Job: Stablehands

Stablehands maintain the village stable yard where owners board pets and mounts. Skipping care hurts companion happiness, which lowers owner board fees and stablehand commission.

• Daily paymeta player tokens for upkeep and yard work (see Pay & RP for in-character flavor)
• Monthly commissionmeta tokens from owner board fees when you care consistently (20+ days/month)
• Any stablehand in a village can care for, train, or groom any stored or for-sale companion in that village's yard
• Owners upgrade active pets with tokens; fund training and grooming by gifting items to a stablehand in their village
• Villages without stablehands see faster happiness decay when care is missed (−5/day vs −3/day)

• Stablehand jobPermanent — Job Vouchers cannot be used for Stablehand
• Home villageRudania, Inariko, or Vhintl — where you work, not where you are traveling
• No signup commandYour profile is created when you first use /stable care or /stable train
• Daily cooldownOne /stable care per stablehand per day — resets midnight Eastern

• `/stable care`once-daily care for your village's whole stable yard
• `/stable train`once-daily training per boarder in your village yard
• `/stable groom`mount appearance changes using owner-gifted items

• A companion's yard: stored → owner's home village; listed for sale → listed village
• All stored and for-sale companions in a village share one yard
• Multiple stablehands in the same village all work the same yard
• Only one /stable care roll per village per day — whoever runs it first cares for everyone

Each character has their own stall storage under My Companions. Pets and mounts share those slots — you cannot fill every slot with only mounts or only pets.

Capacity depends on the character's home village level: level 1 → 3 stalls · level 2 → 4 · level 3 → 5. That is separate from the village yard stablehands work in — owners store companions into the shared village yard, but slot limits are per character.

• Storeboards a companion into the owner's home village yard where any stablehand there can care for it
• Retrievetakes a companion back as your active pet or mount
• List for salelisted companions move to the listed village yard
• One active mount and one active pet per character — you cannot have an active companion and the same one stored
• Cannot store a companion already listed for sale
• If home village loses a level, overflow stalls become locked (no retrieve or sell) until level recovers — oldest stored companions keep the accessible stalls first
• See boarded companions and village stablehands on Village Stables

Happiness ranges 0–100 (default 70 when stored). See Pets for treat items, roll bonuses, and active-companion decay.

• 80+Happy · 60–79 — Content · 40–59 — Restless · Below 40 — Unhappy
• Companions below 40 skip /stable train that day
• If no stablehand in the village cared yesterday: −3/day when stablehands exist · −5/day when none
• Owners can boost stored pet happiness with /pet treat

On the 1st of each month (Eastern), owner board fees autopay from each owner's token balance for every stored slot from the previous month. Base fee: 100 tokens per slot, adjusted by average happiness.

If an owner can't cover the full bill, the system deducts what it can and records the remainder as board debt — balances never go negative. They must clear debt on My Companions before retrieving or listing stored companions for sale. See Stables → Fees for the full owner billing guide.

• Stablehand commission40% of base slot fee (~40 tokens at full rate) — needs 20+ care days that month, split among qualifying stablehands
• Board debtOwners who couldn't pay in full at autopay owe the remainder — companions stay stored but retrieve/list are blocked until they Pay on My Companions
• On the 15th, owners averaging below 50 happiness may get a mid-month warning

Stablehand daily wages and monthly commission are meta — they credit player tokens to your Discord account automatically when you run commands and when owners pay board fees. Think of them as the village ledger keeping the job viable in gameplay, not a sack of coins your OC is physically carrying home from the stable.

In the world of Roots, stablehands are compensated through goods and services arranged between players. The bot does not enforce how you flavor that — you and your scene partners decide what “paid” looks like in RP.

• Meta (automatic)Town-hall wages from /stable care and /stable train, plus month-end commission from owner board fees — all land as player tokens
• In-world (player-arranged)Meals, lodging, mended tack, forge work, produce, favors, art/writing commissions, or a cut of a boarding agreement — whatever fits your village and character
• Supplies on the jobOwner-gifted training items and groom offerings via /economy gift *are* tangible in-world goods your stablehand spends when they train or groom — stock your inventory through RP trades, gifts, or gathering
• Owner board fees are also meta tokens (owners pay on the Dashboard / monthly bill) — RP that as stable dues, livery invoices, or village tax however you like
• You are welcome to describe commission as a town-hall stipend, a shared tip jar among village stablehands, or a handshake deal with a rancher who boards through your yard — the token numbers track the mechanic; your prose carries the flavor

The Stablehand job is permanent and cannot be accessed through Job Vouchers. See Jobs & Vouchers for general voucher rules on other jobs.