 unique pets; Nine Lives unlocks 9 and Faithful Companion unlocks the first. wiki.gg lists Moon Cat, Silver Cat, War Cat, Ember Hound, Hound, Fangra Cub, Frost Owl, Parrot, and Blight Crow as community-derived names grouped Cat, Dog, or Bird, until a first-party pet list appears. The magic-burst still shows a blue bird in combat, unnamed there, so it is not used to relabel Frost Owl or Parrot. Keep pet unlocks on this page because the achievement set files them next to recruitment and crafting rather than next to spells. For the opening walk that first unlocks these benches after Lost Caverns, use First Steps. For hosting, peer-to-peer, and the not-an-MMO rule, use the co-op page. Build order in Early Access is therefore: drop a first station, complete Workshop’s three named benches, plant something for Green Thumb, then decide whether the Forge or a production building is your seventh Industrialist structure. Cook Burrow Broth at the Campfire, upgrade a Lifebloom Polished Band at the Forge, and unlock pets toward Nine Lives. A minotaur walking the farm path in the official still is a reminder that production is not a separate town from the 3x3 pairing you created. Recruiting NPCs through A New Ally and Sanctum Society puts people into this yard, which is why Steam markets a stronghold of allies rather than a lonely crafting menu. Pets overlay the same fights: Faithful Companion unlocks one and Nine Lives unlocks nine. The nine names below stay a community-derived count contract, not portraits. Do not treat a later first-party pet page as nine new URLs; replace the names in this ledger.
