Chapters and Dynasty Reputation

The closest thing to a progression spine. Ten journal chapters that pay Dynasty Reputation and raise your build limit, and the reputation gate that controls how big your village can grow.

At a glance


No boss gate	Progress runs on chapters, reputation, skills, technology, and the seasons.
Chapters	Ten numbered journal quests. Each pays reputation, many raise the build limit.
Reputation	The master settlement gate. Higher reputation lets you recruit more villagers.
Banishment	Reach -10,000 Dynasty Reputation and you are banished. The game ends.

Dynasty Reputation measures how popular your dynasty is in the valley, and it gates how big your settlement can grow. Chapters are the structured path that pays most of it.

Dynasty Reputation

Gain it by completing chapter quests, story quests, and side quests. Chapters give the largest chunks.
Lose it by being caught stealing (small loss), killing a farm animal in a village, failing a timed quest, or not paying taxes. Missing taxes costs 1,000 reputation (a large loss).
Find it in the Management tab.
Hard floor: -10,000 reputation banishes you and ends the game.

The ten chapters

Each chapter is auto-added to your journal, not handed out by an NPC. Before Chapter I you must finish “Starting a New Life” with Uniegost in Gostovia to unlock building. This list is sourced from Valley guides; the Oxbow may differ.

#	Chapter	Reputation	Build limit after
I	A New Beginning	15	5
II	A Survivalist	30	unchanged
III	Good Morning My Neighbors	75	10
IV	Into the Wilderness	150	unchanged
V	A Farm	375	20
VI	The Resourcefulness	750	25
VII	Starting a Community	1,125	35
VIII	A Big Game	1,500	45
IX	Newcomers	2,500	unchanged
X	The Dynasty Continues	5,000	65

Build-limit jumps are attached to specific chapters; some chapters raise reputation without raising the cap. The build limit also depends on your overall reputation level. The exact mix of chapter reward versus reputation level is not fully pinned down in the sources.

The dynasty and heir

Chapter X requires a wife and an heir. Marry by raising affection to 100 percent and proposing; she moves into your house.
Pregnancy lasts three seasons (nine months), with birth the following season, then about two years as a caring mother before the wife returns to work (per TheGamer).
When a child turns 18 they become your heir and take over the village when you die. This is the multi-generation hook.

Watch out for

Skipping “Starting a New Life” and being unable to build.
Overspending and having no coin for Spring taxes, costing 1,000 reputation.
Getting caught stealing, which dents reputation (and flags the goods as unsellable in that town).
Letting reputation slide so far it threatens the -10,000 banishment floor.