Side quests, with what each one costs you

What the table shows once you sort it

The region column follows the same names as the region map, which covers who holds each part of the valley.

Sort by cost and the shape of the game becomes obvious. 6 quests are free — Shadows in the Woods, Dead Drop, Enter Not, If a Tree Falls in a Forest..., Most Precious Thing, Stronger Than Achilles — so there is no reason not to do them. At the other end, Buried Past can run to 11 segments, most of a full day, and that is the only quest in the game that costs more than half a day at its worst.

The phase filter is the one that changes how you play. Only 16 of 46 quests are locked to a phase, and together they account for just 31–33 segments. There is no scenario where phase locking runs you out of budget; it just means you have to be in the right form when you go to start them.

Before you plan tightly

The table also covers A Bulwark Against Darkness, the armour quest that opens at Notorious. Two things are worth knowing before you plan tightly against these costs. They may still change. And a quest’s cost is reportedly sometimes charged in stages rather than all at once, so the number here is what the quest will cost you in total, not what disappears the moment you accept it.

Rows marked fixed in 1.0.4 were quest blockers in the launch build. If one still stops you, check you are on the latest build before assuming you did something wrong; the known launch issues list what each hotfix changed.

Where a cost varies with how you resolve the quest, it is shown as a range.

Some places go by two spellings — Svartra or Svartrau City, Rockfells or Rockfalls, Boarback Trail or Boar’s Back — and the table uses the second of each. Quests listed under Westridge Outpost may also turn up under Rockfalls.