Bathhouse

Bathhouse exterior

**Bathhouse** is one of the main locations in Spirittea.

The **bathhouse** is an ancient spirit building hidden up in the mountain, and it's up to you to clean it up, fix it, and fill it full of customers! Once the spirits are in the bathhouse, you'll need to clean towels, chop wood to heat the baths and seat the spirits with their friends for the ultimate bathing experience. Each spirit has their own preferences so you'll need to get to know them all and upgrade the bathhouse to become the best bathhouse keeper around.

1. To keep your bathhouse running, you'll need to:Keep the bathhouse and towels clean - Grab your trusty Broom and Ceiling Broom to sweep away the dust and cobwebs, and collect up all your used towels from the entrance, you'll need to keep everything clean, dry and organised.
	* Collect dirty towels from the towel basket at the entrance, and carry them to the Overgrown Kitchen. Put them in the washtub in the top left, wash them, and then hang them to dry on the rack in the top right. Towels will only dry if the Boiler is fueled. Once they're dry, return them to the green bamboo mat at the entrance for spirits to use.
2. Deliver a five-star service with food and scrubbing - Get ready to pamper your spirits with food straight from your kitchen and a give them a good scrub while they're relaxing!
	* After discovering what a spirits' favorite food is, cooking and giving it to them will cause them to leave with full Happiness.
	* Using the Broom on spirits while their in the bath will increase their Happiness gain.
3. Make the water perfect for each spirit - Chop wood for the boilers to heat up the water to the perfect heated temperature and mix up various elixirs to make the water perfect for each spirit - they'll all have their preferences and favourite recipes.
	* The Boiler is heated in the door directly in front of the main entrance. Entering the room will allow the player to chop wood with the saw in the room, heating the inside baths, which increases spirit Happiness.
		+ Note: The Lord Spirit Bath has it's own boiler that needs wood brought to it. The Lord Spirit will complain if the bath is cold.
		+ Note: The number of times the root will regrow is based on the player Spirituality level.
	* There is an elixir for each season of spirit: Matching elixir to the same spirit will increase their happiness gain, while opposite seasons will decrease their happiness. Purifying Elixir will clean a dirty bath, and Gentle Breeze Elixir will increase happiness for all seasons.
4. Sit friends together and enemies apart - Every spirit has others they like best, as well as some they don't enjoy spending time with at all! You'll have to plan carefully when you lead spirits to their baths - don't seat just anyone together! Unless, of course, you don't care about making money. Which I do. Very much so in-fact.
	* As the poster to the left of the Boiler door suggests, opposite seasons dislike each other, and consecutive seasons like each other.

First look into the old bathhouse. The player is shown around by Wonyan.Humble beginnings with first customers.Inside the boiler room.The prep room in the Bathhouse. Here the player can clean the used towels (**[E]**) in the tub (left) and hang them to dry.

## Bathhouse upgrades

At the start of the game, the Bathhouse is in bad shape and must be cleaned and fixed, before the player can serve higher spirits. Players can talk to town carpenter Fae and order repairs with Moolags from her Upgrade Table, that is next to her house.

Bathhouse areas that can be upgraded:

* Private Bath (left)
* Private Bath (right)
* Small Bath
* Overgrown Stairs
* Large Bath
* Right Wing Hall
* Left Wing Halls
* Hot Spring Bath One
* Hot Spring Bath Two
* Lord Bath
* Overgrown Cooking Area
* Overgrown Fish Pond

## Bathhouse Helpers

After the player has become best friend with a Townsfolk, the player can ask them to help in the bathhouse (Sadly, this doesn't include the animals in the town). Each villager has a different work efficiency (represented through decimals between 0.4 and 1 inclusively), meaning they have different speed in the bathhouse.

The villagers can be assigned to 4 roles: Wood cutter, Washer, Towel runner, and Scrubber. Only one villager can be assigned to a role at once.

### Wood Cutter

The villager will go cut down the logs and put them in furnace as needed until the root no longer regrows.

### Washer

The villager will wash any dirty towel in the wash tub, and dry them at the air vent. If the furnace is not lit, the towels can`t dry, so they will wait in the main room.

### Towel Runner

The villager will pick up any dirty towels left in the box near entrance and put them in the wash tub. They will also carry dry towels from the dry towel table to the bamboo mat at the entrance.

### Scrubber

The villager will help scrubbing the spirits. Their scrubs will increase the overall happiness (not happiness gain) of the spirits.

### Efficiency

Different villagers have different Bathhouse efficiency, which affects how fast they walk, and complete their tasks.

## Notes

* Broom and Feather Duster can be found in the passage to the prep room.
* More towels are available from Song's Shop.
* When befriending villagers, certain villagers who are not in the town at certain times will not show up in the helper list when they are away.
* Even though animals can't be helpers in the bathhouse, they still have a bathhouse efficiency (Jan - 0.9, Maru - 0.4, Radish- 0.85).