Hearth and Hamlet Quests: All 33 Main Story Steps

The Hearth and Hamlet quest system is a single 33-step main story line, but the free demo only opens the first 11 quests. Everything from quest 12 onward exists in the build 0.80 game files as later-game data and is not playable in Demo v1.0.46.

The short answer

• There are 33 main quests in the build 0.80 data
• The demo (v1.0.46) enables only quests 1 through 11
• Demo quests run from Set Up Camp to Reach 400 Population
• Quest 12 is the “obtain the full version” wall that ends the demo
• Quests 27–33 exist in the files but lack localized text (partial source)

How the quest sequence works

The main quests follow your settlement’s growth from a single camp to a defended, trading kingdom. Most early quests are gated by population or building levels rather than a single click: for example, Set Up Camp completes at town square level 2, and the town-square quest requires both 100 population and town square level 6. Each step asks you to push the town one stage further.

The Steam Next Fest patch notes confirm that the v1.0.46 demo added “1 additional main story quest” alongside first-time access to Gold. In the mined data that quest is Quest 10, the gold-across-the-river demand, which explains why older demo builds ended earlier than the current one.

The 11 demo quests (1–11)

These are the quests you can actually complete in Demo v1.0.46. The completion conditions come from the build 0.80 data, which matches the demo’s enabled set.

#	Quest	Completion condition
1	Set Up Camp	Town square level at least 2
2	Improve Your Campsite	Town square level at least 3
3	Gather Food and Expand Your Camp	Town square level at least 4
4	Build a Fisherman’s and Woodcutter’s Hut	Fishing level 2 and lumber level 2
5	Reach 50 Population	Population at least 50
6	Build the Town Square and Reach 100 Population	Population 100 and town square level 6
7	Reach 200 Population	Population at least 200
8	Build a Guardhouse and Train 5 Guards	At least 5 soldiers
9	Defend Your Village	Battle-triggered, no automatic condition
10	Pay the Soldiers’ Demands (acquire gold across the river)	Story-triggered, no automatic condition
11	Reach 400 Population	Population at least 400

Quest 9 is the first goblin raid and introduces the defense system, and Quest 10 sends you across the river for Gold after Ashenholt soldiers arrive demanding taxes. Those two quests are where the demo shifts from pure growth into combat and economy, which you can read about in the raids reference.

Quest 12 and the demo wall

Quest 12 is titled “Obtain the Full Version of Hearth and Hamlet.” Its text thanks you for playing and asks you to wishlist the game, which makes it the explicit end of the demo rather than a content beat. After the demo reaches 400 population and clears the gold demand, the story simply stops and points you to the full release.

Later-game quests (13–26)

These quests are present in the build 0.80 data as later-game content. They sketch the full-game arc from walled defense to a kingdom that defies the Ashenholt army.

#	Quest	Completion condition
13	Build Northern and Southern Walls	North and south wall level 2
14	Pay Ashenholt’s demands	Story-triggered
15	Trade with Distant Settlements	Story-triggered
16	Build an Academy and Research Blueprints	Purchase Advanced Building Design
17	Pay Ashenholt’s demands (again)	Story-triggered
18	Upgrade to Stone Walls	North and south wall level 4
19	Recruit a Wizard from the settlement	Story-triggered
20	Begin the ongoing food trade with the settlement	Story-triggered
21	Build the Witch’s Mire in the Swamp	Swamp level at least 3
22	Build a wizard tower	Magic level at least 3
23	Reach 1200 Population	Population at least 1200
24	Recruit a total of 100 Soldiers	At least 100 soldiers
25	Defeat the Ashenholt Army	Battle-triggered
26	Build a keep	Population at least 2000

The late sequence tells a coherent story: wall off the town, survive repeated Ashenholt tax demands, unlock trade and magic, grow past a thousand people, then muster an army large enough to refuse the old kingdom. Quests 20 through 22 are where magic enters the main line, gated behind a wizard, a swamp ritual, and a wizard tower.

Partial-source quests (27–33)

Quests 27 through 33 are defined in the extracted package, but their localized objectives and descriptions are missing, so the database marks them as partial source. Only their completion conditions survive.

#	Completion condition
27	Purchase Sacred Ground
28	At least 150 soldiers
29	Keep level at least 4
30	Church level at least 4
31	Town guards level 4 and at least 300 soldiers
32	Keep level at least 5
33	Story-triggered, no automatic condition

Because the text for these is absent, treat their names and narrative as to be confirmed even though the conditions are recoverable. The final quest ends the line with a story trigger and no automatic completion, which suggests a closing cutscene or reveal rather than a numeric target.

The video above walks the demo’s quest line in order, from Set Up Camp through the gold demand to the “obtain the full version” screen.

Demo vs full-game quests

The key version distinction is simple: quests 1–11 are enabled and playable in Demo v1.0.46, while quests 12–33 are later-game or partial-source data from build 0.80 that is not claimed as final. Do not read the later conditions as confirmed release content — they are a preview of the intended shape of the story, and the full game may reorder, rename, or retune them.

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Use the beginner guide to clear the opening quests efficiently, and check the mechanics reference for the population, housing, and battle rules that the quest conditions rely on.

Sources: Steam Next Fest patch notes · Hearth and Hamlet game database — quests · game database — quest 10