How to settle adventurer?

[Honorable_D]

I seem to have even lost the special adventurer you can choose to start with...cause they leave after their patience drops low I assume?

I think you need to build favor? But I have no idea how to do that, the most favor any current adventurers have is like 3 points...

[Keshire]

Favor goes up from giving them better stuff (equipment/bloodline/materials/manuals). Later on you can upgrade the ship to max out their patience so that they get to enough favor naturally without doing anything.

Once they are ready to settle you get a world message for it. You can go into the guild building and there's a tab for all adventurers waiting to settle. That's where you actually do the settling also.

For me I've seen them instantly max out favor by switching all their gear to the next tier.

[Honorable_D]

Okay, so early on I must click on them and spam them with items and upgrades?

Where do I get these things or do they just cost gold and basic resource? Bear in mind I am very new to the game, only played a couple hour and furthest I am is building crafting table and quarries.

[Keshire]

Could have sworn you build the Weapon and Armor building in the tutorial?

If you haven't, get those two and the trader researched/built. Loot that adventurers pick up show up in the trader. I think you can build green tier equipment at the start which is better than the default white tier gear starter adventurers show up with.

Later you can build weapon and armor stores that you can sell the equipment in so that adventurers will take care of themselves. But to start with you have manually go into the characters and click on their equipment to change it out.

[Ironcinder]

They also gain favor by completing bounties that you set. In the bounty creation popup, with the + signs to add an adventurer, there's a gold reward and an EXP award, and then underneath that it says that 'adventurers will gain X satiety for completing this bounty' (or words to that effect). "Satiety" here should be translated as "favor".

For any adventurer you really want, like a purple with a good bloodline, then the 'Boss' bounty grants 50 favor, and it's very useful. I'm the "Treasure Island" map, getting the King Crab boss to spawn is fairly easy and a decent way to trigger a settlement request, if your adventurers can kill it.

Bounties gives more favor if they're higher rank, so a few S-rank "Kill" bounties of easy mobs are a good way to get adventurers' favor up.

Failing that, bribe them with gear! When you preview an item to give them, it tells you how much favor they'll get.

They also gain favor when they use the services in your city, so it's worth allowing them time to take a break (although their needs are gated by the level of your leviathan).

[Honorable_D]

I found the fastest and easiest way is to do an explore bounty at some distant area...then as soon as they pick it up, place another one and reassign them. Just do this over and over, if you place it far enough it is worth 9 favor in exchange for just 500 gold. You can get peeps max favor in just a few min spamming these.