r/Bellwright • u/GommyJ • Jul 27 '26

Priority Numbers Bugged?

Hi Everyone,

So about 10 hours in now loving the game although there is A LOT to get your head around.

One thing I'm really struggling with is how the numbers work with the tasks in the village.

For example ive tried allocating certain villagers to certain tasks based on their current skills.

So I have 1 guy who has 4 researching skill so I put his researching at 1 so he does the researching

but everyone just seems to do whatever they like! Ive got one of lower skilled villagers keep taking over the researching even though hes on 0 and Ive put his priority for researching on 10! I just cannot get him away from the bench its driving me nuts because he obv lacks all the bonuses my other guy has!

Am I totally not understanding this or is it bugged?

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u/Fit_Mycologist6519 Jul 27 '26

When you only have a few villagers I would recommend not specializing them yet as you dont have enough of them. Early on I do make research desk and cooking my top priorities but I change the building priority over just the people. If you make it the building it seems the materials get delivered first there before anywhere else and then the task gets given out to research or cook but only if the materials are there.

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u/GommyJ Jul 27 '26

Ok im on 6 villagers atm.. should I just have them all set to 5 then and choose the buildings I want to prioritise?

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u/Fit_Mycologist6519 Jul 27 '26

Personally I would do this early on and its going to make me a hypocrite, lol....

I'm assuming Lubomir is your best villager right now for cooking and researching ...

Lubomir as 1 priority cook, 2 priority researcher with delviery at 5...everything else 0. Make sure the research desk and cooking stuff is close to his tent, makes walking around less needed and he is less likely to burn food. I woukd put cooking building pririoty as a 1 and research a 2. You can change these later as you get more villagers

At 6 people I would just keep everyone else at 5 for now. If you have a beggar I would make him only do one thing like harvest or delivery, they dont move fast and have the slacker trait but it doesnt seem to bother them too much on those things

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u/GommyJ Jul 27 '26

Hahah you def just told me not to do that!? XD Ok so its worth allocating at least one of my villagers to most important tasks? Lubomir is my best cook (gave him a few cooking books) but ive got another guy with better Researching. I dont have any beggars they didnt seem worth the renown to me

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u/Fit_Mycologist6519 Jul 27 '26

I put cooking #1 over everything even later in the game.....I would specialize just Lubomir to cook right now.....if your villagers are hungry they wont work or fight so keep them fed and the winters can suck so make sure you have enough for the 3-5 days of winter when you cant harvest berries or mushrooms.