I won't be letting anyone in my village eat them.
. But I figured out how to survive the harsh winters with good planning and upgrades to my starter buildings, which means I can now focus on producing something more useful.
Researching and building stuff also costs gold coins, and I'm pretty cash-poor at the moment. After building a dock and upgrading it, trade ships visit a few times a year so I can sell my excess goods to the world outside my village. But I'm not happy with the profits. Most goods I'm producing—things like iron, lumber, apples, venison, and wheat—sell for 1 gold per unit. A couple others, like eggs, leather, and oats, sell for 2 gold per unit.
But that 7 gold per batch of cookies is so tantalizing. If I could roll out lots of cookies I'd be trading at a huge profit. And the trader ship can carry 300 units. Very suddenly I've invented my own quest, not just to bake and sell cookies but to fill an entire ship from stem to stern with 300 units of cookies. The trade ship will creak under the weight of my mighty baking! I will build a cookie empire. This I swear on the bodies of my dead, frozen peasants.
With new orchards I need new workers, so I pull some peasants off mining, woodcutting, transporting, and other important duties that seem less important now that I've got an image in my head of a ship filled with nothing but cookies. With my new farming brigade ready, I have to wait for them to prepare and plant the fields. Winter hits and I have to sit through that. Then I have to wait for the trees to grow. Eventually, I see blossoms on the branches.
The answer comes when I examine some of the houses in my village. Clicking a house will show you not just the number of residents, their happiness, and income, but the contents of the house. Bread. Fish. Apples. Coal. And yes, cherries. The cherries aren't getting into my cookies because they're going from the depot to the local market I built, and my peasants are buying them and taking them home to eat.
My other fear is Patron's off-screen king: he keeps messing with my economy. He's already added an extra 20% tax on venison exports, 5% on beer, and 6% on wheat. I don't want him taxing my cookie shipments, too, especially when I'm still trying to get my operation off the ground. Filling an entire ship to the brim with cookies won't be as sweet if the king is wetting his beak in my delicious cherry flavoring.
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