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Town orders

The harbour, where the first town order will light the quays.
The harbour, where the first town order will light the quays.

The town clerk posts orders: the town needs something to build. Everyone brings what they can; when an order is filled, the town builds it, and it stays in town unless the town changes it.

Update, 29 September 2026. We drew every build on the real town before starting, and some of the first list changed: a few would have covered things that were already there (the fountain already has its stone bench, the lighthouse its copper bands, the bridge its railing). The list below replaces the earlier one. The fountain order now asks for lily pads instead of stone bricks, if you had set stone bricks aside for it, they'll still be welcome elsewhere. The order sizes also changed (see below).

How it works

  1. Find the clerk, “Town orders”, on the east wall of the town hall's entrance hall. The sign on the right-hand column shows how far the orders have got.
  2. Click the clerk: a chest opens. Put the goods in and close it. Anything the orders don't need comes back to you. (You can also type /order in the town hall.)
  3. When an order is full, everyone who helped gets a small keepsake, and a few minutes later the builders put it up. It shows on the web map too, under “Built by the town”.
The clerk's chest: put the goods in, close it to deposit.
The clerk's chest: put the goods in, close it to deposit.

How big is an order?

An order asks the same amount from each active player, so it grows with the town. The count is taken over the last two weeks and fixed when the order opens. One player can bring at most a tenth of an order (more when only a few players are around), so it stays a town effort. There's no Ember reward: the new build is the reward.

A delivery counts towards the order hats from 6 items (or 5 % of a small order): three orders for the Forager's Basket, eight for the Woodland Hood.

Up to two orders run at the same time. An order that isn't filled simply carries on. When a season starts, its seasonal order takes the second place, and the order that was there waits, with everything already brought, until the season is over. A new order usually follows on the Monday after one is built.

This season's orders

The order below is a guide, not a promise of dates. The two first orders, Light the quays and Flowers for the port, open the season.

Previews of the twenty town orders, drawn on the real town
A preview drawn on the real town, each build may still be adjusted before it goes up.
#What the town buildsWhat to bring
1Four benches along the square's east–west walkoak logs
2Lily pads on the fountain, ferns in pots on its landingslily pads
3White banners with a red border on the three model shopswhite wool
4A smooth stone mosaic on the town hall walk, and pots of flowerssmooth stone
5Benches, planters and a lectern at the bandstandoak stairs
6A birch porch over the market boardbirch planks
7Two stone benches outside Books & Mapspolished andesite
8Kelp bales and mooring bollards on the lower quaystring or dried kelp blocks
9A purple curtain at the back of the theatre's stagepurple wool
10A pulley crane lowering crates to the lower quaychains
11A little roofed shelter halfway along the path to the Old Oakoak or spruce fences
12Red and white buoys on the riverwhite or red wool
13A curved dark oak bench at the foot of the Old Oakdark oak logs
14Benches and copper spyglasses at both ends of the belvederecopper ingots
15Dark stone sills in front of the Nether Gatebasalt, blackstone or cobbled deepslate

Seasonal orders, put up, then taken down

SeasonWhat the town puts upWhat to bring
Autumn (1 October – 30 November)Pumpkins and hay bales on the squarepumpkins or hay bales
AutumnJack o'lanterns along the path to the Old Oakcarved pumpkins or jack o'lanterns
Winter (1 December – end of February)A winter market on the square: two little fir trees and braziersspruce logs
WinterThree snowmen around a frost lantern at the east gatesnow blocks
Spring (1 March – 31 May)Pots of tulips along the belvedere railingtulips, any colour

Seasonal builds come down by themselves in the night after their season ends, with no compensation; your keepsake stays yours. A seasonal order that isn't filled by the end of its season closes without being built; what was brought isn't returned, but it still counts towards the hats.

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