Workers & professions

Who runs buildings and how fast they work

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Workers & estate · EA5

How workers & professions work

Workers run production buildings, community upgrades, trade booths, and your ship.

Where workers go

Estate buildings

Produce goods on your estate. Match the right profession and specialist. Training raises production speed up to 250%.

Community buildings

Assign workers to construct shared town buildings, including the endgame statue.

Academy & Library

Academy and Library train or pair workers. Each class takes 12 hours.

Market booths

Your personal booths in town. Assign Salesmen and Bargainers to sell. Other workers can sell there too but less effectively.

Guild Laboratory

Organizers help learners earn research points faster. Researchers generate blue vials for your tech tree and building unlocks.

Ship & Captain

Only the Captain commands the ship. Faster repair, battles, and moving goods between estates and towns.

Worker traits

Dexterous

~10% roll

Build speed 150% on any building construction.

Build estate and community buildings faster.

Intelligent

~10% roll

Learn and teach 150% faster at Academy, Town Library, and guild Laboratory.

EA6 (16 Jun 2026): Smart/Intelligent bonus drops to +25% instead of +50%. Confirm on your server after launch.

Strong

~10% roll

Strong workers haul 3 goods per trip from the start. Normal workers carry 1. Five carry upgrades in the tech tree add 1 each. Fully upgraded caps are 6 for normal workers and 8 for the Strong trait.

A second trait is possible on about 5% of workers.

Town recruitment

Each town level up, pick one of three random workers. Specialists, Captain, Salesman, or Bargainer. Reroll one slot for 20 pearls. Each reroll costs 20 pearls more.

Production speed tiers

Training at Academy or Library moves a worker up one tier. Each step adds 50% production speed.

Wrong profession

100% to 150%

Worker is on the wrong profession for this building. Starts at 100%. Can train up to 150%.

Right profession, wrong specialist

150% to 200%

Correct profession family but not the named specialist. Pioneer starts at 150%. Can train up to 200%.

Building specialist

200% to 250%

Named specialist on the matching building at 200%. Academy training reaches 250%. Pioneer never passes 200%.

Stack manifests, mayor bonus, rest bonus, and building upgrade ×% on top of these tiers.

For building unlock, roads, and delivery rules see the production buildings guide. Browse every specialist in the worker reference cards.

Where workers learn

Academy and Library raise production tiers. Guild Laboratory earns research points. Each class takes 12 hours.

Town Academy

Train workers across professions while off assignment. Each class takes 12 hours.

·Rotate specialists off production while they train.
·Intelligent trait speeds teaching and learning.

Town Library

Pair workers in the same profession line. Different specializations trade skill. Identical pairs earn research points. Each class takes 12 hours.

·Cannot pair across professions.
·Intelligent trait speeds teaching and learning.

Guild Laboratory

Organizers speed RP for learners. Researchers generate blue vials for your tech tree. Each class takes 12 hours.

·Organizer slots: 3. Researcher learner slots: 10.
·Intelligent trait helps lab throughput.

Utility and trade roles

Pioneer, Captain, Salesman, and Bargainer sit outside the specialist grid.

Pioneer

Generalist that covers gaps until specialists arrive

Flexible production, seller and construction

150% production speed and can reach 200% while learning at Academy. Cannot learn at Library. Can construct and sell at market booths but less effectively.

Can learn / do

Academy training from 150% to 200% on matching profession lines.
Can learn booth selling speed 150% to 200%, selling price 100% to 105%, and ship regen 100% to 200%.
Fill estate production buildings while waiting for the right recruit.

Limitations

×Not offered in town level up recruitment.
×Uses the general profession skill, not the building specialist skill.
×Cannot reach 250% production. Only named specialists reach 250% after Academy.

Captain

Only worker who can command the ship

Ship command, repair and sailing. Main skill regenerates ship health.

Ship regeneration base 200% up to 250%. Can teach regeneration to other workers up to 200% and to other Captains up to 250%.

Can learn / do

Command the ship for battles and moving goods between estates or towns.
Fastest ship health regeneration from 200% to 250%.
Teach regeneration speed to crew. Others up to 200%. Captains up to 250%.
Can learn estate production from 100% to 150%.
Can learn booth selling speed 150% to 200% and selling price 100% to 105%.

Limitations

×Only the Captain can command the ship.
×One Captain per player. Keep on the ship.
×Can sell at market booths but less effectively than Salesman or Bargainer.

Salesman

Fastest market booth selling

Market booth selling speed

Assign to market booths. Base sell speed 200% up to 250%. Other workers can sell in booths but less effectively.

Can learn / do

Teach selling speed to other workers up to 200%. Salesmen up to 250%.
Manifests and town upgrades can stack on booth sales.

Limitations

×Rare recruit at town level up. Pick or reroll with pearls.
×No estate production role.

Bargainer

Higher prices at market booths

Market booth selling price

Assign to market booths. Base selling price 120% up to 125%.

Can learn / do

Teach selling price to all workers from 100% to 105%. Bargainers from 120% to 125%.
Can learn selling speed 100% to 150% and production 100% to 150%.

Limitations

×Hard to recruit. Better odds at early town levels when the worker pool is small.
×Booth focused. Not for estate production.
×Other workers can sell in booths at lower effectiveness.

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