Ventures

Ventures are a massed activity that the entire clan gets together to perform. At the start of the Ride Like the Wind, you can only do one venture per year, but after finishing the clan hall, you can perform two a year. In Lights Going Out, you may perform two ventures per year from the start of the game, but this can change later in the game. You may not perform the same venture twice in one year, and ventures might not succeed, or might only partially succeed. As in most other things in Six Ages, you must select one of your nobles to lead the Venture, and part of your success will depend upon the skills of the noble involved, as well as what, if anything, you spent magic on during Sacred Time. Some treasures, spirits and blessings may also increase your chance of success, while factors such as the clan's general disposition may have a positive or negative effect.

If you struggle with ventures, consider sacrificing for Nyalda's Cooperation blessing, putting magic into Harmony at Sacred Time, or bargaining with a Copper spirit for help.

Please note that some of the effects, most especially for Magic associated, are still speculative. The information in the "Tests" column is taken from the game logs.

Venture Name	Available In	Effect	Tests	Magic/Treasures Associated	Special Notes
Ceremony	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Adds to magic. Makes rituals easier	Magic vs. Divine	Ritual, Flint spirit, Fire Rune; Shamans and Tricksters get penalty	Depending on degree of success, adds 0 to 2 Clan Magic and makes rituals easier for around a year. Failure may waste a point of magic instead.
Clear Pastures	Ride Like the Wind	Removes the Limited Pastures Stress at the start of the game; makes herding easier	Farming vs. Bullheadedness	Pastures, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?	One of the ventures necessary to complete the Clan Hall. Only do once. Cannot fail, but poor performance might lead to some people becoming wounded.
Clan Hall Decorations	Ride Like the Wind	Necessary to complete clan hall	Treasures vs. Difficulty	Crafting	Can fail, seems to fail more often than other ventures. Necessary to complete Clan Hall. Only performed once. Costs a default of 50 goods, although good performance can lessen this.
Clan Hall Feast	Ride Like the Wind	Necessary to complete clan hall.	Food vs. Difficulty	Harmony	Can fail to actualize if food stocks are low. Necessary to complete Clan Hall. Only performed once.
Clan Hall Sacrifice	Ride Like the Wind	Necessary to complete clan hall. Can improve mood.	Magic vs. Divine	Ritual	Necessary to complete Clan Hall. Only performed once.
Combat Training	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Makes your warriors more effective in battle	Combat vs. NotBloodyLikely	War; Humakt and Osara devotees get bonus	Requires more than 10 Swords available.
Crafting	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Creates Goods	Deception (Bargaining + Leadership) vs. Selling	Crafting, Trade Wind spirit?, Fly in Amber, Orstan's Saw	Usually makes 20-25 goods. Requires 10 goods.
Craft (special) Item	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Creates more goods than crafting	Deception (Bargaining + Leadership) vs. Selling	Crafting, Trade Wind spirit?	This is actually several different ventures, such as "Craft Ebony Items" or "Craft Ivory Items". In every case, it requires you to have discovered one of the craftable items on your clan lands through a previous exploration. Repeated crafting of the item will exhaust your stocks of whatever it is, at which point you can no longer perform this venture.
Convert Pastures to Fields	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Removes Fields Stress from continual use, improves crops.	Farming vs. Bullheadedness	Fields, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?; Nylada and Ernalda devotees get bonus	Cannot fail, but poor performance might lead to a morale stress. Is usually necessary every 5-6 years.
Defense	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Helps protect against raids	Combat vs. NotBloodyLikely	War, Mother Bear Totem, Elmal devotees get bonus
Denounce the Cenala Heresy	Ride Like the Wind	Helps dispel belief in the Cenala story	Mythology vs. Openness	Diplomacy	The reverse of Spread the Cenala Revelation.
Entertain	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Improves clan morale	Poetry vs. Despair	Harmony, Otter Totem
Expand Fields	Ride Like the Wind	Removes Limited Fields Stress at the start of the game, and improves your crops.	Farming vs. Bullheadedness	Fields, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?	One of the ventures necessary to build the Clan Hall. Only performed once. Cannot fail, but poor performance will create a morale stress.
Feast	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Improves clan morale	Husbandry vs. Despair	Harmony	Requires at least a week's worth of food. Can fail if food is too low. If you have Nyalda's Hospitality blessing you can perform this multiple times in one year, and even do it if you have already done the maximum number of ventures.
Feast Neighbors	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Improves clan morale and relationship with neighbors	Husbandry vs. Despair	Harmony, Diplomacy, Goat Totem	Requires at least four weeks worth of food and Nyalda's Hospitality blessing active at that moment.
Finish Houses	Ride Like the Wind	Removes No Houses Stress, which can cause greater levels of disease	Husbandry vs. Bullheadedness	Harmony, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?	Only done once a game. Requires 25 goods.
Fletchery	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Produces arrows, making it less likely for you to run out in battle	CombatLore vs. NotBloodyLikely	War, Porcupine Totem	The arrows are enough for one or two extra "Skirmish" actions each battle. Lasts about one year.
Foraging	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Gathers food from wildlands.	Foraging (Food+Lore) vs. Elusiveness	Wilds; Inilla devotees get bonus, Chipmunk Totem	Less effective in Dark Season. Brings in food throughout the year.
Guard the Herds	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Makes herd raids less likely to succeed against you, guards against certain negative events, gives herds and sometimes gives horses	Hunting (Combat+Food) vs. Elusiveness	Pastures; Shadowcat Totem, Busenari, Uralda and Voriof devotees get bonus
Herding	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Increases herds and to a lesser extent, horses	Herding (Food+Leadership?) vs. Elusiveness	Pastures; Busenari, Uralda and Voriof devotees get bonus, Cow Totem	The degree of success influences the number and type of animals you receive; you will not gain horses if you only narrowly succeed. If you fail, the noble leading the venture will be injured, but you will still receive around ten cows.
Hunting	Ride Like the Wind Lights Going Out	Hunt for food in wildlands	Hunting (Combat+Food) vs. Elusiveness	Wilds, Wolf Totem	Less effective in Dark Season. Brings in food throughout the year. Effect seems identical to Foraging, but different skills are tested.
Recruit Clan Members	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Adds to your population	Leadership vs. Schadenfreude (RLtW) or vs. Selling (LGO)	Diplomacy, Trade Wind spirit (LGO)?	Adds around 5-15 clan members, plus around half as many children, the exact number depending on your degree of success. The venture is unlikely to fail completely, but on a low success level your clan will complain that you adopted the dregs of the other clans.
Repair Berenstead	Lights Going Out	Removes some of the damage done to Berenstead	CombatLore vs. Chaos	Horn of Urox	Success depends on the leader's skills. You will only be told of the result after several seasons (up to a year). You will have craft stress during this time because some of your crafters will be repairing the wall instead of making trade goods.
Repair Houses	Lights Going Out	Remove Damaged Houses stress	Husbandry vs Bullheadedness	Harmony, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?	May be necessary after certain events. Requires 25 goods. If the venture fails, you will lose a small number of goods and the houses will remain damaged.
Restore Pastures	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Combats Overgrazing stress	Farming (Food+Lore?) vs. Bullheadedness	Pastures, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?; Busenari, Uralda and Voriof devotees get bonus	Often will take several years to work even under best conditions, and in the meantime, your herds will die in droves. In Ride Like the Wind, use the Busenari Light Finder ritual instead in all but the most dire situations. In Lights Going Out, sacrifice to Uralda and/or bargain with a Needle Grass spirit to speed up the process.
Rite Against Gorp	Lights Going Out	Organizes a mass rite to cure a clan's gorp infestation	Diplomacy vs. Skepticism	Urox and Gamari devotees get bonus	Only available after an event in which a gigantic gorp appears in another clan's lands.
Rite To Remove Gorp	Lights Going Out	Organizes a mass rite to remove gorp from an abandoned territory	Diplomacy vs. Skepticism	Urox and Gamari devotees get bonus	Only available after an event in which a gigantic gorp appears in another clan's lands.
Scour for Bandits	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Removes Bandit Threat Stress	Exploring vs. Elusiveness	War, Hawk Totem; Osara devotees get bonus	A failed venture will not suppress any bandits (unless you have the Hawk Totem).
Scour for Chaos	Lights Going Out	Removes/lessens Chaos Threat Stress	Exploring vs. Elusiveness	Combat, Storm Bull Token; Urox devotees get bonus	Needs a shrine to Urox and at least 10 Swords. The leader will take a large number of warriors (usually around 10 Swords and 10 Bows) and leave for several seasons (up to a year). Failure may result in some (or even most) of your party (including the leader) being wounded or killed.
Search for Spirit Rocks	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	"Pleases the Spirits", can remove Spirit indifference, makes it easier to catch spirits or bargain them into doing what you want	Exploring vs. Elusiveness; Shamans get bonus	Ritual, Owl Totem,Yeleni Buzzard Charm
Share Exploration	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Increases your standing among other clans	Gifting vs. Credulity	Redalda's Map; Gamari devotees get bonus	Not available before your explorers have found something interesting to talk about. Failure will leave the other clans unimpressed by your discoveries.
Smash Statue	Lights Going Out	Destroys statue of Ragnaglar that has appeared in your clan's lands	Mythology vs. Chaos	Horn of Urox	Only appears if you choose the "labor to smash the statue" option during the events Hunters Ragnaglar Statue or Ragnaglar Statue Emerges.
Spread the Cenala Revelation	Ride Like the Wind	Converts unbelieving clans to Cenala worship.	Mythology vs. Bullheadedness	Diplomacy, Lion spirit?, Whistling Wind spirit?	Seems to very highly correlate with whether or not you successfully completed rituals recently. Also somewhat seems to depend on the number of Cenala clans already around, it's easiest to convert a few holdouts.
Spirits Against Gorp	Lights Going Out	Organizes a mass spirit call to cure another clan's gorp infestation	Diplomacy vs. Skepticism	Shamans get bonus	Only available after an event in which a gigantic gorp appears in another clan's lands.
Spirits To Remove Gorp	Lights Going Out	Organizes a mass spirit call to remove gorp from an abandoned territory	Diplomacy vs. Skepticism	Shamans get bonus	Only available after an event in which a gigantic gorp appears in another clan's lands.
Trade	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Trades for goods	Bargaining vs. Selling	Diplomacy, Trade Wind spirit, Trade Rune	Often gets about 20 goods.
Trap for furs	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Traps for valuable furs and increases goods.	Hunting (Combat+Food) vs. Elusiveness	Wilds, Beaver Totem	More effective in Dark Season.
Worship	Ride Like the Wind, Lights Going Out	Increases the number of supportable temples	Prophecy vs. Divine	Ritual, Flint spirit, Magic Rune; Shamans get penalty	Can work for multiple years, or only one, or fail and cost you magic.