Island Conditions

An island shows you how it is governed. Pack in more people than you have roofs, moor more hulls than the harbour can berth, or catch a rival's curse, and the island develops a condition: a visible, named state with a cause, a cost, and a cure. Conditions are never random. They are consequences of the situation you created, and they clear the moment the cause is gone.

Settlement & Life

Population, food, and happiness — the numbers conditions grow from.

Units & Berths

The harbour and barracks capacities the over-cap conditions watch.

Shrine, Blessings & Curses

Curses appear in the same list, and the shrine mixes their cures.

Where You See Them

Two places, both on the island itself. Your advisor raises every negative condition when you are viewing your island, each with a View button that opens the full account. And the Island State section in Settlement → Overview lists them: how serious each is, what is causing it, and — for a curse — the way to the cure. Tap any entry for the detail: what caused it, what it is doing, and what to do about it.

Notices Only, For Now

Conditions currently cost you nothing. They are notices: they name what is wrong and what would fix it, and they clear when you fix it. Nothing on the list drains mood or coin yet.

That changes in a coming release, and this is the notice that grants you the time. Once consequences are switched on, a condition will pass through stages — Warning (no penalties yet), Serious (its effects apply), and Severe (they worsen) — with mood slipping by the hour and trade income cut on the affected island. You will always be told before you are charged: the Warning stage is exactly that warning. Put your islands in order while the list is only a list.

Fix the Cause, the Condition Lifts

No decree or payment clears a condition directly. Fix the cause and it lifts on its own, promptly: raise Housing and overcrowding eases, thin the fleet or raise the Harbour and the choked harbour opens, shed the surplus war engines and the weathering ends. The island re-checks itself whenever you visit and once each morning.

Master Quill: Margin note

Islands below settlement rank are spared the ledger entirely — a young colony has enough to worry about. And a condition that clears will not return the same day over a wobble; the island gives you that much grace.

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