Guide to Laborer and Housing System in Albion Online

13/12/2019 16:28

Housing in Albion Online is about building things up. Building your own house is a big part of that experience. However, Albion housing system isn't going to be only about having a house that is decorated, that has no purpose but to be beautiful. Therefore the developer team developed the laborer system which is going to fill your house with life, it fills it with purpose, it gives you something to do with your player house.

How Laborers and Journal Work

Laborers can perform a variety of tasks for you, and this is to allow you to suit them to your playstyle. So if you're a gatherer, you probably want to fill your house with gathering laborers. People who cut wood, or gather stone, or gather iron ore. To give a task to a laborer, you will need to give them a journal. A journal is an item you can acquire in an empty state from the laborer himself. So a woodcutter, for example, will be selling you woodcutting journals. And when you then go out and collect wood yourself, every time you do it a note will be put into the journal.

When you've you've got a nice full journal full of notes, then you take it back to your laborer and say, “Here's my notes for the day, go do something useful with this.” And they'll follow your notes, and go and cut down trees themselves and bring you back some more wood. You probably want to pick a laborer that matches the kinds of things you normally do in the game. If you do a lot of gathering, like you cut a lot of trees down, a wood cutting laborer would be really good for you, a lumberjack. If you mine a lot you want a mining type laborer. If you craft, there are crafting laborers. And if you spend a lot of time hunting the various factions in Albion, you can hire a mercenary laborer who will do that for you as well.

How to Leveling Laborers

Laborers level up by performing tasks. The more tasks they do, the more experience they will gain, and once they've gained enough experience they will be ready to level up. By upgrading your laborers, they will perform better, they will give you more resources for each task you give them, and they will be able to give you better resources. Leveling them up, however, comes at a cost. They will rise in their expectations. They will require better furniture, better decorations to be happy, because they now feel they deserve it.

Increasing Laborers Happiness

Much like in real life, you need to keep your workers happy in Albion online. If you've got some laborers then they're going to have certain requirements. They're going to want a decent bed and a decent table.

However, there are a lot of ways to go beyond this. For example, by placing trophies which are specific to the laborers interests, you can increase their happiness. A mercenary, for example, will be very interested in martial trophies. So if you have weapons or armors displayed on the wall, he will become happy. A woodcutter will be more interested in samples of woods or small saplings that you place in the house, and therefore your house will start to reflect the types of laborers that you have in them.

If your laborers are unhappy, then as they lose happiness, which happens over time, they will start to return less from their jobs, they're not working as hard, they're not as motivated, they're not as effective. Below a certain point, they just won't work for you anymore. They'll stay in your house, but they won't go out on jobs because they're just not getting a good night's sleep and they don't feel up to it.

One of the interesting things about the way the laborers are set up is that they can't just replace you doing work yourself. If you aren't doing anything, you're not filling journals, then the laborers can't work without you, without your notes. Remember that laborers in Albion Online are not just a passive income source; it's a multiplier on what you're already getting.