Profession

NOTE: This article deals with profession assignment specifically. For details on work and workplace mechanics, please review Labor

A Profession is a specialist job held by any Villager.

All professions have a Building to serve as their place of work, with three critical exceptions:

Child	Displayed as children or adolescents in the 'population details' tooltip. Children do not become available for work assignments until reaching adolescence. Children join the workforce immediately upon reaching adolescence until a school is built, after which they remain unavailable to work until completing their education. Graduation from the School can happen before adolescence is reached in most cases. Children that attend a school receive Basic Education, increasing their workplace productivity upon joining the workforce and allowing them to work as a Healer, Apothecary, or Teacher.
Builder	A group of villagers tasked with construction of new buildings and hauling goods to construction sites. This is not a continuously occupied profession, villagers are pulled from the Laborer pool until reaching the assigned limit. If there are no available build sites, villagers return to the laborer profession after a short time. Settlements start with a default limit of four builders, but this limit can be increased or decreased as needed from the Profession menu. 100 is the upper maximum of the Builder limit able to be set by the player.
Laborer	All citizens of working age not assigned a specific job are automatically added to the pool of laborers by default. Laborers harvest wood, stone and manually marked forageables, as well as clear build sites for construction. It is recommended to keep a minimum quantity of 10-12 unassigned laborers in your settlement to ensure the speedy flow of goods and a ready workforce for harvesting lumber and stone. This minimum increases as your settlement expands.

Upon completion of a new workplace Building, villagers from the laborer pool are automatically assigned to an unoccupied workplace slot and thus a specialized profession.

If there are no laborers available to allocate, the occupation slot in the workplace Building will instead have a '+' sign that opens a new interface when clicked, allowing the player to re-assign a villager to this role from another specialized profession.

In addition, some workplaces may have adjustable Occupancy, allowing the player to increase or decrease available workspace slots as needs demand.

A final note, specialized professions do not backfill over time upon the death of an assigned villager. In this case, it is necessary to go to the Profession Management menu (hotkey: P) to assign additional villagers from the laborer pool.

Profession Management Interface

Annotated example image for the Profession Management menu (Hotkey: P)
1. Count of available Laborers not assigned to a specialized profession
2. Count of assigned Builders vs available Builder slots
3. Interface for increasing or decreasing maximum allowed builders
4. (Magnifying glass) Click to go to one of the villagers assigned to the corresponding profession

Professions

Icon	Profession	Building	Produces	Notes
	Apothecary	Apothecary Shop	Medicine	Produces medicine to aid in Villager recovery. NOTE: Requires basic education to assign.
	Arborist	Arborist Building	Fruit Fruit Trees	Plants designated fruit trees and harvests fruit when available. Non-arborist Villagers also harvest fruit for personal use.
	Armorer	Armory	Shields Hauberks	Creates armor for use by Military professions.
	Baker	Bakery	Bread	Bakes bread at an alarmingly quick rate.
	Basket Maker	Basket Shop	Baskets	Creates baskets, increasing carry capacity for all villagers.
	Blacksmith	Blacksmith Forge	Tools Heavy Tools Weapons	Creates weapons for use by hunters and Military professions.
	Boatmaker			<information unknown>
	Brewer	Brewery	Beer	Brews beer for use in Pubs.
	Brickmaker	Brickyard	Bricks	Creates bricks for use in buildings and upgrades.
	Builder	Construction Sites	Work (towards building construction)	Only the maximum number of potential builders is set through the profession screen. Laborers are temporarily drafted into this role while building projects are available and are released back to the labor pool when there are no more tasks to do.
	Chandler	Candle Shop	Candles	Creates Candles from Wax for Villager consumption.
	Charcoal Maker	Charcoal Kiln	Charcoal	Creates Coal for use in primarily Foundries, Brickyards and other tier 3 buildings which take it as an ingredient.
	Cheesemaker	Cheesemaker	Cheese	Converts Milk into Cheese for a significant increase in spoilage lifespan.
	Child			Children do not perform work, but may pursue education if a School is available. (This is not an actual profession.)
	Cobbler	Cobbler Shop	Shoes	Produces Shoes from pelts, both satisfying villager needs and preventing illnesses.
	Cooper	Cooper (Building)	Barrels	Produces barrels, each barrel can reduce Spoilage in certain Storage buildings by extending resource lifespan by 5% per barrel.
	Farmer	Crop Field, Apiary (does not create workplace slot)	Crops (generally)	Works fields and apiaries, harvesting and planting crops, performing field maintenance, and collecting goods from apiaries.
	Fisherman	Fishing Shack	Fish	Pulls fish from bodies of water for consumption or smoking.
	Fletcher	Fletcher Building	Bow Arrow Crossbow	Creates ammunition and ranged weaponry for your Hunters and Military professions.
	Forager	Forager Shack	Various forageables	Foragers collect raw resources on the map, such as Willow and Blueberries
	Foundryman	Foundry	Gold Ingots Iron Ingots	Converts Ores into Ingots usable in other production.
	Furniture Maker	Furniture Workshop	Furniture	Creates furniture which serves as a luxury Villager good and enables Shelter upgrades.
	Glassmaker (Profession)	Glassmaker (Building)	Glassware	Creates glassware which serves as a luxury Villager good, enabling Shelter upgrades. Glassware is also used to create preserves.
	Grocer	Market	Gold	Stocks marketplaces with goods for distribution, stocks in-range Shelters with goods. NOTE: As of 0.8.0 patch, this profession now works as intended.
	Guard	Lookout Tower	Damage via ranged weaponry	Utilizes bows/crossbows and arrows towers to aid in Town defense.
	Healer	Healer's House		The healer provides healing services to Villagers. NOTE: Requires basic education to assign.
	Herder	Barn	Pelts Meat Tallow Milk	Manages cow herds and performs milking and culling tasks.
	Hunter	Hunter Cabin	Pelts Meat Tallow	Hunts and traps wildlife for Meat, pelts and tallow. Also serves as unofficial defense against attacking Raiders at no gold cost.
	Laborer	None	Harvests Stone and Logs when commanded, also hauls materials between buildings.	General labor for the player Settlement. All unassigned villagers that can work join this profession automatically.
	Miller	Windmill	Flour	Converts grain into flour for baking bread.
	Miner	Clay Pit Coal Mine Gold Mine Iron Mine Sand Pit	Clay Coal Gold Ore Iron Ore Sand	Extracts raw resources from the respective map nodes.
	Nightsoil Collector	Compost Yard	Fertilizer	Converts waste from Shelters into composted fertilizer that can be used to fertilize Crop Fields.
	Potter	Potter Building	Pottery	Produces pottery, a resource that supplies a villager need and enables a level of upgrades for Shelters.
	Preservist	Preservist Building	Preserves Preserved Vegetables	Converts fruit, berries, and root vegetables into longer-lasting preserves.
	Publican	Pub	Gold	Works the Pub, producing happiness and selling Beer to villagers.
	Rat Catcher (Profession)	Rat Catcher (Building)		Controls and eliminates rodent populations, preventing grain/flour destruction and rodent-based Maladies.
	Sawyer	Saw Pit	Planks	Converts Logs into Planks, a resource used for construction of several tier 2 and above buildings.
	Smoker	Smokehouse	Smoked Meat Smoked Fish	Converts raw meat and fish into their smoked equivalent, greatly increasing lifespan of the respective foodstuffs.
	Soap Maker	Soap Shop	Soap	Produces Soap, a basic Villager amenity that also reduces spread/likelihood of several communicable disease Maladies.
	Soldier	Barracks	Damage via Ranged or Melee weaponry	Defends your village against attacks from Raiders and Invading Armies. Uses any categories of Armor, ranged and melee weaponry.
	Tanner	Tannery	Hide Coats	Produces hide coats, used for prevention of animal-related maladies during hunting and wildlife attacks.
	Teacher	School	Villagers with basic education	NOTE: Requires basic education to assign.
	Trader	Trading Post	Gold	Hauls goods to and from the Trading Post for sale or storage.
	Wainwright	Wagon Shop	Wagons	Creates and drives wagons for resource pickup at remote sites.
	Weaver	Weaver Building	Linen Clothes	Produces linen clothes for your villagers, helping prevent disease and providing resistance against cold weather.
	Firewood Splitter	Firewood Splitter (Building)	Firewood	Produces Firewood for Logs, essential for keeping your villagers warm during winter.
	Work Camp	Work Camp	Stone and Logs	Replaces manual marking of Trees and Stone for harvest, workers will harvest resources available within the work area. Can be set to only harvest mature trees for sustained output.